I suppose I got into Folk Music in two ways. I was introduced to it through the country Blues and I was simultaneously saturated with first Dylan and Donovan and then the sixties contemporary Folk scene.
I liked guitar playing and good lyrics. It brought both together.
This is a list of my favourites:
Woody Guthrie
Pete Seeger
Bob Dylan
Phil Ochs
Anne Briggs
Richard and Mimi Farina
Bert Jansch
Paul Simon
John Renbourn
Pentangle
Roy Harper
Jackson C Frank
Nick Drake
Al Stewart
Ralph McTell
Davy Graham
Stephan Grossman
John Fahey
Norma Waterson & Martin Carthy
John Martyn
Joni Mitchell
Buffy St Marie
Joan Baez
Leonard Cohen
Richard Thompson
Donovan
Peter La Farge
Huddie Ledbetter
Big Bill Broonzy
Tom Paxton
Townes Van Zandt
Arlo Guthrie
Sandy Denny
Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee