Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s recording of Jerry Jeff Walker’s “Mr. Bojangles” was a hit back in 1970. The group came together in the late 1960s, but their 1970s albums like The Dirt Band and Will The ...

This brother-and-brother duo may have been from the Bronx, but their involvement in the Greenwich Village folk music movement led to this incredible folk album. Double-Back was released in 1971 and ...

Well before acts like Waxahatchee, Jessica Pratt, Angel Olsen, Big Thief, Bedouine, and more readily brought folk sounds to the indie sphere, a swath of women singer-songwriters did their part to ...

Even though most would argue that folk music really had its heyday in the 1960s, the 1970s also brought a seriously compelling slate of folksy tunes. Especially early in the decade, releases from ...

Pousette-Dart separated himself by picking up a guitar at age 10 and mapping out a life in music before he ever attended a Little League game. The Pousette-Dart Band carved a place on FM radio and ...

The 1970s folk-rock band America plans to visit Terre Haute in May, according to the band’s official Web site. The show would be part of Terre Haute’s 23rd Annual Wabash Valley Festival set to run May ...

The origins of Indonesia's dangdut folk music may be disputed, but its emergence in the West Java city of Bandung in the ...

Ah, the 1970s. An era of unprecedented creativity and freedom where fashion and music were the defining elements of cultural ...

Folk originates from the German word "volk," which means "the people." And that's what folk is at its core: from the people, documented and shared with individual experience in mind. The late 19th ...