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Seminal American folk singer Woody Guthrie, who was a pivotal supporting character in last year’s “A Complete Unknown,” had a biopic all to himself in this lyrical drama directed by the great Hal Ashby.

Founded in 1992 to rival the Brit Awards, which take place in March, Thursday's Mercury contenders also featured the oldest ever artist to be nominated, 84-year-old folk singer and guitarist Martin Carthy.

As state Senate leader four decades later, Burton joined folk singer Joan Baez at a protest of President George W. Bush’s impending invasion of Iraq.

In the U.S., the band goes by the London Suede, thanks to a decades-old legal dispute with an American folk singer.

He admits to the influence of music icons, including those like folk singer Gurdas Mann, who he grew up watching.