The famous Italian cantautore was born in 1950, in the province of Milan. After learning to play the violin in Genoa, where ...

Lead Belly is another important figure in the early stages of folk. You might recognize one of his trademark songs " Where Did You Sleep Last Night ." The song dates back to the 1800s, but was sung by ...

In The Wire 493, George Rayner-Law argues that as interest in English folk song grows once again, practitioners, critics and listeners should consider carefully the ideological currents beneath the su ...

1 in 1950, staying atop the charts for 13 weeks ... The final song here is one he didn't write — fittingly, it's a folk song, passed down through oral tradition. It's from a concert in Nashville ...

Ellen Stekert, 89, is releasing her first independent album this year. Now if she could just find her treasured 1955 Martin ...

The Sly & the Family Stone leader is the subject of a new documentary directed by Questlove. Here’s what to know about his ...

She was visiting as a companion of Diane Hamilton, the heiress to the Guggenheim dynasty who was travelling around Ireland recording folk singers and collecting trad songs. Over three or four ...

Bela “Bealy” Lam and His Greene County Singers was comprised of Lam, with banjo; his wife Rosa (Meadows); their son Alva, on ...

Italian folk music is humble, warm and full of life, but its popularity has sharply faded over the past century. Fortunately, ...

For some, mostly those who have not been paying attention, Bob Dylan is regarded as a folksinger. He started out singing ...

Often mistaken as an indigenous folk song, it was actually created in 1949 by Chinese filmmakers while shooting a scene for ...

There will be snacks.” At the turn of the century, only Spoon’s Britt Daniel could match Andrew Wegman Bird for sloganeering.