It is not absolutely essential to have hair hanging to the waist—but it helps. Other aids: no lipstick, flat shoes, a guitar. So equipped, almost any enterprising girl can begin a career as a folk ...

I couldn’t stop thinking about her story, and knew that one day I wanted to write a song about it. A few months later, in Mexico, I had quite a prolific songwriting phase. Laura Marling talks about ...

Is there anything to folk music worth lecturing about? When acclaimed music writer Scott Alarik stepped into the Commanders Mansion in Watertown last Friday night to deliver a talk on the subject, his ...