The 1970s are arguably the most colorful decade of music in recent history, from Southern rock to disco to funk to R&B to hard rock to country and folk. One of those genres was, of course, the ...

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 ...

If you're looking for some unpopular folk ballads from the 1970s without the names Dylan, Mitchell, or Young, then look no further.

One of Joe Seamons' earliest memories is listening to people sing in harmony in a cabin heated by a wood stove. As he grew up in Deer Island, Oregon, near the town of Rainier, he realized some of the ...

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, ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. After a 6-year hiatus, Long Island-based singer/songwriter Joe Iadanza ...

You probably know Janis Ian from her five-decade folk legacy — not from her short stories about spirit possession and intergalactic sex spies. When she performs in the Bay Area this coming week, ...

Roberta Flack, a classically trained pianist who taught in the D.C. school system before launching a singing career that made her one of the most popular performers of the 1970s, with such No. 1 hits ...