Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Simon & Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Pete Seeger, Donovan, and Judy Collins—Those are the names from the 1960s folk music scene most often remembered. If you are a ...

Hiding somewhere between psychedelic rock and folk music, freak folk is an oft-overlooked genre of the 1960s and 1970s that we believe is worth revisiting. Freak folk was certainly a byproduct of the ...

Well before acts like Waxahatchee, Jessica Pratt, Angel Olsen, Big Thief, Bedouine, and more readily brought folk sounds to the indie sphere, a swath of women singer-songwriters did their part to ...

Students learn about Bob Dylan’s transformation from folk hero to blues rocker through excerpts from the Bob Dylan Guitar investigation. They then compare and contrast reactions to Bob Dylan’s playing ...

The highway of pop-music history took a detour on the backroads during the folk music boom of the 1960s. For a brief period, musicians could be celebrated not for making a big noise, but for crafting ...

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil ...

Howard Marshall visited KBIA studios with his new book Keep It Old-Time: Fiddle Music in Missouri from the 1960s Folk Music Revival to the Present. Howard Marshall is an author, a fiddler and a writer ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The term folk rock has been absent from the vocabulary of the hip and cool for several decades. However, Fairport Convention, the band that hewed the form from the ...

Bob Neuwirth, an artist, singer and songwriter who helped make Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin the center of the 1960s music world, has died. He was 82. Neuwirth's longtime partner, Paula Batson, confirmed ...

Roger McGuinn doesn’t think he so much changed folk music as just styled it a little differently. As a former member of the 1960s folk band the Byrds, McGuinn knows quite well how an influential band ...