Before there was Bob Dylan, the folk revival icon, there was Odetta. Before there was Janis Joplin, the wailing blues singer, there was Odetta. The woman whom Martin Luther King Jr. called the “Queen ...

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 ...

Kurt Cobain is one of the most legendary figures to come out of the 1990s alternative rock movement known as grunge. He was the iconic frontman of Nirvana, and we lost him far too soon. He was an ...

101 Weave Room Blues / Dixon Brothers. Guitar. English language. 102 Sleep On, Mother, Sleep On / Lonnie McIntorsh. Guitar. English language. 103 The Death of Leroy Carr / Bumble Bee Slim. Piano.

Library of Congress archivist Joe Hickerson has died at 89. For decades, he worked to preserve America's collection of folk music and served as director of the library's American Folklife Center. Joe ...

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of ...