The Chambers Brothers' Time Has Come Today was written after a Timothy Leary lecture and was hated by the record company...

These folk songs from the 1960s have lyrics that we can all take to heart. They teach us something every time we listen.

These folk songs from the 2000s should be studied in songwriting classes. They all teach us a lot about the craft.

Long before Rednex turned “Cotton Eye Joe” into a Eurodance hit, versions of the American folk song had been circulating for ...

The origins of many classic American folk songs have been lost to history, and "John Henry" is no different: The folk song, like many of its kind, has no known author. What is known is just how ...

Pete Seeger, the American troubadour, folk music singer and activist, has died at a hospital in New York. He was 94. His death was confirmed by his grandson, Kitama Cahill-Jackson, who said that the ...

“Of all nations,” wrote Walt Whitman, “the United States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets and will doubtless have the greatest and use them the greatest.” This prediction in ...

Long before the Revolutionary War, numerous traditions of Indigenous music flourished in places later incorporated into the United States. European music was heard in the New World from the earliest ...

Buena Vista Furnace (Elaine Adams Novak)--Song about the furnace--Death song of little Randall McCoy (Roger Deskins)--History of Hatfield and McCoy feud--Paddy on the tunpike--Eighth of ...