These songs are all classics that regularly appear in my playlists. Upon first listen, though, I couldn’t stand them for one reason or another.

The fact of the matter is that “folk ... old-time style music of the ’20s and ’30s with what was then quite new technology — they had one album literally titled Songs From the Depression.

Most of the songsare adaptations of Old English Folk songs produced using a mixture of acoustic and electric sounds. Ewan MacColl and A.L. Lloyd release English/Scottish Popular Ballads ...

The Beatles' impact on the music world can be measured in many different ways. One low-key way: the number of times other major artists mentioned the Fab Four in songs of their own.