Epstein files are back ©2025 John Darkow x.gd/lhEFK

65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.

Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of the late President John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy Onassis, announced he's running for U.S. Congress.The 32-year-old is running for the New York City seat long held by U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler, who in September said he will retire.: nbcnews.app.link/fIb8C9YWeYb

Repeat after me... ©2025 Kíke x.gd/VoByI

Norman Blake: Wood, Wire & Words Plectrafone Records 824761-144762 Format: CD, Album Country: United States Released: January 20, 2015 Genre: Folk, World, & Country Style: Old Time, & Country x.gd/ey6RA

June, Helen, and Anita Carter in 1941 from LIFE Magazine.

Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys made their first appearance before a folk music audience when they performed at the 3-day University of Chicago Folk Festival on Feb 1, 1963. The Blue Grass Boys were Jake Landers (guitar), Rual Yarbrough (banjo), Kenny Baker (fiddle) and Bessie Lee Mauldin (bass)

“I’m not done yet!” — Neil Young just announced a surprise new tour, and fans are losing their minds. At 79, many thought the folk-rock legend had played his final encore. But no — he’s coming back with what insiders are calling “the spiritual rebirth of a timeless rebel.”

Johnny Cash brought his guitar and stories to inmates at Folsom Prison. He went back to Folsom Prison in 1968 to record his celebrated live album At Folsom Prison on November 8, 1966.

𝐉𝐨𝐬𝐡 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 • 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐲 • 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐫 — 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝟏𝟗𝟒𝟏 🎶⠀ In this rare 1941 studio moment in New York City, blues and folk pioneers Josh White (left), Lead Belly (center), and Pete Seeger (right) span generations and genres in one room.⠀

𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐛𝐢𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬𝐨𝐧 · 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐫𝐞 · 𝐁𝐨𝐛 𝐃𝐲𝐥𝐚𝐧 · 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐆𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐠 – 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐋𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝑠, 𝐒𝐚𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨 (𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟓)

Masters of the Banjo A National Tour of Traditional Banjo Styles Arhoolie Records – CD 421 Format: CD, Album Country: US Released: 1994 Genre: Folk, World, & Country Style: Folk, Bluegras x.gd/E89Qo

New York ignited the flame of change ©2025 José Alberto Rodríguez Avila x.gd/pTbAK

Extremes of polarization ©2025 Ramses x.gd/abTrt

The Roches perform on SNL, November 17th, 1979.

Happy Halloween from Trump Administration ©2025 Andy Singer x.gd/Uvq1n

Shockwaves Hit the Plains: Joan Baez has officially announced his explosive 2026 World Tour — a global spectacle set to redefine live performance energy. Full tour dates and cities revealed… x.gd/0FrSa

Dock Boggs Volume 3 Recorded and Edited by Mike Seeger Folkways Records – AH 3903 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: United States Released: 1970 Genre: Folk, World, & Country Style: Folk, Old Time x.gd/AJzSD

𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐢ñ𝐚 & 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐞𝐳 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧 — 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠’𝐬 𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐂𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞, 𝐈𝐩𝐬𝐰𝐢𝐜𝐡, 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐬. (𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟓) 🎶 Folk singer, writer, and poet Richard Fariña performing alongside Pauline Baez Marden, the eldest Baez sister, at King’s Rook Coffee House in Ipswich, Massachusetts.

𝐈𝐳𝐳𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 — 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐰𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐞 (𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟎𝐬) 🎶 Photographed by David Gahr outside Izzy Young’s Folklore Center at 110 MacDougal Street, this image shows Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Furry Lewis, and Gus Cannon alongside Izzy and music historian Sam Charters.

𝐉𝐨𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐞𝐳 — 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐦𝐚 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐠𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐲, 𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟓 ✊🏽 ⠀Folk singer and activist Joan Baez stands calmly before a line of state police on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery, at the end of the Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March on March 25, 1965.

Dock Boggs Volume 2 Recorded and Edited by Mike Seeger Folkways Records – FA 2392 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: United States Released: 1965 Genre: Folk, World, & Country Style: Folk, Old Time x.gd/HSj8D

𝐖𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐆𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 — 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟎 🎶 Folk legend Woody Guthrie is pictured with his family — Joady, Marjorie, Nora, and Arlo Guthrie — during a 1960 portrait session in New York City

𝐄𝐦𝐦𝐲𝐥𝐨𝐮 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬 — “𝐁𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐦” (𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟓) 🎶 x.gd/n3hPQ

𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 & 𝐄𝐦𝐦𝐲𝐥𝐨𝐮 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬 — 𝐀 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲-𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 🎸 Captured in February 1973, this photograph shows Gram Parsons with his musical partner Emmylou Harris and manager Phil Kaufman, standing in front of the old KBPI-FM studios in Denver

King Trump ©2025 Kamal Sharaf x.gd/5uKEv

And the rest of the world agrees with American - NO KINGS in AMERICA!

🎸 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧, 𝐉𝐨𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐞𝐳, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐢𝐦𝐢 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧̃𝐚 — 𝐒𝐚𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨, 𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟔 ‎ Photographed backstage at Candlestick Park during The Beatles’ final public concert on August 29, 1966, this moment captured three artists whose music shaped an era.

The Vern Williams Band: Traditional Bluegrass Arhoolie Records – CD 514 Format: CD, Album Country: United States Released: 2004 Genre: Folk, World, & Country Style: Bluegrass x.gd/CBfXm

Bob Dylan married Sara Lownds in a secret ceremony on November 22, 1965, in Mineola, Long Island, New York. The marriage lasted for 12 years, ending in divorce in 1977. T

©2025 Monero Rapé x.gd/9IWm8 Tasty, tasty, beautiful fear Two world leaders have taken center stage this week: a committer of genocide and a pathological narcissist.

🎵 𝐉𝐨𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐞𝐳 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 — 𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟑 ‎ This playful snapshot captures Joan Baez with her mother and sisters, showing the Baez women in what the original caption called “total noncooperation with the photographer.”

𝐌𝐢𝐦𝐢 & 𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚 — 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐥 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡, 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐚 (𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟔)

Pete Seeger introducing a young Bob Dylan at the Carnegie Hall Hootenanny on September 22, 1962.

Woody Guthrie in 1943 at McSorley’s Old Ale House in New York City singing and playing his guitar which is labeled “This Machine Kills Fascists.”

Rock Island Italian Family, Date unknown.

𝗥𝗜𝗣 𝗧𝗼 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗢𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗱 ☘️ 𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗼 – bass guitar, fiddle, vocals 𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗺 – drums, tambourine, vocals 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝘂𝗱𝘀𝗼𝗻 – organ, piano, clavinet, soprano and tenor saxophones 𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗲𝗹 – piano, organ, vocals 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗯𝗶𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀𝗼𝗻 – electric and acoustic guitars, vocals

Grateful Dead's Aoxomoxoa photo shoot at Rancho Olompali. The photograph includes Bob Weir, Ken Babbs, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Jerry Garcia, Tom Constanten, Mickey Hart, and Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, with photographer Tom Weir in the foreground.

Back when The Tony Rice Unit took a break this group got together to tour and they recorded the LP & CD Jimmy Gaudreau's Bluegrass Unit " Live in Holland" for Strickly Country Records. (L-R) Ernie Sykes Jr., Warren Blair, Jimmy Gaudreau, Wyatt Rice and Kevin Church .

𝐓𝐚𝐣 𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐇𝐮𝐫𝐭 — 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐤 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥, 𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟒 Two generations of the blues in one frame. Mississippi John Hurt, whose gentle picking and kindness left a mark on everyone he met, and a young Taj Mahal—soaking in the living history he would help carry forward.

THE ROOTS OF THE BLUES 🖤🎸🌟🎸🖤🎸🌟🎸🖤

𝐖𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐆𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐞 — 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝟏𝟗𝟒𝟑 “The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine.” — Woody Guthrie

Bluegrass from the Blue Ridge Country Band Music of Virginia Folkways Records – FS 3832 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: United States Released: 1967 Genre: Folk, World, & Country Style: Bluegrass, & Country x.gd/Szk1H

The new America: Cartoon for Dutch daily newspaper Trouw ©2025 Tjeerd Royaards x.gd/zSlVX

Just Because I'm a Woman: The Songs of Dolly Parton Sugar Hill Records – SUG CD 3980A Format: CD, Advance, Album, Promo Country: United States Released: 2003 Genre: Folk, World, & Country Style: Bluegrass, & Country x.gd/nqXBT

Gesture of Recognition: The UK Government will recognise a Palestinian State this weekend. What will that mean for those on the ground? ©2025 Andy Bunday x.gd/qp8gZ

Putumayo Presents Bluegrass Putumayo World Music – PUT 319-2 Format: CD, Compilation Country: United States Released: 2012 Genre: Folk, World, & Country Style: Bluegrass x.gd/d7Bxy

In the woods: The UN report On Israel's genocide in Gaza apparently states the obvious...©2025 Andy Bunday x.gd/HL3pf