Folk

Songs of Our Native Daughters gathers together kindred musicians Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell in song and sisterhood to communicate with their forebears. Drawing on and reclaiming early minstrelsy and banjo music,...

Songs of Conscience And Concern is an album of yet-to-be discovered gems from folk music's foremost trio. Rather than a compilation of Peter, Paul & Mary hits, these 15 songs won't be found on any "best of" set, and few have ever been released on CD. All...

Songs collected by Alfred Williams in Wiltshire sung by two of the foremost interpreters of traditional English music.

Songs and Ballads, with Ed Trickett. One of the purest voices of the folksong revival and a graceful frailing banjo style that stresses the melody as few others do, Sara brings to the music she loves a profound understanding of the tradition it...

Songs and ballads, plus a few fiddle tunes, traditional in the Adirondack region where Larry Older cut and peeled pine logs for the pulp mills and tanneries before going to work in the locomotive factory where he concluded his working life. Wonderful...

Song of the Traveling Daughter is an old fashioned album with a simple, textured beauty that unfolds with repeated listening. There's a flow to the music that draws you in and immerses you in Washburn's unique worldview. While the album is studded with...

Song for Patty is folk singer Sammy Walker's first album. Recorded when he was just twenty two, the album concentrates on characters at odds with the world around them, from (famous heiress and outlaw) Patty Hearst to Johnny Strozier (who was given a 40...

Sometimes, two artists come together and transcend mere musical collaboration. Herein, the perfect example. Norwegian-born, Sweden-based singer and composer Rebekka Karijord and American-born, Italy-based poet, dancer and multimedia artist Jessica...

Sometimes even the most promising prospects can take time to reach fruition. For whatever the reason, the timing may be off, the opportunities limited, or all the elements simply aren't in place to sustain a clear connection between past and present...

Something magical happens when the sultry hot jazz made famous by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli meets the hard-driving Western swing sound pioneered by Bob Wills and early string bands of the American Southwest - The ear-catching result of this...

Some say that the overwhelming success of the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack album led to the most recent resurgence of Bluegrass music, but that's simply not so. Bluegrass had been growing in popularity for several years as America went in search...

Some of today's finest bluegrass talents join together and "mash out" 16 of their favorite tunes on this rip-roarin' new CD. These young musicians bring a fresh energy to tried-and-true classics that have been part of the bluegrass tradition from the...