Earle's audience is a combination of alt-country, Texas fans who have stayed with him on his eccentric ride, roots rockers, and adventuresome folkies. |
He refused to be pigeon-holed by the folkies, the protesters or the rockers. |
You young people and your bass-lines are ruining it for us old folkies. |
It would be a little rash to dismiss Bragg and his Terminals as just another troupe of pop-sensitive, heart-on-sleeve folkies. |
There was the icy refusal to be claimed by folkies, protesters, rockers, popsters or, indeed, anybody. |
In fact, the folkies ' fetishization of past forms ends up being more ethno-musicological librarianship than anything else. |