#folk country music

[everoutoftouch]

If you have Spotify reblog this and tag what your number one song on your “on repeat” playlist is.

[jasonaaronpro]

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[eroticlamb]

Bob Dylan eating breakfast (and the table) in Birmingham, England, 1966 ♡ Photographed by Barry Feinstein

[facts-i-just-made-up]

may i ask the definition of country music? i wanna win a debate against my sister….

Country Music is what happens when Folk Music ferments. It has existed in seven distinct generations:

1920-1930, in which people with fiddles sang about farm animals

1930-1950, where cowboys were also invited

1950-1970, in which Nashville took over

1970-1990, in which Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton ruled the Earth

1990-2000, when Trucks and Drinking were valued above all

2000-2020, when you got shot if you didn't mention 9/11

2020-Present, a time of people mostly just wishing Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton still ruled the Earth.

Country Music may also at times involve a "Banjo."

[sanantoniorose]

Remembering John Denver on what would have been his 81st birthday.

[cleopatragirlie]

𝐄𝐦𝐦𝐲𝐥𝐨𝐮 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐆𝐢𝐣𝐬𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐤𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐭 (𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟓)

[folk-enjoyer]

Song of the Day

"Call of the moose" Willy Mitchell, 1980 As you might know, September 30th is Truth and Reconciliation day (more commonly known as Orange Shirt Day), a national day in Canada dedicated to spreading awareness about the legacy of Residential schools on Indigenous people. Instead of just focusing on a song, I also wanted to briefly talk about the history of the sixties scoop and its influence on Indigenous American music and activism.

The process of Residential schooling in Canada existed well before the '60s, but the new processes of the sixties scoop began in 1951. It was a process where the provincial government had the power to take Indigenous children from their homes and communities and put them into the child welfare system. Despite the closing of residential schools, more and more children were being taken away from their families and adopted into middle-class white ones.

Even though Indigenous communities only made up a tiny portion of the total population, 40-70% of the children in these programs would be Aboriginal. In total, 20,000 children would be victims of these policies through the 60s and 70s.

These adoptions would have disastrous effects on their victims. Not only were sexual and physical abuse common problems but the victims were forcibly stripped of their culture and taught to hate themselves. The community panel report on the sixties scoop writes:

"The homes in which our children are placed ranged from those of caring, well-intentioned individuals, to places of slave labour and physical, emotional and sexual abuse. The violent effects of the most negative of these homes are tragic for its victims. Even the best of these homes are not healthy places for our children. Anglo-Canadian foster parents are not culturally equipped to create an environment in which a positive Aboriginal self-image can develop. In many cases, our children are taught to demean those things about themselves that are Aboriginal. Meanwhile, they are expected to emulate normal child development by imitating the role model behavior of their Anglo-Canadian foster or adoptive parents."

and to this day indigenous children in Canada are still disproportionately represented in foster care. Despite being 5% of the Total Canadian population, Indigenous children make up 53.8% of all children in foster care.

I would like to say that the one good thing that came out of this gruesome and horrible practice of state-sponsored child relocation was that there was a birth of culture from protest music, but there wasn't. In fact, Indigenous music has a long history of being erased and whitewashed from folk history.

From Buffy Saint-Marie pretending to be Indigenous to the systematic denial of first nations people from the Canadian mainstream music scene, the talented artists of the time were forcibly erased.

Which is why this album featuring Willy Mitchell is so important.

Willy Mitchell and The Desert River Band

This Album was compiled of incredibly rare, unheard folk and rock music of North American indigenous music in the 60s-80s. It is truly, a of a kind historical artifact and a testimony to the importance of archival work to combat cultural genocide. Please give the entire thing a listen if you have time. Call of the Moose is my favorite song on the album, written and performed by Willy Mitchell in the 80s. His Most interesting song might be 'Big Policeman' though, written about his experience of getting shot in the head by the police. He talks about it here:

"He comes there and as soon as I took off running, he had my two friends right there — he could have taken them. They stopped right there on the sidewalk. They watched him shootin’ at me. He missed me twice, and when I got to the tree line, he was on the edge of the road, at the snow bank. That’s where he fell, and the gun went off. But that was it — he took the gun out. He should never have taken that gun out. I spoke to many policemen. And judges, too. I spoke with lawyers about that. They all agreed. He wasn’t supposed to touch that gun. So why did I only get five hundred dollars for that? "

These problems talked about here, forced displacement, cultural assimilation, police violence, child exploitation, and erasure of these crimes, still exist in Canada. And so long as they still exist, it is imperative to keep talking about them. Never let the settler colonial government have peace; never let anyone be comfortable not remembering the depth of exploitation.

Every Child Matters

[joy-haver]

There needs to be more trans folk musicians. I know there are trans folk punk musicians. But I want some folksy stuff. I want some country stuff too. And some bluegrass. Give me that trans townes van zandt. Girl oh woody guthery. A Ralph Stanley whose a faggot

[daxnorman]

Ghost Guitar

[radishprincesss]

dolly parton 1979

[pollherepollthere]

I loveeee rap tbh

[baydrof]

What is this song about?

This song is about a city girl who is tired of being a city girl. Her heart longs for something different. One day she wakes up and decides to make a change. She quits her job and moved to the mountainsides, where she is a shepherd to a flock of sheep. She has found her place, her serenity, her calling.

Her name is: Ana Lucia Maria

Keywords and whatnot: indie acoustic ukulele original song music country folk blues country mountainside shepherd sheep herding city life changes

[ludmilachaibemachado]

Linda Ronstadt🌵🥀🌵

Via @isabelfutre on Instagram🥀

[music-is-my-life-man]

Jimmy Page

[r-u-living]

I truly do not believe that lord huron is made up of real people. Lord Huron is an Amalgamation Of Sprits Of Guys Who Want To Tell Their Story. Or it's an eldritch monster. Either or

[useless-catalanfacts]

Did you know that Audrey Hepburn danced two traditional Catalan songs?

It happened in the 1952 movie Secret People. The movie's music was composed by Robert Gerhard, a composer born in 1896 in Valls, Catalonia. He grew up in Catalonia and studied music in different parts of Europe, becoming a well-known composer and adviser to the Minister of Fine Arts of Catalonia's Government during the Republic. However, his life was struck with the defeat in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Like tens of thousands of Catalans more, his family had to go on exile after the fascists' victory in the war.

Until the death of the Spanish fascist dictator Franco (1975), after Robert Gerhard's own death in 1970, his music was not played in Spain and his motherland Catalonia. Meanwhile, he had become a very respected composer in the UK, France, the USA and other countries, and was awarded with prizes including being declared Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Cambridge and the title of Commander of the Order of the British Empire (a knighthood given by the British Monarchy to people who have contributed to society).

He always stayed close to his Catalan roots and composed Catalan music genres like sardana and spoke about his Catalan identity. In this clip of the movie Secret People, Audrey Hepburn dances to a song made of two traditional Catalan folk songs: El cant dels ocells and La mare de Déu quan era xiqueta. Here's the clip:

Here you can hear the original songs:

El cant dels ocells ("The Song of the Birds"):

La mare de Déu quan era xiqueta ("When Mary was a young girl"):

Can you recognise the melodies in the movie clip?