Excellent compilation of classic Stone Poneys tracks. Label: Pickwick – SPC-3298 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Stereo, Silver Labels Country: US Released: VG+/VG+. light marks on vinyl that [...]
“Often cited as the ultimate Tim Buckley statement, Goodbye and Hello is indeed a fabulous album, but it’s merely one side of Tim Buckley’s enormous talent. Recorded in the [...]
“The story of David Lambert and Craig Nuttycombe’s not-quite-success actually says more about both the business and lack of guarantees one can face than most Behind the Music specials [...]
“Sad, spare, and beautiful, Blue is the quintessential confessional singer/songwriter album. Forthright and poetic, Joni Mitchell’s songs are raw nerves, tales of love and loss (two [...]
“I’ve just listened to Dylan’s new album, and in particular “Belle Isle”, and I feel deeply moved that such a man is making music in my time. Dylan’s songs are [...]
“Bob Dylan’s first album is a lot like the debut albums by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones — a sterling effort, outclassing most, if not all, of what came […]
“Sad, spare, and beautiful, Blue is the quintessential confessional singer/songwriter album. Forthright and poetic, Joni Mitchell’s songs are raw nerves, tales of love and loss (two [...]
“One of the long-standing collaborations of the British folk revival, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn’s Bert and John sees the masterful Pentangle guitarists sparing together through [...]
‘I Dreamed Once I Was May Queen’ is the sophomore album from Bloomington, IN songwriter Kay Krull. The bulk of the album was recorded by her trio live in a […]
“I have learned over the years that when Nigel Cross (founder of Bucketfull of Brains fanzine and the Shagrat label) speaks, it’s worth paying attention. Thus, when he began telling […]
Images of Life is the career-spanning, 3xLP retrospective boxset illuminating the staggering breadth and depth of Detroit’s unheralded songwriting genius, Ted Lucas. Disc one “Strange [...]
“This album is a fantastic document of two guitarists complementing each other, giving each other space to work out ideas and while being technical top notch, they put a lot […]
Anthony Pasquarosa focuses the third eye back to 1910 to conjure a lysergic spaghetti Western experience. Expect to be transported to another realm where gunshots, galloping horses and [...]
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 [...]
“Michigan songwriter Izzy Johnson’s debut record Earth Tones, a vast abyss of a record presented on Driftless Recordings, draws from the files of freak folk, new age, and meditative styles [...]
“The debut release from the original Incredible String Band trio — Robin Williamson (violin/whistle/mandolin/guitar/vocals), Clive Palmer (banjo/guitar/vocals), and Mike Heron [...]
Lots of ground covered: abraded fury, free forms and serpentine Rang-dang-doodle songatechture mutated via some kind of lateral gene transfer of their musical DNA — a trip best taken WHOLE. […]
Elkhorn are longtime friends Jesse Shepard (12 string acoustic guitar) and Drew Gardner (electric guitar). Fresh off their debut tape on Beyond Beyond is Beyond, this incredible duo fuses a […]
“In 2015, a successful bid of £3,560 (some ₩5 million) was made on a single album on eBay – this was the 1972 original UK press of Folkal Point’s album. […]
“This recorded autobiography of Catherine Howe, age 20, briefly appeared in 1971. Too young for memoirs, most artists have barely established any sort of musical competence by the age of [...]
“A few years back, Bryan Gillig was the frontman of the great Turners Falls MA band, Loudville. Plans were broached for a record, but nothing ever worked out and Loudville […]
“Counting their live CDR from 2007, All That Remains is the fifth album by Walthamstow’s finest duo since at least the halcyon days of Bevis Frond’s Inner Marshland. Hard to [...]
“Sad, spare, and beautiful, Blue is the quintessential confessional singer/songwriter album. Forthright and poetic, Joni Mitchell’s songs are raw nerves, tales of love and loss (two [...]
Los Angeles–based singer-songwriter Haylie Davis presents Wandering Star, a coming-of-age debut that unfolds like a Townes Van Zandt tale set in a deserted diner off a re-routed interchange: [...]
Los Angeles–based singer-songwriter Haylie Davis presents Wandering Star, a coming-of-age debut that unfolds like a Townes Van Zandt tale set in a deserted diner off a re-routed interchange: [...]
With The Way I Should, Iris DeMent stepped boldly into new territory, delivering a collection that balanced her fierce lyrical conviction with tender vulnerability. Released in 1996, this third [...]
Counting Sunsets is a quietly expansive continuation of SUSS’s slow-motion Americana, tracing new lines through the terrain they’ve been mapping across their run of albums for [...]
Counting Sunsets is a quietly expansive continuation of SUSS’s slow-motion Americana, tracing new lines through the terrain they’ve been mapping across their run of albums for [...]
The Deslondes are a five-piece group from New Orleans, Louisiana The band splits up songwriting and lead vocal duties among its five members, continuing its democratic ethos and musical [...]
The Deslondes are a five-piece group from New Orleans, Louisiana The band splits up songwriting and lead vocal duties among its five members, continuing its democratic ethos and musical [...]
Jobi Riccio is stepping into her next chapter with Face The Feeling, her forthcoming album on Yep Roc Records due May 15. An “Emerging Act of the Year” nominee from […]
Jobi Riccio is stepping into her next chapter with Face The Feeling, her forthcoming album on Yep Roc Records due May 15. An “Emerging Act of the Year” nominee from […]
Field Commander Ali is the solo project of Ali Mollica, a folk song person living on the South Coast of NSW, Australia . The Next From Field Commander, her new […]
Acclaimed harpist and songwriter Mikaela Davis’ new album, Graceland Way (due TK via Kill Rock Stars), builds an expansive, kaleidoscopic neo-western dystopia from the cozy origin point—that [...]
The incandescent voice of Tim Buckley took him on a journey from fragile folk rocker to boldly experimental avant-garde icon in nine short years of recordings. Here we capture him […]
“Rob Noyes has been on the Eastern Massachusetts scene for a while, but what we’ve heard him play is music from within the context of electric bands, most of whom […]
“Are Possible is a spark-throwing, undulating fusion of styles played (mainly) on banjo, upright bass and drums, made possible by the individual perspectives of Nathan, double-bassist Casey [...]
“It was almost entirely improvised,” explains Columbus-based guitarist Matthew Rolin. He’s talking about Lamplighter, the new album from Gerycz/Powers/Rolin, a trio featuring himself, Columbus [...]
Outsider american-primitive guitar in the same zone as Sandy Bull, Fahey, et al Label: Thistle Records – TH 731 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1973 VG/VG+. Some light […]
“Folks can argue if Steve Young’s debut Rock, Salt and Nails is the first “outlaw country” album, but there is no argument that it’s one of the best. Featuring a […]
raw, electric guitar-based, gospel recorded between 1949 & 1976 Label: Mississippi Records – MR-017 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 2007 VG+/VG+
“Singer/songwriter Michael Marino is back with his second folk LP. The music is dreamy and floating close and far away. Acoustic and electric strings join with the soft flush of […]
“The Airing Cupboard Tapes first appeared in 1981 as a mail-order cassette from Wormwood Records. Recorded live at various Fairport Convention shows between 1971 and 1974, the tape was [...]
“For Sandy Denny fans, anything involving her is worthwhile, and fewer and fewer scraps turn up. This, however, found as Woodworm Studios was being cleared, is a lo-fi gem. Recorded […]
Arrestingly singular and deeply moving, this 1988 album by Choctaw, Assiniboine, and Texan poet, journalist, artist, activist, and musician Roxy Gordon (First Coyote Boy) (1945–2000)—whose long [...]
The Sir Richard Bishop show is back in town, alive as ever with exotic action, plus a bit of everything but the kitchen sink. Oneiric Formulary is the sound of […]
“It’s tempting to view guitarist Kris Gruda, a North Carolina resident, as part of a lineage of demented Southern avant-pickers stretching back to Chadbourne, and while that’s [...]