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Single Song Sunday: Wayfaring Stranger (On White Spirituals and The Religious Origins of Folk)

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2008-09-07 01:45:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
...folk collector's travels; after all, as our blog subtitle reminds us, when we talk about folk, we're talking about a form that by its very nature treats older songs and tunes as part of the communication which makes us community, available to all who lay claim to culture But just as true hitmaking is hardly formulaic, it's not often obvious...
 
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Subgenre Coverfolk: Freak Folk (Devandra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Animal Collective, Vetiver)

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2008-05-28 09:20:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
...folk is increasingly used by artists and promoters as a call to a specific approach to musicmaking usually characterized by acoustic instrumentation, and/or a sort of lo-fi confessional sensibility If we were cynics, we might suspect that the term is used primarily not to signify genre identity at all, but instead to call to a kind of...
 
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Prog Folk

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2007-12-01 22:28:00 by nasti in Progressive Rock
...Folk revival started on both sides of the Atlantic, and got quickly linked with a protest movement, not always, but often linked to more left-wing tendencies, which did not sit well with the authorities. BOB DYLAN, JOAN BAEZ, WOODY GUTHRIE, JOHN DENVER, BUFFY STE-MARIE, but also the FARINA couple Richard and Mimi for the US and SHIRLEY...
 
Tags: country rock influences, country rock, rock, rock public, folk rock, folk, prog folk, folk rock realm, solo folk
 
 
 
 
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Covered In Folk: Classical Music (Bela Fleck, Chris Thile, David Wilcox, Brooks Williams, etc.)

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2008-03-26 00:05:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
...folk music as inherently coupled with the singer-songwriter movement. And it is true that, once upon a time, those who would grow up to become the folk troubadors of their own tomorrows learned their songs the traditional way, at the knees of their elders, that they, too, might pass old songs on to a new generation, and tell their own stories...
 
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Covered In Folk: Classical Music (Bela Fleck, Chris Thile, David Wilcox, Brooks Williams, etc.)

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2008-03-26 07:05:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
...folk music as inherently coupled with the singer-songwriter movement. And it is true that, once upon a time, those who would grow up to become the folk troubadors of their own tomorrows learned their songs the traditional way, at the knees of their elders, that they, too, might pass old songs on to a new generation, and tell their own stories...
 
Tags: classical music, music, folk, genuine classical music, modern music, modern folk music, folk tradition, folk musicians, folk collapses
 
 
 
 
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WOMEX 2008 Educational Institution Award Goes to Folk Music Department of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki

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2008-07-31 19:19:02 by WMCNewsDept. in World Music Central
...Folk Music Department of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. " Without the Folk department of the Sibelius Academy, there would be nothing like the folk scene there is in Finland. It's amazing the way it has allowed so many flowers to bloom ," said accordionist Maria Kalaniemi in conversation with world music magazine Songlines. This...
 
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Covered in Folk: David Bowie (Dar Williams, The Gourds, M. Ward, Natalie Merchant and more!)

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2007-12-01 21:52:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
...folk interpretations of songs from the popworld is really nothing new. After all, though modern folk music has turned its eye towards confessional songwriting and urban poetry, and quite often away from its agrarian roots, traditionally, folk music is not so much about the rural as it is populated by the music of the folk, which quite...
 
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Festival Coverfolk: Falcon Ridge Folk Fest, July 24-27 (The Nields, Patty Larkin, Martin Sexton, David Massengill)

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2008-06-18 13:21:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down
...Folk Festival , a four-day, four-stage extravaganza of music, dancing, and live music that takes place in Hillsdale, NY , on the last weekend in July Falcon Ridge tickets won't sell out for a while, but if you're like me, you're going to need some time to air out the camper and clear the calendar. Without further ado, then, here's a short...
 
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(Re)Covered VI: More Covers of and from Freak Folk, Gillian Welch, James Taylor, and Boxing Songs

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2008-07-02 18:43:00 by boyhowdy in Cover Lay Down