Folk & Traditional Music

Marianne Faithfull was the perfect icon of the Swinging Sixties; her life as colourful as the decade itself. A quiet but beautiful convent girl, s...

The definitive collection of folk music - one of the great English popular art formsOne of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can b...

Sounding Out Heritage explores the cultural politics that have shaped the recent history and practice of a unique style of folk song that originate...

Dolly Parton's success as a performer and pop culture phenomenon has overshadowed her achievements as a songwriter. But she sees herself as a songw...

One of the music world's pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival, timed ...

In smoky rooms above pubs, bare rooms with battered stools and beer-stained tables, where the stage was little more than a scrap of carpet and soun...

Phil Ochs is known primarily as a songwriter; however, his oeuvre extends far beyond that-to short stories, poetry, criticism, journalism, and sati...

Acclaimed Scottish singer Jean Redpath (19372014) is best remembered for her impressive repertoire of ancient ballads, Robert Burns songs, and cont...

A memoir from one of Britain''s legendary singers, folklorists, and music historians. A legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirl...

A new approach to the mysterious ballads, and their relationship with the past. Katharine Briggs Award 2018: Runner Up The ballad genre, and its...

*The Sunday Times Bestseller**Featuring an exclusive new chapter*On 23 September, 2005, at the Joiners Arms in Southampton, Frank Turner played his...

Other people locked themselves away and hid from their demons. Townes flung open his door and said, 'Come on in. So writes Harold Eggers, Townes V...