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I know who you are and I've read most of your books and I'm always visiting this blog, and I've come by specially to thank you for opening my eyes to something I thought was as innocent as folk-singing Smurfs.
Someone Is Angry On the Internet grrm 2010
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Marcus, who is four years Dylan's junior, was just old enough to see the pre-electric, folk-singing and "finger-pointin'" Dylan in action.
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The two worked together on the 1992 film Bob Roberts, about a conservative folk-singing U.S. Senate candidate.
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Ringing tones darted and careened as complex patterns created a hypnotic underpinning to his time-honored folk-singing style, the spell broken only when he interjected a bent blue note or tempo shift that was unexpected but absolutely right.
A Humble Guitar God 2010
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But in performing Kate McGarrigle's "Talk to Me of Mendocino," her heartfelt tribute to the Canadian folk-singing sister (and mother of Martha and Rufus Wainwright) who passed away in January after a "valiant three-year fight with cancer," she brought a touching authenticity to the proceedings.
Michael Bialas: HuffPost Summer Concert Review: A Date With Darling Lilith, Part 2 2010
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The film features monotonic voice-overs declaiming the virtues of tomorrow's telephone systems, along with earnest folk-singing about the miracle of telephony, as well as a ride-through on the Bell System Ride.
Boing Boing 2008
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But in performing Kate McGarrigle's "Talk to Me of Mendocino," her heartfelt tribute to the Canadian folk-singing sister (and mother of Martha and Rufus Wainwright) who passed away in January after a "valiant three-year fight with cancer," she brought a touching authenticity to the proceedings.
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But in performing Kate McGarrigle's "Talk to Me of Mendocino," her heartfelt tribute to the Canadian folk-singing sister (and mother of Martha and Rufus Wainwright) who passed away in January after a "valiant three-year fight with cancer," she brought a touching authenticity to the proceedings.
Michael Bialas: HuffPost Summer Concert Review: A Date With Darling Lilith, Part 2 2010
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Perhaps Don is setting out on a folk-singing career, and his friends want him to have the same kind of career that Gordon Lightfoot has had.
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Very Age of Aquarius, folk-singing, both all black outfits and wildly colorful hippie hats and granny glasses, with civil rights activists who lent their names and gave money to good causes.
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