Folk music has evolved and changed through the years, but it’s never really gone away. While there are a few stellar folk acts out there in the modern world today, you just can’t beat the classics.
Unlike the most famous 1960s folk singers, these three didn't come from the epicenter of it all—Greenwich Village in New York ...
Paul Simon Always Felt He Came in 'Second' to This '60s Folk Hero originally appeared on Parade. The music industry of the 1960s was constantly evolving, and Paul Simon was keenly aware of its ...
When it comes to Bob Dylan, there is no artist more intimately acquainted with his work than Joan Baez. The musical geniuses had a complicated relationship that intertwined personal affections and ...
Recently, I spoke to a woman who remembered vividly a concert she had once attended. It was 1965, she was fourteen years old and her father had taken her to see Bob Dylan and Joan Baezplay at the ...
NEW YORK - 1961: Bob Dylan performs at The Bitter End folk club in Greenwich Village in 1961 in New York City, New York. (Photo by Sigmund Goode/Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images) For author and ...
Students learn about Bob Dylan’s transformation from folk hero to blues rocker through excerpts from the Bob Dylan Guitar investigation. They then compare and contrast reactions to Bob Dylan’s playing ...
Folk singer-songwriter and storyteller, Arlo Guthrie, who changed the paradigm of late ’60s folk music with his song “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” returns to Carnegie Hall, the storied New York City ...
Dylan called Mike Bloomfield “the best guitar player I ever heard.” But his intensity and brilliance obscured a deep-seated ...
Sounds like: A ’60s Greenwich Village artist traveled through time, gathering a hard outer shell along the way. When asked how she would describe her sound, AC Sapphire doesn’t mince words: “This has ...
Peter Yarrow, whose Peter, Paul and Mary trio helped bridge folk music into the pop world with such hit songs as "Puff the Magic Dragon" and "If I Had a Hammer," has died at 86. He had bladder cancer, ...