The Anti-Folk Movement

lightning · Post by **lightning** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 11:09 pm

The Anti-folk movement isn't really anti-folk-- it's contemporary singer-songwriter. It got that name when a bunch of young musicians were denied the mike by established folk performers because they were too raw and too real. The best of them is Jeffrey Lewis who has a new CD out called "City and Eastern Songs," his most professionally produced effort so far. This link will take you to a French made documentary about the artists in this interesting movement:

http://kidam.alexandre.free.fr/

Teratogen · Post by **Teratogen** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:13 am

is that the same actor?

lightning · Post by **lightning** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 4:57 pm

Same actor as whom?

Teratogen · Post by **Teratogen** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 11:08 am

there's an actor named jeffrey lewis.

or maybe it's spelled geoffery, or something like that.

lightning · Post by **lightning** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 4:45 pm

No, this is a New York City singer/songwriter who is most well known in England and France. He's just back from a tour.

http://www.thejeffreylewissite.com

tomsakic · Post by **tomsakic** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 12:59 pm

Lightning, I read yesterday about some of these musicians in newspapers. I know they're called anti-folk, I have CD by Devendra (spelling) and some others, but journalist kept to call them "freak-folk" all the time. Did you heard for that term?

lightning · Post by **lightning** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 5:03 pm

Yes, I have heard that term for them. "Freak" used to be an alternative word for "hippy" and these young people are either hippies or children of 60's hippies or beatniks. Both Devendra Banhart and Jeff Lewis were sons of hippies. Their songs tend to be freaky in a good way-- fresh and unconventional.

Dead Man · Post by **Dead Man** » Thu Dec 22, 2005 3:22 am

lightning wrote:The Anti-folk movement isn't really anti-folk-- it's contemporary singer-songwriter. It got that name when a bunch of young musicians were denied the mike by established folk performers because they were too raw and too real. The best of them is Jeffrey Lewis who has a new CD out called "City and Eastern Songs," his most professionally produced effort so far. This link will take you to a French made documentary about the artists in this interesting movement:

http://kidam.alexandre.free.fr/

let's not forget Roger Miller of Mission of Burma fame and Billy Bragg.
The latter is actually one of the pillars of the movement imo.
AllMusic profile of Billy Bragg

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