JEFFREY BROWN: At this summer's Newport Folk Festival, an early English ballad called "The Queen of Hearts." It dates back in various forms to at least the 1700s. In the 1960s, it was taken by the ...

Update: Carrie Brownstein’s given an interview to Rolling Stone in which she says the following about Sleater-Kinney: I think we’ll definitely get back to writing songs. We feel less trapped by a ...

More than any other art form, old songs - really old songs - offer a visceral link to the people of the past. You can read Dickens and Melville, study Old Master paintings, or tune in your classical ...

SLRAMAI copy 39088020219606 has bookplate: Gift of John Hasse. Ballads of the supernatural.-- Religious ballads.-- Romantic tragedies.-- Love and sentiment ...

Catching up with London's Goblin Band, vocalist and hurdy-gurdy player Rowan Gatherer tell us the one record we must hear ...

Musician and teacher Dave Ruch, along with Brant Lake singer Colleen Cleveland, are hosting a series of free workshops this week to introduce some “heritage” music from Colleen’s family to area ...