Rock Legends Season 10 Episode 4 Folk Around the World
- June 28, 2020
With Peter, Paul and Mary, Gordon Lightfoot, and The Seekers. An orally transmitted musical heritage of a culture, in the 1930s, this genre enjoyed a resurgence during the Great Depression following stock market crash, as droughts and dust storms encouraged farmers out of the dust bowl to California and New York State. The American folk music revival began with performers like Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Paul Robeson. Breakthrough act The Weavers sang traditional folk songs from around the world, as well as blues, labor songs, and American ballads and their style inspired the commercial folk boom that followed them into the 1960s.
