We select some of the hardest-hitting one-liners from folk-rock cuts of 1975, including songs by Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With its poetic lyrics and haunting melodies, contemporary folk music is, at its best, deeply evocative. The elusive genre is hard ...

As folk rock continued its ascendancy in the '70s, luminaries such as Stephen Stills and Noel Redding coalesced into these ...

PopMatters’ Best Folk Albums celebrates and explores some of the most compelling folk music releases of 2024. Each record weaves stories that honor cultural roots while embracing experimentation to ...

The duo received a lifetime achievement award, while Matthews was named artist of the year. By Paul Grein Thirty-five years after Indigo Girls won a Grammy for best contemporary folk recording for ...

The best folk albums tend to suit this time of year—the muddy oranges, browns and greens; the slowing-down after frenzied summers; the darkness. Blending an embrace of the melancholy with an interest ...

The word “folk” bespeaks the old-timey roots of this musical genre, which can be divided into the classes of traditional and contemporary. The Grammys used to have a separate category for each of ...

Folk music, by definition, has always been music by the people and for the people. Whether because of the oral tradition that keeps these songs alive or the way this music speaks to a collective ...

Sometimes a good folk rock story needs more time to tell, and icons such as Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen took as long as they ...

Katy Pinke, whose sophomore album, Strange Behavior, was released earlier this year, and Graefe – a highly skilled guitarist who’s worked with Okkervil River, Kesha, Orville Peck, Sam Wilkes and more ...