Sentence examples for folk standard from inspiring English sources

Performing the folk standard "Black Water Side," he focused on the fairy tale language, his airy playing conjuring a pocket of supernatural space.

Years later, Bert's version of the folk standard Blackwaterside would go on to form the basis of Led Zeppelin's Black Mountain Side.

★ ★ ★ Folk standard Danny Boy is stripped of all dignity by the Swedish Chef, Animal and Beaker – three of the show's most inarticulate stars.

Williams's voice is shown off best on another cover, the folk standard When I Was a Young Girl, every second of which rings true.

The novel's working title was always "This World Is Not My Home," an old folk standard whose lyrics are quoted at one point in the book.

A hearty standing ovation prompted two encores: "Riga Dimd," a Latvian folk standard, and "Put Vejini," a treasured ballad with nationalist associations, as set by Imants Ramins.

A lively trio of musicians was working their way through Irish folk standards.

His first albums presented a complex singer/songwriter/interpreter anchored in folk standards, protest music and powerful folk-oriented originals.

On "Trouble No More," in 2003, he covered blues and folk standards; "Freedom's Road" and "Life, Death, Love and Freedom" offered pessimistic appraisals of the state of the nation.

I might have replaced one of his longer, distorted-guitar solos with one of the revamped folk standards from his recent "Americana" album, which oddly failed to make the set list.

Her second album manages to triangulate bluegrass, Nina Simone and Toni Morrison, with numbers provoked by school shootings (Paradise Fell) and Black Lives Matter, next to fiddle-and-banjo folk standards and an opener, Saint Elizabeth, that details a woman being stalked.