American folk musicians

Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. An influential figure in popular culture, she is known for her autobiographical songwriting and artistic reinventions. Swift is the highest-grossing live music artist, the wealthiest female musician, and one of the best-selling music artists of all time.

Neil Percival Young is a Canadian and American singer-songwriter. Son of journalist and author Scott Young, Young embarked on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s. He then moved to Los Angeles, forming the folk rock group Buffalo Springfield. His solo career, often backed by the band Crazy Horse, includes critically acclaimed albums such as Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969), After the Gold Rush (1970), Harvest (1972), On the Beach (1974), and Rust Never Sleeps (1979). Young was also a part-time member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, with whom he recorded the chart-topping 1970 album Déjà Vu.

American singer, guitarist and songwriter (1941–2023)

Mitsuki Laycock (born September 27, 1990), also known as Mitski Miyawaki, and known professionally as Mitski, is an American singer-songwriter. She self-released her first two albums, Lush (2012), and Retired from Sad, New Career in Business (2013), while studying composition at Purchase College's Conservatory of Music. Her third studio album, Bury Me at Makeout Creek, was released in 2014 on the label Double Double Whammy.

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American drag queen

American blues singer and guitarist (1893–1929)

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American singer-songwriter (born 1979)

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American actress, singer and songwriter

American blues musician (1924-2005)

American singer and songwriter, former member of Pentatonix

American early blues musician

American fiddle player

American musician and animator

Jandek is the musical project of Sterling Smith (born October 26, 1945), a Houston, Texas-based American lo-fi folk singer. Since 1978, Jandek has independently released over 120 albums while granting an interview extremely rarely and providing no biographical information, releasing on a self-made label, "Corwood Industries". Jandek often plays an idiosyncratic and frequently atonal form of folk and blues music, frequently using an open and unconventional chord structure. AllMusic has described Jandek as "the most enigmatic figure in American music."

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American folk musician and folklorist

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American dental hygienist, musician

American Louisiana Creole musician (1898–1942)

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American folk musician (1941-2001)

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American singer-songwriter and composer (1910-1991)

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American police chief and music collector (1848–1936)

American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader

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American singer-songwriter (born 1979)

Denton, Texas-based American musician

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American folk singer (1935–2025)

American fiddler

American singer-songwriter and folk musician

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American musician and musicologist (1927-2015)

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American folk singer and songwriter

American alternative/folk rock musician

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