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  • Haylie Davis – Wandering Star
    Haylie Davis – Wandering Star
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    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: [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Haylie Davis – Wandering Star
    Haylie Davis – Wandering Star
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    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: [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Iris DeMent – The Way I Should (30th Anniversary)
    Iris DeMent – The Way I Should (30th Anniversary)
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    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 [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Suss – Counting Sunsets
    Suss – Counting Sunsets
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    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 [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Suss – Counting Sunsets (Sun Slip Vinyl)
    Suss – Counting Sunsets (Sun Slip Vinyl)
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    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 [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Marisa Anderson – The Anthology Of Unamerican Folk Music Vol. 1
    Marisa Anderson – The Anthology Of Unamerican Folk Music Vol. 1
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    Marisa Anderson’s music transcends borders. The topography of her work interrogates the intersections of artistry and expression with form and tradition. Anderson crafts pieces bursting with [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • The Deslondes – Don’t Let It Die Vol. 1
    The Deslondes – Don’t Let It Die Vol. 1
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    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 [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • The Deslondes – Don’t Let It Die Vol. 1
    The Deslondes – Don’t Let It Die Vol. 1
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    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 [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Jobi Riccio – Face The Feeling
    Jobi Riccio – Face The Feeling
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    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 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Jobi Riccio – Face The Feeling (Black & White Swirl Vinyl)
    Jobi Riccio – Face The Feeling (Black & White Swirl Vinyl)
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    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 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Field Commander Ali – The Next From Field Commander
    Field Commander Ali – The Next From Field Commander
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    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 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Mikaela Davis – Graceland Way (Golden Poppy Vinyl)
    Mikaela Davis – Graceland Way (Golden Poppy Vinyl)
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    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 [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Tim Buckley – Tim Buckley (Clear Vinyl)
    Tim Buckley – Tim Buckley (Clear Vinyl)
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    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 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Rob Noyes ‎– The Feudal Spirit
    Rob Noyes ‎– The Feudal Spirit
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    “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 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Nathan Bowles Trio ‎– Are Possible
    Nathan Bowles Trio ‎– Are Possible
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Gerycz*, Powers*, Rolin* – Lamplighter (Clear Vinyl)
    Gerycz*, Powers*, Rolin* – Lamplighter (Clear Vinyl)
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • George Cromarty ‎– Grassroots Guitar
    George Cromarty ‎– Grassroots Guitar
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    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 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Steve Young – Rock Salt And Nails
    Steve Young – Rock Salt And Nails
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    “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 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • The Holy Modal Rounders ‎– The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders (Promo, check condition plays w/noise)
    The Holy Modal Rounders ‎– The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders …
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    “In the mid- to late ’60s you couldn’t get much further underground in the ever-expanding world of rock music than the Fugs — unless of course you were one of […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • Sonrise – Sonrise
    Sonrise – Sonrise
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    Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: VG+ Label: Not On Label – SR-7821-8-81 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Bert Jansch – L.A. Turnaround
    Bert Jansch – L.A. Turnaround
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    “After the demise of Pentangle, Jansch signed with Tony Stratton-Smith’s Famous Charisma Label in 1973 and recorded L.A. Turnaround in Sussex and Sepulveda, CA. It was primarily produced by [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • V/A ‎– Life Is A Problem
    V/A ‎– Life Is A Problem
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    raw, electric guitar-based, gospel recorded between 1949 & 1976 Label: Mississippi Records – MR-017 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 2007 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Blues, Folk / Country
  • Lotus Krokus ‎– Deva
    Lotus Krokus ‎– Deva
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    “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 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Fairport Convention ‎– The Airing Cupboard Tapes ’71 – ’74
    Fairport Convention ‎– The Airing Cupboard Tapes ’71 – …
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Spur ‎– Spur Of The Moments
    Spur ‎– Spur Of The Moments
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    Footprints in the sand from the pride of Belleville, IL, circa ’66-’72. Cowboy rock that urges the inner you to awaken, while triggering your dancing bones. Fans of Byrds, Youngbloods [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • Peter Howell & John Ferdinando – Alice Through The Looking Glass
    Peter Howell & John Ferdinando – Alice Through The Looking Glass
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    “re-mastered edition of this rare 1969 release from the home studio of future BBC Radiophonic Workshop composer Peter Howell (he wrote the second version of the Doctor Who theme tune […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • Fairport Convention ‎– Who Knows? (1975 The Woodworm Archives – Vol. One)
    Fairport Convention ‎– Who Knows? (1975 The Woodworm Archives – …
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    “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 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Fairport Convention – Liege & Lief (180g Reissue)
    Fairport Convention – Liege & Lief (180g Reissue)
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    “In the decades since its original release, more than one writer has declared Fairport Convention’s Liege & Lief the definitive British folk-rock album, a distinction it holds at [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Sandy Denny & The Strawbs – All Our Own Work
    Sandy Denny & The Strawbs – All Our Own Work
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    ““I met Sandy Denny at the Troubadour in Earl’s Court in late 1966,” Strawbs vocalist, guitarist, and banjoist David Cousins said. “I dropped in late one night to hear an […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Matthew J. Rolin ‎– The Dreaming Bridge
    Matthew J. Rolin ‎– The Dreaming Bridge
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    Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: VG+ Label: Feeding Tube Records – FTR586 Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition Country: US Released: Apr 30, 2021

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Sandy Bull ‎– E Pluribus Unum
    Sandy Bull ‎– E Pluribus Unum
    $15.00 | , , ,

    Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: VG+ Clipped Corner Label: Terra – T-3 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo Country: US Released: 1985

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Roxy Gordon ‎– Crazy Horse Never Died
    Roxy Gordon ‎– Crazy Horse Never Died
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    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 [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Sir Richard Bishop* – Oneiric Formulary
    Sir Richard Bishop* – Oneiric Formulary
    $23.00 | ,

    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 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Kris Gruda ‎– Plays For You
    Kris Gruda ‎– Plays For You
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    “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 [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Gillian Welch & David Rawlings ‎– All The Good Times (Are Past & Gone)
    Gillian Welch & David Rawlings ‎– All The Good Times (Are Past &#…
    $120.00 | , ,

    Gillian Welch & David Rawlings’ sixth studio album, consisting of covers and new arrangements of traditional folk songs Label: Acony Records – ACNY-2015 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Loren Connors and Suzanne Langille – Crucible
    Loren Connors and Suzanne Langille – Crucible
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    Continuing much of the instrumental, musically dense partnership of Loren Connors and Suzanne Langille in the 80s and 90s, Crucible stands out as a clear highlight in the pair’s musical [...]

    GENRE: Blues, Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen: An Authorized Biography
    Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen: An Authorized Biog…
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    “People tell me it’s country music,” Terry Allen has joked, “and I ask, ‘Which country?’” For nearly sixty years, Allen’s inimitable art has explored the borderlands of memory, crossing [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse
    To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Conver…
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    This is the mesmerizing story of an enigmatic life. When musician and New Yorker contributor Howard Fishman first heard Connie Converse’s voice on a recording, he was convinced she could […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Emmylou Harris – Spyboy
    Emmylou Harris – Spyboy
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    “A good song can survive and shine in different ways in the hands of different musicians,” says Emmylou Harris. “It can have different meanings at different times in your life. […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Michael Hurley – Back Home With Drifting Woods
    Michael Hurley – Back Home With Drifting Woods
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    “The recordings Contained herein are contained here after many years on the shelf…” So begin Michael Hurley’s notes to these unbelievably great recordings from [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Michael Hurley – Sweetkorn
    Michael Hurley – Sweetkorn
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    A reimagined version of Michael Hurley’s 2002 masterpiece! Some of the most beautiful recordings of his catalog available on vinyl for the first time. Sweetkorn was originally released on [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Lucinda Williams – Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You : A Memoir
    Lucinda Williams – Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told Y…
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    Lucinda Williams’s rise to fame was anything but easy. Raised in a working-class family in the Deep South, she moved from town to town each time her father–a poet, a […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Memoir
  • Shiloh – Shiloh (Don Henley’s Pre-Eagles band)
    Shiloh – Shiloh (Don Henley’s Pre-Eagles band)
    $100.00 | , ,

    Pre-Eagles Henley, roots rock kinda jams. Produced by Kenny Rogers Label: Amos Records – AAS7015 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1970 VG/VG No exact label layout on discogs, […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Rock / Pop
  • Trader Horne ‎– Morning Way (1970 UK Pressing)
    Trader Horne ‎– Morning Way (1970 UK Pressing)
    $130.00 | , ,

    “Legendarily named after DJ John Peel’s nickname for his nanny, the duo Trader Horne were one of those wonderful, short-lived footnotes of musical history with which the [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – What The Brothers Sang
    Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – What The Broth…
    $13.00 | ,

    “Another chapter of The Great American Songbook written back in the 1950s — the publisher’s catalogs that fed The Everly Brothers and their brethren and led, at the greatest moment, [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – What The Brothers Sang
    Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – What The Broth…
    $23.00 | ,

    “Another chapter of The Great American Songbook written back in the 1950s — the publisher’s catalogs that fed The Everly Brothers and their brethren and led, at the greatest moment, [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen
    Truckload of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen
    $34.00 | ,

    “The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Willie Lane ‎– Guitar Army Of One
    Willie Lane ‎– Guitar Army Of One
    $12.00 | , ,

    “Remastered reissue of the second brilliant Willie Lane LP released by Cord-Art, originally available (for a few moments, anyway) in 2012. Guitar Army of One is a bit less folk […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Willie Lane – Known Quantity
    Willie Lane – Known Quantity
    $12.00 | , ,

    “Newly remastered reissue of Willie Lane’s 2009 solo guitar LP, Known Quantity, originally released on his own Cord Art label. Over the last few years, this album has been requested [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Rob Noyes – Arc Minutes
    Rob Noyes – Arc Minutes
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    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