While working on the lower register of her voice with New York City singer Paul Reese, who first turned her toward folk music. By the 1930s and ’40s, the genre was driven by Peter Seeger and the ...

Grapefruit Records released a collection of artists who shaped British folk music in the late 1960s and early 1970s. While The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin pushed rock and roll into ...

I used the blues to open doors into the music business, to get an audience,” Tull’s frontman tells us. “And a record deal.” ...

In 1960, a young Robert Zimmerman — who had begun to call himself “Bob Dylan” — journeyed from the icy flatlands of Minnesota to New Jersey on a pilgrimage. His destination: the bedside of his ailing ...

Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman perform two songs and talk more about their recent appearance at the Kennedy Center, where ...

Pete Seeger, who, at forty-five, is one of the elders of American folk music, recently observed, “Dylan may well become the country’s most creative troubadour—if he doesn’t explode.” ...

Ron Pope has an honest frankness that makes his Americana music feel like a handshake and a hug. Alongside his opener — ...

Episode 135 features an interview and performance from Loudon Wainwright III, songs from folk artist Hal Cannon, Michigan ...

While pulled over for distracted driving, the Celtic-music sister duo were asked by Ohio patrol officers about their love for ...

Shaped by Sound features Alice Gerrard Thursday night on PBS North Carolina. Asheville bluegrass artists will be spotlighted on upcoming episodes of Shaped by Sound, a new original music performance ...