But Lewis' 2006 one-off with the Watson Twins, Rabbit Fur Coat, apparently sated her folk-rock yearnings.
Imagine a singer-songwriter with a lilting folk-rock style covering the songs of alternative rockers.
Both bands have a shared origin in a little-known folk-rock group, The Mugwumps.
The music is moving toward a folk-rock sound of the 1960s and 1970s.
Tillman and served as drummer for Fleet Foxes, the folk-rock group from Seattle.
Listen to Becoming a Jackal, the debut album by the Irish folk-rock band Villagers, and it's hard to believe it's the work of just one guy.
"With Dylan, and to have this happen again means everything to us, " Julie Becker, a native New Orleanian, said while waiting for an encore from the folk-rock pioneer.
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An up-and-coming folk-rock singer-songwriter who crafts brooding, timeless, sophisticated pop songs, Elvis Perkins has earned lofty comparisons to the likes of Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan.
Webber and Wells got their start playing together in the neo-psychedelic folk-rock group Black Mountain, a Canadian band known for channeling acts like Led Zeppelin, complete with electrified riffs and aggressive beats.
Philadelphia's The Asteroid No. 4 takes dreamy shoegazer pop and mixes in elements of '60s psychedelia and latter-day space rock to create a folk-rock sound that falls somewhere between The Byrds and The Stone Roses.
On Sept. 3 a musician named Carter Albrecht, who was a member of the folk-rock group Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians, was shot to death in Dallas after a night of strange and uncharacteristically violent behavior.
But such concerns were quickly dispelled once the folk-rock trio's trademark intricate vocal harmonies and acoustic and electric guitar parts were enhanced by the JLCO's tight ensemble playing and skilled soloists such as saxophonists Sherman Irby, trumpeter Marcus Printup and trombonist Vincent Gardner.
The group kicked off a change in radio programming, as so-called alternative stations have put them and other folk bands into rotation next to hard-rock acts.
The Big House featuring Paul Molloy (Zutons) and Candie Payne, will be bringing the day to an evocative close with their delicious blend of country, gleaming folk and west coast rock - not to be missed.
"Toward the Low Sun" (Drag City) is the ninth album by the instrumental group Dirty Three , which dispenses with equal efficacy sentimental folk ballads, free-flowing rock and downtown free jazz, resulting in tender beauty and raucous clatter.
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Langhorne Slim and his band The War Eagles mix folk and blues with reckless punk-rock energy.
"Let It Go" echoes the sunny, carefree folk sounds of '60s-era British rock.
The documentary will cover Dylan's mid-1960s transition from folk hero to fully fledged rock star.
After jumping around from jazz to folk to rock, he returned to his piano-based roots on 2004's Halcyon Days.
With his sparse, deep and atmospheric production, "The Invisible Way" (Sub Pop) emerged as one of the duo's best albums, merging rock's concentrated authority with a folk- and countrylike presentation of duo vocals.
Their rock-infused interpretation of the blues and folk genres also incorporated rockabilly, reggae, soul and funk among other influences, it adds.
The quartet Alt-J, whose "An Awesome Wave" won last year's Mercury Prize as Britain's best album, did much with little on stage as odd two-part vocal harmonies, a gently picked electric guitar, lush synth lines and syncopated percussion coalesced into a distinctive blend that united folk, prog rock, electronica, show tunes and hip-hop.
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Alt-J 's debut, "An Awesome Wave" (Canvasback), mixes alt-rock, electronica, experimental a cappella vocals and folk in a clever album that zigs and zags with each track.
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Citay is a nine-piece group from San Francisco that makes atmospheric, psychedelic folk rock.
He blends rock, folk, blues and classically influenced music into a boundary-defying style that has won him a devoted following all over the world.
Since 2001 Railroad Earth has been playing bluegrass plus snatches of rock, folk, and jazz with the same open armed, occasionally long-winded approach that's helped jam bands like Phish and the String Cheese Incident earn throngs of rabid fans.
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