12 Facts About Country folk

Contemporary Country folk music refers to a wide variety of genres that emerged in the mid 20th century and afterwards which were associated with traditional Country folk music.

The Country folk revival spawned Canada's first Country folk wave of internationally successful artists such as Gordon Lightfoot, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, and Buffy Sainte-Marie.

The Canadian performers Gordon Lightfoot, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Cockburn and Joni Mitchell represented such fusions and enjoyed great popularity in the U S Starting in the 1970s folk music was fueled by new singer-songwriters such as Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, and Harry Chapin.

Traditional folk took this predominance into early Canadian television with many country-themed shows on its early airwaves.

English-speaking Canadian Country folk artists tended to move the United States to pursue larger audiences until the introduction of so-called "Canadian content" rules for radio and television in the 1970s.

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The Smothers Brothers television shows featured many Country folk performers, including the formerly blacklisted Pete Seeger.

Country folk'snandoah Run formed in 2011 to bring contemporary American folk music of the 1960s to modern listeners.

NeoCountry folk began in the 1980s, fusing traditional European Country folk music with post-industrial music, historical topics, philosophical commentary, traditional songs and paganism.

Folk punk, known in its early days as rogue Country folk, is a fusion of Country folk music and punk rock.

Industrial Country folk music is a characterization of Country folk music normally referred to under other genres, and covers music of or about industrial environments and topics, including related protest music.

Country folk as a genre label is a rather nebulous one, but one that has been employed often at least since the mid-1970s.

Czech folk music is influenced by Czech traditional music an songwriters, "tramping" music, as well as by English-language country and contemporary-folk music, spirituals and traditionals, bluegrass, chanson etc.