Acoustic folk songs were all over the 1960s. These are three acoustic folk songs from the 1960s with melodies that still echo decades later.

These folk duets capture an era of music that is lost on modern musicians. Revisit these hits to relive the 1960s.

Tom Paxton, an icon of the 1960s folk music movement, is riffing in a coffeehouse. Perfect! Of course, it's a Starbucks near Paxton's townhouse in Old Town Alexandria -- nothing like the small, homey ...

The highway of pop-music history took a detour on the backroads during the folk music boom of the 1960s. For a brief period, musicians could be celebrated not for making a big noise, but for crafting ...

Howard Marshall visited KBIA studios with his new book Keep It Old-Time: Fiddle Music in Missouri from the 1960s Folk Music Revival to the Present. Howard Marshall is an author, a fiddler and a writer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Those were the days but they don't have to stay in the past. Legendary 1960s folk trio the Limeliters will open the Bakersfield ...

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil ...

Sometimes it takes a foreign source to represent your own music back to you… I'm looking forward to this new compilation of ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The term folk rock has been absent from the vocabulary of the hip and cool for several decades. However, Fairport Convention, the band that hewed the form from the ...

Jan 7 (Reuters) - American singer and songwriter Peter Yarrow, who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, died on Tuesday at the age of 86, his publicist said. Yarrow died at ...

The trio’s witty, urbane arrangements made it one of the top acts of the early-1960s folk music revival. His gift for languages helped. By Clay Risen See more of our coverage in your search ...

Dave Fisher, founding member and lead singer of the 1960s folk group the Highwaymen, whose recording of the Civil War anti-slavery song “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore" became a surprise pop hit in 1962 ...