How to Use folkie in a Sentence

folkie

noun
  • Bhasker frames the singer as a 23-year-old child of the playlist era with a soul folkie's heart.
    — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2017
  • Johnson doesn’t play with a pick or use his fingertips like a folkie.
    — Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2020
  • Do Souza’s material tends to be folkie, but can veer into hard rock and even screamy grunge.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
  • Mike Love’s folkie ode to the West Coast countryside, full of canyons, redwoods, seashells, and deer.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 3 June 2021
  • Giving so many folkies a place to work, play and learn is the most conspicuous part of Swallow Hill’s mission.
    — John Wenzel, The Know, 8 Nov. 2019
  • How to describe the patented feeling that only this 28-year-old West Yorkshire folkie can conjure?
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 July 2019
  • Dylan wasn’t the only one wearing makeup; other Revue performers did, too, like folkies testing glam rock.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 5 June 2019
  • Tim Barry To say that Tim Barry went from being a punk to being a folkie is a little misleading.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 23 June 2018
  • Granik loves faces that have been lived in and weathered by hard times (including ancient cult folkie Michael Hurley, who turns up at a campfire singalong).
    — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2018
  • Northwest alt-folkie Pete Droge was invited to audition to be a member of the onscreen Stillwater band.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Loudon, 70-something patriarch, inhabits the canopy; from folkie to singing surgeon to some measure of each, adjoining the mordant to the serious.
    — Nathan Rizzo | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Kiah, whose music has sometimes skewed a little more folkie on record, took optimum advantage of her power-trio format to rock things up just a bit more, on the Amos cover as well as elsewhere.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 10 July 2022
  • An ebony-skinned girl from Detroit and a flame-haired British folkie come together in the New York music scene of the early 1970s.
    — David Canfield, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Yet the folkie elements in Modern Nature’s style are balanced by electronic ones that Cooper also deems essential.
    — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Turns out Smith has been an actor, playwright and musician and even played some serious gigs, opening for legendary folkie Ramblin’ Jack Elliott.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2021
  • The inclusion of the Mumfords and Scottish step-dancing trad folkies Breabach kept the bill from being a full-on Nashville diaspora.
    — Adam Gold, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Stomp-and-holler bands As pop became increasingly robotic in the late 2000s, an international contingent of folkies spurred a new roots revival.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024
  • Fans of singer-songwriter Taylor James Donskey used to catch him at local clubs and coffeehouses, performing original folkie-country tunes or jamming with his band.
    — Kevyn Burger Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 18 Nov. 2020
  • His only commitment to the genre is to divert from its essence with cute asides, such as the title song by neo-folkie Sturgill Simpson, a recurring motif that divides characters through their musical taste.
    — Armond White, National Review, 14 June 2019
  • The guest list — indie-pop troubadour Caroline Polachek, earnest folkie Mustafa, and pop star Lorde — displays Hynes’s gift for putting the right people together.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • From hip-hop prankster to futuristic funk master to sensitive folkie, Beck's chameleonic career, well represented across 90 minutes Wednesday, has a consistent throughline.
    — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2017
  • For the past decade, Kacey Musgraves has been country music’s most daring traditionalist — a small-town realist who’s also a campy country-disco queen and a folkie who once wrote a song about smoking weed with John Prine.
    — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
  • With a mood board of influences including CD-binder staples like Neil Young’s Harvest Moon and alt-country lifers Blue Rodeo’s Five Days in July, Shabason and Krgovich summon the spirit of a backyard campfire attended by folkies and experimental jazz nerds alike.
    — Zach Schonfeld, Pitchfork, 18 June 2026

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