Folk-rock

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

Turkey, during the 1970s and 1980s, also sustained a vibrant Folk Rock scene, drawing inspirations from diverse ethnic elements of Anatolia, the Balkans, Eurasia and the Black Sea region and thrived in a culture of intense political strife, with musicians in Nationalist and Marxist camps. See Music of Turkey for detail.

Folk-rock artists

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

• Crosby, Stills & Nash
• The Band
• Buffalo Springfield
• The Byrds
• Leonard Cohen
• Jim Croce
• The Grateful Dead
• Paul Simon
• Simon & Garfunkel
• Joni Mitchell
• Bob Dylan
• Neil Young
• The Mamas & the Papas
• Moby Grape
• Peter, Paul & Mary
• Phil Ochs
• Fairport Convention
• The Turtles
• Van Morrison
• Jefferson Airplane
• Jonatha Brooke
• Indigo Girls
• PHOENIX