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Chronicles, Volume One (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.98 — 62,786 ratings — published 2004
Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,680 ratings — published 2001
Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,456 ratings — published 2021
Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,031 ratings — published 2010
Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,035 ratings — published 2015
Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States (American Made Music Series)
by (shelved 3 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.90 — 30 ratings — published 2012
Folk Song in England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.10 — 51 ratings — published 2017
Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970 (Culture, Politics, and Cold War)
by (shelved 3 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.10 — 20 ratings — published 2002
Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Roots Music (Cultural Studies of the United States)
by (shelved 3 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.98 — 91 ratings — published 2000
The Mayor of MacDougal Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,857 ratings — published 2005
When We Were Good: The Folk Revival (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.80 — 40 ratings — published 1996
Singing from the Floor (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.10 — 70 ratings — published 2014
The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.04 — 28 ratings — published 1959
The Bristol Sessions: Writings About the Big Bang of Country Music (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, 12)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.96 — 26 ratings — published 2005
The Imagined Village: Culture, Ideology, and the English Folk Revival (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.30 — 27 ratings — published 1994
The Folk Singers and the Bureau The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party, USA-1939-1956 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.69 — 167 ratings — published 2020
Folk City: New York and the American Folk Music Revival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.26 — 43 ratings — published 2015
The Land Where the Blues Began (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.31 — 870 ratings — published 1993
The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,161 ratings — published 1997
Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotten (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.93 — 484 ratings — published 2018
All in the Downs: Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.42 — 86 ratings — published 2018
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,520 ratings — published 2004
American Roots Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.00 — 79 ratings — published 2001
Paul Simon: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.18 — 154 ratings — published 2010
Passing the Music Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 4.17 — 159 ratings — published 2010
Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,635 ratings — published 2009
And a Voice to Sing With (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,234 ratings — published 1989
Which Side Are You On?: An Inside History of the Folk Music Revival in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.45 — 33 ratings — published 2005
The Npr Curious Listener's Guide To American Folk Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.67 — 15 ratings — published 2004
Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as folk-music)
avg rating 3.86 — 479 ratings — published
Pink Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 3.42 — 463 ratings — published 2007
Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 4.00 — 33 ratings — published 2024
Americana Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 3.30 — 10 ratings — published
Wayward: Just Another Life to Live (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 4.26 — 761 ratings — published 2022
Woody, Cisco, and Me: Seamen Three in the Merchant Marine (Music in American Life) by Jim Longhi (1997-01-01)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 3.91 — 578 ratings — published 2005
Country Music: An Illustrated History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 4.52 — 436 ratings — published
Living in the Present with John Prine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 4.46 — 918 ratings — published
Shanties From The Seven Seas (Mystic Seaport)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 4.42 — 62 ratings — published 1980
American Ballads and Folk Songs (Dover Books On Music: Folk Songs)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 4.25 — 88 ratings — published 1934
Cowboy and Western Songs: A Comprehensive Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 3.71 — 7 ratings — published 1988
The Viking Book of Folk Ballads of the English-Speaking World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 3.64 — 14 ratings — published 1956
Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 3.33 — 12 ratings — published 1965
Strings and Stomp: A journey Through Appalachian Folk Music: Harmonies and Heritage: Exploring the Rich Tapestry of Appalachian Folk Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Song Catcher in the Southern Mountains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 4.12 — 8 ratings — published 1937
English Folk Songs From The Southern Appalachians (1917)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 4.60 — 10 ratings — published 1917
The Electric Muse Revisited (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 3.92 — 12 ratings — published
Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 3.77 — 31 ratings — published 1993
Blacks, Whites, and Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 3.07 — 15 ratings — published
Be Glad: An Incredible String Band Compendium : Dream the World Alive (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as folk-music)
avg rating 4.69 — 16 ratings — published 2003
“All of my words, if not well put nor well taken, are well meant.”
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“It's one of those songs that everybody knows, but you are not supposed to do, because everyone does it, only no-one does it, because you're not supposed to do it, because everyone does it....if you follow that....”
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