Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
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Folk is bare bones music.
I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,' and that's the blues. You hear a rock n' roll song. That's the blues. Somebody playing a guitar solo? They're playing the blues.
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.
I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music.
Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
Folk music usually has an emphasis on the lyrics and melody. And those lyrics are usually relevant in some way. And it's populist in scope, which is also true of Bad Religion. So it's more meant to draw some parallels between the two. And I think even my voice and my delivery can be thought of as a little bit folky.
I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.
I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.