Unlike the most famous 1960s folk singers, these three didn't come from the epicenter of it all—Greenwich Village in New York ...

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 ...

Liege & Lief was Fairport Convention’s third album, released in 1969, and marked a dramatic and purposeful shift from the band’s previous sound. Following a car accident that killed drummer Martin ...

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 ...

Toward the end of A Complete Unknown, the new film chronicling Bob Dylan’s early career, Pete Seeger and the young Dylan have ...

HE WAS one of Britain’s wildest and most influential singers, once described as the Elvis Presley of the 1960s fledgling folk scene. Yet the name Alex Campbell has almost faded into obscurity after a ...