Essential Folk Musicians

Before the baby boomers

Lead Belly

Carter Family

Woody Guthrie

Almanac Singers

Paul Robeson

Pete Seeger

The Weavers

Cisco Houston

Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee

Malvina Reynolds

Odetta

Peggy Seeger

Elizabeth Cotton

Burl Ives

New Lost City Ramblers

Mississippi John Hurt

John Hartford

Josh White

Jean Ritchie
Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Utah Philips

Bill Monroe

Chet Atkins

Doc Watson

Johnny Cash 

Mavis Staples

Tommy Makem

Dave Van Ronk

Baby Boomers

Sweet Honey in the Rock

Tom Rush

Guy Davis

Steve Goodman

Tom Paxton

Phil Ochs

Joan Baez

Steeleye Span

Fairport Convention

John Prine

Ian and Sylvia

Buffy Sainte Marie

Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen

Stan Rogers

Kate Wolf

Bob Franke

Jack Hardy

Eva Cassidy

Cheryl Wheeler

Greg Brown

David Massengill

Leonard Cohen 

Peter, Paul, and Mary

Tommy Sands

After the Baby Boomers

Alison Kraus

Gillian Welch

Crooked Still

Ollabelle

Wailin’ Jennys

Aoife O'Donovan

Sarah Jarosz

Sara Watkins