Soul-Folk

Folk music of the 1960s and 1970s was a genre that was always shifting and expanding yet somehow never found room for so many. In the sounds of soul-folk Black artists like Terry Callier and Linda Lewis began to reclaim their space in the genre and use it to bring their own traditions to light- the jazz the blues the field hollers the spirituals- and creating something wholly new wholly theirs wholly ours. This book traces the growing imprints of soul-folk and how it made its way from folk tradition to subgenre. Along the way it explores the musicians albums and histories that made the genre what it is.