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I was involved in the great folk music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.
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I Was Involved In The Great Folk

Martin Mull
I was involved in the great folk music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.
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In the united states, many people said you can't have folk music in the united states because you don't have any peasant class. but the funny thing was, there were literally thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people who loved old time fiddling, ballads, banjo tunes, blues played on the guitar, spirituals and gospel hymns. these songs and music didn't fit into any neat category of art music nor popular music nor jazz. so gradually they said well let's call it folk music.
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I grew up with the blind boys' music. my family owns a music store in claremont, california, called the claremont folk music center. i grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional american music.
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I love commercial music! i can dissect it and criticize it with any critic in the business. but without any thought, i just enjoy it. it's folk music. that's what i'm doing, folk music. i'm not intellectualizing it . . . and making it into a phoney art form. i'm just doing the music i enjoy.
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I write about things that scare me. i've never written a snake story in my life. i myself have never written a story about snakes because they don't scare me. i write about rats because they scare the hell out of me.
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Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. we wouldn't be comfortable with it any other way. a folk song has over a thousand faces and you must meet them all if you want to play this stuff. a folk song might vary in meaning and it might not appear the same from one moment to the next. it depends on who's playing and who's listening.
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Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. we have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that captures the insight in a kind of wash. the intuition may be real and ripe, fresh with possibilities, but the folk saying is guaranteed to be a cliche, stale and self-contained.
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