If you're looking for some 1960s folk songs that don't feature the names Dylan or Baez, then give these three a try.
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 ...
The 1960s: a decade of social upheaval, cultural revolution, and a soundtrack that defined a generation. From the British Invasion to Motown's soulful grooves, the era gifted us with a plethora of ...
A band in a slump, a demo song nobody wanted, and a new bass player with no experience as an arranger. The result: one of the ...
NEW YORK — A single song bookends “Inside Llewyn Davis,” the forthcoming film from Joel and Ethan Coen about a week in the life of a struggling singer in the New York folk scene of the early 1960s. It ...
Will Holt, a 1950s folk singer who wrote the popular song "Lemon Tree" and later composed lyrics and music for several Broadway musicals, died May 31 in Los Angeles. He was 86. He had Alzheimer's ...
With scores of albums, famous collaborations and prestigious awards behind him, Bob Dylan named a cover of one of his songs ...
Mary Travers, one part of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, which used beautiful, tranquil harmonies to convey the angst and turmoil of the Vietnam anti-war movement, racial discrimination and more, ...
You know the songs of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, but do you know the 1940s songs that shaped their vision of folk music?