Grandparents can be great storytellers, too, and the aptly titled Grandfather Tales: American-English Folk Tales, edited by Richard Chase, illus. by Berkeley Williams Jr. (first published in 1948 ...

For World Folklore Day, here are four songs based on myths and folk tales, including songs from Hozier, The Decemberists, and more. It’s World Folklore Day: 4 Songs Inspired by Folk Tales and ...

Few folk songs capture the American experience quite like Woody Guthrie’s classic “This Land Is Your Land”. Guthrie was ahead of his time with this 1945 release.

In American culture, our folk heroes—from Br'er Rabbit to Johnny Appleseed—serve to explain nature's mysteries (Paul Bunyan forming the Grand Canyon, for example) or exalt real people's ...

With his 2020 album Spider Tales, Blount summons a rich history of American folk songs written and sung by Black and Indigenous musicians, tunes that have been there throughout the history of this ...

American folklore is an oral tradition, making it hard to pin down definitive myths. But that also gave those working on South of Midnight the freedom to create, said Zaire Lanier, a writer and ...

The 13th-century Persian poet Sa’di suggests these in his poetry, and through the folk songs – American, English, Persian, and Azerbaijani – you will hear people pining for their distant lovers.

Celebrate America with these 13 great country songs by hitmakers Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Hank Williams Jr., Waylon Jennings and more.