If John Oates understands anything, it’s the raw fundamentals of songwriting. After famously linking up with his writing partner Daryl Hall, Oates came through with hit after hit after hit. Now, he’s ...

Different genres of music serve different purposes; this is not a profound take, but rather a simple truth. Pop music serves as sonic and physical entertainment, rock music as a release, and folk ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 1960s: a decade of social upheaval, cultural revolution, and a soundtrack that defined a generation. From the British Invasion to Motown's soulful grooves, the era gifted us with a plethora of ...

Howard Marshall visited KBIA studios with his new book Keep It Old-Time: Fiddle Music in Missouri from the 1960s Folk Music Revival to the Present. Howard Marshall is an author, a fiddler and a writer ...

The highway of pop-music history took a detour on the backroads during the folk music boom of the 1960s. For a brief period, musicians could be celebrated not for making a big noise, but for crafting ...

BOSTON -- Mary Travers, one part of the folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary, who used beautiful, tranquil harmonies to convey the angst and turmoil of the Vietnam antiwar movement, racial discrimination ...

The political climate in the U.S. continues to implode, particularly in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination. The controversial event illustrated how divided we’ve become as a nation, as some ...

BOSTON — Mary Travers, 72, one part of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, which used beautiful, tranquil harmonies to convey the angst and turmoil of the Vietnam anti-war movement, racial ...

Make us a Preferred Source on Google to see more of us when you search. The band's publicist, Heather Lylis, says Travers died at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut on Wednesday. She was 72 and had ...