Bob Dylan admitted copying Dave Van Ronk 'phrase for phrase.' But what happened next was 'very, very annoying' to the folk ...

Nothing celebrates the passing of time quite like the perfect song, and these ‘60s folk songs serve as the perfect soundtrack to the changing seasons. Autumn might have technically started on the ...

When it comes to Bob Dylan, there is no artist more intimately acquainted with his work than Joan Baez. The musical geniuses had a complicated relationship that intertwined personal affections and ...

Paul Simon Always Felt He Came in 'Second' to This '60s Folk Hero originally appeared on Parade. The music industry of the 1960s was constantly evolving, and Paul Simon was keenly aware of its ...

Even if you don’t recognize her name, you’ve probably heard the works of the incomparable Karen Dalton. She was an important figure in the Greenwich Village folk scene in the early 1960s, and she is ...

Peter Yarrow, whose Peter, Paul and Mary trio helped bridge folk music into the pop world with such hit songs as "Puff the Magic Dragon" and "If I Had a Hammer," has died at 86. He had bladder cancer, ...

Recently, I spoke to a woman who remembered vividly a concert she had once attended. It was 1965, she was fourteen years old and her father had taken her to see Bob Dylan and Joan Baezplay at the ...

In its essence, folk music is music for the people — an art form inextricably intertwined with the soul of a region. Its nature is inherently visual, conjuring vivid imagery with just a single ...

In the 2000s, there emerged a new genre called freak folk. This sound took the aesthetics of ’60s folk music while adding a more avant-garde approach and DIY sensibilities. Leaders of the genre ...