Some folk musicians serve as journalists, professors, and historians, capturing a moment of the past in song and creating an immortalized product that exists as a didactic piece of music for the world ...

A self-taught musician, Elizabeth Cotten changed American folk music. The twice-nominated folk musician, Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten won her first Grammy at 90 years old. Fiercely proud of her North ...

Bruce Springsteen can rock with the best of them. These four songs show that he also has an effective folky side.

OAKLAND, Calif. — I’m remembering a quote from television producer David Simon (The Wire) who when producing his at-the-time new show on post-Katrina New Orleans, Treme, argued for music — not movies ...

Folk music. "A total of 94 songs, this set comprises every song which appeared in Ruth Crawford Seeger's famous children's book of the same title Table of contents Yonder she comes -- Down came a lady ...

Greenwich Village in the 1960s was home to a counterculture folk music scene that produced legendary artists like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Janis Joplin and Joni Mitchell. A network of cafes and bars that ...

Back in 2020, folk musician Jake Blount launched into national awareness with the release of his debut album, “Spider Tales.” The project was, by some measures, a conventional interpretation of ...

With its poetic lyrics and haunting melodies, contemporary folk music is, at its best, deeply evocative. The elusive genre is hard to pin down, often blending traditional acoustics with elements of ...