Word: folke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MONSANTO NIGHT PRESENTS LENA HORNE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Lena makes musicwith David (The Fugitive) Janssen, Singer O. C. Smith and Hungarian Folk Guitarist Gabor Szabo...
...FOLK GOSPEL MUSIC FESTIVAL (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A contemporary gospel music special featuring Mahalia Jackson, the Staple Singers, Clara Walker and the Gospel Redeemers...
...master builder used not a single nail, but so precisely slotted the beams and joists that the structure has stood without reinforcement for 250 years. Upon the traditional octagonal shape, he laid an exuberance of cupolas and onion-shaped domes. The result was a wondrous aberration, a unique folk image of what a house of God should look like. The legend goes that, upon its completion, Nestor declared: "There never has been, is, or ever will be another church like this." So saying, he flung his ax into Lake Onega. He was absolutely right...
...never really courted audiences. That quality has helped him outgrow the limitations of his early successes. But it has also alienated some of his fans. There were early Dylan fanatics, for instance, who considered him guilty of betrayal when he first gave up the pure strains of folk music and adopted the electrified big beat of rock...
This should be daft, glorious stuff, and West ought to lurch into life as a monstrously American folk villain, the match of such folk heroes as Paul Bunyan and Davy Crockett. If Minnesota's lakes are the hoof-prints of Bunyan's blue ox, why can't Warren Harding, Al Capone and Joseph McCarthy be the droppings from Eddie West's cigar...