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The 1970s produced countless folk musicians. Some earned fame while others remained underground heroes. Given the genre’s rich and robust history, particularly in this decade, it’s impossible to know ...

To make a list is immediately to begin second-guessing it. This year that’s especially true below the Top 10, in my list of 20 runner-up albums, for which I had double that many candidates I could ...

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The Carpenters turned this Oscar-nominated song into a Top 10 favorite, despite having no involvement in the 1970 film where the song first appeared. The Carpenters' version of "For All We Know" hit ...

Are the Red Clay Strays — the genre-fusing six-piece out of Mobile, Ala. — country music's best-kept secret? If so, they won't be for long. Even before the band won the Vocal Group of the Year Award ...

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