Folk

Jack Guthrie, a cousin of renowned folk singer Woody Guthrie, was born in Oklahoma in 1915, but like his cousin and thousands of others "Okies" his family moved to California in the 1930s when the Dust Bowl disasters and Great Depression made life...

I've watched and listened to Alex develop since first hearing him at (his) age ten. He plays with wit, authority and soulfulness belying his years. In my opinion, he's destined to be one of the fiddle giants of the 21st century. - David "Dawg" Grisman...

Ivan & Alyosha is a Seattle-based folk-pop, indie, rock band who create a sound that's distinctly Californian, with acoustic instrumentation and bright vocal harmonies that evoke the West Coast's summery, southern locales. The band make their triumphant...

It's traditional, and brand new!It is bound, and free! It's heavy, and easy! It is music that goes in through your ears but does not stay in your head, or even your heart without rushing right into your feet and setting your musical world rocking. Get...

It's time to get back in shape. Walking is a great way to do it. Want to listen to shape note singing too? Try 'Saints Bound For Heaven', the walking recording sung by the Santa Cruz Shape Note Society. Shape up with shape notes! Our local Sacred Harp...

It's not often that the words wholesome and innovative can be used together to describe an artist, but such is the case with Mean Mary. Once again, she emerges with an album that takes the listener straight into a magical world of stories and sounds...

It's not often that a 35 year old singer has 15 albums. Thea Gilmore's 17-year career has seen her profile and audience grow with inexorable momentum since her first album. Her newest long playing offering, Ghosts and Graffiti is a compilation with it's...

It's hard to know where to include Hedy's recording; she is the daughter of poet Don West of Pipestem, West Virginia, formerly a radical labor organizer in the south. Her family came from the mountains of northern Georgia and much of her music came to...

It's been more than a decade since Ian Fisher left his home state of Missouri and moved to Europe, forever changing his life and his music. With songs that combine an international lyrical perspective and a world-traveler's musical influences with...

It's always illuminating to ask an artist how they understand music, but Eli West's perspective is nothing short of ground-breaking. A trained designer, he sees music architecturally, visualizing his compositions spatially. It's a highly unusual way to...

Itasca's Kayla Cohen wrote the anticipated follow-up to her acclaimed 2016 album Open to Chance in a century-old adobe house in rural New Mexico. Inspired by the landscape and history of the Four Corners region, the sublime Spring-it's title summoning...

It would be difficult to over-estimate the importance of this recording, made for US by Archie Green, who is surely the nation's leading authority on the music and folklore of the labor movement in America. Sarah Gunning was the sister of the...