Citay is a nine-piece group from San Francisco that makes atmospheric, psychedelic folk rock.
It's a trippy collection of songs with elements of '60s folk rock.
Songwriter Vic Chesnutt has often been called gifted, but his music a spare, introspective and idiosyncratic brand of alternative folk rock is decidedly non-commercial.
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.
The approach is straight folk-rock no horns, no strings, no mandolin or glockenspiel.
Thompson is a master folk and rock songwriter whose technique is the envy of other guitarists.
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.
After jumping around from jazz to folk to rock, he returned to his piano-based roots on 2004's Halcyon Days.
Both bands have a shared origin in a little-known folk-rock group, The Mugwumps.
It offers a distinctive mix of country, folk, rock, Celtic and gospel styles.
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.
That trio of Yoakam fans unknowingly coined an ideal term to describe the current folk-rock movement and one of its rising stars.
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.
Srowing up, she says she saw plenty of women playing guitar in folk and rock groups, but little in the way of jazz guitar.
"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.
Meanwhile in the UK, the punk movement took on the mantle of political protest from its folk and rock forebears, with groups such as The Clash criticizing racial disharmony in British society.
That album generated three Top 20 hits and helped Hornsby win the Best New Artist Grammy, and it laid the groundwork for a wildly diverse career encompassing jazz, pop, classical, bluegrass, folk, rock and Vaudeville.
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.
As I watched a Martin Scorsese documentary on Dylan last night in my Miami hotel room, I thought again how Dylan created an original sound by marrying two forms: folk to a rock beat.
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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"Knockin' On Heaven's Door" has been recorded dozens of times as folk music, hard rock, hip-hop and reggae.
With a voice suitable for both rock and folk, he has a natural flair for the delivery of the latter.
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.
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