T here's no doubt that we live amongst legends and even less of a doubt that singer and songwriter Bob Dylan, 84, is one of ...

jug music and Americana for over 70 years. He started the Jim Kweskin Jug Band, which played the Newport Folk Festival ...

On “Vietnam War Music,” one of the Spotify playlists where the band’s songs appear, the entire Velvet Sundown discography sits alongside no less than 19 songs by beloved swamp rockers Creedence ...

The folk music we know today is somewhat of a long shot away from the gospels and shanties of 19th-century America, meaning that somewhere along the way, folk had to have been rebranded.

Born in Texas and raised in Oklahoma, Karen Dalton wasn’t your typical bohemian, starry-eyed folk musician in New York. She had a very rough life. She was divorced twice by the time she turned ...

The annual free Lowell fest will present a score of acts showcasing a range of genre-blending and mixing of music from around ...

When the folk music jamboree ‘‘Hootenanny’’ hit the ABC airwaves in April 1963, it struck a chord with then-21-year-old Dan Hicks.

There are few groups that put early '60s folk music on the map, ushering in a post-World War II folk movement that would help define the music of an entire generation.