Joan Baez truly believes in the power a protest song can hold, considering these two to be the best written in the heady and socially tense period of the 1960s.

It’s taken a few months, since he lives in the Netherlands, but Eric Andersen finally found time to watch A Complete Unknown. And the troubadour legend, who haunted those same Village clubs during ...

When I heard a Dylan song called ‘Positively Fourth Street' and thought ‘Oh my God, you can write about anything in songs.'" ...

From lovelorn ballads and simple compositions to more complex standards, these are the songs that prove that Joan Baez is the unrivalled pioneer of folk.