When was the last folk music revival?

Subject: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,Leadbottom
Date: 17 Jun 22 - 07:50 PM

I know about the one in the 30's with Leadbelly, Guithrie, Seeger, Lomax and others. And there was one led by Seeger in the late 50's that culminated with the emergence of the Kingston Trio, Baez, Dylan, Paxton and a whole bunch of singer songwriters from 1958 or so into the early 70's. I think there was one in the late 80's - early 90's with a revival of 60's artists like Dylan and the Grateful Dead and folk inspired groups. I don't know who the contemporary artists were in that period. And since then, has there been a new revoival of folk in this millenium, or are we due for one soon?

Folk never dies. Listen to what Daniel Johnston was doing in his living room in the 80's when everything was about synthesizers. He is that last folkie I signed up for. Beck is good too, in this early pahse with his homemade tapes. Must we look to homemade rap and hip hop of the 90's? I'm listenign top a bit of that too. Lyric. That's what makes the music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW2cmIIomac

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Jun 22 - 08:02 PM

There are many interesting younger performers now who mine the roots of tradition. My current favorites are Rhiannon Giddens in the US and Emily Smith and Karine Polwart and Malinky in Scotland, but there are many others.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 01:34 AM

Dude - you answered your own question.

Folk never dies.

How can you revive something that is vibrant and alive?

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

You have been looking for folk in all the wrong places.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: Piers Plowman
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 09:48 AM

If only we could be sure it would be the last!

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 11:39 AM

Hmm. Folk does not die, but it does wax and wane. In agricultural societies, it tended to keep an even keel. But in urban areas, there seems to be a need for conscious revival every 30 years. I count the 30's, 60's and 90's as these periods. Add 10 years and we should be in a resurgance. This is based upon American revivals. I don't know what the trends are internationally.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
Date: 18 Jun 22 - 02:56 PM

Folk rock peaked in '70s. Commercial chart toppers The Weavers and Harry Belafonte were the '40-50s. North American 'folk revival/craze' calypso (Yellow Bird; John B. Sail; Day-O!; Big Bamboo &c) 'revived' nothing Caribbean. Like 'em, or not, they're Yank Tin Pan Alley pop songs.

What you wind up tracking is one person's consumer preferences about a genre label. Different consumer, different history. It's not very useful.

No century ever ended with the same genre list, instruments and tech it started off with. The entire marketplace reinvents itself every 15-20 years. It was the Lomax's regular complaint on arrival everywhere they ever went.

If Disney sequels Wimoweh; or Washington, DC needs to reboot This Land is Your Land, you're back in business... until the next new thing comes along.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,Leadbottom
Date: 19 Jun 22 - 01:42 PM

I agree with that last post by Phil. Seems like genre is all important for revival, and both the Lomaxes ran into trouble over this issue. John Lomax was scoffed for bringing cowboy songs into the folk repertoire. Then he and his son, Alan Lomax had similar problems introducing the blues as a folk art.

I have been performing traditional folk music all of my life, but I didn't choke at punk. I introduced the Ramones (into my set) as folksingers with electric guitars and reproduced some of their great songs well on a solo acoustic guitar.

Any sounds that support the lyrics are OK with me. Hip hop looks like a good vehicle now for use on the folk scene. Heavy metal on acoustic instruments? Why not? Hey, if you stop to think about it, Smoke on the Water is a real ballad, because it tells a complete story.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,Leadbottom
Date: 19 Jun 22 - 01:46 PM

I'm just saying that folk revivals get the kick in the butt from the pop music genres of the immediately previous generations. Interesting theme to explore. Anyone had experiences introducing "new music" as legitimate folk? What were the responses? Works well in the schools. They know what's good.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,matt milton
Date: 20 Jun 22 - 06:35 AM

I don't think it's necessary to introduce "new music" as "legitimate folk". You'll just end up having arguments with people about definitions of folk music - there's too much of that already.

Most traditional folk singarounds are strong enough to incorporate non-traditional material. Some of such non-traditional material sits happily enough within it that it will eventually (in 50 years' time, say) become traditional material. I sing Gillian Welch's 'Miner's Refrain' unaccompanied at singarounds and everyone assumes it's traditional.
We just have to wait long enough for the majority of people to forget who wrote it.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: rosma
Date: 20 Jun 22 - 10:37 AM

To answer the original poster's question about the 80s, popular American names from the 1980s include Suzanne Vega, Tracy Chapman and possibly Tori Amos. Of course Paul Simon rejuvenated his career in the 80s, initially with Graceland. Another name that came along in the second half of the 80s was Michelle Shocked - while she is American she based herself at that time in the UK, and was maybe therefore more popular in the UK and Europe.

The late 80s/early 90s is when I came across British and Irish bands like The Barely Works, Chumbawamba, Levellers, The Pogues, The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Housemartins, Half Man Half Biscuit. Some of these had been around since the early 80s. While some may stretch the term, they were all influenced by folk music or moved into folk music as their careers progressed.

Peter Gabriel started WOMAD in 1982 which set off a whole world music movement. While WOMAD incorporates a lot of "cross-over" today, up to the early 90s there was a great deal of pure tradition from around the world, including the UK, Ireland and the USA.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,Leadbottom
Date: 21 Jun 22 - 02:31 PM

The Pogues. But the Sex Pistols too, not only did a thrashing kind of folk music but also performed some baudy songs like Friggin' in the Riggin'.

I think I should revise one of my statements. I said that folk never dies, that it waxes and wanes. Now I'm inclined to think that folk is always on the move yet we don't recognize folk when it's happening because so much of it first enters as pop music.

The Lomaxes not only introduced cowboy songs and blues (both anathema to the purists in the 20's and 30's) but Alan Lomax named Louis Armstrong as a folksinger in his classic Folk Songs of North America. That statement put a frown on my face when I read the book in the year 2000, some 60 years after the publication. Less so now.

There is always this resistence to folk, mostly from the folkies themselves. Has any visitor to this forum introduced the idea of reggae, rap and punk to be considered as folk music? I think all of this music was made with a folk sensibility.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,Leadbottom
Date: 21 Jun 22 - 02:32 PM

And my initial question was whether we are due for a new revival, if a 30 year trend holds true?

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Jun 22 - 02:37 PM

Depends on what you call folk music, surely !

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: matthewdechant
Date: 21 Jun 22 - 03:36 PM

As someone at the ripe young age of 21, I feel like there's definitely a folk revival happening right now. It might be harder to spot because I think it's more based around listening than performing at the moment (something I'm hoping to correct), but trad music is definitely gaining steam among young people in both the US and the UK.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
Date: 22 Jun 22 - 03:18 AM

Leadbottom: What exactly are you measuring on the y-axis when you plot revivals? Industry awards, Top 40-100 charts, sales… music you like? What's the maths?

There were three Billboard Top 40 chart categories for North America; Folk wasn't one of them and neither were the 1930s. The Weavers and Belafonte charted as Pop artists. The Battle of New Orleans was Country. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face was Pop or Country or R&B, depending on the artist.

One suspects if we add in all the stuff not mentioned or liked (The Tarriers, Arlo Guthrie, Steve Goodman, Neil Young &c &c &c) the thirty year peaks are in your consumer preferences.

PS: Dylan's revival 'backup' band (aka: The Traveling Wilburys) were all platinum recording artists in their own right many times over. That's a built-in base of several hundred million consumers for starters.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Jun 22 - 05:05 AM

"Depends on what you call folk music, surely!"

Don't start, John! ;-)

(And don't call me Shirley...)

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,Leadbottom
Date: 22 Jun 22 - 05:44 PM

Well... "What is Folk Music?" is the dreaded topic, but a necessary evil if you are going to have a folk music forum. And it won't do to say "We've gone over this a million times" because we (in italics) have not. Every new generation here has to confront this question together.

The dilemma is common for any topic whether it be "What is Classical Music?" "What is the Middle Ages?"or "What is Biology?" and such.

It was in one such discussion that I stumbled upon an hypothesis that I'll share with you now. Folk music is a collection of surviving pop genres. Some of you have interesting things to say about this, so I don't mean to be exclusive about my definition. Our diverse opinions may peacefully cohabitate.

I'd like to hear more from the young people. Matthewdechant, you say we are in a revival. If there is some close relation between pop and folk, it could be good to begin with an inventory of past and contemporary pop music. What are the pop genres of the day? And, does my claim seem strage to young ears - that rap, punk and reggae have become folk music now that time has passed?

Clarification: Folk Songs of North America was published in 1960. In the introduction Alan Lomax says something about Louis Armstrong being the greatest folksinger in America. When I read this in the year 2000, it did not immediately sit too well with me. That was 40 years distant from the writing and some 80 years after Armstrong first turned the musical world upsidedown. now, 22 years after that reading, I am more open to this interpretation of Louis. Does Lomax's statement about Armstong sound strange to a 21 year old? How do you view jazz and Armstrong, in particular? Because I often hear jazz performed by folk groups these days. Ragtime too. And this would never have passed during the revival of the 1960's.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Jun 22 - 08:11 PM

I think that folk music is healthier when it's NOT commercially successful. When people are making money on folk music, they do all sorts of weird things to make it marketable. When there's no market, people do folk music for enjoyment, and that's healthier.
So, don't quit your day job, but have a great time making your own music with friends.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jun 22 - 08:17 PM

I think that pop music becomes less commercially successful as it ages, so that is not a problem. I'll play a traditional Scottish song and then Beat on the Brat by the Ramones - and I don't get the gig! So, we've got you covered on that issue. We are not talking about being commercially successful. How is that issue relevant? Or is it?

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Jun 22 - 08:41 PM

I think it's relevant, Leadbottom. Read what I said again. When music is commercially popular (as folk isn't now), it tends to become a commodity and not so much a form of personal expression. It's healthier when it's not a commodity, when it belongs to real people and not to corporations. But too many people think of music only for its commercial value.





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Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
Date: 23 Jun 22 - 12:41 AM

Leadbottom: How is that issue relevant? Or is it?

Trousers first... then boots. ie: Doesn't matter if it's a 30 fortnight cycle of furlongs per firkin, these questions needed answering for yourself before your 'data' were plotted and finding(s) made. You're doing it backwards... or not at all.

I don't think there is an entertainment genre that doesn't have consumers who disdain mainstream media commercial "sell outs" and the like. Genre hipsters take pride in living out on the bleeding edge. They lose interest when the word gets around.

But Woody & Pete's live gig days are long gone and even back when, they had more influence on the English folk scene as recording artists, popular or not so much.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: rosma
Date: 23 Jun 22 - 06:46 AM

There certainly seems to be some sort of shanty revival going on, maybe prompted by the use of shanties in computer games. Groups such as The Longest Johns are somewhat commercial, but there is also a viral element (TlJs also do viral). I know “Wellerman” isn’t a shanty, but it is a gateway to shanty singing.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: Daniel Kelly
Date: 23 Jun 22 - 06:55 AM

Don’t let your kids sing Wellerman, before you know it they will be singing ‘Bully in the Alley’ and practicing their brace haul at the dinner table.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,matt milton
Date: 23 Jun 22 - 11:16 AM

"rap, punk and reggae have become folk music now that time has passed?"

What does 'becoming folk music' mean in practice? If punk had 'become folk music', how would anyone know? What would that look like?

The genres you mention don't, in the main, lend themmselves to communal, spontaneous, non-professionalised expression. Certainly none of them have become folk music in the sense of there being identifiable songs - standard repertoire - that everyone would know well enough to sing at a singaround.

With one notable exception - Bob Marley. Having been at a festival recently with a lot of late-night round-the-campfire singing, it was noteable how often Bob Marley songs got trotted out and got people singing along. Perhaps 2nd only to Beatles and Ed Sheeran songs.

No punk and no rap. Very hard for rap to ever become 'folk music' in a meaningful sense for the de facto reason that there's a hell of a lot of words, and no singing as such, so very hard for people to join in. I love hip-hop and could probably rap some verses from certain Public Enemy, Gang Starr and Wu Tang Clan songs if I really wanted to embarass myself. But I'd be on my own.

Maybe I'll start a hip-hop singaround for white middle aged men. Now that would be a truly horrendous thing.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: Piers Plowman
Date: 23 Jun 22 - 01:25 PM

"Maybe I'll start a hip-hop singaround for white middle aged men. Now that would be a truly horrendous thing."

Why would that be horrendous? Would it be more horrendous than white middle-aged men singing a blues song? There's always someone who will tell you you can't do this or that because of your age, your sex, your skin color, where you come from, your looks, etc. It's not that long ago that African-Americans had no possibility of studying music and becoming opera singers or conductors or composers and I think it's still not easy. The story goes someone once asked Thomas "Fats" Waller why he hadn't become a concert pianist and he answered "Because I'm black".

I don't happen to like rap but maybe there are some white middle-aged men or women or elderly Ohioans or slightly long-in-the-tooth people from Missouri who are great at it and have just been overlooked because they don't belong to a "cool" demographic.

I don't think dumping on white middle aged people is any better than dumping on anyone else, even if it's a white middle-aged person doing it. Haven't we learned anything?

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,matt milton
Date: 23 Jun 22 - 02:11 PM

I'd rather this thread didn't get derailed by going off-topic if that's alright with you.

The overall point I was making was that genres such as punk, rap and reggae might well have plenty in common, lyrically, with many a traditional folk song.

But that's a different thing to whether they can be considered folk music (unless you radically redefine folk music). Some Bob Marley songs are definitely ingrained in public consciousness in much the same way many Beatles songs have - so they are close to achieving 'folk status'.

So much of punk's power comes from distorted guitars and snarly or sarcastic vocals. That's a very particular form of delivery that doesn't lend itself to the same contexts as folk song (eg unaccompanied singing in a social group).

I have sung X Ray Spex's song 'Warrior in Woolworths' at singarounds once or twice, but that's because it genuinely sounds like a lot of folk songs (it's modal, like a lot of X Ray Spex songs) in a way that no other punk band does that I can think of.

If one were to say 'yes, you can consider rap to be folk' or 'yes, you can consider punk to be folk'... what would that mean or accomplish?

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
Date: 23 Jun 22 - 02:20 PM

...hip-hop singaround for white middle aged men = Flyting.

You're one Netflix cameo; video game soundtrack or TikTok away from a Celtic/Norse roots-music revival. Get busy!

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: Piers Plowman
Date: 23 Jun 22 - 02:20 PM

"I'd rather this thread didn't get derailed by going off-topic if that's alright with you."

I think that's a little feeble, to be honest, but I guess you answered my question.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jun 22 - 03:23 PM

"The overall point I was making was that genres such as punk, rap and reggae might well have plenty in common, lyrically, with many a traditional folk song".
A few examples, please ?

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: rosma
Date: 23 Jun 22 - 03:42 PM

I sometimes sing “I don’t like Mondays” (Boomtown Rats). It’s structure is very folk in the sense of a socially aware story. The melody works quite well with my fairly basic guitar playing. Each time I perform it I wish I’d spent a bit more time working out exactly how to work the guitar accompaniment at certain points, but it goes OK.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,Leadbottom
Date: 23 Jun 22 - 03:42 PM

I don't have a copy of Folk Songs of North America with me now. But, if you have a copy, can you quote what Lomax says about Louis Armstrong? He says something about Armstrong being the greatest folksinger in the USA in 1960. How do you feel about this claim?

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Jun 22 - 05:06 PM

Don't know what Lomax said because I can't find Louis Armstrong listed in the index, but Frank Hamilton said on Mudcat: "Louis Armstrong was one of the greatest folk musicians to some degree. Maybe one of the greatest blues singers too.."

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jun 22 - 05:18 PM

https://www.jstor.org/stable/657909
This article counts a twenty year gap between the revivals of the 30's and 60's. How do you count it? How do you account for the 90's revival. There certainly was a folk revival then, sparked by interest in Dylan and the Dead and artists who inspired them (Doc Watson, Guthrie, Ledbelly...)

There is some talk that the pandemic sparked a new movement. I'm quite interested in the oddities like this statement by Lomax concerning Louis Armstrong and also this kind of pop-folk icon, Tiny Tim. TT played at Monterrey Pop in 1967. He seems to have culled his folk repertoire almost completely from old music hall and Tin Pan Alley tunes (not very folk in '67.)

Tiny Tim at Monterrey Pop 1967

In the series of songs, he seems to be using these old pop lyrics to make some social statements about contemporary times. He seems to have been overlooked by the folkies. Does he appear on any lists of 1960 folksingers?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS18tX6h8Lo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcSlcNfThUA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrWe3Nc2tCQ

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jun 22 - 05:19 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfDsUvPXtiY

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,Leadbottom
Date: 23 Jun 22 - 05:20 PM

That was me.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,Leadbottom
Date: 23 Jun 22 - 05:26 PM

Ha. In 1967, no one would have said they were in a folk movement. What do we do with this Tiny Tim dude?

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 23 Jun 22 - 06:55 PM

There'll always be crossovers. The comment about distorted guitars brought Billy Bragg's Between the Wars to mind for me.

.... and there'll always be revivals, whenever they're needed, like right now. We just haven't heard the results yet.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,The Sandman
Date: 24 Jun 22 - 04:30 AM

When the Wellerman had his hit on tik tok, EARLY 2021

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,matt milton
Date: 24 Jun 22 - 04:40 AM

To whoever the anonymous GUEST was who asked for a few examples of punk, reggae or rap songs that have elements in common with traditional song, I'd suggest perhaps 'London Calling' or 'Bankrobber' by The Clash or 'The KKK took my Baby Away' by the Ramones as examples from the punk scene.

From reggae there are plenty of examples of lyrics with elements in common with traditional song, perhaps because reggae has roots in folkloric genres like Mento. I'd suggest numerous Bob Marley songs (eg Redemption Song), but more generally lyrics such as 'Maga Dog' or 'Police and Thieves'.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,matt milton
Date: 24 Jun 22 - 04:43 AM

@Piers Plowman "I'd rather this thread didn't get derailed by going off-topic if that's alright with you."
"I think that's a little feeble, to be honest, but I guess you answered my question."

I deliberately haven't addressed your question because I don't want to send this thread spiralling off topic.

Happy to answer it via direct messsage or in a separate thread.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: Piers Plowman
Date: 24 Jun 22 - 05:38 AM

Please don't bother.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,Leadbottom
Date: 24 Jun 22 - 03:08 PM

The topic is folk music. Anything goes. At the moment, I'd be very interested in examining closely whatever Lomax said about Louis Armstrong in the introduction to Folk Songs of North America.

I don't have a hard copy with me. Maybe you do? The introduction can be downloaded at this link, if you have access.

Introduction from "Folk Songs of North America" by Alan Lomax

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,Jerome Clark
Date: 25 Jun 22 - 11:22 AM

My understanding is that it was Big Bill Broonzy, not Louis Armstrong, who cracked wise about never hearing a horse sing when asked if he had just performed a folk song.

The last folk revival happened after the excitement about oldtime music that O Brother Where Are Thou? generated. At least so I judge, as a longtime CD reviewer, from how many trad-sounding CDs were showing up in my mail in the subsequent two or three years. Now, sadly, we're back to "folk" as singer-songwriters oblivious to the tradition.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,Jerome Clark
Date: 25 Jun 22 - 12:26 PM

From Bob Riesman's I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy. University of Chicago Press, 2011, p. 226:

The Northwestern [University] concert [October 25, 1956] was noteworthy for several reasons. It marked a milestone for WFMT because it represented the first concert held in the Chicago area that the station taped for future broadcast. In the years to come, WFMT would record hundreds of concerts by folk and classical artists. In the case of the Northwestern show, some of the material was later released on an LP by Folkways, in conjunction with Verve. For years, Big Bill Broonzy and Pete Seeger in Concert was the only commercially available recording of Bill performing live for an American audience.... The recording also documented one of Bill's most-quoted observations. As he was introducing his version of the spiritual "This Train," he observed, "I like all songs,, you know, and some people call this a folk song. Well, all the songs that I ever heard in my life was folk songs. I never heard horses sing none of 'em yet."

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 25 Jun 22 - 12:45 PM

Arguments about "what is folk song" are in themselves an important part of the tradition, and have been since at least the 18th century. They are have been an established part of it since before pretty well anything else, including virtually all of our most antiquated songs.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,Jerome Clark
Date: 25 Jun 22 - 01:40 PM

One thing we can all agree on is that folk songs, whatever their origins, persisted in oral performance and helped shape a tradition. Nobody, I hope, will try to argue that prospect is likely to apply to the typical, instantly forgettable singer-songwriter effusion from the last decades of pop music.

Besides that, we no longer live in the cultural circumstances that made folk music -- not called that, of course, by those who sang or played it -- a part of ordinary life. Unless folk music is redefined as any music people, as opposed to horses, enjoy.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,Leadbottom
Date: 25 Jun 22 - 01:45 PM

Yes. There are always fresh approaches to the topic. That's why I really like hearing from young people when it comes to folk, pop and any kind of music. I have these same kinds of talks about classical music. We have to remember how much classical and folk are both hindered and energized by pop music.

I think that's relevant. Folk gets interesting when pop music gets tired. And visa versa. There's a real dynamic between folk and pop, and classical and pop. While it might not feel like it's happening in obne scene, it's happening in another and eventually those influence come back around.

I'd say that all of the Ramones repetoire is folk on electric guitars. It's easy to hear it that way if you classify the bulk of it as "children's songs." Of course, you must have considered much of the Beatles catalogue as folk, no? I mean, you've had that discussion here? I'd say yes to this because their music is a) classic and b) easy to sing and communicate in an oral tradition.

That part of their catalogue which is not folk could be classified as classical music - songs like Tomorrow Never Knows and Revolution #9.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,The Sandman
Date: 25 Jun 22 - 02:25 PM

lead bottom, you are entitled to your opinion, but why try and persuade others, we surely do not want yet another what is folk.

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,Leadbottom
Date: 25 Jun 22 - 03:56 PM

Sandman - There is only you and myself. Everyone else here is an individual in their own right. Who is "we?"

Subject: RE: When was the last folk music revival?
From: GUEST,Leadbottom
Date: 25 Jun 22 - 04:00 PM

When people say "we surely do not want yet another "what is folk?" thread, what do they mean by the word "folk?" LOL