#folk singers

[mysharona1987]

Wait, but Australian folk singers are evil now?

[foggycatgarden]

Folk singers Nana Mouskouri & Joan Baez talking together sometime in the 1960's. (Photo by Keystone-France)

[folk-enjoyer]

Nyack Library Local History Collection

Pete Seeger and an unnamed Tambourine artist in Nyack's Memorial Park, 1970

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Street musicians attract listeners, 1934.

Photo: John Albok via the Amon Carter Museum

[hist105rockblog]

Lecture 6: Folk singer Phil Ochs’ most famous antiwar protest ballad, “I Ain’t Marching Anymore,” became a staple at anti-Vietnam War demonstrations in the 1960s and early 1970s. In many ways, it is the quintessential Sixties-era protest song. Ochs described himself as a“singing journalist,“ and his radical protest music took him from the quaint neighbourhoods of Greenwich Village – where folk music abounded in the early 1960s – to the biggest demonstrations of the Vietnam Era. Ochs openly embraced leftist protest politics and spoke out against a variety of injustices in the 1960s and early 1970s. Tragically, Ochs – a man tormented by bipolar disorder and struggles with alcoholism – committed suicide in 1976. 

[bookends-theme]

Roberta Flack and Joan Baez, 1975

[junkpawz]

bob dylan fans be like i love this song because his voices sounds like he just smoked a pack of cigarettes and the harmonica is really loud and the lyrics make me sob and question anything i’ve ever thought

[onemorecupofcoffee]

bob dylan at gerde’s folk city, 1961.