Subject:

Folk Music

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    Occupy This Album Is as Massive, Inconsistent, and Powerful as Occupy Itself

    Remember all the hand-wringing last year over the so-called disappearance of protest music? As the Occupy movement hit its peak, capturing the attention of the country, commentators and older musicians were accusing contemporary artists of failing to grapple with the major struggles of their time in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    First Aid Kit on Discovering Roots Music Through Bright Eyes, and Growing Up in a Punk Household

    Standing on the precipice of mainstream acclaim, the sisters comprising the Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit are among an emerging generation of musical disciples of bands like Bright Eyes and Fleet Foxes, whose own sound is a modern twist on traditional American country. It's a little bit of an unlik ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    The Top 5 Weirdest Woody Guthrie Covers

    By DAVE GIL DE RUBIO When Woody Guthrie's daughter Nora opened up the archives of her father's copious amounts of unreleased material to Billy Bragg and Wilco back in the late '90s, the union produced two Mermaid Avenue albums chock full of the late Okie's unrecorded lyrics set to new music. The re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Leadbelly, the Murderer Who Sang Children's Songs

    www.leadbelly.org/Huddie Ledbetter: Convicted murderer, children's singer.​I recognize that schoolyards are dens of rumor and conjecture, places where over the crackle of Pop Rocks and the snap of bubblegum kids swap sordid, little secrets. It's why I caught myself smiling when my 11-year-old ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    R.I.P. Hazel Dickens, American Legend, Feminist Folk Singer, and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Fixture

    Jay BlakesbergHazel Dickens with Dolly Parton and Warren Hellman​Hazel Dickens, a bluegrass singer who played every Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival since the free event began in 2001, died today at age 75.Described by the Washington Post as "a living legend of American music," Dickens use ... More >>

  • Music

    January 20, 2010

    The Devil Makes Three gives roots music hedonistic attitude

    Jay BlakesbergHazel Dickens with Dolly Parton and Warren Hellman​Hazel Dickens, a bluegrass singer who played every Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival since the free event began in 2001, died today at age 75.Described by the Washington Post as "a living legend of American music," Dickens use ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 9, 2009

    Slavic Soul Party

    Jay BlakesbergHazel Dickens with Dolly Parton and Warren Hellman​Hazel Dickens, a bluegrass singer who played every Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival since the free event began in 2001, died today at age 75.Described by the Washington Post as "a living legend of American music," Dickens use ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2009

    Sarah Lee Guthrie: Folk for the Whole Family

    Brand New Folk: Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion​With all the hub-bub around freak-folksters like Devendra Banhart and alt.folk chanteuses like Jolie Holland, it's nice to see traditional folk hasn't been forgotten. However, it has been updated by third generation singer-songwriter Sarah Lee Gut ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 6, 2009

    Pretty, Tough

    Brand New Folk: Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion​With all the hub-bub around freak-folksters like Devendra Banhart and alt.folk chanteuses like Jolie Holland, it's nice to see traditional folk hasn't been forgotten. However, it has been updated by third generation singer-songwriter Sarah Lee Gut ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2008

    1960s Folk Rock Screening at Page St. Library

    Brand New Folk: Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion​With all the hub-bub around freak-folksters like Devendra Banhart and alt.folk chanteuses like Jolie Holland, it's nice to see traditional folk hasn't been forgotten. However, it has been updated by third generation singer-songwriter Sarah Lee Gut ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2008

    Black Keys Added to 'This Land is Your Land' Lineup

    Brand New Folk: Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion​With all the hub-bub around freak-folksters like Devendra Banhart and alt.folk chanteuses like Jolie Holland, it's nice to see traditional folk hasn't been forgotten. However, it has been updated by third generation singer-songwriter Sarah Lee Gut ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2008

    Cat Power, Sheryl Crow, Henry Rollins, Mike Ness at This Land is Your Land Festival 9/20

    Brand New Folk: Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion​With all the hub-bub around freak-folksters like Devendra Banhart and alt.folk chanteuses like Jolie Holland, it's nice to see traditional folk hasn't been forgotten. However, it has been updated by third generation singer-songwriter Sarah Lee Gut ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2008

    Sheryl Crow Reschedules Bay Area Performance

    Brand New Folk: Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion​With all the hub-bub around freak-folksters like Devendra Banhart and alt.folk chanteuses like Jolie Holland, it's nice to see traditional folk hasn't been forgotten. However, it has been updated by third generation singer-songwriter Sarah Lee Gut ... More >>

  • Music

    March 12, 2008

    The Devil and Doctor Octagon: Kool Keith returns

    Brand New Folk: Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion​With all the hub-bub around freak-folksters like Devendra Banhart and alt.folk chanteuses like Jolie Holland, it's nice to see traditional folk hasn't been forgotten. However, it has been updated by third generation singer-songwriter Sarah Lee Gut ... More >>

  • Film

    November 21, 2007

    Like a Complete Unknown

    Brand New Folk: Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion​With all the hub-bub around freak-folksters like Devendra Banhart and alt.folk chanteuses like Jolie Holland, it's nice to see traditional folk hasn't been forgotten. However, it has been updated by third generation singer-songwriter Sarah Lee Gut ... More >>

  • Film

    November 21, 2007

    One of Us Must Know

    The elusive Bob Dylan, masterfully considered, in I'm Not There

  • Music

    October 3, 2007

    Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Pools Together Roots Music Enthusiasts

    The elusive Bob Dylan, masterfully considered, in I'm Not There

  • Summer Guide

    June 27, 2007

    Sixties Flashback

    Sounds of the Summer of Love echo through today

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2007

    Huey Lewis and the News, CalArtsSF, San Francisco Free Folk Festival, Rolling Stones -- Night and Day, Sunday 6/17

    Sounds of the Summer of Love echo through today

  • Music

    November 29, 2006

    The Hidden Cameras

    Awoo (Arts & Crafts)

  • Culture

    August 16, 2006

    You Spin Me

    The ethnomusicologist and the flack tell a beguiling tale of influence

  • Calendar

    June 15, 2005

    Race Relationships

    Mansbach's angry young men

  • Music

    June 1, 2005

    Protest Song

    What Are Words For?

  • Music

    February 2, 2005

    Ani DiFranco

    Knuckle Down

  • Culture

    March 26, 2003

    War on War Songs

    Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

  • Music

    March 26, 2003

    The Bard of Tomales Bay

    Jesse DeNatale gets back to nature

  • Music

    July 3, 2002

    Hank Dogs

    Half Smile (spinART)

  • News

    October 24, 2001

    Dog Bites

    What Did You Sing in the War, Daddy?; Anthrax for Dummies

  • Music

    October 17, 2001

    House Of Tudor

    Horror-hop DJs, soup-spewing actresses, and prickly peared singers

  • Music

    July 18, 2001

    Hear This

    British neo-traditionalist bridges the folk music gap

  • Culture

    October 25, 2000

    Crushing Grapes

    Frank Galati's adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath arrives, at last, in Santa Clara

  • Music

    October 25, 2000

    Various Artists

    The Best of Broadside 1962-1988: Anthems of the American Underground From the Pages of Broadside Magazine (Smithsonian Folkways)

  • Music

    August 30, 2000

    House Of Tudor

    The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack

  • Music

    August 23, 2000

    Finger-picking Good

    Duck Baker explores uncharted territory with his acoustic guitar

  • Music

    August 9, 2000

    Dave Alvin

    Public Domain
    (HighTone)

  • Music

    July 26, 2000

    A Brand-New Case

    With the new wave Plimsouls (and Plimsouls reunion) behind him, Peter Case is returning to his folk roots

  • Music

    May 31, 2000

    The Old Old Thing

    Two new collections from Berkeleyites Malvina Reynolds and Harry Smith argue for folk's historical authenticity. Whatever that is.

  • Music

    May 17, 2000

    Suzzy Roche

    Songs From an Unmarried Housewife and Mother, Greenwich Village, USA
    (Red House)

  • Music

    March 22, 2000

    Dig the New Breed

    Live Human proves that turntablism can learn a thing or two from jazz -- or is it the other way around?

  • Music

    January 5, 2000

    Riff Raff

    Transmission Theater, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Mark Hummel

  • Music

    November 17, 1999

    A Hobo's Progress

    U. Utah Phillips, inspiration to Ani DiFranco and card-carrying Wobbly, is Northern California's institutional memory of itinerant folk

  • Music

    September 29, 1999

    Deconstructing Hootie

    After a lengthy hiatus, the old-timey folkies in the Muskrats want to revive the folk revival

  • Music

    January 20, 1999

    Reviews

    After a lengthy hiatus, the old-timey folkies in the Muskrats want to revive the folk revival

  • Music

    December 9, 1998

    Selling His Soul

    The traveling salesman is the symbolic star of Vic Chesnutt's sixth and sexiest album

  • Music

    July 29, 1998

    Reviews

    The traveling salesman is the symbolic star of Vic Chesnutt's sixth and sexiest album

  • Music

    April 29, 1998

    Reviews

    The traveling salesman is the symbolic star of Vic Chesnutt's sixth and sexiest album

  • Music

    March 11, 1998

    Hard Travelin'

    Ramblin' Jack Elliott has a few more stories to tell

  • Music

    January 21, 1998

    Riff Raff

    Ramblin' Jack Elliott has a few more stories to tell

  • Music

    December 3, 1997

    The Lonesome Death (and Life) of Souled American

    Dank, dark, and sad with Chicago's weird country band

  • Music

    September 17, 1997

    The Impotence of Being Earnest

    Dank, dark, and sad with Chicago's weird country band

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