Folk music Music that folks can sing or play from memory.
Folks The down-home people, the people in the cereal aisle, the people with a little hole in the elbow of their favorite sweater.
"Folk music" has come to have a musty smell. It supposedly lives only in church basements on Thursday nights when the banjo players and the singing family from the hills come to town to fiddle around. But I think that, for example, Bruce Springsteen is truly a folk musician.
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