These folk rock anthems of the 1960s are just a few memorable, historically relevant works to come out of one of the best ...

I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s Farm no more” singer and songwriter, Bob Dylan, once sang at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, ...

But they did know Bob Dylan’s music well, and many of their early folk-influenced songs come from the Dylan playbook. That includes “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away,” a melancholy paean ...

The Wood Dale Public Library will present “The American Folk Song with Mark Dvorak” on Thursday, Jan. 16. It will begin at 1 p.m. in the library’s Barbara E. Dunn Meeting Room, 520 N.

Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict ...

“We mentioned a bunch of folk songs, which he didn’t know because he didn’t have a real folk-music background, and wound up singing ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb.’ And it was immediately ...

The trio’s recordings of two of his songs, “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” and “Blowin’ in the Wind,” became Billboard Top 10 hits during an American renaissance in folk music.

In it, Seeger comes off as a dust-covered relic of folk music history ... He would go on to popularize many songs in the American Songbook: “On Top of Old Smoky,” “Erie Canal” and the ...

Peter Yarrow, a major figure of the Sixties folk revival with Peter, Paul and Mary who was convicted of molesting a 14-year-old girl and later received a presidential pardon, died today, The New ...

“We mentioned a bunch of folk songs, which he didn’t know because he didn’t have a real folk-music background, and wound up singing ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb.’ And it was immediately ...

Born May 31, 1938, Yarrow was raised in Manhattan and attended Cornell, where he first began singing folk songs and graduated with a degree in psychology. Yarrow, who first played violin before ...