Anything called a hootenanny ought to be shot on sight, but the whole country is having one. A hootenanny is to folk singing what a jam session is to jazz and all over the U.S. there is a great ...

Daniel Bachman at home in Madison County, Virginia, with his trusty Martin D-18 guitar. Aldona Dye In early 2020, Daniel Bachman stood at the edge of a creek in Falmouth, Virginia, recording the ...

Hiding somewhere between psychedelic rock and folk music, freak folk is an oft-overlooked genre of the 1960s and 1970s that we believe is worth revisiting. Freak folk was certainly a byproduct of the ...

In 1937, Odetta Felious Holmes moved from Birmingham, Alabama, to Los Angeles. Only six, she was already bigger than the other kids when she arrived in East Hollywood with her mother, Flora, and her ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Guitar music is a ubiquitous feature of popular music, ...

In returning to a songbook that is decades — if not centuries — old, a new generation of performers is expanding the definition of what their traditional art form can be. Dom Flemons at the nightclub ...

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 ...