Long before the Revolutionary War, numerous traditions of Indigenous music flourished in places later incorporated into the ...

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As our nation celebrates its 250th birthday, "Sunday Morning" asked some notable Americans to name their favorite songs by ...

Before there was Bob Dylan, the folk revival icon, there was Odetta. Before there was Janis Joplin, the wailing blues singer, there was Odetta. The woman whom Martin Luther King Jr. called the “Queen ...

Singles by Glen Campbell, David Bowie, America, Queen, Led Zeppelin, and other incredibly notable groups and musicians from the decade saturated the music market in 1975. That being the case, the ...

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Library of Congress archivist Joe Hickerson has died at 89. For decades, he worked to preserve America's collection of folk music and served as director of the library's American Folklife Center. Joe ...

101 Weave Room Blues / Dixon Brothers. Guitar. English language. 102 Sleep On, Mother, Sleep On / Lonnie McIntorsh. Guitar. English language. 103 The Death of Leroy Carr / Bumble Bee Slim. Piano.

The story of America can be told through the lyrics of folk music – songs of the Great Depression, the civil rights era, and the social revolutions of the 1960s. As folk singer Pete Seeger put it in ...

Painted wings and giant's rings make way for other toys . . . Patrick Dupre Quigley admits that he gets "a little misty" whenever he hears those lines from "Puff The Magic Dragon," a song his mother ...