if you're interested in checking out the full song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcgQ5u-0lTs

are there any folk groups that allow left wing ideas, and support anti racism? i was on mudcat cafe for 25 years but the moderators banned me for criticizing their support for catholic church and other church mass murders at native residential schools, and for giving a leftist critique of the democratic party. they also had a life long nazi they supported(and i can prove it=former SS oficer). and they supported a guy(many really but one bad one) who posted lots of anti native racism, as well as brits full of anti irish racism and anti acadien racism.

so is there an active folk discussion group that is leftist friendly>

I'd say either uncle ekbar or ronald funtime. Maybe even Mr. Folk Folk Valley btw

My friend (15M) is a huge metal fan, he listens to some very niche stuff, and is very into heavy hard hitting stuff, i've been trying to get him into folk music, but he doesn't like any of my suggestions. Do you guys have recommendations?

New and old.... looking for POC voices to listen to. This genre is too saturated with caucasian representations. I want to listen to voices of POC women.

Curious about this guy and wondering if anyone can identify him for me, so I can check out more of his music. Here's the story behind the picture:

Pulled off the Blue Ridge Parkway about a week ago to have a little picnic and give my 3 and 6 year olds their first good look at a mountain vista.

Couple minutes later, this kid parks his car next to ours, pulls out a red guitar, and starts to sing and play some covers. Dylan, at first. Then The Stones.

And he's good. Like, really good. His voice the perfect blend of glass and gravel.

So we sit there in the hatchback of our car, watching the blue haze of the far off mountain-cut sky, listening to classic songs, artfully remembered.

My wife starts to sing along softly, harmonizing a bit with that smoky voice of hers until our daughter asks her to stop because she's listening.

And it's a perfect, precious, beautiful moment and it's ours, and now a little bit yours, too.

But we're a long way from home and it's time to go, so we pack up our kids and our stuff as the man plays on.

He finishes a song and I thank him for it and for the rest and tell him my son says he's a rock star.

He laughs and says thanks, and I ask him if he's headed to the next show.

"I hope so," he says, and I hope so, too.

I hope it's a good one.

Note: it's for sure not Jesse Welles - too young, and his hair was too short.

I'm not a troll, but man every time I hear of monsters and men, Mumford and sons, ect. I want to throw up and I can't describe why. All my friends adore these bands. Time to get new friends? Or just give in? I'm mad and bitter that these bands can be so popular while recycling the same sounds and ideas over and over and over and over. The voices are the same, the infection and over sincerity drives me crazy. These songs are overly and overtly sentimental and the music/lyric writing is sloppy, hurried, and juvenile. Sure if I were a 15 year old heartbroken suburban girl, this music would be perfect. Oh man I could go on and on and on. ... help me Prozac! !!! I love folk and bluegrass to death but this shit makes me crazy. Oh, also the avett brothers need to be stopped as well. I am tired of every song being about how they love their family and will live each day for love and honor and doing the right things. Are they humans? OK I'm done, I need a drink.

Hello! I'm not sure where to ask but, I've been searching for some queer folk for a while. Not Indie or anything. I love Phil Ochs, Tia Blake, and Marty Robbins but he breaks into more swing and rock n roll sometimes, the earlier Crane Wives, and Folk Punk like Harley Poe, and Days and Daze. I love the older love songs, but I can't really find anything that matches that for queer relationships. I love lovey music, lol.