With a well-known appreciation and passion for music, Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia once offered an insight into the folk albums he loved the most.

These four 1960s albums started as commercial failures before finally earning their well-deserved props years and decades later.

The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...

A few decades ago, and particularly in the Sixties, with no Internet, social media, or streaming, it was so easy for artists who have ... but as they turned to folk and country (two great albums ...

The 1960s were the breeding ground for what would ... we can still enjoy the recording of most of these bands. Of the five artists that follow, only the first one might have made more money ...

As the civil rights movement gained momentum in the 1960s, folk music gave voice to a new generation longing for equality and justice. "We Shall Overcome" is particularly well-known as a civil rights ...

While talking about artists like Vashti Bunyan, Aldous Harding once named the album, which always eases her angst when she listens to it. Read more here.

In the 1960s, she probably played at more rallies ... a significant generational and ideological divide between the two folk artists. Beginning in 1975, after the North Vietnamese won the Vietnam ...

Enjoy a timeless rock classic that blends folk and blues with haunting vocals, powerful instrumentation, and its lasting impact on music history.

When Bob Dylan first entered the NYC folk scene in the late 1950s, one of his biggest competitors was also one of his greatest mentors.