“Hang down your head, Tom Dooley, hang down your head and cry. Hang down your head, Tom Dooley, poor boy, you’re bound to die.” This North Carolina folk song is based on the 1866 murder of a woman ...

The Kingston Trio — consisting of original members Nick Reynolds, Bob Shane and Dave Guard — pretty much kickstarted the once maligned American folk genre with their first international hit, “Tom ...

I still carry the memory of the first time I really heard a folk song. One Sunday evening in 1981, Casey Kasem was on my clock radio nearing the end of his Top 40 Countdown. It was suddenly time for a ...