Hiding somewhere between psychedelic rock and folk music, freak folk is an oft-overlooked genre of the 1960s and 1970s that we believe is worth revisiting. Freak folk was certainly a byproduct of the ...

What is the most famous decade for folk music? That is a subjective answer, but fans, critics, and historians would probably all agree that it is the 1960s. Between the abundance of folk music that ...

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil ...

The highway of pop-music history took a detour on the backroads during the folk music boom of the 1960s. For a brief period, musicians could be celebrated not for making a big noise, but for crafting ...

From The Beatles and The Rolling Stones to The Supremes, Pink Floyd and The Stooges, explore the best bands of the 1960s and ...

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 ...

Howard Marshall visited KBIA studios with his new book Keep It Old-Time: Fiddle Music in Missouri from the 1960s Folk Music Revival to the Present. Howard Marshall is an author, a fiddler and a writer ...

Folk rock reached its peak in 1966, thanks to hit songs like Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence" and the Mamas & the ...

There’s a particular kind of magic when music makes you feel like you’ve been somewhere before, even if you weren’t born yet.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American folk singer-songwriter Tucker Zimmerman, a beloved figure whose late-'60s debut was once championed by David Bowie, has ...

American folk singer-songwriter Tucker Zimmerman, a beloved figure whose late-'60s debut was once championed by David Bowie, has died at the age of 84. Zimmerman and his wife, Marie-Claire Lambert, ...