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  • Bob Dylan

    The Storied Folk Singer Who Said Bob Dylan Couldn’t “Acquire Anything Except by Stealing It”

    November 18, 2025, 6:30 am

  • Paul Simon performing

    3 Surprising Electric Numbers by Folk Artists Who Usually Keep It Quiet

    November 12, 2025, 9:00 am

  • Joni Mitchell and Brandi Carlile

    “Made Me Feel So Beat Down”: Brandi Carlile Recounts the Hardest Criticism She’s Had To Face in Her Career

  • Vashti Bunyan

    3 Female Folk Artists That Deserve Way More Recognition Today

    November 10, 2025, 11:00 am

  • Immersive Exhibit Focusing on Bob Dylan’s 1965 Newport Folk Festival Performance to Open at the Dylan Center in Oklahoma This Summer

    The Lengthy Track Bob Dylan Admits He Got “Carried Away” With

    November 10, 2025, 9:00 am

  • 3 Deep-Cut Folk Ballads From the 1970s That Aren’t by Dylan, Mitchell, or Young

    November 10, 2025, 7:30 am

  • Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel performing

    On This Day in 1969, Simon & Garfunkel Recorded a Legendary Song With a Creative Decision That Paul Simon Would Eventually Regret

    November 9, 2025, 9:59 am

  • These 3 Musicians Had The Talent to Go The Distance, but Life Had Other Plans 

    November 9, 2025, 9:30 am

  • 4 Songs That Somehow Made It Past the Censors

    3 Nostalgic Songs From the 1970s That Influenced Who You Became as a Person

  • Leonard Cohen performing

    On This Day in 2016, the World Lost One of the Most Influential Songwriters of All Time, Despite Him Trying to Pursue Multiple Other Careers

    November 7, 2025, 9:57 am

  • The Folk Icon Steven Tyler Thinks He Could Never Write Like: "It's a Language To Me"

    The Folk Icon Steven Tyler Thinks He Could Never Write Like: “It’s a Language To Me”

    November 7, 2025, 7:36 am

  • "John Wesley Harding" singer-songwriter Bob Dylan performing

    On This Day in 1967, Bob Dylan Recorded the Title Track for an Album That Baffled Even Him: “I Didn’t Know What To Make of It”

    November 6, 2025, 1:35 pm

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