Gentry, now 83, retired from the music industry and dropped out of the public eye by the early 1980s. Her last public ...

In its ‘60s heyday, Newport Folk Festival became the crucible where tradition collided with an emergent generation’s fervent, socially activated spirit to ...

One could argue that there is truly no one writer of a song. Really, no one person can be given sole credit for the endless amount of inspiration and guidance that goes into one song, given that a ...

Recently, I spoke to a woman who remembered vividly a concert she had once attended. It was 1965, she was fourteen years old and her father had taken her to see Bob Dylan and Joan Baez play at the ...

Additionally, Donovan shared a tale about Shaun and Paul Ryder of the Happy Mondays, the “Madchester” band whose sound ...

Peter Yarrow, whose Peter, Paul and Mary trio helped bridge folk music into the pop world with such hit songs as "Puff the Magic Dragon" and "If I Had a Hammer," has died at 86. He had bladder cancer, ...

Paul Simon Always Felt He Came in 'Second' to This '60s Folk Hero originally appeared on Parade. The music industry of the 1960s was constantly evolving, and Paul Simon was keenly aware of its ...