As an artist and exponent of American traditional songs, he sought to blur the lines between outsider and insider art. By Richard Fausset ATLANTA — Art Rosenbaum, a painter and folk musician ...

The banjo, and with it an entire body of folk-based music, is now so ... that a “legitimate Black art form developed.” Flemons, 41, who goes by the name the American Songster in tribute ...

(The prize recognized her work “reclaiming African American contributions to folk and country music ... images of mid-19th-century posters and covers of song collections. Even 150 years later ...

Flemons gained popularity over the past two decades as a founding member of Black banjo and string band revivalists The Carolina Chocolate Drops, known for their 2010 Grammy-award-winning album ...

Folk songs are No ... June 29 of the same year. The song stayed at No. 1 for just a week but still remains one of Lightfoot’s most popular songs of all time. Art Garfunkel (left) and Paul ...

In contrast to his previous songs, “Mochel” has a ballad-like quality. That, as well as his folk guitar finger-picking backup, hints at the influence American folk music seems to have had on him.

The Wood Dale Public Library will present “The American Folk Song with Mark Dvorak” on Thursday, Jan. 16. It will begin at 1 p.m. in the library’s Barbara E. Dunn Meeting Room, 520 N.