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Recruiting serious jazz players instead of the usual.A. studio cats, Mitchell spent several years discarding the daily-journal lyric writing and folkish melodies of her early work and wandering into more musically lyrically abstract territory on albums like Mingus and Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter.
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David Browne, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
The music that accompanies her is just as stick-to-the-ribs earthy, dipped in roadhouse soul, folkish hymns, barroom rock, and blues, without sounding like House of Blues nostalgia.
—Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Afrikaners as an ethnic group have a stronger sense of cultural identity, of folkish attachments to the land.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
Fernanda Douglas composed the folkish tunes.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2023
Moitessier is swathed in luxe floral fabric with fashionable bare shoulders, Walter in a folkish blouse with puffy sleeves, provocatively slipping to her sides.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022
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David Browne, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
The music that accompanies her is just as stick-to-the-ribs earthy, dipped in roadhouse soul, folkish hymns, barroom rock, and blues, without sounding like House of Blues nostalgia.
—Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Afrikaners as an ethnic group have a stronger sense of cultural identity, of folkish attachments to the land.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
Fernanda Douglas composed the folkish tunes.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2023
Moitessier is swathed in luxe floral fabric with fashionable bare shoulders, Walter in a folkish blouse with puffy sleeves, provocatively slipping to her sides.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022
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“Folkish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/folkish. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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