In an uncertain time, folk musician Jesse Welles – a four-time Grammy Award-nominee from Ozark, Arkansas – is reinvigorating the spirit and relevance of the protest song, spreading messages on such ...

One of the more enduring genres of music, one currently enjoying a modest increase in popularity, is folk music. The traditional genre often touches upon the quotidian topics of everyday life and ...

Long before it was recorded, folk music served as a way to keep stories and ideas alive. As such, music has always played an important part in protests, from Woody Guthrie to Bad Bunny. So it’s not a ...

Folk songs have a particular place in the world. Unlike many other genres, folk songs are meant to be meditated on. Listeners are meant to chew on the lyrics to gain some understanding of the world ...

Folk songs are incredibly multifaceted. Folks write folk songs to capture the climate of the given time, to dissect the given emotion of any moment, and ultimately, to articulate a nuance that can’t ...

The funny thing about folk music in the 2010s is that none of it really sounded alike. Modern technology has afforded acoustic-minded artists the ability to embellish their lyrics with production ...

My favorite moment of the documentary Family Jams – which follows Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, and Vetiver on their summer 2004 American tour – comes at an Amoeba Records meet-and-greet. While ...

The vastness of folk music is the perfect escape from anything pandemic-related. While we may be confined to the indoors (or at least to strict solitude) right now, music is a kind of journey that ...

Greenwich Village in the 1960s was home to a counterculture folk music scene that produced legendary artists like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Janis Joplin and Joni Mitchell. A network of cafes and bars that ...

Inside buses on their daily commute Nepalis are used to listening to familiar-sounding songs that feature alternating female and male voices, responding to one another, often cheekily. Called lok ...