This apocryphal legend of a hammer-wielding working-class champion has since been retold by numerous rock stars, from Johnny ...

These folk songs from 1978 should be studied in songwriting classes. They are rife with lessons every artist could take.

Singles by Glen Campbell, David Bowie, America, Queen, Led Zeppelin, and other incredibly notable groups and musicians from the decade saturated the music market in 1975. That being the case, the ...

Woody Guthrie changed folk music forever on this day in 1940. Woody Guthrie wrote "This Land is Your Land" in 1940 as a response to "God Bless America." The song contrasts American ideals with 1940s ...

“Of all nations,” wrote Walt Whitman, “the United States with veins full of poetical stuff most need poets and will doubtless have the greatest and use them the greatest.” This prediction in ...

613 Monday Morning Go to School / Mike Seeger, Peggy Seeger ...

Two best friends sing a famous American folk song on the street in Nashville. This shy girl is performing for the first time. Tattoos found to have 'widespread' health problem—here's the risk Lavender ...

Long before the Revolutionary War, numerous traditions of Indigenous music flourished in places later incorporated into the United States. European music was heard in the New World from the earliest ...