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Catch the Wind - Donovan
Every Grain of Sand - Bob Dylan
Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce
Girl From the North Country - Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash (this might
count as Country) Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
The Sound of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel
Harvest Moon - Neil Young
This House is on Fire - Dead Man Winter
I’ll Have to Say I Love You In a Song - Jim Croce
Vincent - Don McLean
Alas, none of these are really true folk songsa.
Well, some are a bit more 'folksy' than others.
All 'folk' songs have had to have been devised or composed by somebody -
even if it was several centuries ago. Many are more modern. What makes
those of (say) Woody Guthrie more worthy of being 'folk' than some of
those above?
It's sometimes difficult to say exactly what a folk song is, but in the
end I've decided it usually has to be about some aspect of the 'human condition' (whatever THAT really is!).
The problem really occurs when someone who has previously been thought
of as a folk singer moves more into the world of 'popular' music - often
by writing or performing 'not-quite-folksongs' type of music. And what
about 'pop artists' who write songs about the 'human condition'? Is the
Beatles 'Eleanor Rigby' pop - or is it possibly more like folk?
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Ian
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