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Originally Posted by bandsdavis
Hi Gracie. Very sorry to hear of your loss. We, too, have lost people we knew well. One note, please if I may. The OP was not referring to Covid as "The Great Folk Scare". In her 2012 memoir, “Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music,” Judy Collins whimsically refers to the era of her emergence as “the great folk scare.” In the 1960s, on the heels of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and The Weavers, a flood of folk artists broke into the musical mainstream. I would be surprised if that was not his reference in the post. Hope you and yours are doing OK.
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Bandsdavis, you most certainly got it right. Thanks for clarifying for Gracie. Gracie, sorry for your loss and the confusion about this wonderful music from the late ‘50s to the early’60s.
Not sure if Dave Van Ronk or Judy Collins coined the phrase, but in either case I’m glad the subject matter back then sometimes made people a little uncomfortable (or “scared”) and encouraged them to do some critical thinking. It was the birth of modern social activism.
The Great Folk Scare
Cruel War - YouTube