Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With its poetic lyrics and haunting melodies, contemporary folk music is, at its best, deeply evocative. The elusive genre is hard ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Taylor Swift’s Folklore rises from No. 61 to No. 45 on the ...

The best folk albums tend to suit this time of year—the muddy oranges, browns and greens; the slowing-down after frenzied summers; the darkness. Blending an embrace of the melancholy with an interest ...

Tom Waits has journeyed across many genres over the years, but folk has always been his home. Here he picks out his ...

Taylor Swift is celebrating Folklore’s fourth anniversary. Swift marked the milestone during her Eras Tour show in Hamburg, Germany, on Wednesday, July 24. The singer, 34, released her Grammy-winning ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Seven Taylor Swift albums chart in the U.K. this week, with ...

The timelessness of great folk music makes it something that never goes out of style, and something that we just can’t seem to ever get enough of. Sometimes, time-tested folk traditions infiltrate the ...

Taylor Swift’s Folklore completely changed my perspective on her music. Explore the songwriting, production, storytelling, ...

The 1960s were the golden era of folk music. You could go to a record store and pick virtually any folk album from that era, and it’ll probably be a splendid listening experience. That being said, so ...

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Folk music is one of those styles of music that really defies time. We tried not to reuse too many of the same '60s/'70s reference points in the reviews on this list, but it's so tempting because ...