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
• Mike Love’s folkie ode to the West Coast countryside, full of canyons, redwoods, seashells, and deer.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 3 June 2021
• Johnson doesn’t play with a pick or use his fingertips like a folkie.
  — Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Hartford’s indie folkie rockers The Penniless Wild, Sept. 19 at 3 p.m.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 26 May 2022
• Northwest alt-folkie Pete Droge was invited to audition to be a member of the onscreen Stillwater band.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 18 Aug. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Yet the folkie elements in Modern Nature’s style are balanced by electronic ones that Cooper also deems essential.
  — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Mike Love’s folkie ode to the West Coast countryside, full of canyons, redwoods, seashells, and deer.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 3 June 2021
• Johnson doesn’t play with a pick or use his fingertips like a folkie.
  — Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Hartford’s indie folkie rockers The Penniless Wild, Sept. 19 at 3 p.m.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 26 May 2022
• Northwest alt-folkie Pete Droge was invited to audition to be a member of the onscreen Stillwater band.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 18 Aug. 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024