Folk

As The War and Treaty, Michael and Tanya Trotter serve up healing and pain robbing with freewheeling joy on the monumental new full-length album, Healing Tide. An original tour-de-force produced by Buddy Miller, the collection swaggers with a confidence...

As the son, grandson and great-grandson of sailors and ship builders I've always felt drawn to the sea. This collection of music has many of my favorite songs. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoy singing these songs.1. Drunken Sailor 2. Golden...

As the living legend approaches his 90th birthday on may 3rd 2009 (and his nomination for the nobel peace prize) omni present 3 of his very finest lps for the first time on CD! Pete Seeger wrote "where have all the flowers gone", "turn turn turn!", "the...

As the American South moved from a primarily agrarian economy to an industrial one, the change was felt strongly by country musicians, and it revolutionized every aspect of their music. In Tipple, Loom, & Rail Mike Seeger explores the style and...

As one of the best loved musicians in folk music, Lucy Kaplansky is a top-tier songwriter and highly acclaimed performer whose 7th album on Red House Records, Reunion is an eloquent masterpiece. Mixing vibrant melodies with Americana/folk rhythms, the...

As noted in the liner notes, " being a tenant has never been part of the American dream. " a myriad of emotions is encapsulated on this 1983 release: From anger and indignation brought on by poor treatment by landlords, to pride and resilience from a...

As Has It is a collection of interviews, photographs, and field recordings captured throughout central Appalachia between May 2015 and July 2019. These documents explore the connections between vernacular culture, landscape, and contemporary life in...

As featured in the recent Martin Scorcese documentary about Bob Dylan, NO WAY HOME, John Jacob Niles was a key progenitor of the 1950's resurgence of folk music in America. Historian, musicologist, performance artist - Niles was one of the first American...

As Fast Folk founders Richard Meyer and Jack Hardy once said: "... The art stands alone with it's own heart and must be true to it's creator's aesthetic no matter what." This compilation is replete with emotional devastation and separated lovers. Full of...

As anyone who's tried to grow tomatoes knows, sometimes it takes a few attempts to achieve the perfect favour. On their new album, Canary in a Coal Mine, New Brunswick- based roots rock outft Tomato Tomato - led by Lisa and John McLaggan - have done just...

As a magazine-recording combo publication, Fast Folk (founded by Jack Hardy in 1982 and acquired by Smithsonian Folkways Records in the late '90s) provided an outlet for some of the most recognized songwriters like Suzanne Vega, Lyle Lovett and John...

As a follow up to his well-revered holiday album Hi-Fi Christmas Guitar, Joel Paterson will release a collection of vintage instrumental, guitar-centric covers of songs from the Beatles' catalog, entitled Let It Be Guitar! Joel Paterson Plays The Beatles...