Ms. Mitchell's original folk-rock songs upheld that mythology while analyzing it with an unprecedented personal candor and deep skepticism.

"Sunny Came Home" is a folk-rock song by American musician Shawn Colvin.

Freedy Johnston's finely turned folk-rock songs have carefully balanced melodies that he sings in a winsome tenor.

He developed a unique style of combining folk-rock songs with delicately woven tales of characters and events from history.

Her declamatory folk-rock songs have strong, simple tunes that recall the Bruce Springsteen ballads with a country flavor.

In college, he wrote and performed folk-rock songs like "Sparkling Blue," of which he sold about 250,000 copies singing under the name Jerry Paul.

Then the Cure reclaimed its old concision; in the 1990's, it has been writing peppy folk-rock songs alongside somber, turbulent drones.

Shear's version was originally a folk-rock song, but Lauper instead turned it into a pop ballad for her album, with a heavy emphasis on a synthesizer.

Add that to his unique melancholy vocals, and his well-conceived folk-rock songs and there is an exhilarating combination.

The Millers sidestep country's easy wordplay to write folk-rock songs full of rainy, lonely nights.