“Bridge Over Troubled Water” boasts over 645 covers and counting. It’s widely considered the most covered and most recorded folk song to date. Iconic folk duo Simon & Garfunkel released the song in ...

Legendary folk artist Leonard Cohen's first album dropped on this day in 1967, and it remains an essential part of the North American folk lexicon.

Dat effervescent Ab-Doh line! Oh, Ab-Doh Pitts! Ab-Doh Pills! Dey’s de answer to all de stomach ills! No one has tried to sell a pill to these lyrics yet, but any day now, some adman may. The U.S. is ...

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 ...

It’s an inaccurate science to try to define music by category and genre. Artists rail against it, critics endeavour to nail it down into the simplest terms, the most convenient definitions and snappy ...

Michael Stock has been hosting “Folk & Acoustic Music” on WLRN, South Florida Public Radio for over 30 years. Michael was introduced to folk music back in high school when a teacher at Miami Beach ...

It is not absolutely essential to have hair hanging to the waist—but it helps. Other aids: no lipstick, flat shoes, a guitar. So equipped, almost any enterprising girl can begin a career as a folk ...

Even a 20-year-old Brooklynite like Nora Brown has come to love this genre, having performed it for nearly her entire life ...