Talk:American folk music revival

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Contents 1 Article Started 2 Material out of context 3 Citation Needed? Take Your Pick 4 Don't forget the blues, y'all.

[edit] Article Started

All are welcome to improve this article. It's just a beginning. Joel Russ 23:22, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Material out of context

This article reads like a list of short biographies, not like an encyclopedic article on the folk revival of the 1960's in America. I suggest that someone go through and simply delete all these short one paragraph biographies. I'm too tired at the moment. -Dwinetsk 22:05, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

I'd say your criticism of the article is pretty fair for the first portion of the article – maybe a bit less relevant for the later portion. I wanted to get an article on this topic started (as you've seen from my earlier note, above). I'm glad someone is taking an interest and alterations are welcome. Thanks, Dwinetsk. Joel Russ 00:55, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Citation Needed? Take Your Pick

So the ONLY citation required here is that the Kingston Trio had four albums in the Billboard top 10 simultaneously? (and I'll add that nobody else except the Beatles ever accomplished that and no one ever surpassed it.) I'd have thought that that fact was so well known and so ubiquitously mentioned that it would fall under the category of common knowledge since it's a recording industry standard. But memories are short, and the KT has all too often been forgotten as the incredibly popular and powerful force it was for three or four years in the late 50s and early 60s.

But since someone needs citation for this common knowledge fact - here are a three readily available:

1) Bill Bush, "The Kingston Trio: Breakthrough Boys Of The 60s Folk Boom." Frets Magazine: June, 1984, p. 25.

2) Blake, Rubeck, Shaw, The Kingston Trio On Record (KK, Inc, 1986), p. 37.

3) Billboard Magazine, Top 10 Albums Chart (December 7, 1959).

Hard to see where to integrate this but will try.

OK - added a citation to an issue from Billboard.

Sensei48 10:06, 15 July 2007 (UTC)Sensei48

[edit] Don't forget the blues, y'all.

Somebody has. And gospel. And Ritchie Havens. And Mahalia Jackson and the role of music in the Civil Rights Movement. Add to that a young Bernice Reagan of "Sweet Honey in the Rock." African-American roots music deserves more than passing mention in a segment on "Arhivists, collectors, and re-issued recordings." I don't have the time right now. (BTW, someone also needs to fix the capitalization re wiki style in the subhead(s?). deeceevoice 22:29, 3 November 2007 (UTC)