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Read enough about folk music and you’ll eventually immerse yourself in the disparate ways that different singers have taken different songs and transformed them. There are plenty of ways to delve into folk music in history and practice, from reading the work of musical historians on the subject to seeking
Folk music works in mysterious ways. Really, any song can be considered a folk song if it gets passed through different generations. Jack White isn’t blowing his own horn when he says that ‘Seven Nation Army’ has become a folk song: millions of people around the world (largely in soccer
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This song kicks you down, and before you can get up, it hits you again. This is the stuff to live for, and what you make of it all. This is mankind created in the image of a jealous godhead. This is
Once more, like a detective haunted by an abiding mystery, America’s first great rock critic has returned his focus to our most enigmatic songwriter.
In “Folk Music,” his fourth book about
Patrick Sky, a member of the Sixties Greenwich Village folk scene that launched Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, and many others, died on May 26th in Asheville, North Carolina. Sky had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2017, but according to his wife, folklorist and musician Cathy Larson Sky, Sky
Bob Dylan’s decades-spanning career has undergone numerous ebbs and flows. Armed with an intensely deep knowledge of American music, he first emerged from the Greenwich Village folk scene as the voice of dissent against various institutions of oppression. When he plugged in at the Newport Festival in 1965, the world’s