If you're looking to alter your perspective on the world, then give these three folk songs from the 1960s a listen.

Spirituals are often taught to children. I believe that’s because the melodies are simple and easy to learn. The lyrics are repetitious and easily grasped. Many of the spirituals are structured in a ...

Nearly sixty years after Neil Youngreleased Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, a debate remains amongst fans and music aficionados: who was the "Cinnamon Girl" that captured Young's heart? Written in a ...

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 ...

RACINE, Wis. (RNS) — In the mid-1990s, Peter Mayer, a former Jesuit novitiate turned singer-songwriter, quit his job as a music director at St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church near St. Paul, ...

Leading Black musicians come together for a groundbreaking Juneteenth concert in the Pacific Northwest, creating a historic moment that paves the way for future generations of Black artists.

Imagine being a singer — in this case, a singer of traditional British folk songs and murder ballads, songs of love, hate, revenge, redemption and tragedy. And as the singer of these songs, you get ...