Guitar skills: Generally an acoustic guitar style, contemporary folk was huge in the late '60s and '70s and has broadened out ever since, with modern players such as Ed Sheeran and Jake Bugg ...

Generally with folk you’ll be playing fingerstyle, but standard strumming is commonplace too and sounds great with open-string drone chords. Altered tunings feature heavily and will help bust you out ...

It was 1959-1960, a pivotal moment in America, a time of transition from the innocence of the '50s to the disillusionment of the '60s. I was in my first two years of undergraduate study at the ...