Love 'The Lord Of The Rings'? Love some solid classic rock and folk music? These J.R.R. Tolkien music references can't be beat.

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

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

Surrounded by the songs of her great-grandmother with a father who became a union organiser, Jackson’s artistic expression began to take shape, with a foundation rooted in personal loss, a drive for ...

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 ...

Billboard reveals the Top Hot 100 Songs of the 21st Century, and we’re sharing the top three that dominated the Hot 100 from January 1, 2000, through December 28, 2024. What’s your favorite ...

Billboard’s Top Hot 100 Songs of the 21st Century chart reflects performance on weekly Billboard Hot 100 charts dated Jan. 1, 2000, through Dec. 28, 2024. (Titles released prior to mid-1999 are ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, from left, Mary Travers, Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow, perform at a Los ...

“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 ...

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.

“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 ...