Raymond Crooke
Musician
raymondcrooke
Style: Folk
Joined: January 23, 2007
Last Sign In: 21 hours ago
Videos Watched: 11,286
Subscribers: 931
Channel Views: 34,960
1001 Songs in 1001 Days?

My aim here is to share my love of folk music. My posts include original as well as traditional songs and covers of my favourite singer song-writers, such as Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie and Eric Bogle.

I have been singing folk songs for over 40 years, and play guitar (badly) and fiddle (even more badly).

I have produced 4 CDs:
Axis of Evil and other True Stories
Laws of Chance
Gospel Ship
Pigs Might Fly and other Politically Incorrect Ballads

I hope you enjoy my songs. All comments are appreciated, including constructive criticism. However, I may delete threats, and language that I consider unsuitable for any young people watching this channel.

Thank you to all those who have subscribed and/or commented.
I am married with two adult sons and two grandsons, one from each son.

I have a website about my folk music which you may like to visit. It is a wiki so you are welcome to contribute, add information or your own folk song page or links to your own site, or just use it to find lyrics and chords.

For my Featured Video - I will choose a video that has been generally overlooked. When it reaches 500 views I will change it for another one.

Record Label: My own
Label Type: Unsigned
Influences: Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Joan Baez, Malvina Reynolds, Burl Ives, Odetta, Eric Bogle, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Bela Bartok, Salvador Dali, William Faulkner, Groucho Marx, Luis Bunuel, John Cleese, Roger McGough, T. S. Eliot, Spike Milligan, Tom Lehrer, John Jacob Niles, ... How much room do I have??
Sounds Like: Myself. I don't try to sound like anybody else, but there are obvious influences depending on the song.
City: Hong Kong
Hometown: Melbourne
Country: Australia
Albums:
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Channel Comments (142)
faridmcguire (2 days ago)
you rock.
salute from me.
findogsligo (1 week ago)
Good stuff sir! Id enjoy a drink to that ned kelly song.
good on ya!
OsvaldoPaese (1 week ago)
Thanks again for stopping by. I appreciate it.
Love the fact that you play lots of forgotten songs.

Maybe you should cover one of my songs?
Drifter6655 (1 week ago)
good job uncle Raymond!! keep singing malay's old songs!!
shannycut (2 weeks ago)
are u e um guiness101 or watever its called?
Germanator93 (2 weeks ago)
Raymond you are great! :-)
HeavyArtilleyGunner (2 weeks ago)
Ur impressive . very nice songs .

Do you live in Hong Kong? damn i ve just seen Batman the dark knight i cannot forget those beautiful skyscrapers and lights and so on ! do u like living there?

hope u ll answer soon ! cheers and congratulations
burtondylan100fan (2 weeks ago)
By the way, Loved your videos and songs!!
burtondylan100fan (2 weeks ago)
Hello there, I'm impressed, you sing wonderfully! I also love folk music you know? Like Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie and stuff!

Hope we contact each other.

Cheers,

Pat
vivachile73 (3 weeks ago)
Hi there your videos are great, I like folk music very much and you sing very very good!, Congratulations I've already suscribed.
Playlists
Original Songs 80 Videos
The original songs I have posted so far.
The Child Ballads 40 Videos
Some of my favourite folk songs are the English and Scottish Ballads collected by Francis James Child. I will put them together in this playlist.
My Australian songs will go into this playlist, starting with convict songs, then songs about bushrangers, then shearers and drovers, and finally more recent songs.
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