Folk-rock

It's pretty much a dead genre now. That's kind of inevitable since the songs are all traditional, non-copywrited, or public stuff. No producer wants to spend much recording or publishing them. It wasn't that way in the middle 60s. There was huge cadre of folk trained musicians that had a chance to go from starving folkie to wealthy rocker, based on performance pay. It's one of the hidden reasons that this was such a creative, productive period in American music: the performers got the cash.

In my musical journey this is where I started.

Let Me In http://youtu.be/9-WB-Ip_37c  this version didn't make it past the censors, can you tell me why?

Let Me In Live performance, censors no longer cared, http://youtu.be/DiGq22ZnF0Y  a year later

Questions, http://youtu.http://youtu.be/zDjmmCvTH7obe/zDjmmCvTH7o

Spanish Harlem http://youtu.be/szvM7xJ6ql4

Folk rock was a happy blend of socially conscious protest and a good back beat. Folk music could be awfully whiny and even distressing, but folk-rock at least had a good rhythm and often more interesting harmony than the back-country arrangements that folk used. Finally though its hybrid nature killed it: the folk purists hated its musical innovations and the rock purists hadn't listened to the word as a message anyway.