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| | MSN Encarta - Rock Music |
 | | Rock music began in the United States, but it has influenced and in turn been shaped by a broad field of cultures and musical traditions, including gospel music, the blues, country-and-western music, classical music (see Music, Western), folk music, electronic music, and the popular music of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (see Worldbeat). | | | The central musical instrument in most kinds of rock music is the electric guitar. | | | Rock Music, group of related music styles that have dominated popular music in the West since about 1955. |
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| | Folk-rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Folk-rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and rock music. | | | Other fusions of folk and rock include New Flamenco (Spain), the pop-oriented forms of North African raï music, and in the music of The Pogues and the Dropkick Murphys, both of whom draw on traditional Irish music and punk rock. | | | The Canadian band Celtae are fusing two folk traditions, that of Cape Breton and Newfoundland with a broad definition of rock that includes elements of hard rock, funk, and jazz while retaining the original flavour of the traditional music. |
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| | Folk Rock Encyclopedia Article @ FolkArtMuseum.com (Folk Art Museum) |
| | Still, the term is not usually applied to rock music rooted in the blues-based or other African American music (except as mediated through folk revivalists), nor to rock music with Cajun roots, nor to music (especially after about 1980) with non-European folk roots, which is more typically classified as world music. | | | Arising originally from the folk-influenced music of Bob Dylan and earlier musicians, the folk revivalist vocal combo, and the rock music of the British Invasion, it later incorporated elements of country music, drawing on Hank Williams and others. | | | The first of the urban folk vocal groups was the Almanac Singers, whose shifting membership during the late 1930s and early 1940s included Guthrie and Seeger and Lee Hayes. |
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| | Folk - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music |
| | Contemporary folk music, though, is a broad category: It can be soft and warm around the edges, or it can show the influence of punk rock in its sharpness and punch. | | | Perhaps the antithesis of composed 'classical' music (which tends to be more academic), 'folk' refers music 'of the people,' as in songs and melodies shared by families and communities and passed down through generations. | | | Much of early country music, for instance, was basically old-time folk music. |
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| | Folk/Country Rock Downloads - Download Folk/Country Rock Music - Download Folk/Country Rock MP3s |
| | Under the direction of new member Gram Parsons, the Byrds tackled country music on their 1968 album =Sweetheart of the Rodeo.= Parsons proved to be the guiding force in country-rock, as his solo records and albums with the Flying Burrito Brothers and the Byrds provided the blueprint for country-rock. | | | Uncompromising and iconoclastic, Mitchell confounded expectations at every turn; restlessly innovative, her music evolved from deeply personal folk stylings into pop, jazz, avant-garde, and even world music, presaging the multicultural experimentation of the 1980s and 1990s by over a decade. | | | Predictably, she turned away from Blue's incandescent folk with 1972's For the Roses, the first of the many major stylistic turns she would take over the course of her daring career. |
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| | CD Baby: ROCK: Folk Rock - music you will love. |
| | Treva’s acoustic album blurs the boundaries of rock, folk, Americana and soul and lays a solid foundation on which to showcase her insightful and captivating lyrics. | | | Folk rock and pop with a distinctive Canadian touch | | | CD Baby: ROCK: Folk Rock - music you will love. |
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| | BBC - Music - A quick guide to Folk |
| | While the folk rockers, er, rocked, singer songwriters like John Martyn (OK he's a Scot), Nick Drake, Sandy Denny and Ralph McTell forged a distinctively English take on the acoustic guitar/sensitivity combination. | | | This was the golden age of the English folk club and the inspiration for the next wave; Folk Rock. | | | Shetland Folk with its emphasis on fiddle virtuosity (and one of the few folk forms to use the piano as a prominent instrument) is often seen as a separate development from mainland Scottish music. |
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| | folkcd.txt |
| | Central France folk music album, Thierry Mirebeau composed about 1/2 the tunes, which are mixed with trad.numbers CD Fungus The Fungus Collection`73-77 (2CD) NL EMI Holland ** NEW CD** $40. | | | Headed from folk into a more mainstream pop sound, but the folk signature is there. | | | UK hippie folk outfit returns to the same Devon cottage garden they recorded their Dawn album in,a comp of newly recorded old faves & prev.unissued. |
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| | Folk Rock - MilesofMusic.com |
| | The music is an intriguing English country folk rock blend that's typical of the sound that producer Joe Boyd used to cultivate. | | | The album foreshadows the ambitious folk rock blues hybrid that Fred Neil created on his solo outings. | | | From their Bookends-style cover to their electro-acoustic folk rock pop sound that resembles an Americana-ized Belle & Sebastian, the New Americans duo (Dan Touhy and, from Flamingo, Casey Fundaro) display not only an affinity for musical duos but a love of songcraft and the ability to pull it off themselves. |
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| | Open Directory - Arts: Music: Styles: R: Rock |
| | Psyche van het folk - Radio program and large resource covering several types of rock music, including progressive and psychedelic, gothic, experimental, and folk. | | | Rubin's Rock N Roll Reference Discography - A complete list of rock artists and their songs, albums, years of release, lead singers, and other helpful information to help track down music one is looking for. | | | Rock Archives - Offers access to resources regarding the social, cultural, and artistic aspects of rock music, including a sub-site linking to more than 350 singer-songwriters and bands. |
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| | Folk Music |
| | His two-plus decades of work spans a range of folk music that touches on everything from the blues to old time rock numbers; but no matter what aesthetic he dabbles in, his songs always encapsulate the honesty, curiosity, and humor of the human condition. | | | Some folks believe the "folk music" label refers to every type of music there is. Others are more traditional, considering only older topical songs to be folk songs. | | | Some of these folks made the cut because of their lyrical content; others have the bleeding heart of a folk singer. |
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| | Rkstar Genres: Folk Rock |
| | Read more about the Folk Rock genre and bands associated with it at Allmusic. | | | Folk Rock is the fusion of the songwriting style of folk music and the strong rock & roll back beat for accessibility. |
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| | Folk Rock Bands - EntsWeb Directory |
| | Original folk rock and funk from this six-piece band from Brighton formed in 1994. | | | Irish Folk, rock and ballads band ideal for your ceili or anywhere that requires good Irish folk music with a blend of rock. | | | Electro Acoustic Folk / Rock band based in the English Midlands. |
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| | Folk-Rock |
| | The concept of folk-rock is simple: take the winsome acoustic arrangements of folk and play them with a big rock and roll backbeat. | | | Folk-flavored rock music has waxed and waned in popularity over the years since. | | | In recent years however, a number of outstanding indie rock bands-- many on the periphery of the alt.country movement -- have sought to place folk elements within a rock foundation, often to sensational results. |
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| | 1960s Folk-Rock Overview |
| | The "rock" in folk-rock was always more prominent than the "folk"; all of the aforementioned acts had a highly commercial sense of melody, grafting guitar patterns and somewhat more personal, topical lyrical concerns from folk music into their own superb pop-rock creations. | | | The folk community prided itself on its purity, which meant acoustic instruments and songs of substance; it regarded rock'n'roll as vulgar and commercial. | | | Rock'n'rollers, for the most part, were utterly ignorant of folk traditions, and unconcerned with broadening their lyrical content beyond tried-and-true themes of romance and youthful partying. |
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| | Little Johnny England - Folk Music |
| | The combination of instruments and music style creates a unique Folk Rock sound that is drawn from English musical roots. | | | The style is amplified rock, but it is definitely English Folk with a twist of rock. | | | But isnt that what folk music is
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| | 1960s Folk-Rock Lists |
| | Folk and social commentary with a British slant continued to be heard in much of the subsequent Kinks work, and some of Dave Davies' late-1960s solo singles, such as "Lincoln County," were noticeably Dylan-influenced. | | | That LP and some 1966-68 singles were interesting combinations of country, folk, and rock with some resemblance to some of the Byrds' mid-1960s records and Gene Clark's early solo work, though the song "Sounds of Goodbye" was one of the more country-oriented items on the LP. | | | According to the liner notes on the CD reissue of their first album, this was remembered by the band's bassist, Peter Albin, from his folk days; for this track he played lead guitar. |
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| | ipedia.com: Folk-rock Article |
| | The genre developed from the folk music of Bob Dylan and earlier musicians, the rock music of the British Invasion, and also the country music of Hank Williams and others. | | | Folk-rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and rock music. | | | Turkey, during the 1970s and 1980s, also sustained a vibrant Folk Rock scene, drawing inspirations from diverse ethnic elements of Anatolia, the Balkans, Eurasia and the Black Sea region and thrived in a culture of intense political strife, with musicians in Nationalist and Marxist camps. |
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| | Modern Tradition: The Folk Rock Fanlisting |
| | Bob Dylan's work is considered the "Root" of the movement - but the British group The Fairport Convention is considered to be the first band to have added elements of rock to traditional celtic and british folk music, creating what is now considered "folk rock". | | | The sound of folk-rock is characterized by tight vocal harmonies and distortion-free guitar work. | | | From the mid-to-late 60's, folk rock was one of the most popular mediums of entertainment. |
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| | FolkWeb: Artist Page: Erin McKeown |
| | Part folk diva, part beat poet, part jazzy funketeer, Erin McKeown careens onto the national pop scene with her CD debut "Distillation," a startling album glowing with a spectrum of musical and emotional hues. | | | With a fluid guitar style, a bewitching voice, and provocative lyrics, McKeown is able to swing, rock, funk it up, sing the blues, and take it down with effortless charm and smart evocation | | | At just 22, McKeown, proficient on bass, piano, electric and acoustic guitars as well as banjo and mandolin, has come a long way in the brief four-year period she's been plying her art. |
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| | Belarus |
| | Pesnyary was a folk rock group that appeared in Belarus in 1969 and for years pretty much defined Belarusian national identity. | | | Here's the link to a modern folk rock group - Krywi These good folks participated in a concert in July 21 action protesting President Lukashenka staying in power past constitutional two 5-years terms. | | | One of such new folk music groups is Guda. |
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| | Folk Rock books from the Bomp Bookshelf |
| | Though in fact others had been doing similar things since the early '60s, that was the watershed that unleashed a torrent of folk-tinged rock and roll and pop hits throughout 1965, later evolving into country-rock and a myriad other hybrid styles. | | | For unlike most rock musicians of his time, Arthur Lee was one member of the '60s counterculture who didn't buy flower-power wholesale, who intuitively understood that letting the sunshine in wouldn't instantly vaporize the world's (or his own) dark stuff. | | | The author is not a rock critic, but he knows literature, so it's not surprising to see Arthur Lee placed in a setting which includes Virginia Woolf, Cotton Mather, and existentialism. |
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| | Shane Jackman: folk/country rock songs. |
| | The best folk singers are storytellers, and Jackman's no exception... | | | In 1999, Jackman was invited along with 3 other Utah songwriters to perform on a special stage at the prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival in Kerrville, Texas. | | | Still tightly connected with the national folk singer-songwriter scene, Jackman is often called on to represent Utah and the West on the national stage. |
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| | Harmonica Players- Male- Rock/Pop/Folk Blues harp, Diatonic Harmonicas |
| | Players from the rock, pop, and folk realms of music. | | | Their contagious brand of straight-ahead rock n' roll has outlasted countless trends, selling over 20 million albums worldwide in the process." Not too many people know that Huey started out as a hitchhikin' harmonica player. | | | "Wherever Magic Dick blows the harp, there's a houseparty going on." A pioneer in sound and style for rock harmonica, the 80's saw the J. Geils Band release a number of albums with one or two great, innovative harmonica solos buried away. |
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| | Rich Whiteley, musician, songwriter, recording artist, roots groove rock with folk, funk & jazz flavors |
| | Rich Whiteley, musician, songwriter, recording artist, roots groove rock with folk, funk and jazz flavors |
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| | folkall.txt |
| | Hard edged folk rock ala The Lorelei or early Levellers. | | | NEW Originally released in 1971 on Vanguard.Mournful violin and guitar acoustic folk duo with deep feeling emotional vocals. | | | Five years in the making, an instrumental album of folk music by the talented Mr.Beer. |
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