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"Just as folk music changed with the onset of recorded sound, so it has again in response to developments in related idioms: taking drone from the classical avant-garde, non-acoustic instruments from rock and electronica, and field recordings from ambient music and musique concrète."

How North Carolina's experimental folk scene creates a new American sound North Carolina is home to musicians and composers who are building on folk's overlapping and divergent regional styles.

Nancy Griffith 1953-2021

Grammy-winning folk singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith dies NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nanci Griffith, the Grammy-winning folk singer-songwriter from Texas whose literary songs like “Love at the Five and Dime” celebrated the South, has died. She was 68. Her management company, Gold Mountain Entertainment, said Griffith died Friday but did not provide a ca...

"Maggot Brain" turns 50.

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Funkadelic's 'Maggot Brain' At 50: R&B, Psychedelic Rock And A Black Guitarist's Cry Aiming to make a record that fans would still listen to decades later, George Clinton and Funkadelic mixed R&B, psychedelic rock and a Black guitar hero's cry.