Let It Folk

Nate Wilcox talks to author Dave Thompson about his book "An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock."

Let It Folk Episodes:

• The Ancient Repertoire the Genre Built On

• Sir Walter Scott, Pepys, and Charles Dickens: The Literary Roots of The Ballad Tradition

• Francis Child Collected Ballads and Kicked Off a Craze

• The Carter Family popularized the Child Ballads and Burl Ives built a new tradition

• Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger, Josh White & Jean Ritchie and the first Folk Revival

• Joan Baez, Judy Collins, and Tom Rush led the pre-Dylan American Folk Boom