@clacke@libranet.de @clacke@libranet.deAs a non-US millennial I've never had the context of time, space or culture to get Dylan or ever get interested in getting him, he is firmly placed very, very deep in 1960s Americana.
Of Pete Seeger I've only (knowingly) heard the song "If It Can't Be Reduced", and that's only very recently.
I don't know much about Woody Guthrie either. All of these people are historical cultural landmarks that everyone else is referring to, so I've heard their names over and over, but if you didn't grow up in the US, you haven't been served their music through the radio everywhere you went as you grew up.
@clacke Pete, and even more his sister Peggy, Seeger were huge figures in folk and traditional song across the English speaking world. She was a first-rate song collector, and spent much of her life in England.
Your broader point of course stands, but there's an interesting conversation amongst all the English folk traditions, plenty of songs move back and forth across oceans and seas, giving Anglophone folk an oddly cosmopolitan bent
@clacke One of the funnier songs I stumbled upon recently, is one I know from the Irish tradition, and where there's a dragon that's slayed. Same theme in English and Scottish versions of the song.
The Appalachian versions feature a wild pig instead of a dragon, which is just wonderful