"Newport & the Great Folk Dream" is a rapturous documentary — elegant and transporting, full of scratchy lyrical ...

Folk icon Martin Carthy recalls meeting Bob Dylan in 1962 and how the young singer’s first London gig 'disappointed a lot of ...

My favorite moment of the documentary Family Jams – which follows Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, and Vetiver on their summer 2004 American tour – comes at an Amoeba Records meet-and-greet. While ...

The Hicks family has been credited with single-handedly preserving folk songs that otherwise would have vanished. One Tennessee Family's Efforts To Preserve Trove Of Old Folk Songs In Tennessee, one ...

These three covers of old standards somehow sounded shockingly modern when they were released—a testament to their artists' skill.

To the casual listener, old-time and bluegrass might be hard to tell apart. Both genres of music predominantly feature ...

“If you love to dance to the music of the 15th century,” Richard Thompson tells the audience at Annapolis’s Rams Head on Stage, “you’ll love this one.” That song, “The Old Pack Mule,” does have the ...

When Dolly Parton appeared, remotely, on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert during the pandemic in October 2020, she shared three songs that she was most proud of writing. Of the nearly 3,000 songs ...

Whether an old folk ballad or a futuristic techno hit, music is the lifeblood of Europe’s great cities and one of the most powerful ways to connect with its storied past and electric present. The ...

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