Word: folk-rock
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...credited Mondlock for turning him into a songwriter, a position usually filled by Paul Simon, the other member of the folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel...
...songs revolve around relationships and love within the different elements of the family. She gets her inspiration from watching people and “how they manage to get through [life],” she says. The songs on her new album, Pieces of Me, range from upbeat folk-rock to slow music in a minor key reminiscent of the Goo Goo Dolls. The arrangements are denser than Ritter’s. Many of the songs have a rock feel with guitars, bass and drums...
Sarah Po-Yeong Boyd, 14, enters ninth grade this year in Eagan, Minn., where Koreans are a distinct minority. But she bridges her two cultures with ease, listening with equal pleasure to the Korean pop group Baby Vox and American folk-rock singer Michelle Branch. Sarah says she is grateful for the connection her parents have helped her forge with her home country--for the culture camps, Korean dance lessons, time spent with other adoptees and a trip to Seoul two years ago with a Korean girlfriend and their dads. "For once we looked like everyone else and our parents...
...fair to say that Wade Horn is not your typical George W. Bush appointee. For one thing, the 47-year-old volunteered for George McGovern and played guitar in a folk-rock ensemble that favored trippy tunes like A Horse with No Name by America. Unlike Rumsfeld or Powell, he's so soft-spoken, you have to lean in to hear him. When he spouts statistics about family-dissolution rates, you wonder how he found himself in the towel-snapping world...
Hailing from Newfoundland and specializing in Celtic-inspired folk-rock, Great Big Sea nears perfection with Sea of No Cares. The band flawlessly intersperses energetic versions of traditional Newfoundland ballads with original songs. The overall effect of the album is to make the listener yearn to travel to the land of origin of these brilliant songs. With the fiddles, “Whistles high and low,” and bodhran in “Scolding Wife,” the listener can easily picture himself deep within a Newfoundland bar, hoisting a large mug of frothy mead while belting...