Folk Rock

California country-rock harmonizers behind some of the best-selling albums ever.

Americana pioneers whose rural rock recast the country's musical past.

L.A. jingle-jangle pioneers who fused Dylan's lyricism with electric guitars.

Short-lived L.A. supergroup that seeded country-rock's rise.

Harmony-rich supergroup whose softer rock defined a folkier strand of the era.

Flute-fronted British prog band fusing folk, hard rock, and theatre.

Shane MacGowan's Anglo-Irish band fusing trad music with punk attitude.

Mike Scott's pan-Celtic 'big music' band of folk-rock grandeur.

Madrid folk-metal band fusing Iberian melody with electric crunch.

Canterbury-scene mainstays of warm prog whimsy.

British prog-folk band of orchestral arrangement and Annie Haslam vocals.

Shepparton indie-folk band of literary songwriting and lush arrangement.

Young's ragged-glory band of feedback and moonlit Americana.

London band whose nu-folk anthems reignited mainstream banjo-pop.

Seattle indie-folk band of choral harmonies and pastoral textures.

Justin Vernon's Wisconsin band whose cabin-recorded debut became iconic.

Portland literary indie-folk band of theatrical narrative songs.

Berkeley band whose 'August and Everything After' became a 90s alt-rock standard.

Philadelphia band of Springsteen-meets-Krautrock heartland indie.

Southport indie-rockers whose 'Bring It On' won the 1998 Mercury Prize.

Dublin band of Celtic-tinged soulful rock.

Dublin band led by Glen Hansard, indie-folk lifers.