The first artist he signed was Judee Sill, a 27-year-old hippie/folkie from Los Angeles. Sill wrote modern devotional music – ...

Liege And Lief In 1969 Fairport Convention release Liege And Lief, the first British Folk Rock album. Most of the songsare adaptations of Old English Folk songs produced using a mixture of ...

"It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people." The New Lost City Ramblers strived for as authentic a sound as possible, recording old-time style music of ...

The British group formed in 2007 with singer/guitarist ... It was around then that the London folk scene saw the rise of other traditional artists such as Laura Marling and Noah and the Whale.

Together, they’re an example of just how good the old ‘folk duo’ can be. Putting traditional songs into new arrangements ... Among the British artists not singing in English, surely one ...

With Peter, Paul and Mary, the musician, who died on Tuesday at 86, eased folk songs into the Top 10 ... anti-establishment subtexts in old songs like “Cruel War” and “If I Had My Way.” ...