troubadour

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Over the past year, the shaggy-haired guitarist and singer has emerged as a modern-day protest troubadour, collaborating with Baez, selling out concert halls, and soaring to rarified fame on social media.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

In October, Texas troubadour Charley Crockett, who has derided the trap-inflected “bro country” coming out of Nashville, played a solo set at Lucinda’s before moving uptown for a three-night residency at Café Carlyle.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

The brash rock musician who evolved from a baby-faced harmony singer with the Byrds to a mustachioed hippie superstar and troubadour in Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2023

The character of Jeff is a failed L.A. songwriter, a troubadour that didn’t make it.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2023

The troubadour phenomenon had been inspired by the example of professional singers in the courts of al-Andalus, Muslim Spain, which had its resplendent capital at Cordoba.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall