This replaces the old discussion board of the Great Folk Scare website at http://www.zipcon.com/~highroad/folkscare.html, which is still alive and well, and I welcome you to visit it often. But because of an increasing amount of spam on the old board I have ended posting there, although you can still review past messages at http://www.zipcon.net/~highroad/cgi-bin/TGFS.pl
The site is dedicated to the Folkniks (as they were often called then), the folk and protest singers of the folk boom from the late 1950s through early 1960s.
Definitions can put you all over the map. I remember seeing a reprint of a magazine article that called Elvis Presley "the Folk Music Fireball." Capitol
Al,  First, thanks for getting back to me. My thoughts about who and what is included on the compilations pretty much follows yours.  It is interesting
I haven't visited this site since I joined this group, and yours are the first posting I've got from it. I don't think this group's "criteria" much more than
In the course of trying to help my daughter with her project, I've printed out the selections available on so-called "Greatest Folk Songs" collections. Most
Hi Folkies!  I'm a retired high school teacher (now teaching at a community college) in the western suburbs of Chicago. Music, especially folk music, is