Nonetheless, Joel had a goal in mind to write what he considered an authentic folk song. He pulled it off in 1989 with “The Downeaster ‘Alexa’”, in large part because he was personally ...

Many folk songs “ring very true” today, McKenzie said: “There’s a very easy thread you can draw between what ordinary people were concerned about 100, 200 years ago, or whatever, ...

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Hua'er, northwest China's centuries-old folk song form, unites diverse ethnic groups with its raw, poetic expressions of love, labor and life. The United Nations has officially designated 44 Chinese ...

Part of the reason that riffs in folk music don’t get the respect of their rock counterparts is because of how the instrumental of the song is often in support of the singer, especially when you get ...