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Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.


Donal Henahan

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MARK KOTKIN Folk music is a bunch of fat people.
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JOHN LYDON It's a real opportunity for the local folk
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PAUL SIMON I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
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LOUIS ARMSTRONG That's folk music, swing, country blues, old time country, jazz. It's the roots of American music.
DOMINIC SUCHYTA Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!
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DON ELLIS We paint with a pretty broad brush when we talk about folk music.
LARRY MEYER The idea to go for folk fusion is simple as folk music is accepted throughout the world because peop...
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