The village needs one leader and you, thank God and your hard work and the grass rooted folks who helped you, are that leader.
All three musicians had a background rooted in folk music, with each one having worked as a folk singer on the acoustic coffeehouse circuit during the early 1960s.
Like his artwork, his music was rooted in folk tradition.
A man of populist ideals, Siegmeister had championed the development of a distinctly American musical style rooted in folk song, jazz and blues.
It's rooted in folk and country, with plenty of waltzes, but laced with enough feedback and quavery guitar leads to qualify as psychedelia.
Then, "to lace these weird global shifts together," she came up with concise melodies rooted in folk songs, which provide some stability atop the turbulence.
Songwriters draw inspiration from a wide variety of sources, especially songwriters rooted in folk music, where traditional melodies and lyrics are passed down from singer to singer.
The progression was striking: the early mazurkas are melancholy ruminations rooted in folk dances, but as Chopin revisited the form, the works grew less exotic and grander in scope — visions of an increasingly distant and idealized Polish dance.
The flute figures prominently in South American music, lending a wild, birdlike quality to jazz or native works rooted in folk songs or created by the continent's classical composers.
When a dancer uses a flat, flexed foot, this is a nod to a very classic element of dance, rooted in folk style and Bharatnatyam.
