War has long inspired artists and musicians. That is especially true of the songs written in response to the Vietnam War ...

The departure in 1975 of the last Americans from Vietnam didn't only end a tragic chapter in the history of the two countries ...

War, like love, has long inspired artists and musicians. That is especially true of the songs written in response to the ...

Based on a poem sent to Joan Baez by Nina Duschek, “Saigon Bride” is emblematic of ’60s folk music and tells the story of a solider who goes to war, leaving his wife behind. “How many dead ...

Though folk is not as popular as it once was, a resurgence of the genre has been sparked through social media and activism as the forefront of social-political commentary. The basis of folk ...

Every kind of music has ... music that folk music was cool in the traditional sense, and that was the early 1960s. The real hipsters of the day weren’t listening to The Beatles or Roy Orbison; they ...

rock and folk recordings including Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville" and Joan Baez's version of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." Briggs became a member of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in ...

Long before he was flying “Eight Miles High” as the frontman for The Byrds, Roger McGuinn called Tarrytown home. “My folks ...

Woody Guthrie, shown here in the 1940s, created great lines in songs and drawings ... singer-songwriter and a lodestar for Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and John Lennon. “Guthrie was one of these ...

In recent years, however, folk music has increasingly become the quite ... One is the twenty-three-year-old Joan Baez. She does not write her own material and she includes a considerable ...

Folk singer Joan Baez recorded two songs for the soundtrack, the most famous of which is “Rejoice In The Sun,” a song that celebrates the power of natural life. The song was composed by Peter ...

they were blessed to have folk royalty in their midst in the form of Joan Baez. She’d just rounded up her own tour the day before in Denver, and was intrigued by the hullabaloo that was surrounding ...