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Folk-rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and rock music. Bands that can be classified as folk-rock can lean toward either border.

In the United States the heyday of folk-rock is likely between the mid-sixties to the mid-seventies, aligning itself approximately with the hippie movement. The genre developed from the folk music of Bob Dylan and earlier musicians, the rock music of the British Invasion, and also the country music of Hank Williams and others.

The British style of folk-rock was established by the English band Fairport Convention, who formed in north London in the late 1960s. Steeleye Span are another group typical of this vein. Having started out as a reasonably conventional folk group they added electric instruments and began to experiment with song structures.

Folk-rock combined with experimental aspects, found for example in The Incredible String Band, eventually developed into prog rock.

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Folk-rock artists

Not all of these performers were limited to folk-rock, but all had folk and rock elements.

• The BandThe Band was a Canadian- American rock and roll band. First making their name as Bob Dylan's backing group in the late 1960s, they later became highly influential in their own right, as progenitors of country rock and helping to repopularize traditional A
• Jonatha BrookeJonatha Brooke is an American folk-rock singer-songwriter. Her music is marked by complex harmonies and poigniant lyrics. Brooke's career began while she was a student at Amherst College in the early 1980s when she and fellow student Jennifer Kimball form
• Buffalo SpringfieldBuffalo Springfield was an influential folk-rock band which released three albums between 1965 and 1968. The band was based in Los Angeles. Its two lead guitarists Neil Young and Stephen Stills were reunited as a result of a minor car accident. Bass playe
• The ByrdsThe Byrds were an American rock music group founded in Los Angeles, California in 1964 by singers and guitarists Jim McGuinn (he later changed his name to Roger McGuinn), Gene Clark, and David Crosby. Bassist Chris Hillman and drummer Michael Clarke joine
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• Leonard Cohen
• Jim Croce
• Crosby, Stills & Nash
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• Energy Orchard
• Fairport Convention
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• The Grapes of Wrath
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• Great Big Sea
• Horslips
• The Incredible String Band
• Indigo Girls
• Jefferson Airplane
• Jethro Tull
• Gordon Lightfoot
• The Mamas & the Papas
• Joni Mitchell
• Van Morrison
• Moby Grape
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• Ruby Blue
• Runrig
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