The songs may lean toward country, with fiddles and banjos, or toward rock, with electric guitar and an emphasis on bass and drums, but I think all can safely be considered at least partly folk.

Ellen Stekert, 89, is releasing her first independent album this year. Now if she could just find her treasured 1955 Martin ...

After playing his epochal licks on that song and the rest of the Highway ... shaking electric set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Now, that guitar can be yours, if you have a mere $275,000 ...

In the below list, we're running down 10 Folk Acts That Deserve More Respect ... a swath of young musicians began performing and recording songs that were written years before their own birth ...