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- adjective
comparative form offolkie : morefolkie
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Examples
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I'd say the guile and songwriting capabilities of yer Nerina Pallot but with a 'folkier' foundation, KT Tunstall/Amy McDonald if they/it wasn't so horribly workaday, or Stephen Fretwell if, well, err ... he was a woman.
The Music Fix 2009
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British Sea Power headline the music programme, alongside rising stars such as Chris T-T and Man Like Me's yoB on a folkier tip.
Enchanted Woodland | Crunch 2011 | The World's Biggest Liar Competition 2011
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(They're the British equivalent to the Band, but folkier.)
Michael Giltz: Music: Richard Thompson at Town Hall Michael Giltz 2010
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And I don't know if it's different from all of my other albums, but one thing I feel about it is it's more of a return to the "folkier" sound of the early to mid '70s, and if you categorize my albums, it's more like the '80s or '90s stuff that I've done.
Mike Ragogna: Small Source Of Comfort: A Conversation With Bruce Cockburn Mike Ragogna 2011
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And I don't know if it's different from all of my other albums, but one thing I feel about it is it's more of a return to the "folkier" sound of the early to mid '70s, and if you categorize my albums, it's more like the '80s or '90s stuff that I've done.
Mike Ragogna: Small Source Of Comfort: A Conversation With Bruce Cockburn Mike Ragogna 2011
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(They're the British equivalent to the Band, but folkier.)
Michael Giltz: Music: Richard Thompson at Town Hall Michael Giltz 2010
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Those nice people that bring you the Truck festival are branching out this year, presenting its "folkier, younger, cleaner, greener and mysteriously beardier brother".
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The same can be said about her delivery on folkier tracks like "Girl From The North Country," and the touching "500 Miles" that the recently departed Mary Travers probably would have enjoyed immensely.
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But the folkier sides of music were unavailable outside of that late-night AM.
"I heard a couple new-sounding tunes on the tubes and they blasted me sky-high..." Ann Althouse 2009
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For one thing, he's got Nigel Godrich, who worked with Beck on Mutations, a folkier album from 1998.
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