But Guthrie and his contemporaries were more than folk singers — they were blacklisted radicals, shaping American music while staring down the Red Scare. In 1960, a young Robert Zimmerman ...

Her first songs were sung by Pete Seeger and the group that evolved into The Weavers, and she has been supplying the folk-singing boom ever since. Some of her work, like Bury Me in My Overalls ...