Free Folk Music - The New Weird America

Folk music no longer seems to be spontaneously recognizable as a kind of authentically radical musical form. The weirder elements of people like steeli span, the end up being the resource which a radical musicians working in the folk musician are drawing on. One interesting song to listen to would be joanna newsons song from her first album. It's called the sprout the bean and nusasis harphist. She's very much the tradition of somebody like vasy bunyon,. Although actually, in terms of the sophistication of the lyrics and some of the arrangements and imagery.