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...meanwhile, folk-rock in the US had very different origins, timelines and heroes - again, thanks to FdM club members for their recommendations, proving if nothing else that one music fan's folk-rock is another's folk/country/singer-songwriter...

club member and Expose magazine contributor Henry Schneider offers us his take on the origins of folk-rock...
The folk revival in the 60s saw the rise of the folk music scene in New York City and Greenwich Village with Dave Van Ronk, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Peter, Paul, & Mary, Tim Hardin, Tim Buckley, Phil Ochs, etc. The Viet Nam war played an importaht role with the rise of protest songs, most notably from Bob Dylan. When he went electric at the Newport Jazz Festival in Ju;y 1965 this new genre took off. In point of fact, the US Press firsts coined the term folk rock in June 1965 to describe The Byrds’ cover of Bob Dylan’s “Tambourine Man.” I was in high school in the late 60s when all this happened and am quite familiar with a lot of the artists and their music. The genre folk rock may have begun meaning covering folk songs in a rock group setting, amplified guitars, bass, and drums, but has since grown to include country rock, singer songwriter, psych folk from the 60s that would now be considered acid folk, and even 60s pop groups like the Mamas & The Papas, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Youngbloods, Roy Harper and Cat Stevens. Many folk musicians morphed their songs to include rock elements such as Gordon Lightfoot starting with his protest song “Black Day in July.” Because of the political climate in the US at the time, there may have been quite a bit more musicians and groups exploring folk rock than in the UK, but that is only a guess. But given the explosion of music in the 60s because of the availability of affordable electronic guitars, etc. that also helped with the rise of Folk Rock. Anyone with access to a guitar started covering Bob Dylan.

Ray Canham, Timelord Michalis, Chris Dale and Stephen Young kick things off...


while Henry Schneider provided a whole bunch of great suggestions to add to his intro on the subject...


and Craig Palmer shared his love for all things American...


Stephen Young, Earnie Oakley, John Gregson and Matthias Lang all dug deep...


Luke Lands came up with two Rising Sons songs, while Ian Tully and Gary Farber contributed two more gems...

Julian Wheeler, Tony Preece, John Rahmer and Timlord Michalis wrap this collection up for now...

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