There are few folk songs in American history more famous than Woody Guthrie’s classic “This Land Is Your Land.” He penned the song because he was tired of hearing Kat… See more

There are few people more important to the revival of American folk music than Pete Seeger. He penned the tune “If I Had A Hammer (Hammer Song),” which became one of the … See more

First recorded by Huddie Ledbetter or Lead Belly in 1933, “Irene” would eventually go on to be a number-one hit for Pete Seeger’s group The Weavers in 1950. Lead Belly, with his twe… See more

Written by Elizabeth Cotten when she was a little girl at the turn of the 20th century, it is one of the most important American folk songs. She was discovered as a nanny for the Seeger … See more