February 01, 2021 8:47 PM “Folk music” is tough to pin down. Most picture a solitary singer/songwriter with a dreadnaught acoustic guitar singing earnest protest songs. The truth is it’s a panoply of styles and instrumentation. Its roots go back much further than the popular American boom of the 1950s and ’60s, to 19th century Europe, and further back still to Africa and the forebears of that big, booming acoustic guitar. The one commonality is folk music has always been of the people. And most all of the people who helped push the music forward in America in the 1950s and ‘60s ...