The first volume in a series of memoirs by an influential musician and songwriter.

An autobiography of Woody Guthrie, founder of modern American folk music. This book presents a cynical, earthy and tragic account of his life in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, of the Depression that followed, and of his subsequent travels in, on, and under trains, in stolen cars and on his feet, round an America going rotten from the top downwards.

Shawls are currently making a huge comeback in the fashion world, but many people do not realize that the shawl has been worn for many centuries and in many cultures. This collection of patterns and traditions features shawls from around the world.

Wolves and grandmothers, ugly sisters, a house made of bread, a goose made of gold. This is a collection of folk tales collected by the Grimm brothers.

A 4-way biography of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, her sister Mimi and Richard Farina and how these beatniks made folk the new rock.

Argues that there can be found in American folk a community as deep, as electric, as perverse and as conflicted as all America, and that the songs Bob Dylan recorded out of the public eye, in a basement in Woodstock with the group who would later become The Band, are where that community as a whole gets to speak.

Handknitted socks are a luxury everyone should experience. Here are 18 sock patterns inspired by a host of folk knitting traditions.

Alan Lomax is a legendary figure in American folk music circles. Although he published many books, hundreds of recordings and dozens of films, his contributions to popular and academic journals have never been collected. This collection of writings reintroduces these essential writings. This book brings together articles from the 30s onwards.

An illustrated scrapbook covering the years 1956-66, that has been authorised by Bob Dylan himself.

This traditional Norwegian fairy tale is an epic story of a bewitched prince and the determined lassie who loves him, rags and riches, hags and heroism, magic and mystery, a curse and a quest, and wicked trolls with some of the longest noses ever seen!

This work celebrates the grandeur of Dylan's artistic achievement and reveals the life story of the man who has been an enigma for so long. It is based on a mountain of research conducted over three years, including interviews with more than 250 people in Dylan's life.

Relates the bizarre history of the all-female De La Garza family. Tita, the youngest daughter of the house, has been forbidden to marry, condemned by Mexican tradition to look after her mother until she dies. But Tita falls in love with Pedro, and he is seduced by the magical food she cooks.

The first volume in a series of popular folksongs and ballads from the long tradition of Irish music.

Includes biographies of singers, musicians, songwriters and composers who have influenced Bob Dylan and/or worked with him; critical assessments and factual details for Dylan's albums and for a number of individual songs from decades of work; and, Dylan's career and biographical moments.

Presents a memoir of the '60s Greenwich Village folk revival. This book features encounters with some of the young stars-to-be that the author mentored, like Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, John Baez, and Joni Mitchell, as well as older luminaries like Reverend Gary Davis, Woody Guthrie, Mississippi John Hurt and Odetta.

Huddie Ledbetter, known to his fans as Leadbelly, was arguably the most famous black singer in American history. This biography draws on archival material, interviews and recordings to detail Leadbelly's proud, tumultuous, and often violent life.

A patriot and a political radical, Woody Guthrie captured the spirit of his times in his enduring songs. He was marked by the FBI as a subversive. He lived in fear of the fatal fires that stalked his family and of the mental illness that snared his mother.

The highly acclaimed dual biography of father and son Tim and Jeff Buckley, two of the most enduring musical icons of the late 20th-century