when did this revival touch its highest peak?
1959
The revival at its height
The success of the album and the single earned the Kingston Trio a Grammy award for Best Country & Western Performance at the awards' inaugural ceremony in 1959. At the time, no folk-music category existed in the Grammy's scheme. The next year, largely as a result of "The Kingston Trio" album and "Tom Dooley", the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences instituted a folk category and the Trio won the first Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording for its second studio album "At Large." At one point, The Kingston Trio had four records at the same time among the Top 10 selling albums for five consecutive weeks in November and December 1959 
who is the original singer of you're gonna miss me when i'm gone Over the years, the original has been recorded by many artists, most notably by Charlie Monroe. Lulu and the Lampshades were the first to use the cup game for percussion when performing the song who is this mentioned person? He  was an American country and bluegrass music guitarist. does he have siblings? Yes, Bill Monroe, Bertha, Birch what are his single works? UNANSWERABLE among the above three brothers; was the first one part of any band? Yes,  Blue Grass Boys was he also a guitarist? No, he was a mandolinist. was he into folk music? Yes, Monroe's fortunes began to improve during the American folk music revival, associating his style more with traditional folk music than with the country-and-western genre with which it had previously been identified.
Mid-1960s. In the 1960s. The mid-1960s.
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Introduction Folk revival Introduction
The American folk music revival began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s. Monroe's fortunes began to improve during the American folk music revival of the early 1960s. The American folk music revival began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s.
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American folk music revival [SEP] The revival at its height
The success of the album and the single earned the Kingston Trio a Grammy award for Best Country & Western Performance at the awards' inaugural ceremony in 1959. At the time, no folk-music category existed in the Grammy's scheme. The next year, largely as a result of "The Kingston Trio" album and "Tom Dooley", the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences instituted a folk category and the Trio won the first Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording for its second studio album "At Large." At one point, The Kingston Trio had four records at the same time among the Top 10 selling albums for five consecutive weeks in November and December 1959 according to "Billboard Magazine's" "Top LPs" chart, a record unmatched for more than 50 years and noted at the time by a cover story in "Life Magazine".