All of today’s songs have at least one foot in the folk tradition. In the ‘70s, folk and folk rock didn’t need one big bang ...

Despite music’s generally timeless nature, there are some 1960s and ‘70s folk songs that sound exactly like the decade from whence they came. From the slight tape distortion on vocal lines to ...

Hutchings’s new group performed mostly traditional songs. Though the pastoral leanings eventually gave way to electrified ’70s folk-rock. Steeleye Span charted in 1975 with an upbeat ...

His 2011 self-titled follow-up album, produced by T Bone Burnett, made waves, landing on the Billboard 200 as well as country, folk and rock ... it was the ’70s, a time of experimentation.

Beloved English folk musician and songwriter Bill Fay has died, aged 81. The news was confirmed in a statement by his label, Dead Oceans, who said that Fay died “peacefully” in London on ...