Imagine if Joni Mitchell had teamed up with some British folkies like Nick Drake and John Martyn in the early seventies. |
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. |
Bob Dylan and other up-and-coming folkies made the pilgrimage and sang for him there. |
It's a searching song that beats just about any of the acoustic folkies that build their entire rep on self-imposed authentic recording methods. |
He refused to be pigeon-holed by the folkies, the protesters or the rockers. |