![]() Folk music, at the epicenter of youth musical rebellion in the 1960s, was perceived as a spent force by the late 70s, a sedentary style’ played solely by aging Dylan fans and kids forced by their parents to take acoustic guitar lessons. The form that once provided the soundtrack to trade unions and civil rights marches was now deemed defanged and retrograde. Thus, when punk, exhausted from its first throes of three-chord thrashing, went seeking past genres with which to commingle, folk-at first glance-appeared to be an unappealing partner.
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