Given this disregard of temporality, perhaps the best modern equivalent to Dylan is not Matsson or Oberst, but instead Fleet Foxes, and Robin Pecknold in particular. This was the news that I considered, followed, and kept tabs on (20).' All this was current, played out, and in the open. What was swinging, topical, and up to date for me was stuff like the Titanic sinking, the Galveston flood, John Henry driving steel, John Hardy shooting a man on the West Virginia line. 'The madly complicated modern world was something I took little interest in. Although someone who focused heavily in his early career on protest song, Dylan notes in his autobiography, Chronicles, Vol. Yet Dylan, who cemented his own image in Woody Guthrie's wayward wanderer, knew his place in folk history. Indeed, every new solo folk singer, from Conor Oberst to Kristian Matsson, gets compared to Bob Dylan, the archetypal forefather of everything folk. And that's not a bad thing.Д«ut despite our post-modern take on what constitutes the American folk canon, young folk musicians and their critics lack a common knowledge of folk's storied history. Tejano, Cajun, and Native American music now enjoy the same level of treatment as Appalachian folk, blues, and southern country did just a few decades ago.

Since the 1960s folk revival, however, authenticity plays almost no role in the discussion of 'folk' music, as everything born in America falls under the ever-broadening genre tag. Child, the great British folk song collector, traveled to America and based the Appalachian folk tradition off of his already established canon in Britain, the question of what qualifies as 'folk' and 'American' has bolstered, destroyed, or altered the perceptions of countless artists: Pete Seeger singing labor protest songs during the McCarthy era, Bob Dylan going electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, and Muddy Waters taking the Delta blues and fusing it with Chicago's industrialized urban energy. The question of authenticity runs rampant throughout the history of America's folk canon. Review Summary: The next classic addition to America's great, historic folk canon.

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