The Lovin’ Spoonful were an iconic 60s rock band best known for their folk rock and sunshine pop sound. They were one of the first American music groups to challenge the British Invasion with ...

It is my belief that it was the adoption of the guitar by English/British folk musicians which helped to make folk music as popular as it was in the 60s. I suspect that without the guitar and by ...

While never as acclaimed as many contemporaries, Jade Warrior were at the vanguard of early 70s British progressive music. Steeped in the folk and psychedelic blues of the late 60s, they were also ...

It has now been 60 years since the Grateful Dead formed. The US rock band first played at Ken Kesey’s “acid tests” in La Honda, California, in 1965. There, attendees would consume large doses of LSD ...

Barrett would eventually disappear from the public eye for good after his retirement in 1972, opting for a quiet life in Cambridge, England until his death in 2006 at the age of 60. Remember Del ...

Folk music is commonly seen as the sound of Britain’s past - but whose past is it? Angeline Morrison brings Black ancestors' stories to life and confronts the idea of British folk. Show more A ...

The Sixties Show is the longest ... that most interesting decade. We had the Folk Music Revival, the sounds of Surf Rock, and all those crazy dances. Then there were the Beatles, the Stones, and the ...

The voice of an iconic 1960s folk-rock song is dead at age 83. Jesse Colin Young, the leader of the ‘60s group the Youngbloods ... Young sang lead vocals on the band’s biggest hit, “Get ...