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 ...

Martin Carthy once believed Paul Simon had stolen his 'Scarborough Fair' arrangement. Decades later, the folk legend says he was wrong: 'Paul is an entirely honourable person.' ...

Folk icon Martin Carthy recalls meeting Bob Dylan in 1962 and how the young singer’s first London gig 'disappointed a lot of people.' ...