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 ...

These three niche 1970s bands have fans of all genders and backgrounds, but women tend to love them quite a bit.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The band consisting of Dudley-Brian Smith, wife Jan Smith, and brother Bob Smith have been playing together for 52 years and have put out 36 albums.

You probably know Janis Ian from her five-decade folk legacy — not from her short stories about spirit possession and intergalactic sex spies. When she performs in the Bay Area this coming week, ...

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 ...

Asking Forrest McCurren about his musical inspirations results in a list of uncommon 1970s folk singer-songwriters. While ...

MILES O’BRIEN: And now: new music created from old sounds. A group of British and American musicians named Offa Rex have put a modern twist on traditional folk songs dating back centuries. Their first ...