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Paul Simon’s debut album is a vibrant, stripped-down introduction to one of the greatest songwriters of our time.

For decades, Buffy Sainte-Marie was celebrated as Americas most famous Indigenous musician. Recent revelations force a reconsideration of her music.

Music may be the glue of every NYC underground scene This Must Be the Place covers, but Jesse Rifkin’s primary interest is in the community held together by that glue.

In the folk music boom in New York in the 1960s, the music of guitarist Mississippi John Hurt was a huge influence on players like Happy Traum, John Sebastian, and others.

You can watch his concert at a private home in person or by livestream on March 19.

Greater New Bedford has been a player on the folk music scene for many years, going back to the Eisteddfod concerts at UMass Dartmouth from 1971 to 1996.

By combining multiple styles, playing techniques, and cultural influences, Ellen McIlwaine challenged notions of genre classification and embraced music as a

Editor’s note: News of David Crosby’s passing came as this article was being prepared for publication. Crosby will be the focus of a future Ramblin’ column.

On the eve of her 80th birthday, Buffy Sainte-Marie spoke to PKM’s Benito Vila. Sainte-Marie has had a six-decade career as a singer, songwriter, teacher, activist and philanthropist.

From the July 2018 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY STEVE JAMES In the close, dimly lit quarters of the subterranean Gaslight Cafe, on MacDougal Street in New York’s Greenwich Village, a lot of what is now music history and legend happened as the basket was passed and the upstairs neighbors called in noise complaints. Besides hosting germinal performances by…