This 1972 record from Mellow Candle is a great example of what Irish bands were doing with the genre in the 1970s. Clodagh Simonds’ piano tracks are on another level, and the addition of the ...

Revisit three songs from 1969 that set the precedent for soft rock. These songs, more or less, built an entire sub-genre.

Neil Young had solidified himself as a folk rock icon in the 1960s, but at the end of the '80s, his career was at a crossroads. He had spent the decade releasing experimental albums that were so far ...

The 1970s produced some of the most talented, prolific and iconic female vocalists of all time. From once-in-a-lifetime voices like Patti LaBelle and Aretha Franklin to pop culture royalty like Patti ...

Tom Shipley of the 1960s and 1970s folk-rock duo Brewer & Shipley has died at the age of 84, reports the New York Times. Shipley's death on August 24 was confirmed by his son, Marc, to the paper, ...

Neil Young proved that some songs are worth the wait when he surprised fans at Colorado's Fiddler's Green Amphitheater with his first performance of "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" in six years. The ...

Scottish singer-songwriter Joe Egan, the creative partner of Gerry Rafferty and one of the two band members of folk-rock band Stealers Wheel, died Saturday. He was 77. No cause of death was revealed, ...

I grew up in the 1970s. The radio was always on – AM early in the decade and FM by the end. I pedaled my bike to the record store to buy 45s, and then when I was old enough, drove my car to the same ...

Folk originates from the German word "volk," which means "the people." And that's what folk is at its core: from the people, documented and shared with individual experience in mind. The late 19th ...