Folk music will never die, and these forgotten folk albums from the 1970s deserve to be dusted off and enjoyed in the modern age.

2. “Like A Rolling Stone” by Bob Dylan We don’t want to sacrifice diversity on our list of folk rock songs that started the movement, but Bob Dylan just had to make the list again.

The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...

but he’s mostly known for recasting traditional American folk songs into vibrant contemporary soundscapes. He spoke to NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Tom Casciato about his Vermont ...

Plus, sadness isn't as ubiquitous as you might think, in a list of songs about ... worlds of alt-country and folk. We've searched high and low to bring you the best songs that deal with every ...

The chart visualizes two recordings of the English folk song “Scarborough Fair”—one sung, one spoken—by Patrick Savage, a study author and participant. The song unfolds at around half the ...

Ever since the '60s, Joan Baez has delivered a message with her music, but she was never going to be a two-chord folkie with ...

Even cowboy songs which American children learn in elementary school ... comes across in the attention radio stations pay to their listeners and folk singers pay to their list serves. While the MP3 is ...

Ella Jenkins, the prolific musician, educator, and entertainer known as the “First Lady of Children’s Folk Song,” has died.

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As the civil rights movement gained momentum in the 1960s, folk music gave voice to a new generation longing for equality and justice. "We Shall Overcome" is particularly well-known as a civil rights ...

Manhattan-born Pete Seeger, 31, left Harvard to thumb his way across country to see what he could pick up in the way of American folk songs. On the road he learned to play the oldfashioned ...