“Like A Rolling Stone” was released in 1965 and is probably Bob Dylan’s most well-known folk rock anthem. It was the perfect opener for Highway 61 Revisited, and it’s still a deeply loved little piece ...

Will Holt, a 1950s folk singer who wrote the popular song "Lemon Tree" and later composed lyrics and music for several Broadway musicals, died May 31 in Los Angeles. He was 86. He had Alzheimer's ...

If you grew up in the 1960s, these nostalgic songs might have had a hand in influencing the kind of person you grew up to be.

The most important talking head missing from “Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation” belongs to Bob Dylan, whose career was made in the basement clubs and coffeehouses this documentary ...

Well before acts like Waxahatchee, Jessica Pratt, Angel Olsen, Big Thief, Bedouine, and more readily brought folk sounds to the indie sphere, a swath of women singer-songwriters did their part to ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The term folk rock has been absent from the vocabulary of the hip and cool for several decades. However, Fairport Convention, the band that hewed the form from the ...

Howard Marshall visited KBIA studios with his new book Keep It Old-Time: Fiddle Music in Missouri from the 1960s Folk Music Revival to the Present. Howard Marshall is an author, a fiddler and a writer ...

Bob Neuwirth, a recording artist, painter, mainstay of the New York City folk scene in the 1960s, and a collaborator with Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, John Cale and T Bone Burnett, among others, died in ...

Graeme Smith does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Archie Fisher, Scottish folk singer, songwriter, guitar player, and long-time presenter on BBC Radio Scotland, has died at the age of 86 on 1 November 2025.

Fisher started playing in the early sixties and soon occupied the burgeoning folk scene within Edinburgh. His initial solo ...