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Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn

Silver Threads and Golden Needles

Music video 25 October 2009

"Music video by Dolly Parton; Tammy Wynette; Loretta Lynn

performing Silver Threads And Golden Needles.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO4SYPRa3pI

Lainey Wilson USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Lainey_Wilson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Lainey_Wilson_discography

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/15/
arts/music/lainey-wilson-whirlwind.html

Jelly Roll USA

real name Jason DeFord

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Jelly_Roll_(singer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Jelly_Roll_discography

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/
magazine/jelly-roll-interview.html

Wyatt Flores USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/
arts/music/wyatt-flores-half-life.html

Alana Springsteen USA

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/
1187567634/new-music-friday-the-best-releases-out-on-july-14

Mya Byrne USA

https://www.npr.org/artists/1161007044/
mya-byrne

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/01/
1170993317/mya-byrne-rhinestone-tomboy

Molly Tuttle USA

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/03/
1151332296/2023-grammy-awards-nominees-molly-tuttle

Billy Strings USA

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/26/
1137443715/bluegrass-icon-billy-strings-brings-it-back-home-
on-new-album-with-his-dad

Brent Cobb USA

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/28/
1076306289/country-singer-brent-cobb-explores-his-faith-
on-new-gospel-album

Morgan Wallen USA

https://www.npr.org/artists/963693317/
morgan-wallen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Morgan_Wallen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Morgan_Wallen_discography

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/29/
nx-s1-5413566/morgan-wallen-im-the-problem

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/28/
g-s1-69323/morgan-wallen-im-the-problem-takes-over-charts

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/
arts/music/morgan-wallen-im-the-problem.html

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/dec/12/
morgan-wallen-sentenced-chair-throwing

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/08/
morgan-wallen-arrested-nashville

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jun/24/
morgan-wall

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/16/
morgan-wallen-popular-country-music-songs

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/feb/03/
morgan-wallen-racial-slur-video-suspended

Mustafa Canada

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/
arts/music/mustafa-when-smoke-rises.html

Lukas Nelson USA

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/
822790852/lukas-nelson-on-staying-home-and-focusing-on-the-music

Swamp Dogg USA

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/09/
812921234/swamp-dogg-on-reinvention-country-music-and-getting-another-rolls-royce

Jon Pardi USA

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/19/
761619877/first-listen-jon-pardi-heartache-medication

Billy Ray Cyrus USA

Lil Nas X - Old Town Road (Official Movie) ft. Billy Ray Cyrus

Video Lil Nas X 17 May 2019

Official video for Lil Nas X’s Billboard #1 hit,

“Old Town Road (Remix)” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus.

Special guest appearances

from Chris Rock, Haha Davis, Rico Nasty,

Diplo, Jozzy, Young Kio, and Vince Staples.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2Ov5jzm3j8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Billy_Ray_Cyrus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Billy_Ray_Cyrus_discography

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/17/
724339197/lil-nas-xs-old-town-road-video-is-here-to-lasso-the-yeehaw-agenda

The Lumineers USA

alternative folk band based in Denver, Colorado.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_Lumineers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_Lumineers_discography

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/mar/10/
the-lumineers-how-we-made-ho-hey

https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2020/01/10/
795210296/the-lumineers-iii-tells-a-deeply-personal-story

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/13/
759883987/the-lumineers-trace-the-cycle-of-addiction-it-s-a-progressive-disease

Steve Earle USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Steve_Earle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Steve_Earle_discography

https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2019/01/09/
683332861/steve-earle-sings-to-his-hero-guy-clark

James Taylor USA

Taylor’s breakout second album, Sweet Baby James.

Photograph: Warner Bros

‘I was a bad influence on the Beatles':

James Taylor on Lennon, love and recovery

The Guardian

Mon 17 Feb 2020 06.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/17/
james-taylor-i-was-a-bad-influence-on-the-beatles-lennon-love-and-a-life-in-song

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/20/
1008271419/joni-mitchell-masterpiece-at-50-her-kind-of-blue

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
James_Taylor

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/17/
james-taylor-
i-was-a-bad-influence-on-the-beatles-lennon-love-and-a-life-in-song

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/09/
803843220/james-taylor-narrates-life-before-fame-
and-sings-american-standards-on-new-album

Jason Eady USA

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/02/
633950286/first-listen-jason-eady-i-travel-on

Kathy Mattea USA

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/19/
649318596/how-kathy-mattea-got-back-her-voice-with-pretty-bird

Priscilla Renea USA

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/23
/622316454/priscilla-renea-refuses-to-be-quiet-about-racism-in-country-music

Bobbie Gentry USA

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/09/
692443686/bobbie-gentrys-the-delta-sweete-gets-a-much-belated-tribute

Tom Paxton USA

https://www.npr.org/2013/11/04/
243014999/tom-paxton-on-mountain-stage

Shania Twain Canada

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/sep/28/
shania-twain-now-review-bouncing-back-with-country-pop-queen

Garth Brooks USA

https://www.npr.org/artists/121341224/
garth-brooks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Garth_Brooks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Garth_Brooks_discography

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/04/
nx-s1-5139950/garth-brooks-sexual-assault-accusation-lawsuit

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/05/
arts/music/garth-brooks-yankee-stadium.html

Maren Larae Morris USA

http://www.npr.org/2016/04/01/
472543486/one-year-later-maren-morris-on-the-song-that-changed-her-life

Reba McEntire USA

http://www.npr.org/2017/02/04/
513315456/reba-mcentires-new-album-is-a-dedication-to-family-and-faith

Bellowhead UK

http://www.theguardian.com/music/
bellowhead

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/19/
bellowhead-revival-review

folk music archive > The Full English

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jul/25/
full-english-revive-musical-heritage

The Chicks (formerly the Dixie Chicks) USA

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/
the-chicks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_Chicks

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/23/
arts/music/laura-lynch-dead.html

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/23/
1221456277/laura-lynch-founding-member-of-the-chicks-dies-at-65-
in-texas-car-crash

Margaret LeAnn Rimes Cibrian USA

known professionally

as LeAnn Rimes

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/
arts/music/spitfire-by-leann-rimes.html

Blake Tollison Shelton USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/
arts/music/blake-shelton-gets-naughty-on-based-on-a-true-story.html

Bridie Monds-Watson – aka SOAK Ireland

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2013/jan/26/
soak-sea-creatures-other-voices-festival-video

Martin Carthy UK

https://www.theguardian.com/music/
martin-carthy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Martin_Carthy

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/may/21/
martin-carthy-bob-dylan-paul-simon-scarborough-fair-new-album

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/17/
martin-carthy-interview-ed-vulliamy

Mumford & Sons UK

https://www.theguardian.com/music/
mumford-and-sons

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jul/01/
mumford-and-sons-glastonbury-2013-review

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/oct/24/
pass-notes-mumford-sons

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/may/30/
mumford-and-sons-music-festivals

Laura Beatrice Marling UK

https://www.theguardian.com/music/
laura-marling

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/19/
laura-marling-review-meltdown-royal-festival-hall-london

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/apr/28/
laura-marling-interview-once-eagle

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/sep/01/
laura-marling-interview-confidence

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/05/
laura-marling-mercury-prize-marcus-mumford

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/audio/2010/mar/31/
music-weekly-laura-marling

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog+laura-marling

Toby Keith USA

multi-platinum-selling singer

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/13/
1104545869/country-singer-toby-keith-says-he-has-stomach-cancer

Taylor Swift USA

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
taylor-swift

https://www.theguardian.com/music/
taylor-swift

https://www.npr.org/artists/120581188/
taylor-swift

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/07/
business/media/losing-a-few-hay-bales-country-music-
goes-mainstream.html

George Strait USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
George_Strait

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
George_Strait_albums_discography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
George_Strait_singles_discography

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/17/
nx-s1-5008701/george-strait-concert-attendance-record

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/
arts/music/01strait.html

Diana Jones USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Diana_Jones_(singer-songwriter)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/
arts/music/31warr.html

John Rich USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
John_Rich

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/arts/music/
31rich.html

Tracy Chapman USA

Lucinda Williams USA

https://www.npr.org/2016/02/09/
465334832/on-her-new-album-lucinda-williams-is-driven-not-comfortable

The Judds USA

Grammy-award winning

country music duo

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/04/
1096422813/naomi-judd-country-music-mother

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/30/
1095779831/noami-judd-dead

Julie Ann Felix USA / UK

Julie Felix at a party with Paul McCartney

around 1966.

At the time she was the resident singer

on the satirical TV show The Frost Report.

Photograph: J Barry Peake

Rex/Shutterstock

Once more with Julie Felix:

at 80, the folk star playing after all these years

Sat 19 May 2018 20.59 BST

Last modified on Sat 19 May 2018 22.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/19/
julie-felix-80-birthday-interview-beatnik-folk-star-leonard-cohen

Christy Moore Ireland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Christy_Moore

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/
arts/music/christy-moore.html

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/26/
christy-moore-a-terrible-beauty-review-
stirring-tales-of-the-polemical-and-the-personal

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/nov/20/
christy-moore-flying-into-mystery-review-a-storytelling-masterclass

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/19/
christy-moore-lily-review-folk-cd-sony-music

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/apr/18/
christie-moore-review-royal-festival-hall

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/27/
christy-moore-where-from-review

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/apr/05/
christy-moore-review

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/apr/19/
christy-moore-listen-review

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/oct/30/
folk

Charlie McCoy USA

https://www.npr.org/2015/08/08/
429989179/the-real-charlie-mccoy-
a-musical-quarterback-of-1960s-nashville

Fairport Convention UK

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/may/13/
fairport-convention-review

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/aug/05/
folk.festivals

Simon and Garfunkel USA

Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence (from The Concert in Central Park)

Music video recorded on September 19, 1981,

in Central Park, New York City, USA.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAEppFUWLfc

https://www.npr.org/artists/98847896/
simon-garfunkel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Simon_&_Garfunkel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Simon_&_Garfunkel_discography

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/11/
i-was-a-fool-art-garfunkel-describes-tearful-reunion-with-paul-simon

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/01/23/
no-split-between-simon-and-garfunkel-over-bernie-sanderss-use-of-their-song/

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/19/
arts/music/19arts-SIMONANDGARF_BRF.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/03/
nyregion/pop-review-simon-and-garfunkel-together-again-but-worn-by-time.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/02/
arts/folk-pop-a-stadium-full-of-simon-and-garfunkel.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/13/
arts/simon-and-garfunkel-tour.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/28/
arts/it-s-simon-garfunkel-again-old-friends-memory-brushes-
same-years-silently.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/20/
nyregion/a-60-s-sound-is-replayed-to-perfection.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/20/
nyregion/simon-garfunkel-reunion-jams-central-park.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/18/
arts/simon-and-garfunkel-take-on-central-park.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/12/
arts/simon-and-garfunkel-in-central-park-concert.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/07/
archives/simon-garfunkel-better-as-partners.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/11/02/
archives/simon-and-garfunkel-last-time-together-simon-and-garfunkel.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/10/20/
archives/tv-simon-and-garfunkel-reunion-on-nbcs-saturday-night.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1969/11/28/
archives/simon-and-garfunkel-perform-to-full-house-in-carnegie-hall.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1968/05/05/
archives/simon-and-garfunkel-no-more-alienation.html

Arlo Guthrie USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Arlo_Guthrie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Arlo_Guthrie_discography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Woody_Guthrie

https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/11/22/
alice-brock-alices-restaurant-dies

Margaret "Peggy" Seeger UK, USA

folk singer and songwriter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Peggy_Seeger

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/may/15/
musician-peggy-seeger-questions

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/may/04/
post-your-questions-for-folk-music-legend-peggy-seeger

Kris Kristofferson USA 1936-2024

Surfacing from the depths … Kris Kristofferson circa 1968.

Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

Kris Kristofferson:

the soldier turned star made a tough life into tender poetry

No other musician could have landed a helicopter

in Johnny Cash’s yard to deliver a new tune,

or renounced a debut in praise of the Vietnam war

with decades of activist songs

Mon 30 Sep 2024 18.13 CEST

Last modified on Mon 30 Sep 2024 18.15 CEST

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/sep/30/
kris-kristofferson-the-soldier-turned-star-made-a-tough-life-into-tender-poetry

He wrote songs

for hundreds of other artists,

including “Me and Bobby McGee” for Janis Joplin

and “Sunday Morning Coming Down”

for Johnny Cash

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/
obituaries/kris-kristofferson-dead.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Kris_Kristofferson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Kris_Kristofferson_discography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Kris_Kristofferson_filmography

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/
arts/music/kris-kristofferson-myths-music-movies.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/
arts/music/kris-kristofferson-photos.html

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/sep/30/
kris-kristofferson-the-soldier-turned-star-made-a-tough-life-into-tender-poetry

https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2024/sep/30/
kris-kristofferson-death-age-88-life-in-pictures-career

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/sep/30/
kris-kristofferson-us-country-singer-and-actor-dies-aged-88

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/29/
1042510168/kris-kristofferson-musical-rebel-and-movie-star-has-died-
at-age-88

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/
obituaries/kris-kristofferson-dead.html

Roni Stoneman USA 1938-2024

Roni Stoneman in the 1960s.

Her death leaves only one surviving member of her large musical family,

which was inducted into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame.

Photograph: Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Roni Stoneman, Country Music’s ‘First Lady of the Banjo,’ Dies at 85

A featured player on ‘Hee Haw’ and a member of the famed Stoneman Family,

she was the first woman to play modern bluegrass banjo on a phonograph record.

NYT

Published Feb. 26, 2024

Updated Feb. 27, 2024 10:03 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/
arts/music/roni-stoneman-dead.html

the first woman to play modern bluegrass banjo

on a phonograph record.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/
arts/music/roni-stoneman-dead.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Roni_Stoneman

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/
arts/music/roni-stoneman-dead.html

Toby Keith Covel USA 1961-2024

known professionally as Toby Keith

larger-than-life singer-songwriter

of No. 1 country hits like “Who’s Your Daddy?”

and “Made in America”

and one of the biggest stars

to come out of Nashville in three decades

(...)

Singing in an alternately declamatory

and crooning baritone,

Mr. Keith cultivated a boisterous,

in-your-face persona with recordings like

“I Wanna Talk About Me”

and “Beer for My Horses.”

Built around clever wordplay

and droll humor — and more than

a little macho bluster —

both topped the Billboard country chart,

with “Beer for My Horses,”

a twangy, Rolling Stones-style rocker

that featured Willie Nelson

as guest vocalist,

crossing over to the pop Top 40.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/
arts/music/toby-keith-dead.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Toby_Keith

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Toby_Keith_discography

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/06/
1229407614/toby-keith-dies-cancer

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/
arts/music/toby-keith-dead.html

Roger Henry Brough Whittaker UK 1936-2023

folk singer famous for Durham Town

British singer, who retired in 2012,

sold nearly 50m records worldwide

after breakthrough in 1962

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/18/
roger-whittaker-folk-singer-famous-for-durham-town-dies-aged-87

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Roger_Whittaker

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/20/
roger-whittaker-obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/18/
roger-whittaker-folk-singer-famous-for-durham-town-dies-aged-87

Len Hunt Chandler Jr. USA 1935-2023

early fixture of the folk music revival

that swept through Greenwich Village

in the late 1950s and ’60s

and who sang alongside Pete Seeger,

Bob Dylan, Joan Baez

and other higher-profile stars

at civil rights marches

and Vietnam War protests

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/
arts/music/len-chandler-dead.html

Gordon Lightfoot Canada 1938-2023

Canadian folk singer

whose rich, plaintive baritone

and gift for melodic songwriting

made him one of the most popular

recording artists of the 1970s,

(...)

Mr. Lightfoot, a fast-rising star in Canada

in the early 1960s,

broke through to international success

when his friends and fellow Canadians

Ian and Sylvia Tyson recorded

two of his songs,

“Early Morning Rain” and “For Lovin’ Me.”

When Peter, Paul and Mary

came out with their own versions,

and Marty Robbins reached

the top of the country charts

with Mr. Lightfoot’s “Ribbon of Darkness,”

Mr. Lightfoot’s reputation soared.

Overnight, he joined

the ranks of songwriters like

Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs and Tom Paxton,

all of whom influenced his style.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/
arts/music/gordon-lightfoot-dead.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Gordon_Lightfoot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Gordon_Lightfoot_discography

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/03/
gordon-lightfoot-obituary

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/
arts/music/gordon-lightfoot-songs.html

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/01/
133464279/gordon-lightfoot-canadian-folk-legend-
dies-at-84

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/
arts/music/gordon-lightfoot-dead.html

David Crosby USA 1941-2023

Loretta Lynn USA 1932-2022

country music icon

who brought unparalleled candor

about the domestic realities

of working-class women

to country songwriting

— and taught those who came after her

to speak their minds, too –

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/04/
847558281/loretta-lynn-obituary

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/09/
1127747127/personifying-a-country-ideal-
loretta-lynn-tackled-sexism-through-a-complicated-l

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/08/
1127230406/loretta-lynn-country-music-politics-republicans

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/05/
arts/music/loretta-lynn-coal-miners-daughter.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/05/
opinion/loretta-lynn-dead-remembrance.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/
arts/music/loretta-lynn.html

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/oct/04/
loretta-lynn-obituary

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/04/
847558281/loretta-lynn-obituary

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/
arts/music/loretta-lynn-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/
arts/music/loretta-lynn-mines-a-legacy-of-heartaches-and-high-notes.html

https://www.npr.org/2000/04/16/
1072994/coal-miners-daughter

Paul Karl Siebel USA 1937-2022

Paul Siebel in performance.

“He was a great singer and songwriter,” a colleague said.

“But he had the worst stage fright of anyone I ever met.”

Photograph: GAB Archive/Redferns

via Getty Images

Paul Siebel, Singer Whose Career Was Notable but Brief, Dies at 84

He arrived on the Greenwich Village folk scene in the mid-1960s

and drew comparisons to Dylan.

But he left the music business not long after.

NYT

April 16, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/16/
arts/music/paul-siebel-dead.html

folk singer and songwriter

who drew comparisons to Bob Dylan

in the 1960s and ’70s

but dropped out of the music business,

hindered by stage fright

and disappointed by the lack of attention

his work received

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/16/
arts/music/paul-siebel-dead.html

Ian Dawson Tyson Canada 1933-2022

A rancher for most of his life,

he began his music career

as half of the folk-era duo Ian and Sylvia

and was also celebrated

for his commitment to the culture

of Canada’s ranch country.

Before Canadian musicians like

Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot,

Joni Mitchell or Leonard Cohen,

there was Ian Tyson.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/
arts/music/ian-tyson-dead.html

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/31/
1146446836/ian-tyson-dies-folk

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/
arts/music/ian-tyson-dead.html

Mary Noel McCaslin USA 1946-2022

folk singer

who lamented the lost Old West

A songwriter in her own right,

she was known

for renditions of pop and rock songs,

“Pinball Wizard” among them,

that made them sound

like mountain ballads.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/
arts/music/mary-mccaslin-dead.html

Nanci Caroline Griffith USA 1953-2021

Grammy-winning singer and songwriter

who kept one foot in folk

and the other in country

and was blessed with a soaring voice

equally at home in both genres

(...)

While Ms. Griffith often wrote

political and confessional material,

her best-loved songs

were closely observed

tales of small-town life,

sometimes with painful details

in the lyrics, but typically sung

with a deceptive prettiness.

Her song

“Love at the Five and Dime,”

for example,

tracks a couple’s romance

from its teenage origins

when “Rita was 16 years/

Hazel eyes and chestnut hair/

She made the Woolworth counter shine”

through old age,

when “Eddie traveled with the barroom bands/

till arthritis took his hands/

Now he sells insurance on the side.”

The song was a country hit in 1986

— but for Kathy Mattea,

not for Ms. Griffith.

Similarly, while Ms. Griffith

was the first person to record

“From a Distance,”

written by Julie Gold,

the song was later a smash hit

for Bette Midler.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/
arts/music/nanci-griffith-dead.html

John Prine USA 1946-2020

David Anthony Rice / Tony Rice USA 1951-2020

nimble king of flatpicking

(who) had enormous influence

on a host of prominent musicians.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/
arts/music/tony-rice-dead.html

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/29/
951149547/tony-rice-was-my-guitar-hero

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/
arts/music/tony-rice-dead.html

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/27/
950648546/tony-rice-a-giant-of-the-acoustic-guitar-dead-at-69

Kenny Rogers USA 1938-2020

https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2020/mar/21/
kenny-rogers-a-life-in-pictures

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/21/
819445428/country-music-legend-kenny-rogers-dies

Charley Pride USA 1934-2020

Country music’s first Black superstar

He cemented his place

in the country pantheon in the 1970s

with hits including

“Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’”

and

“Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/12/
arts/music/charley-pride-dead.html

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/16/
946727442/theres-only-one-charley-pride

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/
arts/music/charley-pride-country-race-covid-19.html

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/12/
945895767/charley-pride-country-musics-first-major-black-star-
dies-at-86

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/12/
arts/music/charley-pride-dead.html

Charles Edward Daniels USA 1936-2020

singer, songwriter, bandleader

and player of many instruments

(...)

Charlie Daniels was born Oct. 28, 1936

in Wilmington, North Carolina.

He started out playing bluegrass locally

with the Misty Mountain Boys

before moving to Nashville in 1967.

He was already becoming known

as a songwriter as well;

he co-wrote an Elvis Presley song,

"It Hurts Me," in 1964.

By the late 1960s,

he was already becoming

an important link between

country music and artists outside the country

and Southern-rock spheres.

He played guitar and bass guitar

on Bob Dylan's 1969 project Nashville Skyline,

and later worked with Leonard Cohen,

George Harrison and others.

He and his band also appeared

in the 1980 film Urban Cowboy.

As the bandleader

of the Charlie Daniels Band,

he began hosting the Volunteer Jam

in 1974 in Nashville.

Over the years,

this wide-ranging festival

featured artists like John Prine,

Lynyrd Skynyrd, James Brown,

Carl Perkins, Emmylou Harris

and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/06/
887659960/charlie-daniels-who-sang-of-the-devil-in-georgia-is-dead-at-83

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/07/
charlie-daniels-fiddle-player-and-country-music-legend-dies-aged-83

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/06/
887659960/charlie-daniels-who-sang-of-the-devil-in-georgia-is-dead-at-83

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/
arts/music/charlie-daniels-dead.html

Bob Shane USA 1934-2020

(born Robert Castle Schoen)

Bob Shane (was) the last surviving

original member of the Kingston Trio,

whose smooth close harmonies

helped transform folk music

from a dusty niche genre

into a dominant brand of pop music

in the 1950s and ’60s

(...)

Mr. Shane, whose whiskey baritone

was the group’s most identifiable voice

on hits like “Tom Dooley”

and “Scotch and Soda,”

sang lead on more than 80 percent

of the Kingston Trio’s songs.

He didn’t just outlast

the other original members,

Dave Guard, who died in 1991,

and Nick Reynolds, who died in 2008;

he also eventually took ownership

of the group’s name

and devoted his life

to various incarnations of the trio,

from its founding in 1957

to 2004, when a heart attack

forced him to stop touring.

Along the way,

the trio spearheaded a reinvention of folk

as a youthful mass-media phenomenon;

at its peak, in 1959,

the group put four albums

in the Top 10 at the same time.

Touring into the 21st century,

the Kingston Trio remained

a nostalgic presence for its fans,

drawing many to its annual

Trio Fantasy Camp in Scottsdale, Ariz.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/
arts/music/bob-shane-kingston-trio-dies.html

Anne Leonard Bredon / Anne Johannsen USA 1930-2019

(born Anne Loeb)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Anne_Bredon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Babe_I%27m_Gonna_Leave_You

Donald Ray Fritts USA 1942-2019

songwriter, singer and piano player

who helped shape both

the soul music made

in Muscle Shoals, Ala., in the 1960s

and the outlaw country sensibility

that bucked Nashville norms

in the 1970s

(...)

Though better known to enthusiasts

of American roots music

than to the general public

— and probably better known as the pianist

in Kris Kristofferson’s band

than as a performer in his own right —

Mr. Fritts was a creative force

in Southern popular music

for more than two decades.

As part of a close circle of songwriters

working in Northern Alabama in the ’60s,

he wrote or co-wrote signature songs

for the likes of the soul singer

Arthur Alexander

(“Rainbow Road,” with Dan Penn)

and the Box Tops

(“Choo Choo Train,” with Eddie Hinton).

“Choo Choo Train” is also featured

on the soundtrack

of Quentin Tarantino’s latest movie,

“Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/
arts/music/donnie-fritts-dead.html

John Cohen USA 1932-2019

founding member

of the New Lost City Ramblers,

the New York-based string band

at the forefront of the old-time music

revival of the 1950s and ’60s

(...)

Although best known as a performer,

Mr. Cohen was also

an accomplished photographer,

filmmaker and musicologist.

But virtually all his artistic pursuits

were centered on a single goal:

revitalizing the traditional music

of the rural American South

and building a movement around it.

Established in 1958,

the Ramblers consisted of Mr. Cohen

on banjo, guitar and vocals;

the folklorist Mike Seeger,

also on vocals,

as well as fiddle

and other instruments;

and Tom Paley,

who left the trio in 1962,

on banjo, guitar and vocals.

Together

the three men introduced

a generation of young urbanites

to the work of Depression-era

rural performers like Dock Boggs,

Elizabeth Cotten

and Blind Alfred Reed.

(Tracy Schwarz,

Mr. Paley’s replacement,

played fiddle and guitar

and sang with the group

from 1962 until the early 1970s.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/
arts/music/john-cohen-dead.html

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/oct/14/
john-cohen-obituary

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/
arts/music/john-cohen-dead.html

Bonnie Guitar USA 1923-2019

(born Bonnie Buckingham)

Bonnie Guitar

(...)

had hit records

as a country singer and guitarist,

but (her) biggest achievement

may have been her work

as a businesswoman

in the male-dominated music industry

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/
obituaries/bonnie-guitar-dead.html

Don Williams USA 1939-2017

Glen Travis Campbell USA 1936-2017

Glen Travis Campbell

was born on April 22, 1936,

about 80 miles southwest

of Little Rock, Ark.,

between Billstown and Delight,

where his father sharecropped

120 acres of cotton.

He was the seventh son

in a family of eight boys and four girls.

When he was 4,

his father ordered him

a three-quarter-size guitar for $5

from Sears, Roebuck.

He was performing

on local radio stations

by the time he was 6.

Picking up music from the radio

and his church’s gospel hymns,

he “got tired of looking a mule in the butt,”

as Mr. Campbell put it in an interview

with The New York Times in 1968.

He quit school at 14

and went to Albuquerque,

where his father’s brother-in-law,

Dick Bills, had a band

and was appearing

on both radio and television.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/
arts/music/glen-campbell-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2017/08/08/
obituaries/glen-campbell-artist-who-bridged-pop-and-country-has-died/
s/08GLEN-slide-MZL0.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/
arts/music/glen-campbell-dead.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/08/
523951843/glen-campbell-country-music-legend-is-dead-at-81

Rosalie Sorrels USA 1933-2017

(born Rosalie Ann Stringfellow)

singer and storyteller who drew

on her own tempestuous life

in songs of struggle and heartache

that inspired a generation

of rising folk musicians in the 1980s

(...)

Ms. Sorrels (pronounced sore-ELS)

first came to widespread attention

at the 1966 Newport Folk Festival,

where she performed

traditional songs from Idaho,

her native state, and Utah,

where she lived with her family.

She soon began writing her own material,

about life on the road her marital difficulties

and the challenges of raising children.

She then broadened

her scope to include social issues

like prison reform, suicide prevention

and women’s rights.

As a singer, Ms. Sorrels

was influenced by Billie Holiday,

and her jazz-inflected phrasings

often perplexed her accompanists.

But she delivered her songs

with a throbbing intensity

that came straight

from the folk tradition.

The critic John Rockwell,

describing her voice

in The New York Times in 1979,

wrote, “It’s full and rich,

with a plaintive vibrato

that thins out delicately on top,

unless she’s pushing for volume,

in which case it becomes

— if such a thing is possible —

an evocative, stirring bray.”

Ms. Sorrels developed

a storytelling approach,

surrounding her songs

with tales of her childhood,

her parents and grandparents,

and the early settlers of the West.

The effect could be incantatory.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/
arts/music/rosalie-sorrels-dead-folk-singer-songwriter.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/06/15/
533080629/the-difficult-adventurous-happy-life-of-rosalie-sorrels

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/
arts/music/rosalie-sorrels-dead-folk-singer-songwriter.html

Claude Putman Jr. USA 1930-2016

songwriter whose teary ballad

with a twist ending,

“The Green, Green Grass of Home,”

became a worldwide hit

for Tom Jones in 1967,

and whose long string of country classics

included “D-I-V-O-R-C-E”

for Tammy Wynette

and “He Stopped Loving Her Today”

for George Jones

(...)

Mr. Putman turned out

hundreds of songs,

many of them country chart-toppers,

after moving to Nashville

and signing with Tree Publishing

in the early 1960s.

He was renowned as a song doctor

who could transform

a promising tune into a sure thing,

and although he often wrote solo,

many of his greatest hits

were collaborative efforts.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/arts/music/curly-putnam-died.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/
arts/music/curly-putnam-died.html

Glenn Robertson Yarbrough USA 1930-2016

folk singer who at midcentury

found fame and fortune

with the popular trio the Limeliters

but who walked away from it all

for a life at sea

(...)

Founded in 1959, the Limeliters

— comprising Mr. Yarbrough

on vocals and guitar,

Alex Hassilev on vocals and banjo

and Lou Gottlieb on vocals and bass —

was a contemporary folk group

in the tradition of the Kingston Trio.

Known for

their burnished tight harmonies,

sophisticated if nontraditional arrangements

and witty onstage banter,

the Limeliters were wildly successful.

Amid the folk revival of the 1960s,

they appeared often on television

and in live performance, sold records

by the hundreds of thousands

and became millionaires in the bargain.

By all critical accounts,

Mr. Yarbrough’s silvery lyric tenor

— a voice whose lightness

belied his stocky appearance —

was the group’s acoustic linchpin,

soaring memorably in traditional tunes

including “John Henry”

and contemporary numbers

like “Charlie, the Midnight Marauder,”

about a hapless suburbanite

who one night mistakenly enters

the wrong house.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/13/
arts/music/glenn-yarbrough-folk-singer-with-the-limeliters-dies-at-86.html

Ralph Edmond Stanley USA 1927-2016

singer, banjo player and guardian

of unvarnished mountain music

who was also a pivotal figure

in the recent revival of interest in bluegrass

(...)

Though widely regarded

as one of the founding fathers of bluegrass,

Mr. Stanley said on numerous occasions

that he did not believe

his music was representative of the genre.

“Old-time mountain style,

that’s what I like to call it,”

he explained in a 2001 interview

with the online music magazine SonicNet.

(...)

He grew up listening

to the music of the Carter Family

and singing in the ardent,

unaccompanied style

of the Primitive Baptist Church.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/
arts/music/ralph-stanley-whose-mountain-music-gave-rise-to-bluegrass-dies-at-89.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/
arts/music/ralph-stanley-whose-mountain-music-gave-rise-to-bluegrass-
dies-at-89.html

Guy Charles Clark USA 1941-2016

Merle Ronald Haggard USA 1937-2016

Bonnie Lou USA 1924-2015

born Mary Joan Kath

singer who achieved national stardom in the 1950s

by recording hit country and rockabilly records

and performing on television and radio

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/
arts/music/bonnie-lou-country-and-rockabilly-star-of-the-1950s-dies-at-91.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/11/
arts/music/bonnie-lou-country-and-rockabilly-star-of-the-1950s-
dies-at-91.html

Lynn Rene Anderson USA 1947-2015

Lynn Anderson (...) skyrocketed

to country music stardom in 1970

singing her signature song,

“(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden”

(...)

“Rose Garden,”

written by Joe South,

became a crossover hit,

soaring to the top

of both the country and pop charts

and earning Ms. Anderson a Grammy in 1971.

An album of the same title

was the top-selling one

by a female country artist from 1971 to 1997.

Ms. Anderson attributed the song’s popularity

to its emotional tug

as the nation was trying

to recover from the war in Vietnam.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/01/
arts/music/lynn-anderson-singer-of-rose-garden-dies-at-67.html

James Edward Brown USA 1934-2015

Grand Ole Opry star

whose smooth, sweet baritone

made him a chart-topper

as a solo act, in duets

with Helen Cornelius

and as one third of the close-harmony

group the Browns, whose 1959 hit

“The Three Bells”

sold more than a million records

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/
arts/music/jim-ed-brown-smooth-voice-on-the-three-bells-and-other-hits-dies-at-81.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/13/
arts/music/jim-ed-brown-smooth-voice-on-the-three-bells-and-other-hits-
dies-at-81.html

Jean Ruth Ritchie USA 1922-2015

Jean Ritchie

(...)

brought hundreds of traditional songs

from her native Appalachia

to a wide audience

— singing of faith and unfaithfulness,

murder and revenge,

love unrequited and love lost —

and in the process helped

ignite the folk song revival

of the mid-20th century

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/
arts/music/jean-ritchie-who-revived-appalachian-folk-songs-dies-at-92.html

John Paul Gimble USA 1926-2015

virtuoso Texas fiddler who played

with a roster of country superstars

including Bob Wills, Marty Robbins,

Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson

and George Strait

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/14/
arts/music/johnny-gimble-who-fiddled-his-way-from-a-flatbed-truck-to-fame-
dies-at-88.html

Guy Hughes Carawan Jr. USA 1927-2015

Benjamin Franklin Logan Jr. USA 1927-2015

On weekdays,

Benjamin F. Logan

worked as a mathematician

and electrical engineer

at AT&T Bell Laboratories

in New Jersey.

On nights and weekends,

he donned a 10-gallon hat

and took to the stage

as a pre-eminent bluegrass fiddler.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/
arts/music/benjamin-f-logan-engineer-by-day-and-bluegrass-fiddler-by-night-dies-at-87.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/
arts/music/benjamin-f-logan-engineer-by-day-
and-bluegrass-fiddler-by-night-dies-at-87.html

James Cecil Dickens USA 1920-2014

Little Jimmy Dickens,

the diminutive but big-voiced

country singer best known

for his novelty recordings

and his self-deprecating sense of humor

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/03/nyregion/
jimmy-dickens-94-an-outsize-country-singer.html

George Hamilton IV USA 1937-2014

clean-cut country singer

whose string of wholesome hits

in the 1960s,including “Abilene”

and “Before This Day Ends,”

helped him become an enduring draw

at the Grand Ole Opry

and on concert stages around the world

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/
arts/music/george-hamilton-iv-77-country-singer-is-dead.html

Jean Redpath UK 1937-2014

esteemed Scottish folk singer

whose arresting repertoire of ancient ballads,

Robert Burns poems

and contemporary tunes

helped energize a genre

she described as

a “brew of pure flavor and pure emotion”

(...)

Ms. Redpath,

who recorded some 40 albums,

combined voluminous historical knowledge,

a winning stage presence

and a voice that could be both bright

and melancholy to become perhaps

the most prominent Scottish folk singer

of the postwar era.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/
arts/music/jean-redpath-prolific-scottish-folk-singer-dies-at-77.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/
arts/music/jean-redpath-prolific-scottish-folk-singer-
dies-at-77.html

Pete Seeger USA 1919-2014

Noble Ray Price 1926-2013

Ray Price

(...)

was at the forefront of two revolutions

in country music

as one of its finest ballad singers

and biggest hit makers

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/17/arts/music/ray-price-country-singer-dies-at-87.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/17/
arts/music/ray-price-country-singer-dies-at-87.html

https://www.npr.org/2013/12/16/
251788866/country-music-legend-ray-price-dies-at-87

The Highwaymen early 1960s

David Louis Fisher 1940-2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/
arts/music/13fisher.html

Emmylou Harris USA

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
emmylou-harris

George Glenn Jones 1931-2013

definitive country singer

of the last half-century,

whose songs about heartbreak

and hard drinking

echoed his own turbulent life

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/
arts/music/george-jones-country-singer-dies-at-81.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/may/03/
keith-richards-george-jones-feel

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/
arts/music/george-jones-country-singer-dies-at-81.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/apr/26/
george-jones

Richard Pierce Havens 1941-2013

Mr. Havens embodied the spirit of the ’60s

— espousing peace and love,

hanging out in Greenwich Village

and playing gigs

from the Isle of Wight to the Fillmore

(both East and West)

to Carnegie Hall.

He surfaced only in the mid-1960s,

but before the end of the decade

many rock musicians were citing him

as an influence.

His rendition of “Handsome Johnny”

became an anti-Vietnam War anthem.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/
arts/music/richie-havens-guitarist-and-singer-dies-at-72.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/apr/23/
richie-havens-remembered-groove-armada

Jason Andrew Molina 1973-2013

Before bearded banjo bands

like Mumford & Sons and the Avett Brothers

rode a folk-rock revival to mainstream success,

Mr. Molina was constructing

spare songs about 19th-century heartbreak

and the despair of blue-collar workers,

about loneliness and bad weather

and scarred landscapes in a fading Midwest.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/arts/music/jason-molina-leader-of-magnolia-electric-band-dies-at-39.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/
arts/music/jason-molina-leader-of-magnolia-electric-band-dies-at-39.html

Douglas Dillard 1937-2012

banjo virtuoso who began the 1960s

by helping to introduce

a generation of listeners to bluegrass

and ended the decade

as an early advocate of country-rock

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/28/arts/music/doug-dillard-banjo-virtuoso-dies-at-75.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/28/
arts/music/doug-dillard-banjo-virtuoso-dies-at-75.html

Charles Everett Lilly 1924-2012

Everett Lilly

(...)

was largely credited,

along with his brother Burt

and their band mates

Don Stover and Tex Logan,

with introducing bluegrass music

to New England

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/arts/music/everett-lilly-bluegrass-musician-dies-at-87.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/arts/music/
everett-lilly-bluegrass-musician-dies-at-87.html

Joseph Aquilla Thompson 1918-2012

Joseph Thompson

is credited with helping to keep alive

an African-American musical tradition

— the black string band —

that predates the blues

and influenced country music and bluegrass.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/
arts/music/joe-thompson-dies-at-93-fiddler-of-string-band-legacy.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/
arts/music/joe-thompson-dies-at-93-fiddler-of-string-band-legacy.html

Richard Lawrence Kniss 1937-2012

self-taught musician

who for more than 40 years

played stand-up bass behind

Peter, Paul and Mary,

becoming a veritable fourth member

of the folk-singing trio

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/28/
arts/music/dick-kniss-bassist-for-peter-paul-and-mary-is-dead-at-74.html

Elizabeth Jane Haaby / Liz Anderson USA 1927 or 1930-2011

Liz Anderson wrote

breakthrough hits for Merle Haggard

and other country singers

and recorded songs of her own

about faithless men

and beleaguered women

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/
arts/music/liz-anderson-who-wrote-hit-country-songs-dies-at-81.html

Johnnie Robert Wright USA 1914-2011

singer and bandleader

who was among the first country musicians

to use Latin rhythms

and who managed the singing career

of his wife, Kitty Wells

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/
arts/music/johnnie-wright-country-singer-and-bandleader-dies-at-97.html

Wilma Leigh Leary USA 1921-2011

perennial favorite with the Grand Ole Opry

and a member, with her husband, Stoney,

of a popular tradition-steeped

country singing duo

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/
arts/music/wilma-lee-cooper-grand-ole-opry-singer-dies-at-90.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/
arts/music/wilma-lee-cooper-grand-ole-opry-singer-dies-at-90.html

Chester Burton Atkins USA 1924-2001

Years active 1942–1996

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Chet_Atkins

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/01/
us/chet-atkins-77-dead-guitarist-producer-was-architect-nashville-sound.html

Peter, Paul and Mary USA

Years active 1961-1970 1978-2009

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Peter,_Paul_and_Mary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Peter,_Paul_and_Mary_discography

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jan/07/
peter-yarrow-of-folk-trio-peter-paul-and-mary-
dies-aged-86

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/07/
nx-s1-4900572/peter-yarrow-paul-mary-obituary

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/
arts/music/peter-yarrow-peter-paul-mary-folk-pop.html

The Watersons UK

Norma Waterson, second from left,

with other members of the folk group the Watersons

in the early 1970s.

From left,

Martin Carthy, her husband;

Lal Waterson, her sister;

and Mike Waterson, her brother.

Photograph: Keith Morris

Redferns, via Getty Images

Norma Waterson,

a Key Figure in Britain’s Folk Revival,

Dies at 82

With her familial singing group, the Watersons,

and later as a solo performer,

she helped revitalize traditional music from the north of England.

NYT

Feb. 8, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/
arts/music/norma-waterson-dead.html

Norma Waterson, left,

with her sister, Lal, in 1964.

Photograph: Brian Shuel

Redferns

Norma Waterson remembered by Richard Hawley

Sat 10 Dec 2022 07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/10/
obituaries-2022-norma-waterson-remembered-by-richard-hawley

Norma Waterson 1939-2022

With her familial singing group,

the Watersons,

and later as a solo performer,

she helped revitalize traditional music

from the north of England.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/
arts/music/norma-waterson-dead.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Norma_Waterson

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/may/21/
martin-carthy-bob-dylan-paul-simon-scarborough-fair-new-album

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/10/
obituaries-2022-norma-waterson-remembered-by-richard-hawley

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/
arts/music/norma-waterson-dead.html

The Watersons

Michael Waterson 1941-2011

founding member of the Watersons,

the self-taught singing group

that was long considered

the royal family of British folk music

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/
arts/music/mike-waterson-british-folk-singer-dies-at-70.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Mike_Waterson

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/
arts/music/mike-waterson-british-folk-singer-
dies-at-70.html

Hazel Jane Dickens USA 1935-2011

clarion-voiced advocate for coal miners

and working people

and a pioneer among women

in bluegrass music

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/23/arts/music/hazel-dickens-bluegrass-singer-dies-at-75.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/23/
arts/music/hazel-dickens-bluegrass-singer-dies-at-75.html

Gilbert Lee Robbins USA 1931-2011

singer, guitarist and songwriter

with the folk group the Highwaymen

and a fixture on the folk-music scene

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/arts/music/10robbins.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/
arts/music/10robbins.html

Ralph Eugene Mooney 1928-2011

Ralph Mooney played pedal steel guitar

on hit recordings

by Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings

and was a writer of “Crazy Arms,”

one of the most enduring shuffles

in country music

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/
arts/music/ralph-mooney-master-of-the-steel-guitar-dies-at-82.html

Ferlin Husky 1925-2011

smooth-voiced singer

whose 1956 hit “Gone”

became the first country single

of the Nashville Sound era

to cross over to the pop Top 10

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/
arts/music/ferlin-husky-country-singer-dies-at-85.html

Charlie Elzer Loudermilk 1927-2011

member of one of the pre-eminent

brother acts in country music

and an inspiration

to several generations of rock musicians

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/arts/music/27louvin.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/
arts/music/27louvin.html

Jimmy Ray Dean USA 1928-2010

country singer and television-show host

whose good looks, folksy integrity

and aw-shucks Texas charm

served him especially well

when he went into the sausage business

and became his own pitchman

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/15/arts/15dean.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/15/
arts/15dean.html

Peter, Paul and Mary

Mary Travers USA 1936-2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/
arts/music/17travers.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/sep/17/
mary-travers-peter-paul

Davey (Davy) Graham UK 1940-2008

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/dec/17/
folk-blues-music

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/dec/16/
folk-legend-davey-graham-dies

https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2008/dec/16/
davy-graham-video-tribute

John Martyn UK 1948-2009

born as Iain David McGeachy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/jan/30/john-martyn-music

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jan/30/john-martyn-obituary

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jan/29/john-martyn-dies

https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2009/jan/29/
john-martyn-remembered

Odetta Holmes Felious USA 1930-2008

singer and actor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Odetta

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/arts/music/03odetta.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/dec/04/odetta-film-folk-music-obituary

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/05/odetta-singer-civil-rights-activist

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/dec/04/folk-jazz

Arthur Roy 'Artie' Traum USA 1943-2008

guitarist, singer-songwriter

and musical educationist

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/jul/25/
folk.jazz

Jackson Carey Frank USA 1943-1999

He was one of the great singer-songwriters

of the 60s folk scene,

more highly regarded by some than Paul Simon.

But he only recorded one album –

and died in obscurity,

penniless and homeless

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/
jan/09/jackson-c-frank-tragic-tale-forgotten-60s-legend

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/09/
jackson-c-frank-tragic-tale-forgotten-60s-legend

Tammy Wynette USA 1942-1998

born Virginia Wynette Pugh

Years active 1965–1998

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Tammy_Wynette

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Tammy_Wynette_albums_discography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Tammy_Wynette_singles_discography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
George_Jones_and_Tammy_Wynette_discography

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/
arts/music/tammy-wynette.html

Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley USA 1966-1997

raised as Scott "Scottie" Moorhead

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
jeff-buckley

Karen J. Dalton USA 1937-1993

born Jean Karen Cariker

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/04/
1032893527/new-documentary-remembers-
the-tragic-life-of-folk-singer-karen-dalton

Tim Buckley USA 1947-1975

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/04/
magazine/the-lives-they-lived-jeff-buckley-his-father-s-son.html

Connie Converse USA

1924 - disappeared August 1974

Connie Converse,

photographed in New York City in June, 1958.

Credit: The Musick Group, Heroic Cities LLC

The mysterious story of Connie Converse,

the singer-songwriter who vanished

NPR

August 6, 2023 8:06 AM ET

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/06/
1192251789/the-mysterious-story-of-connie-converse-the-singer-songwriter-who-vanished

Connie Converse was a pioneer

of what’s become known as the singer-songwriter era,

making music in the predawn of a movement

that had its roots in the Greenwich Village folk scene

of the early 1960s.

But her songs,

created a decade earlier,

arrived just a moment too soon.

They didn’t catch on.

And by the time the sun had come up

in the form of a young Bob Dylan,

she was already gone.

Not simply retired.

She had vanished from New York City,

as she eventually would from the world,

along with her music and legacy.

It wasn’t until 2004,

when an N.Y.U. student heard

a 1954 bootleg recording

of Ms. Converse on WNYC,

that her music started

to get any of the attention and respect

that had evaded her some 50 years before.

The student, Dan Dzula,

and his friend, David Herman,

were spellbound by what they heard.

They dug up more archival recordings,

and assembled the 2009 album,

“How Sad, How Lovely,”

a compilation of songs that sound

as though they could have been written today.

It has been streamed

over 16 million times on Spotify.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/06/
nyregion/connie-converse-nyc.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Connie_Converse

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/06/
1192251789/the-mysterious-story-of-connie-converse-
the-singer-songwriter-who-vanished

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/06/
nyregion/connie-converse-nyc.html

Buffalo Springfield Canada, USA 1966 to 1968

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/20/
693790065/buffalo-springfield-for-what-its-worth-american-anthem

The Mamas and the Papas USA

Denny Doherty Canada 1940-2007

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/organization/
the-mamas-and-the-papas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_Mamas_&_the_Papas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Denny_Doherty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Cass_Elliot

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/
arts/music/cass-elliot-mamas-and-the-papas-death.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/07/30/
archives/cass-elliot-pop-singer-dies-
star-of-the-mamas-and-papas-a-hearty.html

Woody Guthrie USA 1912-1967

Hiram King "Hank" Williams USA 1923-1953

The Weavers USA 1940s-1960s

The Seekers Australia

formed in Melbourne in 1962

https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2022/aug/08/
the-seekers-singer-judith-durham-
a-life-in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/07/
judith-durham-a-pioneering-woman-in-australian-music

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/06/
judith-durham-australian-singer-and-vocalist-of-the-seekers-
dies-at-79

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