folk rock

For the album’s lead single, “Cowboys Cry Too,” Ballerini enlisted Noah Kahan, the folk-rock singer-songwriter from Vermont, whom she met at the Grammys in February.

Early in 1965, he went to see the Warlocks — the folk-rock group Garcia formed with guitarist Bob Weir, drummer Bill Kreutzmann and keyboardist Ron “Pigpen” McKernan.

Well, almost on their own: Carlile served as an executive producer on the album, which balances intricately fingerpicked ballads with stately folk-rock numbers, and this year she’s had the brothers opening shows for her on the road.

As the decades progressed, her muse pushed her away from the commercially driven yé-yé sound toward pop-focused psychedelia, folk-rock and meditative adult pop.

A Complete Unknown follows Dylan's rise to fame, as the artist who revolutionised American music with his personal and poetic folk-rock songs.