He belonged to the folk music team. Dylan, alongside Elvis Presley and the Beatles, is one of the few truly transformative ...

Zach Top—Bringing Good Country Music Back to the Radio While several modern country artists are leaning into the ’90s sound, Zach Top is likely the only one you’ll find on the radio dial today.

So in this rundown of seven sensational artists who crafted runs of five ... Dylan to 1967’s John Wesley Harding reinvented modern folk music, transforming it from acoustic protest music into ...

The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...

It was around then that the London folk scene saw the rise of other traditional artists such as Laura Marling and Noah and the Whale. In 2008, the band played their first Glastonbury Festival and ...

Overall, "The Brightness" elucidates the bleak future of folk music, where anyone who can finger pick and put a pen to paper is given a record contract. It is hard for an artist to release a solid ...

This brother-and-brother duo may have been from the Bronx, but their involvement in the Greenwich Village folk music movement led ... The Jungle’ by Various Artists Out of all the forgotten ...

Sam Amidon mines the ‘intensity & strangeness’ of tradition to make music uniquely his ... for recasting traditional American folk songs into vibrant contemporary soundscapes.

These artists, who would often play themselves ... prayers and magical procedures. The contemporary Polish folk group Warsaw Village Band has made some great music using this instrument, the strings ...

Mumford & Sons have also helped pre-existing musicians reach a wider audience by bringing folk music back into the mainstream. One such artist is Ben Howard, whose musical career began in 2009.