Word: folke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half-hearted folkie back in 1965, when the first Richard and Mimi Farina album, Celebrations for a Grey Day, came out. Although it was later chosen by Robert Shelton of the New York Times as one of the ten best folk albums of the year, whatever that means, it didn't sell very widely. This is no surprise. Although it was a great record, it was in a basically acoustic idiom, mostly just guitar and dulcimer; Dylan had just issued Highway 61, and folk music, as we then knew it, was shot to hell...
...next time I heard of Richard Farina was the night after he died. I was listening to a folk show in Philadelphia, when the deejay read an announcement that Dick Farina had been killed in a motorcycle crash while leaving a party celebrating the publication of Been Down So Long...
...Beatles are just so self-confident, they have such a sure touch. That was always the secret of the great Memphis Delta blues-men (and of folk artists in general, they could knock you dead by the mere aura of unself-conscious authority that they projected. I think that what is happening with the Beatles is that they are beginning to achieve, in a rock context, that exact amalgam of easy natural strength and sure-footed integrity born of a complete command over the medium. (Exciting to think that, before our eyes, the Beatles are doing it all over again...
Julian Bond said in the keynote speech that DuBois had pointed out the major problem of the twentieth century over half a century ago. "DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk said that the major problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line-the failure of the white world minority to share its wealth and produce with the nonwhite world majority. That problem is still with us today," Bond said...
Married. Arlo Guthrie, 22, . balladeering son of Folk Singer Woody Guthrie; and Jacklyn Hyde, 24 (see Music...