Quotes About Folk

John Renbourn, Sir John Alot of Merrie Englandes Musyk Thyng & Ye Grene Knyghte (1968); Shirley Collins, The Power of the True Love Knot (1968); Shirley and Dolly Collins, Anthems in Eden (1969). The Early Music movement as we know it today began in practice

The unconscious music of the folk has all the marks of fine art; that it is wholly free from the taint of manufacture, the canker of artificiality; that it is transparently pure and truthful, simple and direct in its utterance.

They repeated the trick on Love, Death and the Lady (1970).

Renbourn recorded his great second LP Another Monday in the makeshift studio at Bill Leader's Camden Town flat.

Harry Cox of Great Yarmouth, who went on to become a celebrated face of the traditional folk revival, recording more than 200 songs and appearing frequently on television until his death in 1971.

The English are quite mad, from the lowest to the highest, but I think they will conquer the world for they are the only folk (excepting the brash Americans who do not count) who know that they are right in all things

Four other old folk emerged one by one to join their brother. All five siblings wore cheap polyester clothes, and standing in a group they looked very much alike. They differed only in their heights, like the fingers of a single hand.

There were so many they packed the small field where the abbey held its yearly market, then spilled around the corner onto the coopers' lane, which followed the eastern edge of the holy house's walled compound. If some of the folk wore the ragged motley of the abbey's usual coterie of beggars, a far greater number dressed in the humble attire of the city's day laborers. Johanna,

The love of the sea folk is my strength. That was it. The answer she needed. It had been there all along. She heard Thalassa's voice now: A ruler's greatest power comes from her heart—from the love she bears her subjects, and the love they bear her. Vr?ja's: Nothing is more powerful than love. And Elena's: Love's the greatest magic of all.

Scratch an intellectual, and you find a would-be aristocrat who loathes the sight, the sound and the smell of common folk.

Saturday mornings we listened to Red Lantern& his undersea folk.At 11, Let's Pretend / & we did / & I, the poet, still do, Thank God!

And whether or not you're interested in opera or classical music or folk music or the theatre, I think that for a nation's health and well-being it's very important that the arts scene is supported.

As I was born and brought up in Himachal Pradesh, I used to listen to a lot of Hindi songs over radio apart from ghazals, western music, and 'Himachali' folk songs.

We have to preserve folk in its authenticity. Else folk will become fake.

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

In 'Spinal Tap,' there's the fake historical quality of 'Stonehenge.' It's something the musicians look at with a mystical reverence. In folk music, it's the seriousness with which these people approach their 'art.'

For all that, we have to realize that many revived folk songs today, in their "second existence", are probably enjoying a more vigorous life than they did in their first, restricted time, even if they are bent to different purposes.'9 Folk music had been set free to soar like the kestrel. Two years after this was printed, Lloyd was playing 'Deep Throat' consultant to Fairport Convention's revamping of folk on Liege and Lief.

Anne Briggs, The Hazards of Love EP (1964); John Renbourn, John Renbourn (1965); Mick Softley, Songs for Swingin' Survivors (1965).

More recent critics of the folk revival have suggested that the entire body of work considered 'British folk', from the Victorian age onwards, has been nothing more than carefully staged illusion, the product of a wholesale middle-class appropriation of working people's culture.

For aspiring folk progressives of 1965 the essential record to spin on the Dansette was Folk Roots, New Routes.

The Watersons' polyphonic austerity refreshed the sound of modern folk in Britain to the extent that publications as diverse as Sing, Melody Maker and Gramophone all praised Frost and Fire to the stars, while BBC Two commissioned a documentary on the group, Travelling for a Living, aired in 1966.

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You stand up straw men," Nynaeve said. "We have a saying in the Two Rivers. 'Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.' Take your contest somewhere else and leave Emond's Field folk out of it.