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folkies

  • plural
    of folky.
    folky
    noun

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I know how to make a record that folkies like.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2023

The songs of the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen and the like were too old and uncool for the folkies and rockers and not yet old enough to be cool to a new generation.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 6, 2019

There was an immediate bitter reaction from the folkies and the Old Left to Dylan’s electrification; rumors of Pete Seeger, I think, taking an axe to the guitar cable or something.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2016

Using a laptop and headphones to build beats, rappers and producers ripped the system like folkies and funk bands did during the civil rights movement decades earlier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2014

This fateful stopover brought him into the orbit of folkies such as Joan Baez and Judy Collins.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 20, 2014

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