Folk Music – Page 30

Did the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (Gasp) Get It Right?

Hear songs from the class of 2023’s seven inductees, including Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott and Willie Nelson.

By Rebecca Smeyne for The New York Times

The Canadian singer-songwriter, who died on Monday at 84, brought his rueful baritone to memorable, melancholy material.

By Rob Tannenbaum

Picking through the bins at the Academy Records Annex, and rediscovering “Switched-On Rock,” as well as albums by Tim Hardin and Otis Redding.

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Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 folk ballad told the true story of a shipwreck on Lake Superior. One of his old friends called it “a documentarian’s song.”

By Mike Ives