Cosmic Country-Folk
tagStarted 1968Peak 1968–1975Last big hit still active
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Cosmic country-folk blends country instrumentation with a woozier, more open-eared palette: shimmering pedal steel, relaxed backbeats, folk acoustics, and a lightly psychedelic sense of space.
History
The style crystallized around Gram Parsons and the Los Angeles country-rock world at the end of the 1960s, but its folkier side emerged when country songs were treated as melancholy, spiritual, and genre-fluid rather than strictly honky-tonk.
Defining artists
Essential listening
Sources
- Britannica
- Library of Congress
- Smithsonian Folkways
- PBS/AMA. citeturn6search22turn5search5turn11search17