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Growing up, we had folk records.
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Alison Krauss
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Born:
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1971
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Louis Armstrong
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Song
Folk
Folk Music
Horse
Never
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Heard
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H. L. Mencken
Happy
Women
Men
Single
Married
Folk
Only
Really
We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.
Nikola Tesla
Food
Hurt
Water
Impossible
Will
Rest
Country
Become
Accident
Dust
Air
Everywhere
Folk
City
Roads
Soon
Town
Well
Smoke
Got
Contract
Get
Disease
Get Well
Clothing
Next
Elevated
Streets
Neofascism in the United States takes the form of big money, big banks, big corporations, tied to xenophobic scapegoating of the vulnerable, like Mexicans and Muslims and women and black folk, and militaristic policies abroad, with strongman, charismatic, autocratic personality, and that's what Donald Trump is.
Cornel West
Women
Personality
Money
Black
Big
Corporations
States
Muslims
Folk
Charismatic
Abroad
Takes
Like
Policies
Xenophobic
Tied
Vulnerable
Big Corporations
Trump
Mexicans
Big Money
Donald
Donald Trump
Autocratic
Banks
Form
United
United States
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fickle
Our
Hesitation
Puny
Folk
Following
Diseases
Avarice
Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected folk songs, retained the melodic line, kept what words were usable and rewrote the rest. He didn't claim ownership.
Jimmy Reid
Today
Song
Genius
Words
Rest
Ownership
Rich
Enjoy
Enriched
Melodic
Claim
Collected
Responsible
Folk
Folk Songs
Songs
He
Mainly
Robert
House
Line
Were
His
Scottish
Burns
Usable
Treasure
Kept
The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it.
Alice Cooper
Life
Natural
Listening
Think
Late
Seventies
Airwaves
Out
Kind
Folk
Easy
Easy-Going
Take
Step
Exciting
Taking
Over
New
Because
Sound
Sounds
Were
Sixties
Next
Breeding
Next Step
Ground
Strangle
Early
At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history.
Arlo Guthrie
Environmental
Time
History
Change
Rights
Generation
Boom
Rights Movement
Folk
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Environmental Movement
Course
Ready
Anti-War
Ban
Same
Same Time
Movement
Happening
Suddenly
Bomb
There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism.
Benjamin Todd Jealous
Racism
People
Burden
Black
Men
White
Folk
Sexism
About
Only
Sort
Talking
Ultimately
End
Persistent
Race
I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
Bob Dylan
Music
Folk
Folk Music
Somehow
Had
Make
Became
Because
Interested
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