folk music
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During his reign at Columbia/CBS, the company threw open its doors to rock and folk music, issuing early albums from Springsteen, Santana, Aerosmith, Laura Nyro and Billy Joel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
If hip-hop is the folk music of the post-industrial age, then Slick Rick is it's Woody Guthrie.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
Early in “A Mighty Wind,” a folk music historian calls Mitch and Mickey’s first kiss “a superb moment in folk music, and maybe a great moment in the history of humans.”
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2026
“Because really that, to me, is what folk music is. It’s passed on, it’s transformed — it turns into something else and then passed on again.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2025
And Ellen clogs to some German folk music.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
