Folk

Born in Brooklyn in 1936, Dave Van Ronk was Bob Dylan's "first New York guru," writes Dylan's biographer Robert Shelton. "Dave Van Ronk was the musical mayor of MacDougal Street," Shelton continues, "and... a walking museum of the blues." This album...

Born in 1928, Walt Robertson traveled many roads with his guitar on his back. The singer writes, "Folk music is... about the best medicine the world has got to ease it's aches and pains." This compilation of ballads features songs of the Pacific...

Born in 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, Margaret MacArthur spent her childhood moving around the western United States. Her first contact with folk music came in 1933, when her father began work at an Arizona timber company with displaced cowboys and folk...

Born and raised in the Northern fishing village of H?sav?k, Axel recorded his first EP Forest Fires, it was here where the songs were written under the influence of everything from Bon Iver to Bombay Bicycle Club. It yielded an international phenomenon...

Born and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, "Haywire Mac" McClintock sings army songs from the early 1900s, which he learned while in the Philippines as a civilian packer with US Army pack trains. These are humorous narratives describing life while...

Boreas, the northern wind, ushered in the harsh frosts of lonely winter. The arrangements of this third installment evoke images of snow-blanketed darkness, candlelight behind cupped hands, and a vast night sky ribboned with stars and auroras. As we...

BOREALIS RECORDS is exceptionally pleased to announce that JUNO and CFMA award winning singer-songwriter James Keelaghan has just put the finishing touches on a fantastic new album SECOND-HAND. James' songwriting has often been cited for it's keen sense...

Bonny Light Horseman's self-titled debut was a folk masterclass, reimagining centuries-old standards with effortless grace and wonder. Those Grammy-nominated, list- topping recordings not only suggested renewed possibilities for aging songbooks but also...

Bold, lusty, wickedly funny, unexpurgated. Fireside conversation in the time of Queen Elizabeth I and songs in the same free spirit read and sung by Richard Dyer-Bennet.1. 1601 2. Old Joe Clark 3. The Old She Crab 4. The Tailor's Boy 5. The Eer-I-E Canal...

Bold Reynold - an album by David Carroll and Friends (Gryphon's Dave Oberle, Graeme Taylor and Brian Gulland plus Fairport Convention's Chris Leslie and Dave Pegg, with Tom Spencer from The Professionals and The Men They Couldn't Hang, and Lucy Cooper),...

Bobby Darin was, by any definition, a superstar - a chart-topping, multimillion-selling, Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, a Golden Globe-winning actor, visionary entrepreneur, and committed political activist. Restless and daring, his refusal to...

Bob Theil's self proclaimed opus, 'Songs from the Margin' was supposed to be the follow-up album to 'So Far' which debuted in 1982. The project spanned seven years with 'Fading Ways, Fadings Faces' being written as far back as 1977, and the remainder of...