One thing you can always count on is if Neil Young has something on his mind, he won't be afraid to share it. The prolific folk artist recently updated his site, the Neil Young Archives, with a big ...
Despite music’s generally timeless nature, there are some 1960s and ‘70s folk songs that sound exactly like the decade from whence they came. From the slight tape distortion on vocal lines to jangly ...
To say that Joe Hickerson left his mark on folk music history would be an understatement. In fact, Hickerson is the reason that so much of what is known about folk music exists at all. When he died on ...
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 ...
Hamilton Camp, half of the folk-music duo Gibson and Camp whose 1961 album, “Live at the Gate of Horn,” became one of the era’s must-have records and who later found steady work as a character actor, ...
Sweden’s Lykantropi make dark, psychedelic folk rock that shares musical DNA with ’60s/’70s bands like Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull as well as newer bands like Hexvessel and ...
Scottish singer-songwriter Joe Egan, the creative partner of Gerry Rafferty and one of the two band members of folk-rock band Stealers Wheel, died Saturday. He was 77. No cause of death was revealed, ...
Tom Shipley of the 1960s and 1970s folk-rock duo Brewer & Shipley has died at the age of 84, reports the New York Times. Shipley's death on August 24 was confirmed by his son, Marc, to the paper, ...