Music Roots music (folk, world, etc)

[Mark]

Post your favorite roots music here or just discuss your favorite artists. Anything goes as long as it is indigenous music like folk, bluegrass, and other non-progressive styles.

Tony Rice
Old Train

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[Mark]

[Leanne]

This is Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu -- every time I listen to him, I tear up, can't help it:

[Leanne]

I don't know that this counts as "roots", but this song is a very important one to Australians:

[Mark]

In the first video by Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, is there any translated lyrics online? I love the sound of it, but I'd also like to know what it is about

[Mark]

Just watched the second one and I got cold chills!!! And just so you know this is definitely appropriate for this thread as it is world music imo

[Leanne]

It's about Gurrumul's relationship with the Rainbow Serpent (called Wititj in the Yolngu language) and his ancestral lands -- the English translation is:

I was carried by mother Wititj
I am a rainbow child

I am a rainbow child, with a rainbow,
carried by Wititj, with a rainbow

Emerged from there, from the water lilies
Gudjuk emerged, from fresh water Garrimala Dhupula

I am a rainbow child, with a rainbow
carried by Wititj, with a rainbow, a child of the rainbow
in the 1950s my dad looked around
towards Muwalangallili, Yanayanayu Wurrumbayu Malpitjinuyu (these are place names in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, but I don't know what the English translation is, sorry)

I am a rainbow child, with rainbow
carried by Wititj, with rainbow
I am Maralitja Dhar'yuna with my ancestors
I am a child conceived and carried by Wititj
a rainbow child, with a rainbow

[Mark]

It's certainly very interesting. I will Google now . . .

[Leanne]

This doesn't count but it's interesting: