At a music-filled evening in Delhi, Tony Seeger, nephew of legendary American folk singer Pete Seeger, traced how archives, ...

Italian folk music is humble, warm and full of life, but its popularity has sharply faded over the past century. Fortunately, ...

Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict ...

Salsburg has access to tens of thousands of recordings in the Lomax archive, but he decided against using them because “it didn’t feel like they were mine to mess with.” He started focusing ...

Alan Lomax had been capturing field recordings for decades, so a campfire hardly ranks high among the list weird places to make an album. But British producer Pete Lawrence captured the then ...

The new film about the early years of Bob Dylan’s career, A Complete Unknown, is a brilliant, must-see film. Timothée Chalamet is outstanding a the young Dylan — not only as an actor, but as a ...

Going into Sunday’s 2025 Grammy Awards, Beyoncé led the way with 11 nominations — and she left with the top prize of the ...

He left Memphis to settle in Como, Mississippi and that’s where he was living when Alan Lomax came by with a tape recorder in 1959; fate was kind this time. His recording of “Highway 61” is ...