Folk

Legendary Beat poet Allen Ginsberg explores the fusion of poetry and music in this rare 1970s recording. Called a "venerated bard of resistance" Ginsberg sought "how the raw mind actually works" through poetry. This collection of fun ditties spouts...

Leftovers, the debut album from Montreal's Le Ren, stitches together a patchwork of personal songs about different relationships: those we share with mothers, lovers, and friends. Lauren Spear, the artist behind Le Ren, created a physical quilt to mirror...

Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, was born in New Orleans on October 18th, 1939. Oswald spent his formative years moving from one place to another, living in 22 U.S. cities and attending a dozen schools before joining the...

Leading up to the sessions for The Hurting Kind, White was inspired by artists like Jim Reeves, Patsy Cline, Roy Orbison, Chet Atkins and Bill Porter. Drawing on these timeless influences, White sought out classic writers like Whisperin' Bill Anderson...

Le Vent du Nord's music is a unique blend of Cape Breton and progressive Quebecois traditional. With their two previous Borealis releases, the band has won a Juno Award (roots traditional), and Canadian Folk Music Award (traditional album) a North...

Le Vent du Nord is back! The four musicians of this Juno Award winning traditional supergroup have put together a treasure trove of new songs that will grab everyone from the first note. Les amants de Saint-Laurent (Lovers of the St. Lawrence) has speci...

Le Fiabe Dei Ragni Funamboli is a six year long trip back home. We wrote the songs of the first CD "Fiabe Di Rugiada" (Dew's Fairytales) back in 2006-2007 and each song was naturally infused with a deep sense of longing for a lost world of happiness and...

Laurel Premo's latest solo work presents original and traditional music voiced on finger-style electric guitar and lap steel. Perhaps by it's most honest classification "roots guitar," the sonic vocabulary of 'Golden Loam' is informed by guitar's...

Laurel Premo presents a new instrumental project diving deep into traditional and new fiddle music and musically revealing a bloom of underlying harmonic drones, minimalist repetition, and rich polyrhythms. Responding to Premo's fiddling is the metrical...

LAURA VEIRS / FOUND LIGHT - Found Light may be Laura Veirs' 12th studio LP, but it also, in many ways, feels like her debut. If 2020"s My Echo'written and mixed just prior to her 2019 split from her longtime husband, her longtime producer, and the father...

Laura Cortese and the Dance Cards create a stunning, forward-looking sound that charts a path for innovation in folk music. -PopMatters "...vocally superb... amazing talent with the fiddle" -Maverick "Like many of the best "folk" bands, this talented...

L'Ange Vert plays an energetic celtic-rock sung in French, benefiting from incisive guitar soli. The Green Angel from Britanny enjoys combinations between traditional instruments (Bombarded, harmonica, violin...), electric rock energy and and sailor...