For the perfect Valentine’s Day, you’ll need the perfect soundtrack. Luckily, love songs are far from a rare commodity.

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 ...

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

Though the tune was credited to Williams, musicologists believe the song was based on an African American folk song called Long ... major recording artist in the 1950s as part of Chicago’s ...

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

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

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

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

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Lavalletters saw some doo-wop, rock and folk music action Saturday, when singer and presenter Phil Bruschi brought his program “One-Hit Wonders ...

In cinemas today you can watch Timothée Chalamet impersonate Bob Dylan in the biopic A Complete Unknown. For Esquire, Mick Brown — one of the rare journalists to have interviewed the great man in ...