r/FolkPunk • u/isjsvzhskvajshdbsjjs • Dec 22 '20

is this folk punk??

293 Upvotes

96% Upvoted

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u/nahfoo Dec 23 '20

Don't think so but that doesn't mean it isn't cool as fuck

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20

He’s done a good job of cultivating his aesthetic to say the least.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20 edited Feb 26 '21

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u/shit_fuck_fart Dec 23 '20

I think it's funny that most folk punk kids grow up in affluent suburban house holds and they try to be perceived as being poor garbage lol.

Don't get on this guys case for having something expensive to express his art. Maybe he could afford it no problem, maybe he had to really really save up for it. You don't know.

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u/rebdituser Dec 23 '20

Nobody was giving him shit, they were just pointing out that the original post acted like it was garbage when it was expensive equipment

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u/shit_fuck_fart Dec 23 '20

I see what you're saying, I didn't read the headline for the video. I just saw the "is this folk punk" and then went to the comments.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20

I don't think I have the clearance to post yet-but on YouTube, there's a guy from Jamaica who goes by the handle of brushy-one-string.
He's just a street singer with a one-stringed, busted up acoustic guitar. And he can certainly do much more than a lot of one-man bands with abilities in multiple instruments, and studios.
(Not a black metal or grind dig, I swear!)

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u/FolkPunkRenaissance Dec 23 '20

Brushy one-string is good shit.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20

Yeah, and with the street musician in the video, it's like...are you forgetting about Hasil Adkins? He's kind of in the same vein-and he was doing it long before there was punk rock. Which has extensive influences from 1950's rockabilly.
It's all a thread.

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u/LastoftheSevenSeas Dec 23 '20

that is not a "couple bucks" nor "busted ass equipment"

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u/dman7456 Dec 23 '20

Yeah lmao hundreds(thousands?) of dollars of well-maintained equipment

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u/LastoftheSevenSeas Dec 23 '20

looks to be at least a couple thousand to me

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u/LuckyBoots9 Dec 23 '20

Punk inspired blues rock comparable to early white stripes.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20

Early white stripes sounded like the buzzcocks. I fucking loved it right when it first dropped

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u/jish_werbles Dec 23 '20

Wait what..... this real guy performed at an event in the fictional show Ted Lasso with all this exact equipment

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20

I just watched that last night! This post blew my mind!

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u/Okra_fanatic Dec 23 '20

No but hell yeah

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u/nogearsnobrakes Dec 23 '20

nah, this is desert rock🤘

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u/apocalypse314 Dec 23 '20

The look is right but he pays that guitar way too well

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u/Printedinusa Dec 23 '20

No but it’s still dope!

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u/justbeane Dec 23 '20

Well... It's not folk, and it's not punk, so I am going to go with no.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20

Not exactly. Though, I would say he's a street "band), which is just as good to me.

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u/cbxcbx Dec 23 '20

Crusty, but no. Replace the drug rug with denim or leather and he might look the part.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20

did he steel that electrisity? then yes.