Folk music and classic rock lyrically go hand and hand, but thanks to these three covers, they also go hand and hand musically.

Richard Thompson may not be a household name. But he’s the kind of songwriter and guitarist revered by many music legends. He ...

"American" music includes much more than the western classical music that has traditionally dominated music study in the United States. The AMRC is working to reflect that diversity in our collections ...

But the trial also made history in the annals of American ... humorous songs like "You Can't Make a Monkey Out of Me," "Monkey Business Down in Tennessee" and serious folk songs.

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

Alan Lomax was eventually named Honorary Consultant for the Archive of American Folk Songs ... Seeger to sing We Shall Overcome—an old gospel song popularised by Pete Seeger and which ...

Many works from Crawford Seeger's collections for children, including "Nineteen American Folk Songs" and "American Folk Songs for Children," are widely sung and recorded, but her monumental efforts to ...

Folk music exists all around the world. For example there's English folk music, Scottish folk music, American folk music ... These were folk songs which told a story of love or myths.

Amanda Pascali preserves and reimagines Sicilian folk music, translating it for a modern audience. Through her bilingual ...