Thread 127625031

Is Folk music just Country without a southern accent?

>>127625031 (OP)
folk music is about
>grabbing an acoustic guitar
>bitching and moaning because woe is me

>>127625031 (OP)
It's not folk music until it enters the folk canon. Which takes at least 200 years.
Simon and Garfunkel knew this, which is why their debut album is carefully subtitled "new sounds in the folk tradition."

Yes. Any genealogy tracing is bullshit. They do the same stuff.

>>127625031 (OP)
when will this hack fraud die already?

>>127625463
He's made some good shit. But he definitely did NOT deserve the Nobel prize

>>127625531
He made like 50 or 60 albums, and maybe 7 or 8 were good.

>>127625074
that sounds like the blues. maybe "folk" music is just white boy blues

>>127625031 (OP)
Folk doesn't have steel or slide guitar

>>127625074
Ur gay

>>127625463
>watching snl from circa 1976
>Bob Dylan is still alive!?
They were wondering 50 years ago

Country music is about how you hate your wife. Folk music is about how you hate your boss.

>>127625031 (OP)
Folk is country without consent

Tyler Childers is mostly considered country, but he made an album about racism and it was considered folk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Folk_Album#Recipients

>>127625031 (OP)
All regions of the US had these folk traditions once. Just that the South kept it, and people in other areas literally became soulless and self-hating.
Bob is one of the ones who kept said traditions.

>>127626308
Steel/slide started as Hawaiian folk music. Then became a big craze where everyone was playing it in the 20s and 30s and 40s. But country kept it living on.
Leo Fender first started as an amp and steel guitar company in California before he was known for anything else. Then made the solid body electric guitar in the 50s. That's how big it was though.... that the steel guitar was even in Cali for an instrument guy to build a company on.