“Bare Foot Folk and is full of really interesting songs, Ange Hardy takes folk tales and creates new folk songs that sound traditional around the story. This is one she's called mother willow tree, it's beautiful” StoriesBeautifulMotherSongSoundInterestingTreeFeetFolksTalesTraditionalReally InterestingHardyFolk SongsBare FeetWillow Trees Author:Mike Harding
“I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who is Czech and a patriot, cannot bear to hear me play them because he says I do it in such a schmalzy way, 'crying into the mouth organ'. I do not think I could have written the book on nationalism which I did write, were I not capable of crying, with the help of a little alcohol, over folk songs, which happen to be my favourite form of music.” ThinkingWayWritingLittlesI CanBookPlayHelpingHappensFormSongWrittenCryBearsCapableMouthsFolksAlcoholSensitiveThirtyNationalismSpellsOrgansFavouritePatriotBohemianCzechFolk SongsOldest Friends Author:Ernest Gellner
“At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.” SongRightsMovementChangedIndustryHappeningsFolksCivil RightsRevivalCivil Rights MovementMusic IndustryFolk SongsCommercial Music Author:Bernice Johnson Reagon
“A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it or it could be who's hungry and where their mouth is or who's out of work and where the job is or who's broke and where the money is or who's carrying a gun and where the peace is.” JobsSongMouthsGunFolksHungryBrokeFolk Songs Author:Woody Guthrie
“Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. 'Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs are serious.' And I said, 'Right.'” SaidSongOne ThingSeriousFolksFolk Songs Author:Arlo Guthrie
“I play a couple basic folks songs and break them down. I did that on a six string. I can't recall all the songs on it. There's some finger picking on it.” I CanPlaySongBreakCoupleSixFingersFolksStringsRecallsFolk Songs Author:Roger McGuinn
“But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.” PeopleWholeSongImaginationBeatsFolksVillageMy ImaginationMixingFolk SongsGreenwichGreenwich Village Author:Roger McGuinn
“We had various kinds of tape-recorded concerts and popular music. But by the end of the flight what we listened to most was Russian folk songs. We also had recordings of nature sounds: thunder, rain, the singing of birds. We switched them on most frequently of all, and we never grew tired of them. It was as if they returned us to Earth.” IfsKindEndsEarthSongSoundGrewSingingBirdRainTiredFolksVariousFlightExplorationConcertsTapeThunderSpace ExplorationPopular MusicFolk Songs Author:Anatoly Berezovoy
“The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of Texas and the West ——- are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses.” MenWorldMadeAmericaSongWhiteWalksHorseWestFolksRhythmChiefsContributionTexasCowboyWhite ManFolk MusicFolk SongsGallopingAmerican WestTrotting Author:J. Frank Dobie
“My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.” PlayTogetherSongNormalGuitarFolksMumBassGet TogetherFolk SongsHarmonicas Author:Dan Auerbach
“There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.” SongBuildingDiedFolksBridgesPeasantsFolk Songs Author:Eugene Chadbourne
“What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.” ShouldWritingDoneSongSoundFolksBobDylanWoodyFolk MusicFolk SongsPloughing Author:Justin Townes Earle
“We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.” WarCareHateSongPeaceInterestPovertySpecialArmyInjusticeFolksActivismSquaresSpecial InterestsFolk Songs Author:Tom Lehrer