Folk

From the pastoral hills, hollers, shopping malls and interstate highways of Goodlettsville Tennessee, home of Bill Monroe, Bashful Brother Oswald, Stringbean, Grandpa Jones, Keith Whitley and some living country music performers, comes the most...

From the pastoral hills, hollers, shopping malls and interstate highways of Goodlettsville Tennessee, home of Bill Monroe, Bashful Brother Oswald, Stringbean, Grandpa Jones, Keith Whitley and some living country music performers, comes the most...

From the Netherlands comes guitar sensation Eltjo Haselhoff. This album of guitar solos is the first of what will be many releases by this instrumental guitarist who is building up a huge European reputation and is looking to make it worldwide.1. Tap...

From the first few verses of Today's Remains it's obvious that Shuyler Jansen is wearing his Sunday best. Recorded in Vancouver and produced by Juno award winner Steve Dawson, Today's Remains is an auspicious follow-up to Shuyler's country-electro-folk...

From the blazing hot bow of Sami Braman comes 'Riveter'-the debut solo record of original fiddle tunes, inventively written and masterfully performed by the traditional roots wunderkind. Known from her work with longtime Pacific Northwest string band,...

From Saigon: The sounds of sonar, tank caterpillars and machine-gun fire overshadow a schoolchildren's math lesson and a prayer for peace prayed by a monk; we observe American soldiers blunting their confusion with booze, as they make arrangements with...

From parties to protests to prayer, music is a powerful catalyst for celebration, for change, and for a sense of community. Through making music together, we become bigger than ourselves. Whether singing with our families and friends or with thousands of...

From heavy to humorous, songs about $$$ abound in roots music. Smithsonian Folkways digs into the pockets of the past and comes up with Do-Re-Mi Woody Guthrie; Business Pete Seeger; Gallis Pole Leadbelly; One Meat Ball Josh White; Union Maid Almanac...

From favorite a PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION performers ROBIN & LINDA WILLIAMS - and just in time for the U. S. Civil War sesquicentennial - a rollicking collection of songs from the Folk/Bluegrass musical, Stonewall Country, an imaginative retelling of the...

From Dreams To Dust, the latest studio album by The Felice Brothers was recorded in the fall of 2020 in an old one room church in Harlemville, NY. Produced by The Felice Brothers and mixed by Mike Mogis. The record ranges over a variety of topics and...

From Australia comes folk/jazz/blues guitarist Nick Charles. "The Collection" features 16 tunes that highlight his first few Australian releases.1. Dusty Ribbon 2. High Tide 3. The Jazzy Rag 4. Bibury Court 5. The Everyday Blues 6. Blues for Helen 7...

From 1961 to 1965, New York city's trailblazing Friends of Old Time Music presented 14 concerts that brought dozens of legendary traditional musicians before city audiences for the first time, and helped spark the folk revival. Now, famed folk producer...