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 ...

These folk songs from the 2000s should be studied in songwriting classes. They all teach us a lot about the craft.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Crys Matthews won song of the year for "Sleeves Up." By Paul Grein I’m With Her’s sophomore album, Wild and Clear and Blue, won album of the year at the 2026 International Folk Music Awards, which ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Indigo Girls, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, received a second Grammy nod 35 years ago – best new artist. They lost to a ...