If I Have To Tag My Posts #cottagecore To Get People To Care About Folk Music And Its History, Then So

if i have to tag my posts #cottagecore to get people to care about folk music and its history, then so be it. yes yes woody guthrie was so cottagecore and fairycore. Please listen to folk music

it is genuinely profoundly frustrating that nearly every website that talks about the history of folk songs is incorrect and/or has no citations. Wikipedia is especially guilty of this, where most articles that are about folk songs just shouldn't be read at all because they're either completely wrong or just mostly wrong and uncited. If i had more time and energy, I'd love to help edit them, but unfortunately, right now, i don't. literally, they are all wrong 😭 and they all plagiarize wikipedia and don't even cite it lmao

Anyway, if you want to know the origins of a song, i recommend first consulting the roud folk song index and then looking for primary sources. or if you don't have the time, I'll do that and then tell you lol.

National Museum of American History, Ralph Rinzler Collections, Smithsonian Institute

fliers

New York City, 1943

" I could talk to you about fascism. It is a big word and it hides in some pretty little places.

It is nothing in the world but greed for profit and greed for the power to hurt and make slaves out of the people."

Woody Guthrie, from his diary to his daughter c. 1940s

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (1959)

Sixty-five years ago today, on August 17, 1959, Kind of Blue, the legendary album by the Miles Davis Sextet, was released. Featuring an all-star lineup of Davis, Julian “Cannonball” Adderley, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb, and Wynton Kelly on one track, the album is considered Davis’ masterpiece, the greatest jazz album ever recorded, and one of the best albums of all time. In addition, it is certainly also one of the most popular and influential jazz albums of all time, with its legacy extending well beyond the confines of jazz. Timeless and perfect, Kind of Blue is, as one reviewer put it, a “defining moment of twentieth century music”.