On 1940, American folk legend Woody Guthrie wrote 'This Land is My Land' in his hotel room in New York City. The song would go on to become one of the most influential and iconic folk ...

Covers the development of American folk music from African music, English ballads and other sources, the origins of folk instruments and folk influences on gospel, blues, bluegrass, jazz, country ...

Chelsea Burton is a reporter with the Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & Documentary Storytelling program. In the home of Rik Palieri, a country-roots and folk ...

Library of Congress archivist Joe Hickerson has died at 89. For decades, he worked to preserve America's collection of folk music and served as director of the library's American Folklife Center. Joe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of America can be told through the lyrics of folk music – songs of the Great Depression, the civil rights era, and the ...

Before there was Bob Dylan, the folk revival icon, there was Odetta. Before there was Janis Joplin, the wailing blues singer, there was Odetta. The woman whom Martin Luther King Jr. called the “Queen ...

Prepare for an eclectic journey through The Old, Weird America. Rani Singh's new documentary film tracks the history of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music from its initial compilation of ...

Joe Hickerson, a beloved archivist at the Library of Congress, died last week in Portland, Oregon. He was 89. For more than three decades, he worked to preserve America's collection of folk music. NPR ...