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Category: Folk Music
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Shawn Mendes Returns Full of Questions, and 8 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Leon Bridges, Ravyn Lenae, Kelsea Ballerini and others.
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Happy Traum, Mainstay of the Folk Music World, Dies at 86
A noted guitarist and banjo player, he emerged from the same Greenwich Village folk-revival scene as his friend and sometime collaborator Bob Dylan.
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Tom Prasada-Rao, Whose Song Elegized George Floyd, Dies at 66
His 2020 lament “$20 Bill” was covered by scores of his fellow artists and, a fellow musician said, might well be destined for the folk music canon.
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As Ukraine Rebuilds Its Identity, Folk Songs Are the New Cool
Faced with Russia’s efforts to erase Ukrainian culture, people have embraced traditional music as a way to reconnect with their past and affirm their identity.
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Excavating Jerry Garcia’s Crucial Bluegrass Roots
In 1964, the guitarist took a road trip, hoping to become Bill Monroe’s banjo player. The journey, and his longtime love of the genre, shaped the Grateful Dead.
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John Koerner, Bluesman Who Inspired a Young Bob Dylan, Dies at 85
A spindly guitarist nicknamed Spider, Mr. Koerner was Mr. Dylan’s first friend in the scruffy world of Minneapolis bohemia where he learned about folk music.
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Daniel Kramer, Who Photographed Bob Dylan’s Rise, Dies at 91
For 366 days, he captured intimate images of the singer-songwriter as he changed the look and sound of the 1960s.
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Alex Hassilev, the Last of the Original Limeliters, Dies at 91
The trio’s witty, urbane arrangements made it one of the top acts of the early-1960s folk music revival. His gift for languages helped.
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Jessica Pratt’s Timeless Folk Music Is Evolving. Slowly.
The singer and songwriter has a delicate, vintage aesthetic that matches her cautious approach to her work. Her fourth album, “Here in the Pitch,” is out Friday.
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7 Songs That Reference Tortured Poets
Taylor Swift said she channeled them; Patti Smith, Lana Del Rey, the Smiths and others cited them.
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Beyond Beyoncé: Black Women of Country, Past and Present
Listen to songs from Rhiannon Giddens, Rissi Palmer, Linda Martell and more.