Music Artist

Roger McGuinn

Roger McGuinn is a folk legend. During his time with the Byrds (1964-1973), McGuinn developed two innovative and highly influential styles of electric guitar playing: "jingle-jangle" — generating ringing arpeggios based on banjo finger picking styles he learned while at the Old Town School; and secondly, a merging of saxophonist John Coltrane's free-jazz atonalities, which hinted at the droning of the sitar — a style of playing first heard on the Byrds' 1966 single "Eight Miles High."An acclaimed solo artist, sideman (for the likes of Bob Dylan), and folk music historian, McGuinn has used the World Wide Web to continue the folk tradition since November 1995 by recording a different folk song each month on his Folk Den site. The songs are made available from his web site and a selection (wi

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Catalogue & Listenership

Tracks

84

Albums

1

Total audio

4h 22m 40s

FMA listens

138,602

Favourites

212

Avg bitrate

129 kbps

Genre & Licence Profile

GenreTracks
Folk65
Blues5
  • Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative — 84

Top Tracks by Listens

TrackAlbumYearDurationListens
Blow The Man DownFolk Den Project03m 07s5,468
500 MilesFolk Den Project03m 39s4,957
Dink's SongFolk Den Project03m 01s4,489
The Twelve Days of ChristmasFolk Den Project04m 01s4,421
Go Tell It On The MountainFolk Den Project03m 18s4,313
Christmas Is ComingFolk Den Project02m 10s4,021
Battle Hymn of the RepublicFolk Den Project03m 38s3,793
GreensleevesFolk Den Project05m 12s3,686
Oh Mary Don't You WeepFolk Den Project02m 12s3,669
Follow the Drinking GourdFolk Den Project02m 46s3,665

Track Length Distribution

LengthTracksShare
1–3 min3645%
3–6 min4455%

Artists in the Same Folk Lineage

  1. 134 Big Blood tracks
  2. 99 Derek Clegg tracks
  3. 57 David Rovics tracks
  4. 46 Ed Askew tracks
  5. 42 Night Viking tracks
  6. 31 Kelly Latimore tracks
  7. 31 Garm tracks
  8. 30 Michael Chapman tracks

Track Catalogue

80 tracks shown of 84

Track Album Genre Duration Listens Licence
Dry Bones [17] Folk Den Project Folk 3m 00s 1,296 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative
Old Plank Road [3] Folk Den Project Blues 2m 43s 2,761 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative
My Home Across The Smokey Mountains [17] Folk Den Project Folk 3m 38s 838 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative
No Payday In Detroit [17] Folk Den Project Folk 2m 00s 666 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out [3] Folk Den Project Blues 3m 27s 2,445 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative
Skip To My Lou [8, 17] Folk Den Project 2m 43s 3,360 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative
500 Miles [3] Folk Den Project Blues 3m 39s 4,957 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative
Darlin' Corey [17] Folk Den Project Folk 2m 57s 508 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative
Go Tell It On The Mountain [17] Folk Den Project Folk 3m 18s 4,313 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative
Going Down The Road Feeling Bad [3] Folk Den Project Blues 3m 48s 2,423 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho [3] Folk Den Project Blues 3m 05s 2,739 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative
Old Blue [17] Folk Den Project Folk 2m 33s 685 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative
Old Joe Clark [17, 137] Folk Den Project 3m 25s 1,424 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative
Away Rio [8, 17] Folk Den Project 3m 21s 2,017 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative
Blow The Man Down [8, 17] Folk Den Project 3m 07s 5,468 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative