FOLK ROCK
Folk rock is a hybrid music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music, which arose in the United States and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960's. In the U.S., folk rock emerged from the folk music revival and the influence that the Beatles and other British Invasion bands had on members of that movement. Performers such as Bob Dylan and the Byrds, several of whose members had earlier played in folk ensembles, attempted to blend the
sounds of rock with their preexisting folk repertoire, adopting the use of electric instrumentation and drums in a way previously discouraged in the U.S. folk community. The term "folk rock" was initially used in the U.S. music press in June 1965 to describe the Byrds' music.
The commercial success of the Byrds' cover version of Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" and their debut album of the same name, along with Dylan's own recordings with rock instrumentation, on the albums Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Highway 61 Revisited (1965), and Blonde on Blonde (1966), encouraged other folk acts, such as Simon & Garfunkel, to use electric backing on their records and new groups, such as Buffalo Springfield, to form. Dylan's controversial appearance at the Newport Folk Festival on 25 July 1965, where he was backed by an electric band, was also a pivotal moment in the development of the genre.
During the late 1960's in Britain and Europe, a distinct, eclectic British folk rock style was created by Pentangle, Fairport Convention and Alan Stivell. Inspired by British psychedelic folk and the North American style of folk rock, British folk rock bands began to incorporate elements of traditional British folk music into their repertoire, leading to other variants, including the overtly English folk rock of the Albion Band and Celtic rock. (Wikipedia)
Folk Rock as a genre has very blurred and overlapping edges into pure folk, rock, and 'singer-songwriter' styles. Whilst folk rock enjoyed it's heydey back in the late 60's and early 70's recent success of bands like Mumford and Sons and the Lumineers folk rock is making it's way back ....
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VA - Great Folk Rock Songs (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1+CD2
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01 Jefferson Airplane - Come Up Years 02:33 1966
02 Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue 05:41 1975
03 Gene Clark - Echoes 03:13 1967
04 Grass Roots - Let's Live for Today 02:49 1967
05 Neil Young - Heart of Gold 03:02 1972
06 Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die 06:26 1970
07 Lindisfarne - Lady Eleanor 04:12 1970
08 Vejtables - I Still Love You (Mono) 02:27 1965
09 Youngbloods - Get Together 04:40 1967
10 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Suite- Judy Blue Eyes 07:22 1969
11 Sweetwater - Motherless Child 05:05 1968
12 Buffalo Springfield - Bluebird 04:19 1967
13 Spanky & Our Gang - Yesterday's Rain 03:26 1969
14 Beatles - You've Got to Hide Your Love Away 02:09 1965
15 Lovin' Spoonful - You Didn't Have to Be So Nice 02:28 1966
16 Beau Brummels - Just a Little 02:29 1965
17 Crispian St. Peters - The Pied Piper 02:34 1966
18 Lumineers - Ho Hey 02:43 2012
19 Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine 04:02 1989
20 Pogues - Dirty Old Town 03:46 1985
21 Richard & Linda Thompson - When I Get To The Border 03:27 1974
22 Nick Drake - River Man 04:23 1969
23 Bert Jansch - Angi 03:09 1965
24 Association - Along Comes Mary 02:47 1966
25 Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone 06:13 1965
Tracks CD2
26 Byrds - Mr. Tamborine Man 02:32 2005
27 Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 02:32 2014
28 Beatles - Norwegian Wood 01:59 1965
29 Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life 03:09 2005
30 Turtles - You Showed Me 03:06 1969
31 Mumford & Sons - I Will Wait 04:37 2012
32 Strawbs - Lay Down 04:45 1973
33 Matthews' Southern Comfort - Woodstock 04:31 1970
34 Simon & Garfunkel - Homeward Bound 02:24 1966
35 Bon Iver - Skinny Love 03:52 2008
36 Rod Stewart - Maggie May 05:50 1971
37 Leonard Cohen - So Long, Marianne 05:42 1967
38 Laura Marling - I Was an Eagle 04:22 2013
39 Crosby & Nash - Southbound Train 05:02 1972
40 Fairport Convention - Matty Groves 08:10 1976
41 Fotheringay - Banks of the Nile 08:06 1970
42 Mama's & the Papa's - Twelve Thirty 03:26 1968
43 John Martyn - Over the Hill 02:51 1973
44 Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - Home 05:06 2009
45 Donovan - Sunshine Superman 03:15 1966
46 Squires - Go Ahead 02:16 1966
47 Leaves - Hey Joe 02:47 1966
48 We Five - You Were on My Mind 02:37 1965
49 Love - A Message To A Pretty 03:15 1995
50 Byrds - I Trust 03:14 1971
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