These forgotten folk rock albums from the 1960s have aged pretty well, and we think they deserve a thorough listen.

Highly acclaimed folk singer Eliza Carthy presents this four-part series charting the rise of British folk music from the revival of the 1960s to the thriving folk music scene of today. With music ...

The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...

it took its influences from the Blues and American folk music. It was in the late 1960s that musicians started to mine the rich seam of homegrown music that had become popular with younger audiences.

This 1969 folk rock song leans on the psychedelic ... However, The Rooftop Singers’ version was a pretty big hit in the 1960s. It spent several weeks at no. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart ...

Show more Shirley Collins first enjoyed success as one of the leading figures in the British folk revival of the 1960s. She initially ... used to sing folk songs to comfort her while they were ...

The British folk rock singer-songwriter from London was massively influential on folk music and collaborated with artists across ... as part of the mid-sixties folk revival. After the promising ...

Renowned singer Norma Waterson - matriarch of the "royal family of British folk music" - has died. Norma, brother Mike, sister Lal formed The Watersons in the 1960s, achieving critical acclaim for ...

The 1960s were the breeding ground for what would ... so heavily incentive-laden for the company itself instead of the musical artist, some musicians simply could not afford to keep producing ...

Related Episode: Dylan’s Guitar Investigation Dawn Peterson’s dad was a pilot in the 1960s. He flew many singers and music acts, including Bob Dylan. Shortly after Newport Folk Festival in ...

For them both, in folk music it’s the songs that hold the power, more so than the artists who sing them ... and it’s that sense of white-hot energy that was also so present in the 1960s that provides ...