The 1960s are known for folk rock, and if you're looking to get into the vast genre, here are three albums that should help ...

Back in the 1960s, the psych-rock period of the mid to late sixties was one of the most productive in rock history, with ...

The voice of an iconic 1960s folk-rock song is dead at age 83. Jesse Colin Young, the leader of the ‘60s group the Youngbloods, died Sunday at his home in Aiken, South Carolina, according to a ...

There’s a particular kind of magic when music makes you feel like you’ve been somewhere before, even if you weren’t born yet.

Sometimes called the father of freak-folk, the 83-year-old singer-songwriter lived, worked and died on his own terms.

This wouldn’t be a true list of rock musicians from the 1960s who disappeared without mentioning the tragic tale of Syd Barrett. Barrett is best known as Pink Floyd’s original frontman from ...

As the civil rights movement gained momentum in the 1960s, folk music gave voice to a new generation longing for equality and justice. "We Shall Overcome" is particularly well-known as a civil rights ...

The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...