There is a sweet transcendence to the music of Yusuf / Cat Stevens. For the folk musician, songs are a spiritual vessel ...

Paxton has received lifetime achievement awards from the BBC, the World Folk Music Association, ASCAP and the Recording Academy. He has not been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Folk music will never die, and these forgotten folk albums from the 1970s deserve to be dusted off and enjoyed in the modern age.

Petrie, however, became more enfranchised in the British folk scene when she started playing in a collective with five other female musicians. Petrie has a superb version of Thompson’s “Beeswing” on ...

In the second instalment of his guide to the best in new, forward-thinking folk music, Patrick Clarke explores the relationship between musicians old and new, and rounds up ten of the finest new ...