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. |
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. |
And like the old folkies, Franti now talks about his music as a community-building project. |
Bob Dylan and other up-and-coming folkies made the pilgrimage and sang for him there. |
It would be a little rash to dismiss Bragg and his Terminals as just another troupe of pop-sensitive, heart-on-sleeve folkies. |