Jim Farber on folk music

Jim Farber digs into the current folk music sound -- here's a snippet:

 - The ’40s had Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Burl Ives.

- The ’50s saw the Weavers, Harry Belafonte and the Kingston Trio.

- The ’60s brought everyone from Bob Dylan and the Byrds in the U.S. to Donovan and Fairport Convention in the U.K.

- The ’70s saw the heyday of “sensitive” singer-songwriters, from Joni Mitchell to Cat Stevens to James Taylor.

- The electro ’80s rebounded with Tracy Chapman and Suzanne Vega.

- Not to be outdone, the ’90s begat the whole Americana movement.