Everybody has a story to tell. Folk singers like Bob Dylan and Nanci Griffith just tend to tell stories better than most.

In an uncertain time, folk musician Jesse Welles – a four-time Grammy Award-nominee from Ozark, Arkansas – is reinvigorating ...

These folk rock songs helped define the sound of the 1960s, and they did not get as popular as their makers deserved.

In its essence, folk music is music for the people — an art form inextricably intertwined with the soul of a region. Its nature is inherently visual, conjuring vivid imagery with just a single ...

A MARTÍNEZ, BYLINE: The Grammy-winning folk duo of Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings have made a career singing about hard times. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "HASHTAG") GILLIAN WELCH AND DAVE RAWLINGS: (Singing ...

While a lot of folk artists are elusive, Graham Nash's connection with his hometown allowed him to become one of the most prolific artists of his time.

Jonesboro native and Emmy winning singer-songwriter Connie Dover plans to pay homage to her Natural State roots during her Little Rock Folk Club performance Saturday at Little Rock's Hibernia Irish ...

Woody Guthrie changed folk music forever on this day in 1940.

The story of America can be told through the lyrics of folk music – songs of the Great Depression, the civil rights era, and the social revolutions of the 1960s. As folk singer Pete Seeger put it in ...

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