In Boston in 2001, O’Donovan and some fellow music students started Crooked Still, a string band that offered radical rearrangements of Appalachian-rooted songs and, over the next decade of ...

Meeting Donovan near Hampstead Heath in London, a place his fans will recognize as a key locale of one of his finest Swinging London ‘60s songs (“Hampstead Incident”), does absolutely ...

The vocal trio of Sara Watkins, Aoife O'Donovan, and Sarah Jarosz exude innate chemistry and summon magic on new album Wild ...

Donovan said The Beatles‘ “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” was like a painting or a movie. In addition, he compared it to one of his own tracks. Notably, Donovan’s song was a bigger hit ...

3. “Catch the Wind” “Catch the Wind” is the track that made Donovan’s name. It was not only his breakthrough song, but it was also one of the first songs he ever wrote.

Thanks to Jimi Hendrix, Joan Jett, and Soft Cell, these hidden gems were discovered and then turned into iconic covers.

Donovan said The Beatles‘ “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” was like a painting or a movie. In addition, he compared it to one of his own tracks. Notably, Donovan’s song was a bigger hit ...

T he best classic rock songs often have sad backstories. For example, Donovan’s “Season of the Witch” was inspired by the dark side of the 1960s. The tune wasn’t actually a hit at the time ...

Aoife O'Donovan Brings Her Stunning Song Cycle About Women's Suffrage, ‘All My Friends,' to Concert and Symphony Halls. Story by Chris Willman • 3mo.

O'DONOVAN: "Wild And Clear And Blue" is a song on our album that is inspired by our collective experience of really enjoying the music that our parents shared with us as children.

In the early 1970s, Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan wrote and recorded songs for the English version of Italian director Franco Zeffirelli’s film “Brother Sun, Sister Moon,” about the early years ...

Songs like “Crisis,” which revisits a 1916 speech as a ballad, showcase O’Donovan’s ability to translate historical texts into evocative musical narratives. “I really tried to reframe it ...