X achieved limited mainstream success but influenced various genres of music, including punk rock and folk rock.
Soft rock was often derived from folk rock, using acoustic instruments and putting more emphasis on melody and harmonies.
Issues of what is folk music, what is folk rock, and "who" is folk were roundly discussed and debated.
In the beginning it was a student rock band trying to merge various music styles, starting from punk rock to folk rock and art rock.
The song was also pivotal in transmuting folk rock into the new musical forms of psychedelia and raga rock.
The group's catalog can be most consistently classified as folk rock with a strong verbal emphasis.
More recently there have been indications of a return to an interest in medieval folk rock among established electric folk musicians.
The album was also credited for original blues and folk rock music which was said to be hard to hear these days by critics.
