A friend, in conversation, revealed that they hadn’t listened to any folk (now more broadly as Americana) since the 1960s! They were intimately familiar with that Greenwich Village revival, but knew no artists since then. So I thought I’d make a list, in no particular order, of a dozen folk/Americana (e.g. primarily acoustic, lyrics worth parsing, often with a political message even if only of oppression whether from poverty or gender) that are on my playlists. Some of them I know nothing about except I heard a song an really liked it! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0wBJBoOxcnZ8hkUe2FMX62?si=IsjscFP0Q4CA-pEAQ3Dojw&pi=viX_Q7PuTAC9U

• Iron & Wine
• Mount Eerie
• Gillian Welch
• Mercury Rev
• Sun Kil Moon
• Bill Callahan
• Little Wings
• Adrienne Lenker
• Sufjan Stevens
• Marisa Anderson
• Adam Torres
• Railroad Earth
• Waxahatchee
• The Antlers