The guitarist mined the scholar Harry Smith’s LP collection, recording her takes on songs rooted in regions the United States has been in conflict with since 1970.

Library of Congress archivist Joe Hickerson has died at 89. For decades, he worked to preserve America's collection of folk music and served as director of the library's American Folklife Center. Joe ...

Before there was Bob Dylan, the folk revival icon, there was Odetta. Before there was Janis Joplin, the wailing blues singer, there was Odetta. The woman whom Martin Luther King Jr. called the “Queen ...

Folk ballads will likely never disappear, considering our dedication to preserving them and, if the 1960s are any indication, reviving them from history. A ton of rock musicians took old folk ballads ...

On a warm Saturday afternoon at Boston Calling, a crowd gathered by the Blue Stage expecting something new. What they got was something timeless. In front of its first American festival audience, folk ...

101 Weave Room Blues / Dixon Brothers. Guitar. English language. 102 Sleep On, Mother, Sleep On / Lonnie McIntorsh. Guitar. English language. 103 The Death of Leroy Carr / Bumble Bee Slim. Piano.

View post: Popular Action Movie Dominates Netflix Top 10 For Second Week In a Row Woody Guthrie wrote "This Land is Your Land" in 1940 as a response to "God Bless America." The song contrasts American ...

Folk rock emerged when poetic, folk-inspired storytelling met the drive of electric rock, producing songs that captured a decade’s spirit. With artists like The Byrds, Simon & Garfunkel, and The Mamas ...