Amoeba Music

Artist: Cry Cry Cry

Date: August 24, 2010

Cry Cry Cry is the name of the critically lauded folk-music supergroup comprised of coffeehouse veterans Dar Williams, Lucy Kaplansky and Richard Shindell, but the appellation “folk” is one they prefer to avoid. It’s a reasonably fair quibble on their part; after all, what is folk music? A century ago, the tag was applied to indigenous music steeped in longstanding traditions, passed along from artist to artist and generation to generation, the backwoods vulgar as opposed to the ritualized language of privilege and prestige. A half-century ago, that dynamic was upended, as folk became a powerful vehicle of protest and a non-violent weapon that prompted social upheavals and... Read More

Genre:

Folk, Contemporary Folk, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter

Formed Date:

1998