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Foster & Lloyd Biography, Photos, Pictures

Foster & Lloyd stood out from the contemporary country pack in the late ’80s thanks to Radney Foster’s intelligent, literate lyrics; Bill Lloyd’s flair for memorable pop melodies; and the duo’s Everly Brothers-style close harmony singing

A short-lived offshoot of Fairport Convention, featuring key member and leader Sandy Denny A second album was planned but never completed; tracks from it turn up on the triple-CD Denny anthology Who Knows Where the Time Goes

Four Bitchin' Babes Biography, Photos, Pictures

Four Bitchin’ Babes began as a musical revue by humorous singer/songwriter Christine Lavin But since Lavin’s departure in September 1997, the group has shown that it’s taken on a life of its own

Foxfire is comprised of Bob Evoniuk (vocals, dobro), Leonard Sutton (bass, vocals), Jeff Jones (mandolin, vocals), Glenn Freese (guitar, vocals) and Larry Bulaich (banjo, vocals)

Singer, songwriter, and actor Foy Willing was best known as the founder of the Riders of the Purple Sage, a popular cowboy band known for their harmonies and appearances in low-budget Westerns from the ’40s and ’50s

Francis Child Biography, Photos, Pictures

Although Francis J Child qualifies as the father of all song collectors, his name lacks the familiarity of a collector like Alan Lomax Fans of traditional British and American folk music will nonetheless be familiar with his song collection, the Child ballads

Francis James Child Biography, Photos, Pictures

Francis J Child’s five-volume work, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1882-1898), is considered by many as the canon of folk music, consisting of his exhaustive research on over 300 traditional folk ballads

Frank Christian Biography, Photos, Pictures

Greenwich Village-based Frank Christian is one of contemporary folk music’s virtuosic guitar players His heartfelt melodies have strengthened performances and/or recordings by Nanci Griffith, Christine Lavin, Suzanne Vega, John Gorka, Dave Van Ronk and the Smithereens

Frank Hamilton Biography, Photos, Pictures

Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and folk song collector Frank Hamilton has played a seminal role in the evolution of American folk music A co-founder of the Old Town School of Music in Chicago in 1957, Hamilton taught the future leader of the Byrds, Roger McGuinn, to play guitar and banjo

Frank Hunter Biography, Photos, Pictures

That this early bluegrass artist hailed from the tropical panhandle state is somewhat unusual for the early bluegrass crowd of the ’50s, most of whom came from musical families who had lived for generations scattered around various Appalachian strongholds

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