"Across seven decades, Bob Dylan has been the first singer of American song. As a writer and performer, he has rewritten the national songbook in a way that comes from his own vision and yet can feel as if it belongs to anyone who might listen. In Folk Music, Greil Marcus tells Dylan's story through seven of his most transformative songs. Marcus's point of departure is Dylan's ability to "see myself in others." Like Dylan's songs, this book is a work...

"Listen in as Pete unabashedly shares historical and family stories; tells of learning the banjo, traveling with Woody Guthrie, and finding commercial success with The Weavers; explains how he wrote books and put together songs; delves into controversial subjects like communism and the Peekskill Riots; and highlights those he admired and respected, including Bruce Springsteen, who honoured Pete with his Seeger Sessions album in 2006. Pete and David...

It's all about the Irish culture, starting with an introduction to the Irish Roots Cafe, a discussion about the "Book of Irish Families, great & small", a discussion about the "Irish Families" project, a review of the "Annals of Ireland", an Irish Families broadcast, a Irish in America broadcast, a Irish song and recitation broadcast, a home video showing early trips to Ireland around 1984, a "Danny Boy" chat and sing show with Peter Adams, and much...

(Harmonica). If you're new to the harmonica, you are probably eager to learn some songs. This book provides easy-to-read harmonica tab, standard notation, basic lyrics and chord symbols for the most popular songs in a wide range of styles. Each song was carefully selected and arranged for the 10-hole C diatonic harmonica. Songs include: Ain't No Sunshine * Blowin' in the Wind * Edelweiss * Isn't She Lovely * Jambalaya (On the Bayou) * Kum Ba Yah *...

An oral history of North American folk music revivals that draws on more than 150 interviews to explore the musical, political, and social aspects of the folk revival movement.

Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Llewyn Davis (Oscar Issac) is at a crossroads and struggling to make is as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles- some of them of his own making. Living at the mercy of both friends and strangers, Llewyn's misadventures take him from the baskethouses of Greenwich Village to an empty Chicago club- on an odyssey to audition for...

A biography of Woody Guthrie, a singer who wrote over 3,000 folk songs and ballads as he traveled around the United States, including "This Land is Your Land" and "So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh."