Folk Music

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  • Sharps & flats

    Mimi Fariña was tempting jailbait. Her husband, Richard, fought alongside Castro, sold guns and called Thomas Pynchon a pal.
  • Musician in a dangerous time

    Bruce Cockburn talks about land mines, "adult" entertainment and being an '80s musician in the '90s.
  • Sharps & flats

    Utah Phillips tells Old West tales and hardscrabble anecdotes. But don't call him a folk singer.
  • Sharps & flats

    "Best of the Vanguard Sessions" introduces John Fahey's chillingly beautiful six-string folk.
  • Sharps & flats

    The Holy Modal Rounders are old-time counterculture folkies in form, but they're not afraid to toss a pie in the face of tradition.
  • Sharps & flats

    "Come on, baby, let me pay your rent": Songwriter Jack Logan wrote the year's most romantic verse.
  • Sharps & flats

    With a series of dark acoustic records, Throwing Muses singer Kristin Hersh transformed herself from a post-punk Ophelia into a macabre folk singer. On "Sky Motel," she plugs in again.
  • Sharps & flats

    Greenwich Village folk tribute covers Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel and Tim Buckley. But how can Chrissie Hynde and Marshall Crenshaw, among others, forget that some art belongs to its creator?
  • Sharps & flats

    Gordon Lightfoot's "Songbook" delivers timeless tunes and a little bit more.
  • In the tub with Leadbelly

    An ex-punk rocker turned mother contemplates her latest passion, children's folk music.
  • Beth Orton

  • Hootie and the Blowfish

  • Linda Ronstadt

    Sharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine
  • Reviews: Folk rock of ages

    Roger McGuinn's Web site is an experiment in communal musical memory
  • Keith Jarrett - La Scala

  • Dan Bern

  • Dan Bern

    Sharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine
  • The Will to Live

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