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The American folk music revival began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s. Early folk music performers include Woody Guthrie , [ 1 ] Lead Belly , Pete Seeger , Ewan MacColl (UK), Richard Dyer-Bennet , Oscar Brand , Jean Ritchie , John Jacob Niles , Susan Reed , Mississippi John Hurt , [ 2 ] Josh White , and Cisco Houston .
Psychedelic rock particularly took off in California's emerging music scene as groups followed the Byrds from folk to folk rock from 1965. [12] The psychedelic life style had already developed in San Francisco and particularly prominent products of the scene were The Grateful Dead , Country Joe and the Fish , The Great Society and Jefferson ...
Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals. An important figure in the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, she influenced many of the key figures of the folk-revival of that time, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mavis Staples, and Janis Joplin.
The Highwaymen was an American 1960s "collegiate folk" group. The quintet's version of "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore", a 19th Century African-American work song, released in 1959 under the title "Michael," was a Billboard #1 hit in September 1961.
She made her second album for Tradition Records, run by the Clancy Brothers, in 1960. She became known for "The House of the Rising Sun" and "She Moved Through the Fair". [1] Hester was one of many young Greenwich Village singers who rode the crest of the 1960s folk music wave, helping launch Gerde's Folk City in 1960.
The Modern Folk Quartet (or MFQ) was an American folk music revival group that formed in the early 1960s. Originally emphasizing acoustic instruments and group harmonies, they performed extensively and recorded two albums.
Randy Sparks founded the American large-ensemble folk-music group The New Christy Minstrels in 1961, during popular music's folk revival. The band recorded two Top 40 radio hits in 1963, Green, Green [1] and "Saturday Night", [2] but creative tensions within the organization led to Sparks' decision to leave. [3]
As a trio, The Journeymen began performing together in Gerdes Folk City nightclub, and soon won a five-month residency there. [1] Their manager, Frank Werber , who also managed The Kingston Trio , won them a contract with Capitol Records , [ 2 ] and they soon recorded their first self-titled LP, comprising traditional songs and two written by ...