At a music-filled evening in Delhi, Tony Seeger, nephew of legendary American folk singer Pete Seeger, traced how archives, ...
During the early '20s, Bentley Ball gave recitals of Appalachian ballads, Cowboy songs and Native American material to fascinated urban audiences. In 1920 he made the first recordings of such folk ...
It was 1966 – the peak in popularity of the American folk-music revival ... s Woodland Studios with many important early country music figures: Earl Scruggs, Jimmy Martin, Roy Acuff, Mother ...
Guthrie became a radio star and went on to become a pivotal figure in the early American folk revival. His music, style, and politics had a profound influence on a range of musical icons ...
And as the spirit of revolt crept across the continent from the wayward bus in Montgomery, Alabama, seeping like a new life ...
His parents were members of a radical puppet theater that sang on a Nonesuch album of early American folk hymns, and he would later release music on the label himself. Growing up in Vermont ...