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Artie Traum, 1943-2008

Obituary by Ken Hunt, The Guardian, 25 July 2008

Musician and producer whose tastes covered folk, jazz and rock ...

Simon & Garfunkel: Snap, Crackle, Pop World of Simon and Garfunkel

Profile and Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 1967

"I WAS NOT prepared for success. My image of myself was not that of a teen star, a Monkees type of scene. I felt very ...

Judy Henske: An Interview

Interview by Richie Unterberger, unpublished, 27 March 2001

ONE OF THE most eclectic early-1960s folk singers, Judy Henske started to use band backup and even drums on some of the recordings in 1963 on ...

Bob Dylan, Lovin' Spoonful, The, Simon & Garfunkel, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Byrds, The: A Symposium: Is Folk Rock Really 'White Rock'?

Letters by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 20 February 1966

TO THE EDITOR: ...

Donovan: 'I Put Myself Into My Music'

Interview by Keith Altham, NME Summer Special, Summer 1968

Donovan is the gentle giant in the pop world. He is largely responsible for shattering the conventional image of the folk singer satirized so beautifully ...

Various Artists: The Folk Years – Blowin' in the Wind

Sleevenotes by Barney Hoskyns, Time-Life Music, 2002

THERE WAS A TIME when the notion of the "folk singer-songwriter" was all but a contradiction in terms. "Folk" music was the ür-sound of the ...

Modern Folk Quartet, The: MFQ Members Are Zany Philosphers

Profile and Interview by Carol Deck, KRLA Beat, 6 November 1965

From Folk to Rock ...

Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel: Paul Simon: Pop think-in

Interview by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 30 April 1966

The biggest thing Dylan has got going for him is his mystique ...

Tim Hardin

Profile and Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Hullabaloo, October 1968

He says that if he doesn't die, he'll be rich and famous. Probably, all things being equal. In most instances, the legend looms larger than ...

Folk, Rock & Other Four-Letter Words

Comment by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, 28 March 1966

THERE HAS BEEN a great increase recently in the number of popular artists whose songs are influenced by or taken from American folk music–both traditional ...

Animals, The, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Byrds, The, Glen Campbell, Judy Collins, Bob Dylan, Richard and Mimi Fariña, Lovin' Spoonful, The, Barry McGuire, P. F. Sloan, Sonny & Cher, Yardbirds, The, Surfaris, The, Spokesmen, The: On Records: The Folk-Rock Rage

Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 30 January 1966

FOLK-ROCK, which mixes the simplicity of folk music with the frenetic rhythmic heat of the electrically amplified sound of rock 'n' roll, caused one of ...

Janis Ian: "I make people uncomfortable"

Retrospective and Interview by Liz Thomson, i, 4 February 2022

56 years after her first single was banned, the musician and songwriter is still causing a ruckus. She tells i about learning from Hendrix, and ...

Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel: Inside The Mind of Paul Simon (part 2)

Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, September 1967

Last month, Paul Simon commented on current singers, songs and his own songwriting. He gets into it again this time along with a dash of ...

Happy Traum: An Interview With Happy Traum

Interview by Ken Hunt, Folk Scene, May 1981

LIKE MANY of his contemporaries, Happy Traum came out of the folk revival on the East Coast in the '60s and although his activities have ...

John Stewart: Wheels of Thunder

Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 18 April 1980

If you can laugh in the face of the fireIf you can dance in the light of the flamesAnd if you don't look down when ...