Folk

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...

What We Did On Our Saturday is a double CD recorded live at a landmark concert by the founders of the British Folk-Rock genre, legendary folk-rock band Fairport Convention. The band celebrated it's 50th anniversary in front of 20,000 fans at it's own...

What Sarah Jaroszs acclaimed debut, SONG UP IN HER HEAD, suggests, FOLLOW ME DOWN confirms: she is constitutionally incapable of getting stuck in a rut. Her approach to acoustic music is expansive and vital; she sees no need to choose between old-timey...

What Men Deserve to Lose is a phrase taken from Derek Cooper's Skye - "Faeries have foibles similar to humans - they can even get drunk. Favourite occupations are spinning, weaving and grinding meal or making faerie arrows. Some faeries are poorer than...

What It Is - Hayes Carll - On What It Is, the Houston, TX troubadour Hayes Carll is leaving the past behind. "I want to dig in so this life doesn't just pass me by. The more engaged I am the more meaning it all has. I want that to be reflected in the...

What is this? A bluegrass band from Malm", which is so good that they could easily jump into a "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou 2 Movie"! The Original Five was born in the summer of 2010 out of a common desire to play bluegrass and americana music. They held...

What happens when you lock an iconic roots producer/performer in his home, which just happens to contain a full-on recording studio, and leave him to his own devices? ß ßThis:ß 2020 sees the release of 'Kiss of the Diamondback,' born in the time of the...

We've all heard the story of the preacher's musical son before: the Stetson Stratoliner-wearing, bearded dreamer who up and moved to Nashville with nothing more than a Martin and a prayer. ß Caleb Elliott isn't that. His story is something wilder. It...