• Folk Singer is the second studio album and fourth album overall by Muddy Waters, released in January 1964 by Chess Records. The album features Waters...
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  • Folker is Paul Westerberg's sixth solo album. It peaked at number 178 on the Billboard 200 and number 18 on the Top Independent Album charts. Folker marks...
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    Association for Independent Music’s award for Best Contemporary Folk Album of 2000. A 2002 tribute album, Going Driftless: An Artist’s Tribute to Greg Brown featured...
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    members' main projects, Monsters of Folk did not finish their first album until 2009, and the self-titled album was released on September 22 on Rough...
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  • Monsters of Folk is the self-titled first and only studio album by American indie rock band Monsters of Folk, a group that consists of the artists Jim...
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  • Best Contemporary Folk Album was awarded from 1987 to 2011. Until 1991 the award was known as the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Recording. In 2007...
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  • Folk rock is a fusion genre of rock music with heavy influences from pop, English and American folk music. It typically combines elements of folk and...
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    2016, Jarosz released her fourth studio album, Undercurrent. The album won two Grammy Awards (Best Folk Album and Best American Roots Performance for...
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  • The Grammy Award for Best Folk Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone...
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    Eliza Gilkyson (category American folk singers)
    nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Album in 2004 and Best Folk Album in 2014. Gilkyson released Eliza '69, her first album, in 1969 while raising a family...
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  • Americana/Folk Albums (formerly Folk Albums) is a music chart published weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks the top selling "current releases by...
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  • Folk Tale is an album by Irish folk singer Christy Moore, released in 2011 by Sony Music. "Tyrone Boys" (Christy Moore) "Folk Tale" (Paula Meehan (poem)/Christy...
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  • helped to provide support to indie folk, with artists such as Fleet Foxes breaking into the pop charts with albums such as Helplessness Blues. In the...
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    Nolwenn Leroy (redirect from Folk (album))
    Leroy released a seventh album titled Folk, produced by Clément Ducol. The album consisted of covers of contemporary folk songs, including Graeme Allwright's...
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  • Psychedelic folk (sometimes acid folk or freak folk) is a loosely defined form of psychedelia that originated in the 1960s. It retains the largely acoustic...
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  • Anthology of American Folk Music is a three-album compilation, released in 1952 by Folkways Records, of eighty-four recordings of American folk, blues and country...
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    (born February 21, 1977) is an American musician known for her eclectic folk music. She is a founding member of the country, blues, and old-time music...
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    Lucinda Williams (category American folk singers)
    success to date. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA the following year, and earned her a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album, while being universally...
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    Shawn Colvin (category American folk singers)
    released her debut album Steady On in 1989. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Colvin's second album Fat City was released...
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    Best Traditional Folk Album was awarded from 1987 to 2011. Until 1993 the award was known as the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Recording. An award...
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    Just a Bill" from Schoolhouse Rock! for the tribute album Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks as "Deluxx Folk Implosion". Though the band attempted to duplicate the...
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  • Folk Blues is an album by blues musician John Lee Hooker, compiling tracks originally recorded for Modern Records between 1951 and 1954, that was released...
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  • instrumentation influenced by folk rock. The earliest folk metal bands were Skyclad from England and Cruachan from Ireland. Skyclad's debut album The Wayward Sons...
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    Judah & the Lion are an American folk band from Nashville, Tennessee, formed in 2011. They have released four studio albums and five EPs. Currently the band...
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    Fleet Foxes (redirect from Ylajali (album))
    Grammy Awards, the first for Best Folk Album in 2012 for Helplessness Blues and the second for Best Alternative Music Album in 2022 for Shore. Robin Pecknold...
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    Gillian Welch (category American folk guitarists)
    received nominations for the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Her 2003 album, Soul Journey, introduced electric guitar, drums, and a more upbeat...
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    Services.[citation needed] In September 2006, he released his first solo album, Modern Folk and Blues Wednesday. He is also a drug counselor, appearing alongside...
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    Current Albums chart. Survivor: Live from Harding Prison did not enter the Americana/Folk Albums chart, but peaked at No. 12 on the Americana/Folk Album Sales...
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  • British folk rock is a form of folk rock which developed in the United Kingdom from the mid 1960s, and was at its most significant in the 1970s. Though...
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    2019-07-09. "Folk Alley | Album Review: J.S. Ondara, 'Tales of America'". www.folkalley.com. Retrieved 2019-07-09. Inspired by Bob Dylan, Kenyan folk-rocker...
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