Comparative Video 101

It is "the best damn train song ever written," according to (depending on your source) Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson (who disco...

Bob Dylan will be bringing his acoustic guitar to perform this weekend [at the 53rd Grammy Awards] on the same stage as Justin Bieber, Dra...

As last week's article on "My Johnny Lad" indicates once again, my personal taste in folk music tends much more strongly to ...

I believe it was my friend Max Schwartz who has related several times in different posts that one of the things he loved about folk music...

All successful singing groups develop their identities from the vocal synergy that evolves among the members, and often the most memorable ...

I can pinpoint the exact moment in my past when I decided I wanted to learn to play the guitar. I was nine years old in the summer of 195...

"The Colorado Trail" is one of those folk songs in the American tradition that appears as a genuine surprise, like maybe "...

A warning here at the outset is, I think, appropriate. Two of this week's videos are graphically and disturbingly violent, one with sce...