Folk

Canada's Gordon Lightfoot parlayed his songwriting into a recording career, though this wasn't a case of a mediocre singer who happened to craft fine songs. His debut album, 'Lightfoot!', was recorded in New York in 1965 with guitarist David Rea and...

Canada.1. You Feel the Same Way Too 2. Borders and Time 3. Rise Again 4. North Country 5. Orangedale Whistle 6. The River 7. Let It Go 8. Maybe You're Right 9. Bells 10. Gill Is Mountain 11. Forty Days and Nights (Radio Edit) 12. Movin' on 13. Roving...

Calm In The Eye Of The Storm is Canadian folk legend Ken Whiteley's first album in four years and it's a great one. It melds the personal, political and the spiritual in 13 tracks with some of Whiteley's best songs and best singing ever. Accompanied by a...

Calling all shingle-lifters and flat-footers! This collection of music is perfect for dancers of all levels. The Schwarz fiddle band plays tunes based on traditional mountain songs such as "Cotton-Eyed Joe" and "Sally Ann." Dancers can start off slowly...

Called "The Minstrel of the Appalachians," banjo player Bascom Lamar Lunsford performs a cross section of his sizeable repertoire, which contains at least three hundred songs. These songs include English ballads, topical songs, and 19th century popular...

California songstress Angelica Rockne will release her second album, The Rose Society, on May 5, 2023. Rockne began garnering attention with her startling debut, Queen Of San Antonio. Released back in 2017, that album led to LA Weekly heralding her as...

Caamp formed when childhood friends Taylor Meier and Evan Westfall bonded over a shared love for Ohio and music. Their self-titled debut (2016) exceeded 52 million plays and climbed the Spotify charts. Thereafter, Caamp toured with Rainbow Kitten...

By his own admission, Dave Fredrickson is less a folk singer than a singer of old-time songs. He performs, with his guitar, in the relaxed style of the cowboy singers of days gone by, and his diverse repertoire is drawn from cowboy records, traditional...

Built at the sonic intersection of the Bad Livers' lawless next-gen traditional country and bluegrass, and Black Flag's burn-it-all-down revolt and breakneck tempos, Chicago's Al Scorch trades in high-wire musicianship on tales of debilitating despair,...

Budget-priced comp of the best solo works by this studio great who has contributed to albums by Fairport Convention, Mary Hopkin and Bert Jansch. Approximately 77 minutes long, it features 24 tracks, including 'Streets of London', 'Hesitation Blues',...

Bud Petal's music has been described as "cerebral art-folk", "like a chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine, an umbrella, Noam's Chomsky's book Year 501: The Conquest Continues, and early Bob Dylan", "the music Lord Byron would be...

Brun Campbell (1884-1952) was an itinerant pianist of the early ragtime era who spearheaded ragtime revival efforts in the 1940s. Known for his many articles on ragtime, Campbell also composed a number of rags and ragtime songs in the '40s, some of which...