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Originating Location: 1940s
Originating Era: United States
Key Artists[]
- Woody Guthrie
- Arlo Guthrie
- Joan Baez
- Bob Dylan
Key Albums[]
- Bob Dylan - Highway 40 Revisited
Genre Description[]
Folk music is based in many forms of "traditional" music, from dance music (the source of most folk tunes) through love songs,songs of rebellion, broadside ballads,spirituals, early country music and bluegrass, and the storytelling tradition. In the 1960s, there was a revival of folk music and it entered the pop music world, with a move to more acoustic and "rootsy" music, and was considered the pop alternative to Rock.
Artists in this genre[]
- Aesop Rock
- Augie March
- Citizen Cope
- Doug Cullen
- Mia Doi Todd
- Pedestrian
- The Libertines
- White Mud Free Way
- Hugh J and The Picnic
- Four Tet
- ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
- Lyrics Born
- Crumb Family, The
- Beck
- John Darnielle
- Savath & Savalas
- Bran Barr
- Devil In The Kitchen
- Doom Engine
- Paul Duncan
- Pogues, The
