The Smithsonian's collections and archives are a rich source of information on American folk music and its many genres. Smithsonian Folkways is home to a significant collection of folk music ...

These four folk rock outfits, duos, and artists deserve to be revisited; though some would debate whether or not they are truly "forgotten".

These are just four of the oldest folk rock legends alive today, and some of them aren't completely done making music.

Journal of American Folklore, the quarterly journal of the American Folklore Society since the Society's founding in 1888, publishes scholarly articles, essays, notes, and commentaries directed to a ...

“American folk music,” on the other hand, brings to mind a banjo-wielding, Appalachian hippie, tall grass, rolling hills and the snowy peaks of remote mountaintops.