The folk icon spoke on a podcast about younger artists who avoid political engagement, naming a few exceptions while questioning the inaction of many.
The folk icon spoke on a podcast about younger artists who avoid political engagement, naming a few exceptions while questioning the inaction of many.
The Nashville songwriter steps into Woody Guthrie’s tradition not as a revivalist but as a custodian, carrying forward a lineage that treats folk music as active citizenship.
Zach Bryan’s record-breaking purchase of the ‘On the Road’ scroll places a modern troubadour’s capital at the service of a canonical myth, testing the value of a physical artifact in a digital folk tradition.