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  • Gordon Lightfoot Performing

    3 Non-Fictional Folk Songs That Tell a Story Worthy of a Bestseller

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  • Less Is More: 3 Songs That Have Achieved Legend Status With Sheer Simplicity

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    3 of the Finest Folk Covers Performed by Bob Dylan

    September 23, 2025, 5:30 am

  • Bob Dylan on set of 'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid'

    “Don’t Have It”: Musicians Recall “Quirky” Bob Dylan Habit While Filming ‘Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid’

    September 22, 2025, 12:04 pm

  • On This Day in 1973, the World Lost One of Its Greatest Folk Musicians at Age 30

    September 20, 2025, 9:29 am

  • Gary U.S. Bonds Performs On Stage

    3 Forgotten Songs From 1962 That Still Rock Our World Today

    September 19, 2025, 2:40 pm

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    3 Folk Ballads That’ll Put a Tear in Your Eye and Pain in Your Heart

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  • 3 Folk Songs From the 1990s That Still Shake the Ground We Stand On

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    A 2005 Survey Determined 5 Songs That Define British Life, Here Are 5 American Ones We’d Add to Our Own List

    September 10, 2025, 11:37 am

  • The Folk Legend Bruce Springsteen Had to Conciously Avoid Copying

    The Folk Legend Bruce Springsteen Had to Consciously Avoid Copying: “I Never Wrote Completely in That Style Again”

    September 9, 2025, 12:28 pm

  • Espionage & Folk Music: Why the FBI Spied on Pete Seeger for Roughly 20 Years

    September 8, 2025, 8:45 am

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