Langhorne Slim and his band The War Eagles mix folk and blues with reckless punk-rock energy.

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He blends rock, folk, blues and classically influenced music into a boundary-defying style that has won him a devoted following all over the world.

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Named for the iconic British actress and credited here to Carla Bley and Terry Adams (of NRBQ), it succeeds with an elegiac recurring motif, overtones of folk and the blues, rapturous glissandos, and an expert grasp of volume dynamics.

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Their rock-infused interpretation of the blues and folk genres also incorporated rockabilly, reggae, soul and funk among other influences, it adds.

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Even within the confines of musically narrow genres, Cooder allows himself room to stretch, manipulating the song structures of 1930s American music: minstrel folk, country ballads, blues and even the lounge jazz of Chet Baker.

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There, local acts range from blues to bluegrass to folk and Americana.

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Ever since she began her career as an acoustic singer-songwriter in the early '80s, Patty Griffin has specialized in sweet, smart ballads with shades of blues, pop, folk and country.

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Watson, who jumped onto the music scene in the early 1960s, is considered influential among folk musicians for his brand of bluegrass, blues, country and gospel music.

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You know, I grew up in North Carolina, mostly, and there was a lot of gospel music, there was country music and there was a good deal of blues and I sort of got into music at the time of folk music, which, you know, sort of people refer to as the Great Folk Scare of the early '60s.

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