Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.
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I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.
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 really know what 'folk music' means anymore.
I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
We would turn everything into songs in those days.
Folk is bare bones music.
I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
Folk music is music that everyday people can play, and it inspired a lot of people to make their own music. That trailed into making your own pop music, and that's why garage bands started springing up everywhere.
If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.
I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.
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