With its poetic lyrics and haunting melodies, contemporary folk music is, at its best, deeply evocative. The elusive genre is hard to pin down, often blending traditional acoustics with elements of ...

Legendary folk artist Leonard Cohen's first album dropped on this day in 1967, and it remains an essential part of the North American folk lexicon.

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With Peter, Paul and Mary, the musician, who died on Tuesday at 86, eased folk songs into the Top 10. By Jon Pareles Near the end of “A Complete Unknown,” the Bob Dylan biopic that centers on his move ...

What is the most famous decade for folk music? That is a subjective answer, but fans, critics, and historians would probably all agree that it is the 1960s. Between the abundance of folk music that ...