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  • Nico – Chelsea Girl
    Nico – Chelsea Girl
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    Beautiful dark folk influenced debut featuring songs by Lou Reed & John Cale pre-Velvet Underground & Jackson Browne

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • Hard Travelin’: The Life And Legacy Of Woody Guthrie
    Hard Travelin’: The Life And Legacy Of Woody Guthrie
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    For the first ever American Music Masters event sponsored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, musicians and folkies came together to salute the life and legacy […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Bob Dylan ‎– Another Side Of Bob Dylan (64 Mono)
    Bob Dylan ‎– Another Side Of Bob Dylan (64 Mono)
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    Early 64 Mono pressing of Dylan’s 3rd. Label: Columbia – CL 2193 Format:  Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Terre Haute Country: US Released: 1964 VG/G+

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Third Ear Band – Music From Macbeth
    Third Ear Band – Music From Macbeth
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    Third Ear Band’s psych-folk score to Roman Polanski’s adaptation of Macbeth Label: Harvest – SHSP 4019 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress Country: UK Released: undated repress VG+/VG+  

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country, Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Third Ear Band – Alchemy
    Third Ear Band – Alchemy
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    ““One of the first releases on EMI’s progressive rock label, Harvest in July 1969, Alchemy was the debut album by Third Ear Band. One of the earliest signings to Harvest, […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • Happy End – Kazemachi Roman
    Happy End – Kazemachi Roman
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    “Kazemachi Roman by Happy End is a radical LP, a concept project named best Japanese rock album of all time by Rolling Stone Japan, and heartily forward-thinking in its native […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • Will Veeder – The Lost And Found
    Will Veeder – The Lost And Found
    $22.00 | Add to cart

    A combination of finger-picking acoustic and electric guitar with percussion. American-primitive psych. Will Veeder is a master at conjuring up vivid images and emotions, using a combination of [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Ethan WL – Blood Farm (American Primitive playing – amazing)
    Ethan WL – Blood Farm (American Primitive playing – amazing)
    $22.00 | Add to cart

    “This is my latest album, about 40 straight minutes of acoustic guitar. All originals, live takes, and no overdubs. Filmmaker and Journalist Bill Lichtenstein told me that it ‘sounds like […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Grant / McGuire / Flaherty – 10″
    Grant / McGuire / Flaherty – 10″
    $20.00 | Add to cart

    “It’s like a fever dream at a fiddlers convention when you wake up sweating in your tent at 4 in the morning. And the music outside, you can’t tell if […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Conduit Gold – s/t
    Conduit Gold – s/t
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    Electric guitar duo musings from Kelly MacDonald & Alex York. Released in tape edition of 30 copies & given away for free at our first gig opening for Ned Collette […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • SUSS – Birds & Beasts
    SUSS – Birds & Beasts
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    SUSS’ fifth release, Birds & Beasts, on Northern Spy Records, finds the New York-based ambient trio digging deeper, populating its stark, ethereal soundscapes with primal currents of sound [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Suss – Suss (2022 self titled)
    Suss – Suss (2022 self titled)
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    A lot has happened to SUSS since their last vinyl release, 2020’s Promise on Northern Spy Records. That album ended up on many best-of lists that year, and was cited […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Here Comes Your Midnight Man – A Folk Mixtape – Radio Topo #5
    Here Comes Your Midnight Man – A Folk Mixtape – Radio Topo #5
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    Recycled C60 CS Folk mixtape curated by Alex York (Torn Light/Fantastique) & John Rich (Wasteland Jazz Unit / No Response) C60 (minus a few min’s) of downer folk. Dreary and […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Andy Irvine, Paul Brady – S/T
    Andy Irvine, Paul Brady – S/T
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    An Irish folk album that displays unique and rare instrumentation. Label: Mulligan – LUN 008 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: Ireland Released: 1976 VG+/VG, with Light shelf wear.

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Nick Maurer – Come On In!
    Nick Maurer – Come On In!
    $25.00 | Ships on/around Aug 16, 2024 Add to cart

    Nick Maurer’s Come On In! is the stuff of a modern American fable. The 20 year-old Cincinnatian’s first release on Happy Families feels wise beyond years but is equally moving […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • John Fahey ‎– Volume 3 / The Dance Of Death & Other Plantation Favorites (Rare Alternate Cover, includes booklet)
    John Fahey ‎– Volume 3 / The Dance Of Death & Other Plantation Favorites (Rare Alternate Cover, includes booklet)
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    “It represents the first, best recorded declaration from Fahey that he was interested in transforming his music into a vehicle for personal expression that built on his influences but [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist
    Dance of Death: The Life of John Fahey, American Guitarist
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    John Fahey is to the solo acoustic guitar what Jimi Hendrix was to the electric: the man whom all subsequent musicians had to listen to. Fahey made more than 40 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Bill MacKay And Nathan Bowles – Keys
    Bill MacKay And Nathan Bowles – Keys
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    Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles’ debut is well titled: keys are what they play and keys unlock things too. Their trad bonafides are balanced with inquisitive playing that adds surprise […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Eli Winter – S/T
    Eli Winter – S/T
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    Chicago-based guitarist / composer Eli Winter’s new self-titled album finds him building on the promise of his recent records—like 2020’s Unbecoming and his 2021 collaboration with Cameron [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Ananya Ganesh – Precis​-​Loving
    Ananya Ganesh – Precis​-​Loving
    $13.00 | Add to cart

    Ananya Ganesh (b. 1997) is an improviser from Madras based in North America. Their idiosyncratically simultaneous improvisation of the voice and piano lies between the unrealizable and what could [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Small Sur – Attic Room
    Small Sur – Attic Room
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    Attic Room is Bob Keal’s fifth full-length album as Small Sur and first since his daughter’s birth in 2014. In this collection of songs, Keal meditates on the rhythms of […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Ralph E. White – Something About Dreaming
    Ralph E. White – Something About Dreaming
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    Recorded in Austin, Texas in March of 2020, just days before the city and the rest of the world shut down, Ralph White spent two days with producer, Jerry David […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith
    Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith
    $31.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “The Harry Smith resurgence is upon us.” – Jack He was an anthropologist, filmmaker, painter, folklorist, mystic, and walking encyclopedia. He taught [...]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Smog ‎– Wild Love
    Smog ‎– Wild Love
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    What you remember: the upside-down crosses on your girlfriend’s jean jacket. Always drawn with magic marker. Always smeared in the wash.

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Pyschedelic Folk
    Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Pyschedelic Folk
    $12.00 | , Add to cart

    In the late 60s and early 70s the inherent weirdness of folk met switched-on psychedelic rock and gave birth to new, strange forms of acoustic-based avant-garde music. Artists on both […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • JJ Band – Live I Kungsten
    JJ Band – Live I Kungsten
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    While working on his solo albums, JJulius put together a live band consisting of Clara Flygare (Standard) on drums and vocals, Gustav Danielsbacka (Incipientium) on guitar and Mattias Rörström [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Try to Tell a Fish about Water: The Art, Music, and Third Life of Norma Tenega
    Try to Tell a Fish about Water: The Art, Music, and Third Life of Norma Tenega
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    In addition to her accomplishments as a gifted musician and songwriter, Norma Tanega was a noted gallerist, teacher, and a central figure in the vibrant and homegrown creative scene of […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Phil Ochs – Best Of The Rest: Rare And Unreleased Recordings (RSD)
    Phil Ochs – Best Of The Rest: Rare And Unreleased Recordings (RSD)
    $45.00 | , Add to cart

    Phil Ochs is known primarily as a songwriter, but his talents extend far beyond that to short stories, poetry and satire. More than a torrent, less than a flood, the […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Splinterskin – Wayward Souls
    Splinterskin – Wayward Souls
    $6.00 | Add to cart

    Splinterskin unveils his spell after years of solitude and hermetic isolation, in the form of a harsh, dark folk music. His tales are told using an old classical guitar accompanied […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Tim Buckley – The Dream Belongs to Me (Gold Vinyl)
    Tim Buckley – The Dream Belongs to Me (Gold Vinyl)
    $38.00 | , Add to cart

    Of all the singer-songwriters to emerge from the ‘60s, Tim Buckley was the most difficult to pigeonhole. Was his music folk? Rock? Jazz? Even R&B? The answer was, of course, […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Rock / Pop
  • Matthew J Rolin – Passing
    Matthew J Rolin – Passing
    $22.00 | Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “I’m a big fan of Matthew Rolin’s guitar style, and this recent record is stunning. Each track is a dense, glimmering passage of fingerstyle […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Flanger Magazine
    Flanger Magazine
    $18.00 | , Add to cart

    “A set of spry, pastoral Aecoustic Guitar and errant Electronic pieces that harken back to libraries by Teisco, Vittorio Marino, and the like, yet mapped in an alien manner unlike […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Joan Shelley – The Spur
    Joan Shelley – The Spur
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    I want to explain these songs / I want to leave them unexplained. We’ve all been working with a lot of silence. I was tired from touring, remembering the long […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Courtney Marie Andrews – May Your Kindness Remain
    Courtney Marie Andrews – May Your Kindness Remain
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    After breaking through with a batch of restless, itinerant songs on Honest Life in 2016, Courtney Marie Andrews longs for something more permanent on the follow-up. The Seattle singer spends […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Loren Connors – 9th Avenue
    Loren Connors – 9th Avenue
    $20.00 | Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Room next door practice amp blues. Total control and fearlessly personal riffing – TRUE BLUES.” – Alex For me, this is the blues. Utterly […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Richard Thompson – Music From Grizzly Man
    Richard Thompson – Music From Grizzly Man
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    Richard Thompson’s score for Grizzly Man – Werner Herzog’s 2005 documentary film of real life and death in the Alaskan wilderness – is one of the best-kept secrets in the […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Bill Fay – Still Some Light: Part 2
    Bill Fay – Still Some Light: Part 2
    $32.00 | , Add to cart

    Bill Fay has always sung about attempting to understand the most universal questions: those of nature, spirituality, humanity. His songs are “calming hymns for another chaotic time”, he says. His [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Ian A. Anderson – Royal York Crescent (RSD Italy)
    Ian A. Anderson – Royal York Crescent (RSD Italy)
    $35.00 | , Add to cart

    INDIE EXCLUSIVE, RSD ITALY APRIL RELEASE. When we talk about British folk revival, we should not forget a key figure as Ian A. Anderson, a songwriter on its own and […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Wanda Jackson – There’s A Party Goin’ On
    Wanda Jackson – There’s A Party Goin’ On
    $14.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “When it comes to people who I think have some of the most interesting voices in rock, Wanda Jackson is on that list. The […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Rock / Pop
  • Josephine Foster – Godmother
    Josephine Foster – Godmother
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    A beautifully observed baroque masterpiece, part dream pop, part futuristic psych-folk with ambient synths and Josephine Foster’s plaintive guitar. Godmother is a slowly unfolding song cycle that [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Alan Licht – Currents
    Alan Licht – Currents
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    What our staff has to say: “Gorgeous acoustic guitar instrumentals, melodies are hidden everywhere within Alan Licht’s thick strumming style. This record will excite you and put you at [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Donald Miller – Transgression!!!
    Donald Miller – Transgression!!!
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    On Transgression!!!, Donald Miller, guitar icon known for destroying worlds in the great Borbetomagus, takes the listener on an unexpected journey through the 12-string acoustic guitar. Utilizing [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Che-Shizu – A Journey
    Che-Shizu – A Journey
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Ché-SHIZU is one of the most original and mystifying groups to ever emerge from Japan’s musical underground. Founded by master improviser Chie Mukai in 1981 the group has been guided […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Bill Callahan & Bonnie “Prince” Billy –  Blind Date Party
    Bill Callahan & Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Blind Date Party
    $37.00 | , Add to cart

    Bill & Bonny shared these songs with a travel-challenged world through late 2020 into earlier this year; now their online sensation comes home to roost on the good ol’ fashioned […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Ryley Walker ‎– Course In Fable
    Ryley Walker ‎– Course In Fable
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    released April 2, 2021 Ryley Walker- Guitar/Vocals Andrew Scott Young – Bass/Piano Bill MacKay – Guitar/Piano Ryan Jewell – Drums/Percussion John McEntire – [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Ben Chasny – The Intimate Landscape
    Ben Chasny – The Intimate Landscape
    $15.00 | , Add to cart

    At the invitation of KPM Music, the wizard of Six Organs of Admittance steps behind his acoustic to produce a new instrumental guitar set. Library music, or deeply personal essays […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • V/A – Local Customs: Lone Star Lowlands
    V/A – Local Customs: Lone Star Lowlands
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    “The second in our series of peeks into the world of regional studios hones in on Mickey Rouse’s Lowland operation out of Beaumont, Texas. Long after the Bopper’s plane crashed […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Rock / Pop
  • Six Organs Of Admittance – The Veiled Sea
    Six Organs Of Admittance – The Veiled Sea
    $19.00 | , Add to cart

    “The Veiled Sea” is easily one the most viscerally satisfying records in the Six Organs of Admittance discography. As always, Chasny finds the invisible threads between incongruous [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Strong Love: Songs Of Gay Liberation 1972-81 (Baby Pink Vinyl)
    Strong Love: Songs Of Gay Liberation 1972-81 (Baby Pink Vinyl)
    $20.00 | , Add to cart

    From the label: “Originally released on CD in 2012, Chapter’s landmark compilation of 70s gay musical pioneers gets a vinyl release for the first time ever – and on pink […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Woods – Reflections Vol. 1
    Woods – Reflections Vol. 1
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    With no touring in 2020, and possibly this year, Woods decided to take a deep dive into their archives and put together the first volume of their much discussed archival […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Enhet För Fri Musik ‎– Ömhet & Skilsmässa LP
    Enhet För Fri Musik ‎– Ömhet & Skilsmässa LP
    $33.00 | , Add to cart

    New Enhet För Fri Musk album, recorded in Gothenburg and Malmö 2020 by Hugo Randulv, Sofie Herner, Gustaf Dicksson, Matthias Andersson and Dan Johansson. A concept album on relationships, family [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Bill Mackay & Nathan Bowles – Keys
    Bill Mackay & Nathan Bowles – Keys
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles’ debut is well titled: keys are what they play and keys unlock things too. Their trad bonafides are balanced with inquisitive playing that adds surprise […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Rob Noyes – Arc Minutes
    Rob Noyes – Arc Minutes
    $21.00 | , Add to cart

    A dazzling display of 12-string melodicism, Arc Minutes is the second full-length LP from once New Englander, now Tokyo-based, instrumentalist Rob Noyes. If one had to pin an influence from […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Lake Mary & The Ranch Family Band –  Sun Dogs LP
    Lake Mary & The Ranch Family Band – Sun Dogs LP
    $13.00 | , Add to cart

    Chaz Prymek’s ongoing Lake Mary project transcended the boundaries of a mere solo project long ago, having evolved into an ever-shifting collective of like-minded artists, performers and [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Suzanne Langille & Neel Murgai – Come When The Raven Calls
    Suzanne Langille & Neel Murgai – Come When The Raven Calls
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    “Come When The Raven Calls is the second album by Suzanne Langille and Neel Murgai after more than two decades performing together. Langille fuses the rawness of American spiritual blues [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country