Anyway, today, we look at fifteen folk-rock songs from the 1970s that extended what Dylan and others had begun in the ‘60s.

These iconic 1960s and '70s folk songs sound as fresh, inspired, and influential as they did when they were first released.

On this day in 1988, Tracy Chapman dropped her debut album and changed the world of contemporary folk for the better.

The influential singer/songwriter was a part of the Greenwich Village folk music scene of the 1960s and 1970s.