The evolution of folk rock

No matter Europe, America, Hong Kong and Taiwan, at the beginning of their original music, there was a "folk age" brewed with innocence. The era of American folk songs began in 1930s and 1940s and reached its peak in 1960s.

The first great folk singer was Woody Guthrie, who wandered the streets of the United States with a guitar in the 1930s. His songs sang all kinds of hardships he experienced personally during the Great Depression. In his hands, folk songs have formed several characteristics that have not been erased for more than half a century: acoustic guitar, narrative style, personal lyricism, and traditional folk songs brought to the United States by immigrants from Scotland and England-they have been handed down from generation to generation for at least several centuries on the other side of the ocean.

Guthrie wrote and adapted more than 1000 songs in his life. By the time the wind of American folk songs blew in the 1950s, it could no longer be called the folk song era, but called itself the folk song revival era.

Joan baez, the most famous ballad queen, has always adhered to the ballad line. Joan baez conquered most young people in 1960s without any commercial propaganda, and became the center of hippie culture and youth sit-in storm with the theme of love and peace in 1960s. The only means is her sincere humanitarian feelings. Even when singing the battle songs of a generation, joan baez never forgot his elegant beauty and simple and pure voice. Apart from a guitar, joan baez's songs are hardly accompanied.

Later, when bobby vinton, who is also famous for his pure timbre, became famous with Roses Are Red in 1963, a looming piano was added to the background. This style has become the freeze frame of his music career for more than 30 years, and the theme songs sung by many movies, including The Godfather, have continued his reputation. Bobby vinton likes some elegant little musical instruments. In his later singing background, you can always hear a few strings, a clarinet or a few faint trumpets. The richness of musical instruments will never change the absolute dominant position of human voice in songs. Listening to Winton today, the most exciting thing is his early simple music. People even suspect that the graceful harmony in "Blue Velvet" can't be done today. For example, the natural foreground of the tonic is lightly caged, and there is always a craftsman spirit compared with the more refined harmony in later generations. Winton's most famous song, sealed with a kiss, was not his first song, but it was widely circulated because of him and spread to China in 1990s. Rock music rose in the mid-1960s, and its increasingly complex form gradually replaced simple folk songs, and most folk singers evolved into folk rock. Peter, Paul and Mary, an outstanding combination of Bates, Winton and men and women, survived by cover, duet and reprint. The simple guitar turned to colorful guitar, and the rest disappeared. 1975, The Four Seasons, which has been popular in disco for a long time, reappeared with beautiful falsetto and disco dance background, and won the championship again and again, but it has become a worthless masquerade pop music. In the next 30 years, I don't know how many folk singers have appeared, and they can only appear in the form of composite folk songs compatible with various musical styles. Folk songs are like the faint wine in youth. They have a heartfelt impulse, but they have their own fragrance. Although simple, they cannot be copied.