Blowin' in the Wind

Besides Rock ‘N Roll, another genre of music started emerging onto the scene… Or should I say re-emerging… Folk… The term had been around since the 1800’s, and since the Great Depression, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Doc Watson, and others had been creating songs that told the stories of the people… Railroad songs… Cowboy songs… Mining songs…Songs about the people and their lives… Happy songs… And songs about struggles for equality and survival…



Of course Woody was The Man!... His Talkin’ Blues… This Land Is Your Land… Union Maid… Hard Travelin’ and others, written in the 30’s and 40’s were classics, but had  lately received little attention... However, that was about to change... Artists in New York's Greenwich Village, like Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, and a troubadour who was to become the poet laureate for a generation, Bob Dylan, started to not only re-discover Woody, but write a new chapter in the book of Folk Music... The Folk Revival... They asked questions... Important questions... But don't look for answers here... The answers, my friend,  are blowin' in the wind...