Indie and Folk Music

Song Parade - Indie/Folk Music Folk or Indie music is somewhat synonymous with traditional music. But folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and for the common people usually shared by a community. However in the 18th and 19th centuries, it took on popular form, which was culturally influenced by traditional folk music.

Top 10 Indie/Folk Songs
Top 10 Indie/Folk Albums
Top 10 Indie/Folk Artists

Jack Johnson

Like G. Love, Jack Johnson plays groovy acoustic funk. The difference is that where G. Love relies on hip-hop, Johnson’s points of reference are a bit more eclectic, incorporating lite jazz and classic singer-songwriter motifs (including interesting

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is on the short list of the most influential artists of the 20th century. He coupled a love for all forms of American popular and folk music with a personal and poetic songwriting style instead of relying on professional craftsmen or standa

Neil Young

Throughout his extraordinary career, Neil Young’s Americana-rooted songwriting has dipped into a staggering variety of styles and tones. With the live Time Fades Away, the spatial On The Beach and the liquid Tonight’s The Night, Neil inadvertently pr

Sarah McLachlan

Perhaps best known as the Lilith Fair’s founder, Sarah McLachlan is alternately a singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist, tour impresario and chanteuse who’s been recording since 1988. Her work includes daring dance remixes of soulful ballads as well

Counting Crows

Along with Kurt Cobain, Adam Duritz of Counting Crows will go down as one of rock’s most recognizable voices of the ’90s. Breathtaking in its range, his voice is more notable for its ability to convey nearly the entire spectrum of human emotion — fr

David Gray

Welsh singer-songwriter David Gray had enjoyed immense success in Ireland for years before the rest of the world caught up with him. His simple, acoustic-fronted songs are canvasses on which Gray paints emotions, with his hoarse vocals acting as the

Zac Brown Band

Zac Brown entertained audiences for years as a solo artist, winning people over with his deft flat-picking and original songs. Eventually, Brown added band members John Hopkins (bass) and Jimmy De Martini (fiddle) to form the Zac Brown Band; the trio

James Taylor

A folkie with a dark past, upbeat sound and clear pop inclinations, James Taylor was the poster boy for the ’70s singer-songwriter movement. He had personal or professional ties to almost all of the era’s stars, including Carole King, Joni Mitchell a

Dixie Chicks

Few of the millions and millions of people who bought the Dixie Chicks’ major label debut, Wide Open Spaces, knew that the band had already been together for almost a decade, playing the folk and bluegrass circuit. The group was started by champion f

Alison Krauss

Alison Krauss was slated for greatness at an early age. At 12, the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America named her Most Promising Fiddler in the Midwest; just two years later, in 1985, she signed to Rounder Records. But even thos