I've been enjoying a lot of music lately that combines trad roots with rock elements. Consider this a visual (sometimes) mix tape.

Fairport Convention documentary clip



Audio of the Fairport song "Matty Groves."




Led Zeppelin deserve a place (or several places), and so here is their song "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp". For geeky points, note Plant yelling "Strider" at the end.



My Brightest Diamond covering Led Zeppelin's "No Quarter"



I'm going to have to move ahead a few decades on this one, since trad was not fashionable for the eighties and nineties. It also moved around a bit, with bands from America and Scandinavia indebted to Fairport Convention.

A clip about the Decemberists' album "Hazards of Love".



A solo Colin Meloy playing "We Both Go down Together"



Opeth "Harvest"



One of the more old world sounding songs from the Fleet Foxes "White Winter Hymnal".



Esper's "Travel Mountains"



Two White Stripe songs that I always count as one.

"Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn"



Video game highlights set to "St. Andrew (The Battle is in the Air)" by the White Stripes. As you can probably tell from the title, there are bagpipes in the song.



One noble YouTube user has paired Midlake's "Acts of Man" with F.W. Murnau's film "Sunrise".



Part of the movement returning trad music to Britain are The Smoke Fairies, with their song "Sunshine".