Comparative Video 101

The ascendancy of the now-ubiquitous guitar in its many incarnations as the primary instrument of American folk music is actually a rathe...

"Come All You Fair And Tender Ladies," whose cautionary words to young women about young men is a standard folk motif, seems to ...

This week's song goes under many names: the oldest is "The Maid Freed From The Gallows," though it has also been known as ...

Roots and branches - that's what these sixty-odd posts have been about - where songs come from, and how they morph into a variety of of...

As early as 1959 in a Downbeat Magazine article, Nick Reynolds and Dave Guard of the Kingston Trio were frank in acknowledging that among...

" I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work." - Woody Guthrie And just such a song is thi...

Just about the only cultural element as widespread throughout the countries of the world as music has been the fermenting, brewing, or dist...

In The Kingston Trio On Record , Ben Blake and Jack Rubeck's comment on the original Kingston Trio's ninth album Make Way was that ...