Tonight, a musician on a unique mission. Skip Gorman is well known in the folk music scene and for his efforts to keep old cowboy songs from disappearing. Plus, they get their inspiration from the ...

It has been nearly thirty years since she originally published Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians, and the music found here tells the story of the "Singing Ritchie Family" at a time when ...

In 1966, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Donovan, and other famous folk acts were still walking, talking, and doing their thing. However, the year saw the rise of some newbies and the resurgence of some oldies.

Ray Tate wasn’t much for executive perks — when he ran the Old Town School of Folk Music in the 1960s and 1970s, his office was a table in the lobby and meetings were regularly punctuated with ...

15 excellent folk songs from the 1970s In the ‘70s, folk and folk rock didn’t need one big bang moment like country had in 1973. The genres had already experienced an evolution in the mid-‘60s.