Folk

When we use the terms "Greek traditional," "Grek folk," or "Greek demotic" music today, we mean songs and tunes coming from the past, from areas that were home to Christian farmers, shepherds and sailors during the Byzantine and Ottoman periods. Mostly-...

When the singer/songwriter movement boomed in the mid-1990s, Catie Curtis was at it's core. A veteran artist with a 15 year career, Curtis has recorded nine solo albums and was recently honored to be selected to perform at the Obama inauguration in...

When psychedelia had run it's course in Britain at the end of the 60s, the predominant trend was to get hairier and heavier and more long-winded. Many musicians, however, were still hung up on the trappings of psychedelia's home-grown strain, having...

When John Wort Hannam started to write songs for his 8th album, 'Long Haul', he didn't have any particular theme in mind. Locked down in the early days of the pandemic, random ideas began to coalesce into a unified whole and eleven songs later, a solid...

When Janis lan's self-titled 1978 album failed to crack the Top 100, it was clear that changes were in order. Here, she turns to producer Ron Frangipane and a surprising songwriting partner, Euro-disco maven Giorgio Moroder, who brings in his dance...

When it comes to living on the road as a touring musician, Fred Eaglesmith is an expert. The alt-country singer-songwriter began playing guitar and writing songs by the age of 10, hit the road as a performer when he was still a teenager, released 22...

When he recorded this album, Mark Spoelstra was heading to the Southwest to work with American Indians instead of joining the military-but he said he felt he was getting into something rather than getting out of anything. By the early 21st century, the...

When Cris Jacobs began dreaming about a follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2016 album Dust to Gold, he realized early on he'd have to do things differently this time around. "This record brought about a new discipline for me and a new level of focus...

When American guitar finger pickers graduated from ragtime and started looking for new musical territories to explore in the Seventies, there were several paths that seemed like obvious choices. Moving ahead in Jazz history led to the world of swing, a...

When [Eddie Starr] graduated high school, [he] had a plan to seek fame and fortune with a rock and roll band. However, Starr became a third-generation steelworker who wrote music that led him to record this album on Collector Records in the early 1990s...

When "the best Celtic guitarist in the world" sits down to play with the first woman to win both the Canadian Grand Masters Fiddle and Open Fiddle Championships, the da Vinci of the dobro pulls up a chair, and one of the most versatile bassists in roots...

What's a Wobbly? Legend has it that a Chinese cook in a railroad gang while proudly announcing that he was a member of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World & #151; a union formed to organize all workers) was heard to say he was a member of the...