Folk

Big Country Bluegrass draws from the same old time and mountain music traditions that the first generation of musicians drew from when bluegrass burst on the scene in the 1940s. A tight band sound is central and the harmony vocals supportive, and they...

Between 1961 and 1975, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) presented a revolutionary front against the Portuguese colonialists. This album, recorded in the midst of the insurrection, features a wide array of songs associated with the...

Better known as one half of Melbourne's the Treetops, main songwriter Ben Montero has written 10 tracks with guitarist Emmett Smith that equal the quality of their other band. Beautiful folk rock and pop to the extreme, these songs seem so effortless but...

Best selling music/guitar author Jim Tozier's new CD "Guitar Pieces" showcases this artists own compositions on 15 tracks as well as two very strong covers (Elliot Smith's "Between the Bars, and the classic "Never My Love") for a generous 17 tracks of...

Best Of Billy Bragg At The BBC 1983-2019 is a new double CD compilation of classic Billy Bragg performances at the BBC from the early 80s through to the present. The album, fully remastered and featuring many previously unreleased tracks, includes...

BEN GLOVER THROUGH THE NOISE THROUGH THE NIGHT It's actually been a couple of years since Ben Glover dropped this beautiful album, Through The Noise, Through The Night, an album that any fan of besieged and nicely wrapped singer/songwriter treatments...

Ben Cramer describes 5 AM Paradise, his vivid and moving third album as Old Sea Brigade, as a coming-of-age record: ten songs that balance youthful abandon with maturity and restraint, full of imaginative flourishes, evocative textures, and graceful...

Beloved singer and actress Sophie Tucker began her career with the Ziegfield Follies and moved onward to become a valued guest star on Broadway, in radio, and on television. Ted Lewis, a jazz clarinetist, followed a similar career path from vaudeville to...

Beloved New Orleans Folk Rock Diva Lilli Lewis is releasing Americana, her third full album for Louisiana Red Hot Records. The album was co-produced by Lewis and iconic indie producer Mark Bingham (Peter Stampfel, Hal Wilner, Allen Ginsberg...). Notable...

Begun in 1962 by Agnes "Sis" Cunningham and her husband Gordon Friesen, Broadside Magazine was a mimeographed publication that covered the American folk music revival. In 1974, two years before his tragic death, Phil Ochs held a benefit concert for the...

Beginning in 1977, renowned folklorist Art Rosenbaum traveled around northern Georgia making field recordings of songs learned from the oral tradition. The outcome was a two-volume anthology and a book by the same title. The first half of Volume 1...

Beginning in 1977, folklorist Art Rosenbaum traveled around northern Georgia making field recordings of singers who learned their music from the oral tradition. The outcome was a two-volume anthology and a book by the same title. The first half of Volume...