Let's look at three early folk rock staples that helped the genre become a major player in the 1960s and 1970s cultural ...

Everybody loves the blues in some capacity. This genre of soulful music can be traced back to the 1860s in the Deep South. The origins of the blues started with African-American musicians who created ...

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 ...

A genre is a category of artistic, musical or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form or content. Music genres such as pop, country, rock and folk are used to categorize songs ...

We dig deeper into the roots of the Americana music genre and how the meanings laid into the groundwork of its songs aren't always fully understood.

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 ...

The Los Angeles-based singer Sunny War has an extensive background in both punk rock and Americana music, which has led some music critics and journalists to label her as “folk-punk.” What does that ...

Several rising British bands are using centuries-old ditties to discuss hot-button issues like prison abolition, trans rights and the gig economy. By Alex Marshall Reporting from London Think of ...