Hi, I hope I'm not prying, I am interested by you mentioning folk music on that kareoke post.
what sort of folk music do you like to sing?
I don't often see American's mentioning folk music, I had thought that folk music traditions mostly became Country and Blues in the US. Do you feel linked to a local folk tradition?
-A Folk Music enjoyer in Scotland
Not prying at all! I love talking about folk music!
A lot of my family comes from Scotland and Ireland, and my dad and grandmother both loved and carried those folk music traditions and passed them down to me (along with a family tartan and a love of Robert Burns), so traditional Scotch and Irish folk music are among my favorites. That said, I also love a lot of traditional and modern American and Canadian folk music. Yes, country and blues are both American folk traditions, and the term "American Folk Music" overlaps heavily with them, so there's not necessarily clear distinctions, but i think most country or blues enjoyers would file most of what I listen to as "folk music" independently of other genres. In terms of regional differences, if Country is the folk music of the western US, and Blues is the folk music of the southern US, then what most Americans would refer to as folk would be the folk music of Appalachia, Bluegrass.
That said, these genres have intermingled and cross-pollinated a lot, and many of my favorite songs and artists draw on multiple traditions. Think like, John Prine, House of the Rising Sun, James Taylor, Devil Went Down to Georgia, Nanci Griffith, John Denver, City of New Orleans, David Wilcox, or Paul Simon (who also drew a lot on a variety of African folk traditions and worked with African folk artists in his later works).
I also really enjoy a lot of Canadian folk music, like Stan Rogers and Gordon Lightfoot, as well as some Australian folk like Waltzing Matilda. There's also some modern American folk music artists that I really like, though I tend to stray away from most of the "folk punk" genre. In modern American folk, I like folks like Jordan Smart, Joseph Terrell, and Billy Simmons Jr..
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