#ACFM Microdose: Jeremy Gilbert on Folk Music
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The Weavers, the Black List and the Battle for the Soul of America
Pete seger helped to popularize a folk as a sort of popular commercial idiom in the forties. The weavers were blacklisted for their communist allegiances. One of the most famous er recordings by the weavers was that it was a performance of a lead belly song, whichs a sort of based on an old railroad song.
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