As the civil rights movement gained momentum in the 1960s, folk music gave voice to a new generation longing for equality and justice. "We Shall Overcome" is particularly well-known as a civil rights ...

Ever since the '60s, Joan Baez has delivered a message with her music, but she was never going to be a two-chord folkie with ...

In the early 1960s, when I reached my teenage years, Bob Dylan (aka Robert Zimmerman) was the leader of the protest movement ...

For most of the 1960s Marvin Gaye was the crown prince ... Vietnam”) contributing to a long tradition of Black social protest ...

An early interest in music saw her learning ukulele as a child ... If you are new to Joan Baez or the 1960s protest movement guitarists in general, it’s well worth checking out these acoustic ...