Folk rock

Folk rock is a popular music style that combines folk songwriting and instrumentation with rock rhythms and electric instruments. It often pairs narrative lyrics and acoustic textures with amplified bands.

Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter whose lyrics and recordings shaped popular music from the 1960s onward. His 1965 electric performances made the fusion of folk songwriting and rock sound a public controversy.
Folk music: Folk music is music transmitted through communities, often through oral tradition, and shaped by shared cultural practices. Its melodies, instruments, and narrative songwriting supply folk rock’s central musical inheritance.
Joan Baez: Joan Baez is an American singer and guitarist known for her clear voice, folk repertoire, and political activism. Her folk performance tradition formed part of the scene from which folk rock emerged.
Bringing It All Back Home: Bringing It All Back Home is Bob Dylan’s 1965 album, pairing acoustic songs with electric band recordings. Its two-sided structure made the transition between acoustic folk and electric rock audible.
Electric folk: Electric folk is a style that adapts traditional folk songs and instruments using electric amplification and rock arrangements. It overlaps with folk rock but more often centers traditional repertoire rather than newly written songs.
The Byrds: The Byrds were an American rock band known for jangling electric guitars and close vocal harmonies. Their recording of “Mr. Tambourine Man” became an early folk-rock hit in 1965.
Rock music: Rock music is a popular music genre built around amplified instruments, strong rhythms, and song-based forms. Its electric instrumentation and driving rhythm distinguish folk rock from acoustic folk performance.
Roger McGuinn: Roger McGuinn is an American musician best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the Byrds. His twelve-string electric guitar sound became one of folk rock’s most recognizable signatures.
Turn! Turn! Turn! (album): Turn! Turn! Turn! is the Byrds’ 1965 album featuring folk-rock songs and a title track adapted from Pete Seeger’s setting of Ecclesiastes. It demonstrates how traditional and literary material could work in a concise electric pop format.
Country rock: Country rock combines country music’s melodies and instrumentation with the sound and forms of rock. It shares folk rock’s roots-oriented approach but draws more directly on country music.

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