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Description of Progressive Folk

 
Progressive Folk refers to artists who take traditional folk songwriting or instrumentation and merge it with other genres. Quite often overlapping with Ethnic Fusion, Progressive Folk is a music of both discovery and technical mastery.
 

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Progressive Folk Key Artists

 
Duck Baker

An expert fingerstyle guitar
wizard, Baker manages to
forgo technical prowess for
personality and subtlety.

John Fahey

Fahey's versatile sound
draws on everything from
Indian ragas and Native
American melodies to folk
and blues. On his first alb...

John Wesley Harding

English singer-songwriter
who first emerged in the
late '80s to critical acclaim
and strong comparisons to
Elvis Costello. Since his de...

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