Formed in 1957 in San Francisco, the folk group called the Kingston Trio took the country by storm with its three-part harmonies and energetic, humorous approach to folk music. Courting a pop audience and sporting striped shirts, neatly pressed chinos,...

The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group. They helped launch the folk revival of the late-1950s to early 1960s, and continued to thrive as an acoustic group despite the increasing dominance of rock and...

More than 30 years after their version of "Tom Dooley" brought folk music out of small clubs to mainstream America, the Kingston Trio came to Boston recently to try to change attitudes about aging. Gone is the "preppy" look they had at the...

Byline: JOHN HARPER, CORRESPONDENT MANTEO -- The Kingston Trio continues to defy the odds. After all, what other rock 'n' roll act from the 1950s is intact and still musically vital? Known for their folk hits ''Tom Dooley,'' ''Where Have...

John Stewart recorded some of pop music's most acclaimed solo albums, helping create a style that came to be called Americana, but he was always best known for writing the Monkees' enduring hit "Daydream Believer."Stewart, who came to prominence in the 1960s as a member...

Things had been building to this for a few years. The Beatles started to explore other sounds, other ideas. The war in Vietnam turned increasingly unpopular. Students on college campuses started challenging the status quo.Then, in June 1967, it all broke big. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely...