FOLK MUSIC

Carl Sandburg's The American Songbag: songs he collected traveling a country that was as pretty as it was hard.

Hear Carl Sandburg sing, 'I Ride an Old Paint,' recorded sometime in the 1930s or 40s, and published as a part of his The American Songbag. Sandburg: 'The song smells of saddle leather, sketches ponies and landscapes, and varies in theme from a realistic presentation ...

Emmy Award nominated director Kenneth Bowser explains why he chose to make a documentary about Phil Ochs, why he seems to have been written out of the history of folk music, and the unique way that Ochs' music marries activism and his personal life. Phil ...

American Masters opens its 26th season with the biography of a conflicted troubadour who, with guitar in hand, stood up for what he believed in and challenged us all to do the same. Three-time Emmy-nominated filmmaker Kenneth Bowser examines one of America's most iconic folk ...

One of folk's most recognized and accomplished names, Joni Mitchell proved herself to be a master of lyric and melody. A multiple Grammy-award winner and chart topper, Mitchell still remained down to earth even when her career was sky-high. Read more about her life and ...

Tom Manoff, Classical Music Critic of NPR's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED on Joni Mitchell Excerpts from his book Music: A Living Language (WW Norton and Co, 1982) I want the full hyphen: folk-rock-country-jazz-classical, so finally when you get all the hyphens in, maybe they'll drop them ...