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- Top Folk Songs
- “Diamonds and Rust” by Joan Baez
- “Last Goodbye” by Jeff Buckley
- “Both Sides Now” by Judy Collins
- “Freight Train” by Elizabeth Cotten
- “Helplessly Hoping” by Crosby, Stills and Nash
- “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” by Bob Dylan
- “Box of Rain” by Grateful Dead
- “I Ain’T Got No Home in This World Anymore” by Woody Guthrie
- “Boulder to Birmingham” by Emmylou Harris
“Diamonds and Rust” by Joan Baez“Last Goodbye” by Jeff Buckley“Both Sides Now” by Judy Collins“Freight Train” by Elizabeth Cotten“Diamonds & Rust” is a folk song written, composed, and performed by Joan Baez in 1974-1975. Lyrically the song recounts a surprising phone call from an old lover, which sends Baez a decade back in time to a “crummy” hotel in Greenwich Village. She recalls giving him a pair of cufflinks and infers that memories bring “diamonds and rust”. Baez later...
This 1994 folk song was Buckley’s most commercially successful song in the US, peaking at number 19 on the U.S. Billboard Alternative Songs chart. It was originally titled “Unforgiven”, and had a more classic rock feel and instrumentation. A music video was created for “Last Goodbye”, which showed Buckley and the rest of the band playing the song o...
First recorded by Judy Collins, this popular folk song appeared on the US singles chart during the fall of 1968 and it soon became one of her best-known songs. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the folk song at number 170 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs and, in early 1969, it won a Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance.
“Freight Train” is an American folk song written by Elizabeth Cotten in the early 20th century. By Cotten’s own account, she composed “Freight Train” as a teenager and was inspired by the sound of the trains rolling in on the tracks near her home in North Carolina. She was a one-time nanny for folk singer Peggy Seeger, who took this song with her t...
This 1969 song by the American folk rock group Crosby, Stills, and Nash was featured in many different popular movies at the time of its release. Lyrically, the folk song is about two lovers who don’t know what to do in a psychological setting.
Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan wrote this song in the summer of 1962, and its lyrical structure is modeled after the question and answer form of traditional ballads. The lyrics communicate heavy themes of suffering, pollution, and warfare. Dylan has said that all of the lyrics were taken from the initial lines of songs that “he thought he would never hav...
This folk song has remained a fan favorite since it was released in 1970, and is drawn from folk and country roots. It was the first song to feature Phil Lesh as lead vocalist, and so the crowd would often shout “Let Phil sing!” to hear the song. According to writer Hunter, Lesh “wanted a song to sing to his dying father and had composed a piece co...
In this old folk song the singer laments the difficulties that life presents him. Guthrie said it owes its inspiration to a gospel song he heard on his visits to migrant camps. The gospel song was telling them to accept the hunger and the disease and to not fight back; he wrote his version in response to this, in an attempt to capture more effectiv...
This popular folk song has served as a signature tune for Harris despite never being released as a single, and recounts her feelings of grief following the death of country rock star and mentor Gram Parsons. She did not write again about Parsons’ death in such a direct way until “The Road”, a track released in 2011. In her early career, Harris tour...
1. "This Land Is Your Land" - Woody Guthrie. 2. "Blowin' in the Wind" - Bob Dylan. 3. "City of New Orleans" - Steve Goodman. 4. "If I Had a Hammer" - Pete Seeger. 5. "Where Have All the Flowers...
Apr 28, 2020 · Here are the best folk songs released in 2020 so far. Listen to our Best Folk Songs of 2020 playlist on Spotify. Angelo De Augustine feat. Sufjan Stevens: “Santa Barbara”. Angelo De...
1. 2:52. This Land is Your Land - Woody Guthrie. T.A. Sedlak. •. 410K views • 14 years ago. 2. 6:00. Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone (Official Audio) •. 46M views • 6 years ago. 3. 2:20. Joni...
