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Formats: Rock dying

CTListener said:
James Brown would whup you upside the head if you were to call his funk tracks from the '70s disco. If anything, it's a subgenre of soul, but I've always considered it a genre in itself. There's a world of difference between "Cold Sweat" and "I Will Survive."
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Too many definitions. James Brown was one of those people that made me automatically hit the pre-set when he came on.
 
CTListener said:
Emmylou Harris didn't start her career until the '70s, and the Chad Mitchell Trio was always commercial, as was Denver. Not that I don't like their music -- I do -- but they don't belong in the same grouping with Guthrie, Seeger and Baez. Seeger goes all the way back to the days of the Weavers and the Almanac Singers (and Arlo's dad Woody), even before the folk boom of the late '50s and early '60s that fell before the British Invasion.
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How do you define "commercial"?

Folk singers were doing a land office business in San Francisco clubs when I lived there in the early 60's. Most of them were names from the 50's. I assume they were all being paid to perform. Isn't that "commercial"?
 
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