“Bridge Over Troubled Water” boasts over 645 covers and counting. It’s widely considered the most covered and most recorded folk song to date. Iconic folk duo Simon & Garfunkel released the song in ...

These songs from Stevie Wonder, George Harrison, and more have lost absolutely none of their appeal in the 50-plus years ...

When it comes to folk rock songs about breakups and heartbreak, nothing beats Fleetwood Mac. We’d be bold enough to say the majority of the band’s work, especially on Rumours, revolved around the ...

In 1937, Odetta Felious Holmes moved from Birmingham, Alabama, to Los Angeles. Only six, she was already bigger than the other kids when she arrived in East Hollywood with her mother, Flora, and her ...

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 ...