Mitchell is considered a folk hero for many. Find out which artist pushed Mitchell to explore songwriting, below.

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The Godfather of freak folk, Michael Hurley, died on April 3 at the age of 83. His songs often mixed humor, unusual ...

Fifty years is a very long time for any non-profit to exist, but the Ten Pound Fiddle has made it. Over the past five decades ...

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Hurley, a favorite of Cat Power and Lucinda Williams, was 'the purveyor of an eccentric genius and compassionate wit.' ...

Michael Hurley, the beloved eccentric folk singer whose music became a touchstone for a generation of singer-songwriters, has ...

Sidestepping his perfectionism in acting, Jeff Bridges revels in the freedom of rediscovering an album of his archival recordings showcasing his late-’70s eclectic roots rock.

Sometimes called the father of freak-folk, the 83-year-old singer-songwriter lived, worked and died on his own terms.

Michael Hurley, the outsider folk artist and singer-songwriter who came up in the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1960s and continued making music into the present day, has died at home in Astoria ...

The show’s star, Jonathan Groff, and members of the creative team on how songs like “Splish Splash” and “If I Were a Carpenter” illuminate Darin’s life.

A folk-song festival will take place in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Monday, drawing nearly 200 singers from art ...