Folk music can function as a profound voice of the past, present, and future; here's why.

As we approach an essential and genuinely special period in mankind's history, the ability for folk music to contextualise and give utterance to our times could prove to be amazing. Whether there is a rebirth of the category in the same way that 60's folk music did has yet to be seen, but it still supplies a place of peace in an era blindsided by its own modernity. As labels like the one run by…