Aaron Gandy has focused his career on conducting Broadway musicals like “The Lion King” and finding ways to highlight the songs of George Gershwin and other hits of the 1920s and 1930s. But as the ...

Alright, Bob Dylan‘s “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35” might not be orthodox folk music, but it certainly falls into the genre category, for numerous reasons. Nevertheless, this single had its sights set on ...

Senior staff writer Alaina Babb argues that folk music is far from dead, continuing to shape political discourse and movements across generations ...

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 1963, Bob Dylan was only two studio albums into his career, but he had already transformed the sound of popular music.

Bould O’Donoghue is an old Irish song about a young Irish lad unparalleled in the arts of seduction. After breaking the ...

Folk originates from the German word "volk," which means "the people." And that's what folk is at its core: from the people, documented and shared with individual experience in mind. The late 19th ...

In the early 1960s, Marianne Faithfull was at a party, eating hors d'oeuvres, 17 years old, when the manager of The Rolling Stones approached her. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) MARIANNE ...