American folk music

Database and information about audio recordings, especialy about American roots music.

One town hosted both American Nazis and some of the earliest folkies.

A collection of previously unpublished images, by Bruce Davidson, David Gahr, and Danny Lyon.

Folk singer Woody Guthrie, famed for singing about the downtrodden and having the words “This machine kills fascists,” inked onto his guitars, wrote a few little-known licks about Donald Trump's father, Time reports.

You don???t need a lengthy exposition on the underdog grace of its humble Appalachian roots and its transparent threads of connection to American history, as deep as a seam of coal in a mountainside. You totally get the genre???s visceral sincerity so important to millennials, who in their relentless search for authenticity often find themselves grasping back to their Greatest Generation great-grandparents??? traditions for anchors.

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Fair Folk is a radio show and podcast exploring folk culture and music from around the world, hosted by Danica Boyce. On this episode: Kulning, you'll hear traditional herding calls from Sweden and Norway, with an interview with Swedish folk musician and kulning instructor Siri Holm.