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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
folk is not really a "sound" as it is pushed here in america.
bluegrass is folk. hawaiian music is folk. polka is folk. delta blues is folk. gypsy music is folk.
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Indeed, those are regional examples of folk but my point still remains that folk is essentially music that anyone can make by themselves with just a guitar (or harp or ukulele) and isn't supposed evolve the way other music does like when people say about an artist 'wow, he's really pushing the boundaries'.
But I wouldn't say that Devendra's music is an example of the hippy soft shit that you were complaining about as he incorporates more than one of the above styles into his records as well as some rock influences like T-Rex.