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Category: Folk Music
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Hermeto Pascoal, Prolific Brazilian Composer, Dies at 89
A self-taught multi-instrumentalist, he rose from a childhood of rural privation to become a favorite of jazz musicians and audiences around the world.
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Tom Shipley, Whose Ode to Weed Reached the Top 10, Dies at 84
With their “One Toke Over the Line,” he and Michael Brewer saw a musical in-joke turn into a timeless cultural phenomenon.
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45 Albums, Concerts and Festivals Coming This Fall
A crop of artists on the verge of what’s next are returning with new releases, and Taylor Swift is reuniting with some of her poppiest collaborators.
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Joe Hickerson, 89, Dies; Helped Preserve America’s Folk Song Tradition
He was both the longtime archivist of folk music at the Library of Congress and a widely respected singer and songwriter.
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10 New Songs You Need to Hear: Khalid, Jay Som, Steve Lacy and More
Listen to tracks by Dijon, Woody Guthrie, iLe and others.
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He Survived the Khmer Rouge and Built a Musical Legacy
Kong Nay, a blind lute player who endured the horrors of a totalitarian regime, exposed a new generation of Cambodians to their country’s traditional music.
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Rock’s Legends Were Messy. You’d Never Know That From Today’s Movies.
People used to eat up salacious stories of rock ’n’ roll excess. Now they’re the last thing filmmakers want to touch.
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Nick Drake, Long a Folk Mystery, Is (Partly) Revealed
A 42-track collection built around two found recordings helps illuminate the creative process of the revered but elusive icon, who died in 1974.
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Nine Inch Nails Revisits the ’80s, and 9 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Robert Plant, Amanda Shires, Blood Orange and more.
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More Woody Guthrie Songs? Yes, From a Trove of Homemade Recordings.
A new, intimate album will include 13 previously unheard songs and a rewrite of “This Land Is Your Land.”
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An Unearthed Joni Mitchell Jazz Demo, and 11 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Sarah McLachlan, Camilo, Us3 and others.