We take a look at five '60s folk songs that serve as the perfect soundtrack to the changing of the seasons into late autumn and winter.

House Of The Rising Sun” may be known by several 1960s and 1970s iterations, but it’s far from a mid-20th-century song. The roots of this particular traditional folk song have been traced back to the ...

The genres had already experienced an evolution in the mid-‘60s. Though country had giants like Willie Nelson and Waylon ...

The Smithsonian's collections and archives are a rich source of information on American folk music and its many genres. Smithsonian Folkways is home to a significant collection of folk music ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Chicago singer and songwriter Ella Jenkins, known as the "First Lady of Children's Music," has died at the ...

But the violinist is known for… Folk legend Joan Baez reflects on a life in music and activism After six decades performing, folk legend Joan Baez is saying farewell to music with a tour this ...

For them both, in folk music it’s the songs that hold the power, more so than the artists who sing them, and it is their predecessors wielding of that power that inspires them more than comparatively ...

Donovan quoted another 1960s rock star to explain the darkness behind his most famous song: "Season of the Witch." ...

The chart visualizes two recordings of the English folk song “Scarborough Fair”—one sung, one spoken—by Patrick Savage, a study author and participant. The song unfolds at around half the ...

Songs from the Canyon has turned into somewhat of an annual event.

Coming up next is “Raisins and Almonds, Pomegranates and Roses: Jewish Folk Songs,” which features Kinneret Ely with ...

My father spent almost 60 years of his life dedicated to carrying forward the traditional folk music of Maharashtra. Before him, many Powadas were written in Marathi, but he was the first to write ...