Discussion Man I'm going to starting to Folk Music!!!

[whm1974]

OK I found two old songs on YouTube by the Moody Blues and Rosalie Sorrels:

What exact is Folk Music anyway? Oh why Oh didn't I listen to this kind of music when I was younger? Now I had heard some John Denver songs before but that was back when I was a kid. Man back when I was a kid and teen I thought anything Ancient should have been long discarded. I views on that subject have sure changed considerably.

Well I guess the more that we learn we learn that we really don't know much....at all...

 

[glenn1]

Watch "A Mighty Wind" sometime.

 

[nakedfrog]

Now go listen to John Prine's first album.

 

[snoopy7548]

Simon and Garfunkel is folk, I think. I consider 10,000 Maniacs to be folk, or folk-rock.

 

[BoomerD]

I started to folk music once...then I stopped.

 

[nakedfrog]

Simon and Garfunkel is folk, I think. I consider 10,000 Maniacs to be folk, or folk-rock.

Yeah, I'd put them there too.
And obviously OP should check out some Dylan (Bob, not Thomas )

 

[WelshBloke]

Try everything once, except folk dancing and incest.

 

[BoomerD]

Try everything once, except folk dancing and incest.

WHAT? Dude...if'n it ain't good enuf fer family, it shore ain't good enuf fer outsiders!

 

[OccamsToothbrush]

"Man I'm going to starting to Folk Music!!!"

You should going to starting grammar class.

 

[sandorski]

Here's a gem

 

[Thebobo]

Never considered the Moody Blues to be folk music maybe psychedelic folk. But I do love them.

For some instrumental folk or Blue Jazz try the David Grisman Quartet. The whole CD is great, great road music.

 

[nakedfrog]

Dawg is the man.

 

[lxskllr]

I like The Tallest Man On Earth a lot. He's been getting more electric as he progresses. It's a good sound.

Newest...

Oldest...

 

[brianmanahan]

i like me some avett brothers

 

[nakedfrog]

This is really kinda more modern alt-bluegrass or something, but still a hell of a tune.

 

[glenn1]

If OP doesn’t have to blindly follow the labels of what’s “folk music” It opens up a lot more good music.

 

[WelshBloke]

Fightin time!

 

[whm1974]

So what is the difference between Country and Folk music?

 

[lxskllr]

Collegiate white people listen to folk, and rednecks listen to country.

 

[whm1974]

Collegiate white people listen to folk, and rednecks listen to country.

That's it? Didn't Folk music existed long before most white started to go college? And Folk predates Country by a long mile.

 

[Iron Woode]

 

[stargazr]

 

[stargazr]

 

[nakedfrog]

That's it? Didn't Folk music existed long before most white started to go college? And Folk predates Country by a long mile.

Nah, there are more differences too, subject matter for instance.

 

[whm1974]

Nah, there are more differences too, subject matter for instance.

Well they do sound rather different.