An acoustic guitar with steel strings (as opposed to a classical guitar which has nylon or gut strings).
Go to youtube.com and type in 'KK Slider Folk Guitar'.
There are 6 strings on a folk guitar as with most guitars, except for 12 strings.
base guitar= does not exist. bass guitar= a form of the stand up bass made to get a different sound and easier for transportation. Folk guitar= usually an acoustic guitar. not a specific brand or type. but an acoustic guitar. Folk guitar is a style like rock guitar, jazz guitar, metal guitar there are not different guitars, and style can be played on any guitar (obviously some are easier on certain types of guitars)
There are six.
6 of them
Folk and Roots sounds like Tambourines guitar Bongos
Firewood.
bannatiran
Because his genre was generally considered "folk." Most folk musicians kept within an acoustic guitar and went on happily. But Bob, he did things his own way and went off and used an electric guitar.
I'd say folk, as classical style should be pure and true to the authors intent, whereas folk style is more to be interpreted by the player.
old-time is the form of north American folk music
Bob Dylan