Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s recording of Jerry Jeff Walker’s “Mr. Bojangles” was a hit back in 1970. The group came together in the late 1960s, but their 1970s albums like The Dirt Band and Will The ...

Stephen Stills deserves a spot on our list of the most underrated folk musicians of the 1970s simply because of how much he contributed to the genre. He’s still performing and putting out music today, ...

Even though most would argue that folk music really had its heyday in the 1960s, the 1970s also brought a seriously compelling slate of folksy tunes. Especially early in the decade, releases from ...

Well before acts like Waxahatchee, Jessica Pratt, Angel Olsen, Big Thief, Bedouine, and more readily brought folk sounds to the indie sphere, a swath of women singer-songwriters did their part to ...

Tom Shipley of the 1960s and 1970s folk-rock duo Brewer & Shipley has died at the age of 84, reports the New York Times. Shipley's death on August 24 was confirmed by his son, Marc, to the paper, ...

A folk singer discussed why the press didn’t treat her the same as Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, and Janis Joplin Melanie is a folk singer who found some success in the 1970s, particularly with her song ...

Asking Forrest McCurren about his musical inspirations results in a list of uncommon 1970s folk singer-songwriters. While standards like Bob Dylan make the list, McCurren is more fond of the rarer ...