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folkie

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folk·ie also folk·y  (fk)
n. pl. folk·ies
1. A folk singer or musician.
2. One who is an enthusiast of folk music.
adj. folk·i·er, folk·i·est
Of, relating to, or in the style of folk music.


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A spectral presence when alive, English folkie Nick Drake has attracted a powerful following in the decades since his death in the mid-'70s.
Basement Jaxx, Crazy Itch Radio (XL Recordings) The latest outburst of crazyass dance madness from this Brit duo includes the pairing of Swedish pop sensation Robyn with a Balkan chorus, an orchestral interlude sung by oddball folkie Linda Lewis, and a club barnstormer built on banjo licks.
Ironies and turnarounds are the meat of this delicate folkie cure clumsy rocker, Reagan lover cum Bush basher, mocker of welfare mothers (they "make better lovers") and lamenter of the plight of the homeless, a man who gets angry over Kent State and wistful over Montezuma, writer of the git-r-done post-Flight 93 "Let's Roll" (which advises, in phrases that could have come straight from a Bush foreign policy powwow: "No time for indecision/We got to make a move .
 
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