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2016 guide to folk & americana music

10 Jan 17 - 12:49 PM (#3831730)
Subject: Tech: 2016 guide to folk & americana music
From: GUEST

http://weave.me/share/Best_of_Folk_and_Americana_Music_2016.html


10 Jan 17 - 01:50 PM (#3831750)
Subject: RE: 2016 guide to folk & americana music
From: Joe Offer

Hmmmm. I suppose this might have some value to those of the music-as-commodity mindset...


10 Jan 17 - 02:20 PM (#3831753)
Subject: RE: 2016 guide to folk & americana music
From: Dave Hanson

Looks like all pop music to me.

Dave H


10 Jan 17 - 02:58 PM (#3831758)
Subject: RE: 2016 guide to folk & americana music
From: FreddyHeadey

It took an age for the page to load on my old machine.
Here is a summary of page 1

Highlights
Margo Price
Sara Watkins
Sturgill Simpson

Chart-Topper
Christopher Alvin "Chris" Stapleton
(born April 15, 1978) is an American musician and songwriter. He is an established songwriter with six number-one songs including the five-week number-one "Never Wanted Nothing More"...

Up & Coming
Margo Rae Price
(born April 15, 1983) is an American singer-songwriter based in Nashville, Tennessee. The Fader has called her "country's next star."

Top 10 Albums of 2016    10
Traveller - Chris Stapleton.
Cleopatra - Lumineers.
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
Chaos and the Calm - James Bay UK (Genres:Indie rock folk rock soul blues pop rock(wiki))

Artists with New Releases   82
Neil Young
Cyndi Lauper
Norah Jones
Wilco

Chart-Topping Artists 177
Bob Dylan
Elvis Presley
Neil Young
Van Morrison

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there is more, you can find it yourself.


14 Aug 21 - 02:08 PM (#4116538)
Subject: RE: 2016 guide to folk & americana music
From: GUEST,#

My favourite of the Lumineers takes is the following. Good song, great approach to the rhythm. The only thing about it I don't care for is the ending, although that seems to have been an artistic choice because maybe the writer never did get it all resolved in his own head. (Calling it folk is a bit rad, but maybe fifty years from now it'll be Americana.) That aside, it does deliver a message. The remarks by many people on the YouTube comments section affirm that it cuts deep, it's not uncommon and it resonates with lots of people. Twenty million views does tend to give one that impression ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kok4-aVdyT4


14 Aug 21 - 03:00 PM (#4116546)
Subject: RE: 2016 guide to folk & americana music
From: DonMeixner

I think I need a definition of what constitutes Americana Music.