This brother-and-brother duo may have been from the Bronx, but their involvement in the Greenwich Village folk music movement led to this incredible folk album. Double-Back was released in 1971 and ...

Even though most would argue that folk music really had its heyday in the 1960s, the 1970s also brought a seriously compelling slate of folksy tunes. Especially early in the decade, releases from ...

Folk music as a genre has taken many different forms over the centuries. Traditional folk music has been defined as music that comments on cultural or national identity, is played on traditional ...

The 1970s was arguably the single decade of the 20th century when recorded music was most central to culture. There were, of course, fewer kinds of media competing for the average consumer’s ...

The 1970s brought us quite a few genres that are listeners’ favorites up to these days - from prog and hard rock (with all the variations included) to power pop, punk, and new wave. Yet, one broad ...

John Denver was a celebrated American singer renowned for his warm, clear voice and heartfelt songs about nature, love, and the simple joys of life. Rising to fame in the 1970s, he became one of the ...

Hiding somewhere between psychedelic rock and folk music, freak folk is an oft-overlooked genre of the 1960s and 1970s that we believe is worth revisiting. Freak folk was certainly a byproduct of the ...

Big Sur Folk Festival set, Linda Ronstadt announces The Early Years — with 2 rare live tracks from that 1970 performance.

Imagine being a singer — in this case, a singer of traditional British folk songs and murder ballads, songs of love, hate, revenge, redemption and tragedy. And as the singer of these songs, you get ...

The 1970s was arguably the single decade of the 20th century when recorded music was most central to culture. There were, of course, fewer kinds of media competing for the average consumer’s ...