There is some danger here of a high seriousness taking hold, of an attempt to grow folk-pop into something that journeys into the void with instruments as well as words.
With those albums, which were reissued by Smithsonian Folkways in 1991, he was able to start touring nationally on the growing folk circuit.
They enlarged their song repertoire by listening to the West Country singer Cyril Tawney, and established their reputation at the Sidmouth folk festival, where they bridged the gap between the growing folk song revival and the established folk dance scene.
Seeger, Joan Baez, the Freedom Singers (comprised of six SNCC activists), and others who helped catalyze the growing folk music craze performed the song at their concerts and at civil rights rallies.
"We're grown folks, man," Mr. Chasez added in disbelief.
First she dismisses Sperman's incarceration and his relationship with Eggna as "just grown folks' mess".
"This is grown folks' music," says Melvin as he and Juanita sway to the sweet, world-weary sounds of Marvin Gaye.
With his elaborate stage show — space-helmeted guitarists, kettle drums, Warhol-inspired film visuals — he was a conceptual artist, and in this context, an act for grown folks.
When adults huddled in the kitchen for conversation, she told the children to "Go on outside and let the grown folks talk".
At the rehearsal dinner at Lut ce, if he wanted to, Oliver could have charmed the jewelry off my aunt's throat, persuaded my future father-in-law to put up seed money for his new yet growing folk-art collection and levitated the room.
