Folk is sorta like…The Broken Spoke Dance Hall in Austin, Texas.
From its website:
The Broken Spoke
is Texas’ most definitive dance hall. It’s not of those fly-by-night, trendy newcomers you see springing up in out-of-business lumber yards or feeds stores on every corner. You can’t build a legend overnight. Owners James and Annetta White have been operating the Austin tradition since 1964 and its reputation for good country music and good Texas cooking has spread world-wide.
11thday ofMayin the year2009
Folk is sorta like…Stoops.
See:
1. The Hey Arnold episode Stoop Kid, downloadable here (paired with the episode “Arnold’s Hat”).
2. New York City
10thday ofMayin the year2009
Folk is sorta like…Truckers.
Check out:
1. The Documentary Big Rig (trailer above). Great documentary about America, through the eyes of truckers. Here’s the film’s wikipedia page.
2. Here’s some trucker lingo.
3. Listen in on the action: buy a CB radio
9thday ofMayin the year2009
Folk is sorta like…The South
Dixie really gets it when it comes to the American Folk Soul.
For some references on the transcending spirit of South-based folk, check out:
1. The documentary, Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, about musician Jim White’s touring of the rural south. Here’s a clip.
2. The song “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” by the Canadian South-o-philes The Band. If that’s a little too much awesome for you, here’s a watered-down Joan Baez version.
3. Creole Gumbo pretty much says it all. Here’s a recipe.
4. Spanish Moss, iconically seen in the Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia.
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