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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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