“Pete Seeger said that fire was Woody’s muse,” says Guthrie’s daughter Nora. “It just followed him around.” Indeed, Guthrie’s whole existence had a combustible quality: He drank ...

A conventional portrait of an unconventional artist, James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown doesn’t look to decode Dylan’s genius but echoes what it must have felt like to populate his orbit ...

Your Tony Award-winning musical hit Hadestown has been playing in Sydney, and is about to start its Melbourne run. What’s it ...

The catalog featured American artists and genres (think bluegrass and blues, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, mountain ballads and plains music, Lead Belly, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Ella Jenkins ...

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Featuring Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Butch and Bess Hawes, Woody Guthrie, Ernst Busch, and Bart van der Schelling, this two-volume, single-CD album aims, as scholar Peter Glazer’s enriching liner ...

Sad news once again to pass on from the world of Irish folk music with the April 3 passing of Michael “Jesse” Owens. Born in Dublin in 1935, Owens ...