Folk

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...

It was a time when music could change the world. Relive that special time with this compelling 3 CD collection of 75 the biggest folk music hits of the 1950s and 1960s! Included are hits from Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul & Mary, Joan Baez, The Kingston Trio,...

It was 8 days from the first downbeat to the last moment of the final mixes...about 70 hours. We chose 10 out of the 30 songs I'd written since moving to Austin a year and a half before the recording, had two short rehearsals then blazed thru the 10...

It takes courage to release the security of the familiar and embrace change. After five years of touring and establishing themselves as "the most important folk group to emerge from Boson since the early sixties" (Boston Globe), Crooked Still announced...

It is voices like Peggy Seeger's on this album that helped to make significant strides in the struggle for gender equality. Seeger's commentary is poignant and timeless as songs like "Nine-Month Blues" remain applicable in a society where a woman's right...

It is said that whisky poets & angels sing through a voice of velvet & grit; songstress Corinne West's 5th album has harnessed the elements with poetry and soul-stirring compositions. Deep Americana roots formed by her nomadic history radiate throughout...

It is hard to believe in modern times that the issue of women's suffrage once wracked the nation. Riots, demonstrations, and indignant editorials highlight the history of this long battle that finally ended in 1920 with the 19th Amendment. Liner notes by...

It is dangerous to be a protest singer writes Broadside Magazine publisher Gordon Friesen in the liner notes to this album. This 1968 series of interviews with folk singer Phil Ochs was released following Ochs' suicide in 1976. Ochs discourses at length...

Iris DeMent, one of the most celebrated country-folk performers of our day, returns with her first album in 8 years. LIFELINE Iris DeMent's first release on her own FlariElla springs from memories of her youth-time spent singing gospel as a young child...

IRIS DEMENT / WORKIN' ON A WORLD - On her transcendent new record, Workin' On A World, Iris DeMent faces the modern world - as it is right now - with it's climate catastrophe, pandemic illness, and epidemic of violence and social injustice - and not only...