Folk music, Does anyone still listen to it?

[pandora]

I love Neil Young, and Bob Dylan. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
were great too. But are'n we forgetting Cat Stevens ???

[Connie Reader]

I can't say I'm too versed in Folk music, but I do like Mumford and Sons (Little Lion Man is great!). My hubby and I were just talking about this yesterday....I don't like country music, but Folk and Bluegrass definitely strikes a chord in me. I love the banjo!

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

John Lennon said that all music is folk music.

It's made by folk and listened to by folk.

John Lennon was a very clever man who lived in the twentieth century.

Long days and pleasant nights

[bobledrew]

All this Canadian content does my heart good.

There's a lot of superduper NEW music being made as well as the big guys you're mentioning:

Lynn Miles, Rose Cousins, Todd Snyder, Lynne Hanson, Justin Rutledge, Andrea Simms-Karp, Garnet Rogers, Nathan Rogers, Jill Zmud, Frank Turner, Jonathan Byrd, Josh Ritter, Melissa McClelland, Katherine Wheatley, Madison Violet, The Undesirables, David Ross MacDonald, Emma-Lee, Rick Fines, Suzie Vinnick, Wailin' Jennies, Good Lovelies, BeGood Tanyas, Dala, Fleet Foxes, Great Lake Swimmers, Gordie Sampson, Gregory Hoskisn, Sarah Harmer, Jim Bryson, Kathleen Edwards, Luke Doucet, Oh Susanna...

[muskrat]

Oh man, I TOTALLY listen to folk music. Bob Dylan is my GOD (even after he plugged in at Newport and p*ssed the folkies off!). Gimme some Dave Van Ronk, some Phil Ochs, some Kinky Freidman (Kinky? Who's Keenky?) alla dat stuff...

But then I dig ALL music to some degree or other. It is, as they say, ALL GOOD.

[bobledrew]

Great new movie about Phil Ochs just out now.

[JohnDalglish]

Great new movie about Phil Ochs just out now.

Hi,

Thankee big-big for the heads-up, Bob.

Long days and pleasant nights

[Lencho_of_the_Apes]

Hi,

Oh yes, big-big, and going back to Jimmie Rodgers, the Carter Family and Robert Johnson.

BBC TV in the UK has just finished a superb series called 'Folk America' spread out over a few weeks which traced the development of folk in the US from way back to today - if it ever comes on in your area or is released on DVD. don't miss it!

The last thing in the series was a concert filmed a few weeks ago with Judy Collins, Roger McGuinn and Carolyn Hester - marvellous!

Long days and pleasant nights

"Folk America"? And nobody on the board has jumped on this as an example of USA-bashing?

We all float down here.

[Hoofbeat]

Folk music is nice, but i dont listen to it much...

[Brian]

Meaning like that cool song by that old dude in the Watchmen credits? (That was a joke.)

Did people really listen to that stuff at one point? Seems like the world has moved on for sure.