Separately, Kris Drever (from Orkney) and Eamonn Coyne (from Dublin) are members of some of the most popular ... how good the old ‘folk duo’ can be. Putting traditional songs into new ...

THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR AMERICANA/FOLK ALBUMS, BASED ON MULTIMETRIC CONSUMPTION, BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE.

With Peter, Paul and Mary, the musician, who died on Tuesday at 86, eased folk songs into the Top 10. By Jon Pareles Near the end of “A Complete Unknown,” the Bob Dylan biopic that centers on ...

The trio’s recordings of two of his songs, “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” and “Blowin’ in the Wind,” became Billboard Top 10 hits during an American renaissance in folk music.

In it, Seeger comes off as a dust-covered relic of folk music history ... He would go on to popularize many songs in the American Songbook: “On Top of Old Smoky,” “Erie Canal” and the ...