Amid a 24-hour news cycle and personalized algorithms, a wave of young artists are reviving bold, plainspoken protest music ...

Fifteen years ago, four prominent indie folk-rockers teamed up under the mostly joking moniker Monsters Of Folk: Bright Eyes guys Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, and solo ...

As we head into the holiday season and welcome the new year, The Folk Show with Kate McNally has a wonderful stretch of ...

BRISTOL, Maine — Julia Lane and Fred Gosbee started singing folk songs together 35 years ago. Since then, the music and life partners raised three children, released dozens of albums and played ...

D erek Piotr is always on the hunt for old songs. These ancient melodies and fragmentary lyrics echo across generations, ...

In Robert Reisner's biographical scrapbook, Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker (Quartet Books, 1988), one of the contributors tells how Parker, with a saxophone strung round his neck and a gorilla on ...

The wry storyteller and Americana musician won the hearts of collaborators John Prine, Amanda Shires, and Jason Isbell ...

The 1970s are arguably the most colorful decade of music in recent history, from Southern rock to disco to funk to R&B to hard rock to country and folk. One of those genres was, of course, the ...

Japanese folk songs evolved in the same way as English language ones even though they are sung in different tones and scales. Patrick Savage at Keio University in Japan and his colleagues analysed the ...

If you're looking to alter your perspective on the world, then give these three folk songs from the 1960s a listen.