Folk rock dominated the pop charts in the mid-1960s. These four massive hits put their definitive stamp on the genre.

If John Oates understands anything, it’s the raw fundamentals of songwriting. After famously linking up with his writing partner Daryl Hall, Oates came through with hit after hit after hit. Now, he’s ...

“Like A Rolling Stone” was released in 1965 and is probably Bob Dylan’s most well-known folk rock anthem. It was the perfect opener for Highway 61 Revisited, and it’s still a deeply loved little piece ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The term folk rock has been absent from the vocabulary of the hip and cool for several decades. However, Fairport Convention, the band that hewed the form from the ...

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 ...

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil ...

The highway of pop-music history took a detour on the backroads during the folk music boom of the 1960s. For a brief period, musicians could be celebrated not for making a big noise, but for crafting ...

Will Holt, a 1950s folk singer who wrote the popular song "Lemon Tree" and later composed lyrics and music for several Broadway musicals, died May 31 in Los Angeles. He was 86. He had Alzheimer's ...

With Peter, Paul and Mary, the musician, who died on Tuesday at 86, eased folk songs into the Top 10. By Jon Pareles Near the end of “A Complete Unknown,” the Bob Dylan biopic that centers on his move ...

Howard Marshall visited KBIA studios with his new book Keep It Old-Time: Fiddle Music in Missouri from the 1960s Folk Music Revival to the Present. Howard Marshall is an author, a fiddler and a writer ...

The political climate in the U.S. continues to implode, particularly in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination. The controversial event illustrated how divided we’ve become as a nation, as some ...