Dive into Kentucky's rural culture in this locale known for its live music, dining hotspots, and diverse outdoor experiences ...

The sun will be gone by the time you finish reading this. These seasonally-appropriate folk albums will still be there.

Traditional ballad first appeared in print around 1818 and went on to be performed by folk legends and The Grateful Dead ...

The Boston Globe Damn Tall Buildings is a celebrated folk-bluegrass band based in Brooklyn, known for their soulful melodies ...

Taylor Swift, Kenny Loggins, LL Cool J, Pink, Sarah McLachlan and Talking Heads' David Byrne are among the impressive list of ...

Greek singer-songwriter Dionysis Savvopoulos, known for his poetic lyrics on politics and society, has died. He was 80.

Kentucky is the solo musical project of Almonte singer-songwriter Jordan Holman. In this Talking Albums episode, Kentucky talks about some special albums.

The History of Sound, written by Ben Shattuck from his own short story follows two men during World War I and its aftermath ...

No one is suggesting that a catchy song can completely eliminate serious pain. But several recent studies have suggested that listening to music can either reduce the perception of pain or enhance a ...

When Paul Simon first came to Britain in the mid-1960s, he was still in the early stages of his music career as a songwriter and was in search of inspiration. That’s when he bumped into Martin Carthy, ...

FAYETTE COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) — Heavy rains turned what should have been a routine evening into an unexpected overnight adventure for well-known folk singer and radio host Michael Johnathon. The host ...

From 1963 to 1966, a team of filmmakers shot nearly 80 hours of footage of the Newport Folk Festival, documenting performances, interviewing attendees, and capturing the festival’s changes as rock ...