Folk Music


Chronicles, Volume One
Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina
Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975
Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music
Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties
Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States (American Made Music Series)
Folk Song in England
Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970 (Culture, Politics, and Cold War)
Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Roots Music (Cultural Studies of the United States)
The Mayor of MacDougal Street
When We Were Good: The Folk Revival
Singing from the Floor
The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs
The Bristol Sessions: Writings About the Big Bang of Country Music (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies, 12)
The Imagined Village: Culture, Ideology, and the English Folk Revival
Woody Guthrie
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Woody Guthrie

Judy Collins
Traditional music is the foundation of what the folk music revival was about—songs of unknown authorship handed down through the generations. I keep returning to these old, classic songs, often bringing them back to find new meaning and fresh interpretations. “Danny Boy,” “The Lark in the Morning,” “Barbara Allen,” “So Early, Early in the Spring,” and “The Gypsy Rover” have lasted for years and will endure for years more. They touch your heart, and for anyone trying to write new and original son ...more
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