Folk

Old favorites "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" and "Goober Peas" enjoy Texan attorney-turned-balladeer Hermes Nye's unselfconscious treatment on this balanced compilation of some of the American Civil War's best-known songs. Folkways founder Moses...

Old fashioned, new fangled, jumping around with a violin and a bouzouki sort of noise. And they will continue to do so until they run out of instruments. Talking Elephant are pleased to announce the band's brand new studio album The Hangmans Fee...

Ola Belle and Bud Reed's Pennsylvania home was a haven for young musicians, a place where picking, singing, and good company soothed the sting of hard times. The Reeds, joined by Kevin Roth, recorded this album of traditional and original songs one...

Offshoot of Steve's official 2008 release 'Traveling', 'Unraveling' is a collection of overflow and oddities, but pure Poltz all the same.

Official reissue of this ultra-rare album (Discos Zave LPL 163, 1969). Globe-trotting artist Bodo Molitor may have been born in Germany, but he'll forever be associated with the psychedelic scene in Mexico and South America. In addition to creating the...

Odetta's follow-up to her 2000 Grammy-nominated release, Blues Everywhere I Go, is a tribute to the legendary blues man Leadbelly. Special guiest include Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Henry Butler & Kim Wilson.1. Goodnight Irene 2. You Don't Know My Mind 3...

Ode to the Unknown Factory Worker, revisits many themes from the African American tradition. A spontaneous comeback for the New Zealand-born singer and pianist, Leila Adu, who has arranged entirely on her own the parts of her new album. Symptomatic of...

Odd, Ordinary & Otherwise,' the third full-length record from New Orleans country-folk songsmith Chris Acker, is a collection of songs brimming with true tales, eloquent songwriting, and fearless honesty. During his decade-long songwriting career, Chris...

Oceans flow through the center of Cinder Well's music. 'Cadence', the new album from Amelia Baker's experimental folk project, drifts between two far-flung seas: the hazy California coast where she grew up, and the wind-torn swells of Western Ireland...

Now, with "My Mind is falling to pieces" on Arbouse Recordings, it let's US glimpse a world quite singular. Folk Much more than usual, much more organic and acoustic (guitar, piano), Melodium offers US listen compositions melancholy, nostalgic ditties...

Now well into her eighties, yet still active as a singer, writer and performer, Peggy Seeger is the very epitome of American Folk Music aristocracy. Her father was Charles Louis Seeger Jr. , the respected musicologist, composer, teacher and folklorist;...

Notos, the first installment in an ongoing series, is named for the ancient Greco-Roman god of the south wind, who brought storms in the summer. Musically, the record draws from the siblings' memories of summers spent exploring the Pacific Northwest with...