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GUEST,John Hernandez Who Killed Folk Music? (189* d) RE: Who Killed Folk Music? 15 Feb 02

Here are some more people who have described themselves as folk musicians or folk singers.

1. Elvis Presley (when he first appeared on The Louisiana Hayride in 1954 he asked to be introduced as a "new folk singer")

2. Steve Martin (in an interview after he made it big as a comedian: "I was a poor, starving folk singer")

3. Paul Simon (he said that it was his "folk musician's temperment" that enabled him to do Graceland and The Rhythms of the Saints)

4. Linda Ronstadt ("I'm more of a folk musician than anything else")


Martin Carthy is in good company.

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