Folk

For over 30 years, Van Dyke Parks has been one of the most quietly influential figures in pop music. As producer, arranger and collaborator, he's contributed to landmark recordings by the Beach Boys and the Byrds, among dozens of others; as a recording...

For nearly two decades, Willie Watson has made modern folk music rooted in older traditions. He's a folksinger in the classic sense: a singer, storyteller, and traveler, with a catalog of songs that bridge the gap between the past and present. On...

For many years working a variety of jobs in British Columbia construction camps, railroad gangs, logging and tugboat crews-Stanley G. Triggs's resume would make any outdoorsman proud. Add folk singer and mandolin player to the list, and you have all the...

For Golden Shoals, the completion of a brand new self-titled album marks a rebirth of sorts. After seven years touring nationally and internationally behind three albums and an old moniker ("Hoot and Holler"), Amy Alvey and Mark Kilianski made the...

For five years, Nick Dalton lived on a farm at the outskirts of Moraga, population 40, in Central West NSW. It was a regular occurrence, on the way to Sydney, to drive through Goulburn, home of the big merino. When his long time girlfriend, Lucy Lehmann,...

For fans of Roxanne Potvin, the Juno award nominated Montreal based singer/songwriter, two years might seem like an unbearably long time between albums, but just one spin through the songs on 'Play' will be more than enough to convince them that it's...

For decades Joe Glazer, Labor's Troubadour inspired workers in mills, factories and on railways. In this collection of music, Glazer reminisces of the struggles and triumphs of the railroad worker. He writes, This album is dedicated to all the workers...

For as long as it's existed, the American roots music industry has co-opted Black music into a package to be marketed and resold, defanging or erasing perspectives deemed too threatening along the way. Banjo player and fiddler Jake Blount resurrects...

For a musical nightcap blended from some of the sweetest, grooviest and most vivacious folk-based sounds to be found on the Fringe, check out this witching hour gig by up-and-coming Scottish five-piece Harem Scarem. Their Line-up - on fiddles, flutes,...

Following the release of the blissful and poignant singles 'Return Me' and 'The Woman Who Planted Trees', acclaimed singer-songwriter Emily Barker has announced that her forthcoming album, A Dark Murmuration of Words, will be released on September 4th on...

Following the critically-acclaimed album Follow Me, roots music icon Kim Lenz returns with her fifth release Slowly Speeding. A culmination of some two decades of honing her songwriting and performing craft, Speeding layers her influences over a...

Following on from the success of Jasmine's previous Guckenheimer CD "Oom-Pah-Pah in Hi-Fi & Sour Kraut in Hi-Fi" (JASMCD2686) come "High Fidelity Oom-Pah-Pah for Non Thinkers". This time Dr. Fritz Guckenheimer and his band of merry men (merry with beer)...