These three folk songs from the 1970s will leave anyone heartbroken. You can't help but get emotional with these.

There have been plenty of folk songs that have felt “mainstream,” but not very many that have actually reached the top of the charts. Heck, not even folk icon Bob Dylan was able to achieve a No. 1 hit ...

Local musicians John Jantzen and Wendy Chappell-Dick have challenged themselves to learn and perform 50 historic folk songs in celebration of ...

Folk rock emerged in full force in the mid-1960s and saw the most propulsion from '65 to '68 or so, but 1966 struck the perfect balance of fresh sounds and notable chart successes to cement it as the ...

Folk lovers, we are bringing you 10 easiest folk songs to play on acoustic guitar so you don’t think we forgot about you. Folk songs date from 19th century and had many definitions through the years.

If you’ve been craving some new indie folk artists for your playlist, you’ve landed on the right page. We have been keeping a close ear to the indie folk scene lately, and a handful of new names have ...

My favorite moment of the documentary Family Jams – which follows Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, and Vetiver on their summer 2004 American tour – comes at an Amoeba Records meet-and-greet. While ...

Both melodies are very Gaelic and very beautiful and very old, and both sets of lyrics are rewritings of older Gaelic songs.