Folk

2018 release. Magic Ship - a reflection on the joys, follies, and oddities of existence - is the band's second album. The songs on Magic Ship distill eight years of experience since their 2010 debut album, Made the Harbor, of sights seen, pleasures had,...

2018 release. Lucky Hand is Steve Dawson's first record of instrumental music since Rattlesnake Cage came out in 2014 and represents a high point of more than two decades of musical searching. Comprised of 10 instrumental tracks of solo, duo and...

2018 release. Long known for her seductively haunting voice, Folk singer/songwriter Meiko releases Playing Favorites, her first covers album. Featuring songs made immortal by luminaries The Cranberries, Otis Redding, Erykah Badu, Duran Duran, Blind...

2018 release. Kat Danser's music is a steel belted radial easily flexing between a dusty gravel road and a fresh coat of asphalt. True to her Polish-Gypsy heritage, Danser is in perpetual motion and her swampy roots and blues style is a fine-tuned...

2018 release. Jon Brooks' sixth album, No One Travels Alone, accomplishes something truly interesting in modern songwriting: borrowing from the Elizabethan sonneteers, the album fulfils a corona of songs. Corona form interconnects each song by first and...

2018 release. If you've ever heard a room full of people yelling "I hope your husband dies" in a some harmoniously sloppy, drunken unison, you've probably stumbled into an Amigo the Devil show. Danny Kiranos, better known to the masses as his musical...

2018 release. Identical twins Adam and David Moss of The Brother Brothers bring their blood harmonies and real-life observations to carry on the folk tradition for a new generation. With minimal instrumentation, meaningful lyrics, and their incredible...

2018 release. Home and the people who make it have captivated Lori McKenna for years. Over the last three decades, as she became a wife and mother of five, she has also emerged as one of the most respected, prolific singer-songwriters in popular music...

2018 release. Four luminaries of acoustic music today have united as Hawktail to create this album of modern, original instrumental music, a dormant category for bands within the American folk realm. This is refreshing, beautiful music that stands apart...

2018 release. Following 2016's much praised Kingsdown Sundown and a sold out show at London's Union Chapel, this album marks a distinct change of direction for the singer/songwriter, being the first time he has recorded with a full backing band. Produced...

2018 release. Faced with the question of influences, Reina Del Cid cites literary rather than musical heroes. She commands a flexibility of language reminiscent less of Regina Spektor or Ingrid Michaelson, artists she is often compared to, but more of...

2018 release. East London five piece folk band Stick In The Wheel are headed by singer Nicola Kearey, and guitarist/producer Ian Carter. Their debut From Here (2015) was fRoots magazine Album of the Year and a MOJO Folk Album of the Year, with four BBC...