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Four of the best examples of opening lines in folk music that still give me goosebumps on my arms every time I hear them.

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I'm With Her's sophomore album, Wild and Clear and Blue, won album of the year at the 2026 International Folk Music Awards, which were presented on Wednesday (Jan. 21) in New Orleans. The awards were ...

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 ...

The best folk albums tend to suit this time of year—the muddy oranges, browns and greens; the slowing-down after frenzied summers; the darkness. Blending an embrace of the melancholy with an interest ...

In an uncertain time, folk musician Jesse Welles – a four-time Grammy Award-nominee from Ozark, Arkansas – is reinvigorating ...

1923, 1945, 1962, and even 2045; what we are trying to say is that no matter the year, folk music will always come out. And given its sentimental and intellectual grip on the masses and the music ...

In 2015, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club started re-releasing its work through its own imprint, SCAC Unincorporated Records, which included connected groups like Denver Broncos UK (DBUK), Munly & the ...

In the bustling Folk Arts Rare Records shop in City Heights, owner Brendan Boyle is flipping through a cardboard box of records. "There's really important blues ...

'This show was put together with the love, care, attention to detail and grandeur that only a crew wholly invested in the ...