Welcome to FolkWords - Tim Carroll's web site. I'm building this web site and researching a book about folk music - its influences, how it's developing and why. Instead of concentrating purely on the historical perspective, I hope to unravel the intertwining threads of folk music that decide why and how folk music relates to people today.
To find out more go to FolkWords Writes.
Folk music is many things to many people. It is classified and categorised in varied and strange ways. From traditional, world and roots, to nu-folk, electric folk and folk-rock, via bluegrass and Americana, through progressive folk and electronic psych, to punk folk and thrash folk. My interest is eclectic (without too much dependence on artificial or pointless definitions) - anything that falls under the category of folk music written by folk, for folk, about folk, from folk.
My book and this site asks questions, records views and dissects opinions about folk music. If you're interested in talking to me or expressing your views, I would love to hear from you - please feel free to contact FolkWords at: folkwords@hotmail.co.uk.
What else is on FolkWords?
- On my FolkLinks page you'll find links to folk clubs, festivals, music distributors, folk resources, radio stations and a host of good people that continue to help drive folk forward. Take a look and then pay some of them a visit.
- The FolkWords
Music Links section includes a selection of songwriters,
singers, musicians and bands - people who in my
opinion are a driving force (or well on their way) in their particular
slice of folk music, and well worth a listen.
- In FolkWords Reviews you'll find reviews on bands and albums - mostly from those exponents of folk music that exist below the 'mountain top' of success but who should be well on their way to the top.
So far so good ...
FolkWords has encountered wildly differing opinions, many of them strongly held. There are hundreds of questions and probably thousands of answers - or maybe no answers at all, just different views. No matter, the point is the journey, not necessarily the destination. My research for this project is wide and ranging. That means we may encounter one another on a web site, at a festival or a gig, in a pub or over a cup of strong tea - wherever and whenever we meet - I look forward to talking to you.
You can also find FolkWords on www.myspace.com/folkwords
Copyright Notice: This site, its content and the FolkWords name are copyright to FolkWords. That means FolkWords holds the intellectual property of all copy written on this site and no part of the copy or other content of this site may be used or copied without the
express written permission of FolkWords.
© FolkWords - 2007
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