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The new It’s Psychedelic Baby!, dedicated to British psychedelic folk. New issue of printed version projected from the well-known, leading psych on-line site It’s Psychedelic Baby! [...]
Beginning as a duo in Edinburg, Scotland, acoustic musicians Robin Williamson and Clive Palmer sought to stretch the boundaries of contemporary folk music from the start. Composing much of their [...]
“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 [...]
Bill Fay’s Still Some Light was originally released on compact disc as a two CD collection in 2010. Reimagined with new artwork and available for the first time ever on vinyl, Dead Oceans is [...]
What you remember: the upside-down crosses on your girlfriend’s jean jacket. Always drawn with magic marker. Always smeared in the wash.
David Berman and Co. tear through 10 more numbers, loving you to the max the whole time. Jews fans rejoice, your master is back.
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 on a formative [...]
Reprise Records – MS 2123 1973 US Media Condition – VG+, some very light scuff marks on both sides Sleeve Condition – VG, light mark on cover where sticker was removed, light [...]
Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+, comes in generic white sleeve, small mark on insert
Radio Topo #7 Recycled C-60 compilation “Music For Mornings” is a mixtape full of folk jammers & love songs, running at just under an hour this is the perfect tape to jam to start [...]
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 sad, broken [...]
2015 remaster of this album, recorded between August 24, 1983 and September 9, 1984. Originally released on LP by Zero Records on December 25, 1984. Tracks 12 & 13 are bonus live tracks, [...]
Real Gone Music – RGM-0978 2020 US Pressing on clear vinyl Media Condition – Strong VG+ Sleeve Condition – Strong VG+ with light sleevewear
24 page zine featuring 10 different country singles about drugs. Each single has a write up about the song and any history I could find as well as the lyrics on the facing page. From the Dollar [...]
Mixtape #3: Twenty four songs packed into 60 minutes about big rigs, the open road, and tragedy on the highway. From the Dollar Country website: Welcome to Dollar Country! Dollar Country is a [...]
Mixtape #1: Thirty two (mostly) unknown country cuts from the dustiest corners of America’s dollar bins! It’s a good tape, you’ll love it! From the Dollar Country website: [...]
Mixtape #5: Loners & Outsiders, Country artists who took their own path. From the Dollar Country website: Welcome to Dollar Country! Dollar Country is a radio show hosted by WTFC radio. It [...]
Mixtape #2: Dollar Country mixtape featuring nineteen tunes from the Dollar Country vaults about death, drugs, and disasters. From the Dollar Country website: Welcome to Dollar Country! Dollar [...]
Christian DeRoeck wasn’t sure he’d ever make another Little Gold record. The Athens, Ga. country-rock band was broken up, and the frontman was feeling like the project had run its course. But [...]
“If the cold Midwestern highways got your eagle wings broken and your biker crew is cluttering up the dingy bars of Downerville to the point where you are forced to cower into the shadows [...]
“If Bob Dylan was funny, if Tom Waits was relevant, Ryan might not be peerless at what he does best, which is writing large gregarious circles around his pitiful colleagues in the field. [...]
The definitive reissue of one of rock’s rarest and most sought-after albums — ‘acid-folk’ — equal parts pastoral folk and contemplative psychedelic. The fi¬rst time [...]
Asylum Records – SD 5050 1971 US Media Condition – VG, some light scuff marks on both sides of record Sleeve Condition – G+, old price sticker on cover, light ringwear, significant edge wear
Other Music Recording Co. – OM-015-1 2014 Europe Media Condition – VG+ Sleeve Condition – VG+, comes with download code, mild edge wear
“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 [...]
Daniel Bachman has never shied away from bold musical statements, those that follow his exacting vision for what can be seen as “guitar music”. The bold and engrossing [...]
The sound movement on GHOST TROPIC will seem sudden to some; without warning. To others, it’ll seem a very logical step in a very foreign direction. On its fifth proper full-length, Songs: [...]
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 vinyl to boot! [...]
1975 US Pressing ILPS 9326 Media Condition: VG Sleeve Condition: VG Some light scuff marks on both sides. Comes in original inner sleeve. Bottom left corner of sleeve is clipped. Sleeve still has [...]
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 series, Reflections. [...]
While the collection of songs on Philadelphia / Michigan musician Rosali’s electrifying third album, No Medium, explores the often dark territory of loss, death, sexuality, self-sabotage, and [...]
“‘Singer-songwriter’ is a frustratingly confining term; to truly understand exactly just how confining, look no further than the recorded works of Simon Joyner, an artist whose work consistently [...]
One stormy night in Ireland, Adrian Crowley’s brother brought home a wounded crow. After taking care of it for a time, the crow flew away on its own, leaving an impression behind: Crowley wrote a [...]
Double LP version. 2021 repress; deluxe Stoughton gatefold packaging. Singles and demos, 1964 to 1967. “Following the amazing success story of Vashti Bunyan’s recent re-emergence as [...]
“… The Ohio-based guitarist’s artistic leaps in recent years are rivaled only by those of Daniel Bachman, another once-precocious player formerly in the John Fahey / Jack Rose [...]
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 [...]
Light In The Attic and the legendary folk/blues/roots label Vanguard Records are proud to begin a series of collaborations under the umbrella Vanguard Vault. The series will explore the vaults of [...]
Largely unheard, criminally undocumented, but at their core, utterly revolutionary, the recordings of the diverse North American Aboriginal community will finally take their rightful place in our [...]
“I asked him if he wanted to use any of his songs, and he said, “No.” We had a long chat before we did any of this. He said, ‘No, I want you to do it and I want to just be a singer.’ So I said [...]
Phoenix, Arizona 1955…a twenty-five year old disc jockey and fledgling songwriter, Lee Hazlewood, is trying to break into the music industry. He takes Greyhound bus trips to Los Angeles to pitch [...]
In March 1975, Jim Sullivan mysteriously disappeared outside Santa Rosa, New Mexico. His VW bug was found abandoned, his motel room untouched. Some think he got lost in the desert. Some think he [...]
On March 4, 1975, Jim Sullivan mysteriously disappeared outside Santa Rosa, New Mexico. His VW bug was found abandoned, his motel room untouched. Some think he got lost. Some think the mafia [...]
On March 4, 1975, Jim Sullivan mysteriously disappeared outside Santa Rosa, New Mexico. His VW bug was found abandoned, his motel room untouched. Some think he got lost. Some think the mafia [...]
This eponymous 1971 debut album by Anne Briggs, largely unavailable for 48 years, is widely regarded as a pillar of any folk collection. Re-issued here as part of the Topic Treasures series – [...]
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 as a formal [...]
‘Shit Folk indeed!! Totally deranged jammer from the most proper beyond mental unit of Midwest psychedelia. The Crazy Doberman crew strikes again, this time with sounds described closest [...]
‘Stunning, hauntingly beautiful mountain music. Free, yet impeccably played gorgeous acoustic dulcimer, viola, banjo and guitar instrumentals that are both serene and transcendent. [...]
“There are few instruments more uniquely suited to capturing the beauty and ennui of the rural American midwest than the acoustic steel-string guitar. In the hands of a master, the range of [...]