Posts tagged with "Nanci Griffith"
FOLK FORWARD – ESSENTIAL FOLK
FOLK FORWARD – ESSENTIAL FOLK
DUST BOWL BALLADS (1940)
WOODY GUTHRIE
In a whirl of autobiography and activism, Guthrie reinvents American song. The Oklahoma native recorded this 1940 gem in two days, laying the groundwork for thousands of guitar-strumming followers. These are dusty, hard-bitten ballads that somehow gleam and soar more than 70 years after their creation.
THE FREEWHEELIN’ BOB DYLAN (1963)
BOB DYLAN
The folk bard’s...
FOLK FORWARD
FOLK FORWARD
How a sound born of tradition is thriving in the modern day
By Peter Cooper
It’s the other “F” word. And like its more obscene counterpart, it means different things to different people in different contexts. In the 1950s, it was sweater-vested political subversives. Later, it was shape-shifting musical revolutionaries and introspective singer-songwriters. It has been used to describe troubadours who specialize in journalistic...