Folk & Traditional Music

From his birth in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1947, to his 2020 album featuring the music of Lee Hammons, Wayne Howard has lived an exceptionally cr...

Welsh Ballads of the French Revolution provides for the first time an edition, with parallel English translations, of Welsh-language ballads compos...

Following the success of I'm Your Man and Just Kids, legendary Canadian singer and songwriter Bruce Cockburn delivers his long-awaited memoir-a chr...

Songs from the Magical Tradition makes no assertions other than the fact that there is a very strong element of supernatural magic contained within...

Sampling virtually all of the old-time styles within the musical traditions still extant in north Georgia, Folk Visions and Voices is a collection ...

The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent. Performed for the purpose of r...

After describing the processes of history at work on ordinary people (i.e. Bills immediate ancestors) in Glimpses of Far Off Things, the second vol...

In 1962 Seán Ó Sé recorded `An Poc ar Buile with Seán Ó Riada and Ceoltóirí Chualann. It proved a huge success and resulted in seven wonderful year...

Neil V. Rosenberg met the legendary Bill Monroe at the Brown County Jamboree. Rosenberg's subsequent experiences in Bean Blossom put his feet on th...

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 ...