The 1960s were filled with TV comedies populated by simple country folk. The trend started in the ... The Andy Griffith Show kick-started things in 1960, casting Griffith as Andy Taylor, the ...

Singer-songwriter Peter Yarrow, from the 1960s folk music trio Peter ... Yarrow was on the festival board and emceed the show, begged Dylan to go back on to play another song after his blistering ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

and it might be the greatest rock music documentary ever made. Also figuring prominently at the epicenter of that revolution and in “Back” is Scottish folk-rock flower-power pioneer Donovan ...