American Masters explores fifty years of folk legend and human rights activist Joan Baez in Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound, airing October 14 on PBS. You can...
Hi, John: If you ask a thousand music lovers the question "what is folk music" you'd get a thousand different answers ... all of them right because folk music...
Definitions can put you all over the map. I remember seeing a reprint of a magazine article that called Elvis Presley "the Folk Music Fireball." Capitol...
Al,  First, thanks for getting back to me. My thoughts about who and what is included on the compilations pretty much follows yours.  It is interesting...
I haven't visited this site since I joined this group, and yours are the first posting I've got from it. I don't think this group's "criteria" much more than...
In the course of trying to help my daughter with her project, I've printed out the selections available on so-called "Greatest Folk Songs" collections. Most...
Hi Folkies!  I'm a retired high school teacher (now teaching at a community college) in the western suburbs of Chicago. Music, especially folk music, is...
I have been wondering about a singer who was frequently singing at clubs in the Southern Califonia beach area. He also collected Hudsons. (Cars) Does anyone...
I have been asking people on St. Vincent about E. T. Joshua after a singer asked me. After Eric von Schmidt died more information surfaced on the internet. I...
Here's a posting from the rec.music.folk usenet group, with a link to his obituary: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.music.folk/browse_thread/thread/66c88 ...
Welcome Loran. I did send notices out to everyone left on the old forum, but most had already unsubscribed because of the invasion of the spammers. Keep the...
Thanks, Bob, for adding me. We need to get the rest of the people from the old forum enrolled. Is there anyway you could use the log-ins and usernames from...