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Martin Lumsden
Mar 12, 20155 min read
Contemporary Folk 4. Culture Club
Despite some mainstream success the genre prefers to stay rooted in folk traditions and artists tend to frequent their own circles,...
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Martin Lumsden
Mar 11, 20154 min read
Contemporary Folk 3. Folk Rocks
After Dylan, folk singers and their music opened up to pop/rock production techniques and instrumentation, and the songs about the...
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Martin Lumsden
Feb 19, 20156 min read
Contemporary Folk Music 2. History
Prior to the mainstream success of Bob Dylan folk performers tended to interpret classic songs of the genre or wrote broad-based, topical...
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Martin Lumsden
Feb 16, 20153 min read
Contemporary Folk Music 1. Introduction
“What draws me to traditional music is that the songs are there to do a job, to tell a story, to make work easier. There’s no pomposity...
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