Folk & Traditional Music

The first-ever book exclusively devoted to the history of the Newport Folk Festival, I Got a Song documents the trajectory of an American musical i...

How three words became an instruction manual for life... As a youngster seeking guidance and perspective, musician Charlie Worsham received three ...

From the early days of his music with Stocktons Wing to training at Ballymaloe Cookery School, food and music have been parallel lines that have ke...

Country Music: A Very Short Introduction presents a compelling overview of the music and its impact on American culture. Country music has long bee...

When 20-year-old Odetta Holmesclassically trained as a vocalist and poised to become the next Marian Andersonveered away from both opera and musica...

As one of the best-known honky tonkers to appear in the wake of Hank Williamss death, Faron Young was a popular presence on Nashvilles music scene ...

How Nashville Became Music City, U.S.A. was first published in 2006 and quickly became the go-to reference for those seeking to understand the Nash...

Patrick 'Paddy' Reilly is an Irish folk singer and guitarist. Born in Rathcoole, County Dublin, he is one of Ireland's most famous balladeers and i...

Lavishly illustrated, respected journalist Harvey Kubernik charts Leonard Cohen's extraordinary career in detail, placing his literary and musical ...

The songs in this book are a sampling of the urban folk songs of Greece during the first half of the 20th century. They are the creative expression...

Attended by tens of thousands of people each August, it's the longest continually running folk festival in America. These pages capture 55 years of...

Recorded in 1949, Foggy Mountain Breakdown changed the face of American music. Earl Scruggs's instrumental essentially transformed the folk culture...

Gaelic Scotland is one of the world's great treasure-houses of song. In this anthology, Anne Lorne Gillies has gathered together music and lyrics f...