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  • The Deslondes – Don’t Let It Die Vol. 1
    The Deslondes – Don’t Let It Die Vol. 1
    $15.00 | ,

    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
    $16.00 | ,

    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)
    $27.00 | ,

    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
    $33.00 | ,

    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
  • Tim Buckley – Tim Buckley (Clear Vinyl)
    Tim Buckley – Tim Buckley (Clear Vinyl)
    $32.00 | ,

    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
  • Nathan Bowles Trio ‎– Are Possible
    Nathan Bowles Trio ‎– Are Possible
    $20.00 | , ,

    “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)
    $12.00 | , ,

    “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
  • Sonrise – Sonrise
    Sonrise – Sonrise
    $12.00 | , ,

    Media Condition: VG+ Sleeve Condition: VG+ Label: Not On Label – SR-7821-8-81 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • V/A ‎– Life Is A Problem
    V/A ‎– Life Is A Problem
    $16.00 | , ,

    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
    $12.00 | , ,

    “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 ‎– Who Knows? (1975 The Woodworm Archives – Vol. One)
    Fairport Convention ‎– Who Knows? (1975 The Woodworm Archives – …
    $20.00 | , ,

    “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
  • Matthew J. Rolin ‎– The Dreaming Bridge
    Matthew J. Rolin ‎– The Dreaming Bridge
    $17.00 | , ,

    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
  • Roxy Gordon ‎– Crazy Horse Never Died
    Roxy Gordon ‎– Crazy Horse Never Died
    $8.00 | , ,

    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
    $21.00 | ,

    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
  • 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
    $15.00 | ,

    “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
  • Lucinda Williams – Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You : A Memoir
    Lucinda Williams – Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told Y…
    $9.00 | , ,

    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
  • 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
  • Noah Sterba ‎– The 13-Bar Blues
    Noah Sterba ‎– The 13-Bar Blues
    $12.00 | , ,

    Noah Sterba is one of Omaha’s underground music heroes, literally performing most of his songs and poetry into dented Radio Shack microphones in the subterranean basements of tornado alley for [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Thomas E. Frank – Tre Månader
    Thomas E. Frank – Tre Månader
    $15.00 | , ,

    ”Listening to Thomas E. Frank’s debut solo album for the first time, I’m amazed at how recognizable and familiar it sounds. Not in the heard-it-a-thousand-times-before kind of way, but more […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • The Jayhawks ‎– Blue Earth (1989 TwinTone Pressing)
    The Jayhawks ‎– Blue Earth (1989 TwinTone Pressing)
    $100.00 | , ,

    “The songs which make up Blue Earth originated as demos, and save for some minor studio tinkering, are presented here in their original embryonic state. As a consequence, the record […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Rob Mohan – A Sign of Things to Come
    Rob Mohan – A Sign of Things to Come
    $23.00 | ,

    Excellent American primitive guitar from Cincinnati Ohio’s Rob Mohan. Recorded on both 6 & 12 string guitar, crispy clear recording of beautiful original compositions by Rob.

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Eli Winter – A Trick Of The Light (Transparent Red Vinyl)
    Eli Winter – A Trick Of The Light (Transparent Red Vinyl)
    $22.00 | ,

    “A Trick of the Light” is the new album by Chicago-based guitarist Eli Winter, an elegantly crafted and vibrant collection that finds the composer and bandleader at the height of […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Eli Winter – Eli Winter
    Eli Winter – Eli Winter
    $20.00 | ,

    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 [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • The Electric Muse Revisited
    The Electric Muse Revisited
    $12.00 | , ,

    Folk music has been evolving and adapting for centuries, but in the 1960s and 70s came an extraordinary period of change and innovation. Rock musicians borrowed from traditional songs, while […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Non-Fiction
  • Moby Grape – The Place And The Time
    Moby Grape – The Place And The Time
    $37.00 | ,

    Despite a myriad of obstacles, Moby Grape managed to persevere and create a potent and enduring body of recorded work, recording four albums during its original 1967–1969 lifespan. While 1967’s [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • 26 Songs in 30 Days: Woody Guthrie’s Columbia River Songs and the Planned Promised Land in the Pacific Northwest
    26 Songs in 30 Days: Woody Guthrie’s Columbia River Songs and th…
    $12.00 | , ,

    “In 1941, Woody Guthrie wrote 26 songs in 30 days–including classics like “Roll On Columbia” and “Pastures of Plenty”–when he was hired by the Bonneville [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Tom Rapp, Pearls Before Swine ‎– City Of Gold
    Tom Rapp, Pearls Before Swine ‎– City Of Gold
    $12.00 | , ,

    “”Do not give dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot and turn to attack you” sayeth Jesus in Matthew […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • Dave Van Ronk – Dave Van Ronk Sings Ballads, Blues & A Spiritual
    Dave Van Ronk – Dave Van Ronk Sings Ballads, Blues & A Spir…
    $23.00 | ,

    Dubbed “The Mayor of MacDougal Street,” Dave Van Ronk (1936–2002) was an iconoclastic folksinger and an influential figure in the American folk music revival of the 1960s. Because of his […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Lucinda Williams – Ramblin’ On My Mind
    Lucinda Williams – Ramblin’ On My Mind
    $22.00 | ,

    American singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams’ Southern blues roots are unmistakable on her debut record Ramblin’ on My Mind, showcasing the artistry that would make her an icon. Recorded in [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Joseph Allred – New Jerusalem
    Joseph Allred – New Jerusalem
    $22.00 | , ,

    “Joseph Allred isn’t sure how many albums they have released. It is thought to be in the neighborhood of twenty-two, not counting collaborations, digital only, and split releases. Most of [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • James Elkington – Pastel De Nada
    James Elkington – Pastel De Nada
    $22.00 | ,

    “In 2023 James Elkington released Me Neither, a double album of solo guitar improvisations and experiments. He ended up thinking of it as a wordless collection of library music. [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Dorothy Carter – Troubadour
    Dorothy Carter – Troubadour
    $27.00 | ,

    The first official reissue of Dorothy Carter’s folk-music exegesis comes 46 years after its original release, 20 years after Dorothy passed, and 11 years before the centennial of her birth. […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Cameron Knowler – CRK
    Cameron Knowler – CRK
    $27.00 | ,

    ***Ships On Or Around 04/04/25 “Pure musical expression pulling from over a hundred years of American folk history but still feels unburdened by the past and looks sharply towards the […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Dylan Golden Aycock – No New Summers
    Dylan Golden Aycock – No New Summers
    $30.00 | ,

    ***Pre-Order Item – Ships on or around 3/21 Nice to hear the first solo LP in a good while by this most excellent guitarist who also runs the superb Scissor […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Chevrolet Pile – The Crunchy Western Commotion Of
    Chevrolet Pile – The Crunchy Western Commotion Of
    $9.00 |

    It’s as if the all star cast of a specific midwestern underground scene conspired to turn to their roots, an expansive flat land, rows of corn and a god damn […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Gypsy ‎– Hooked On A Memory / The Market
    Gypsy ‎– Hooked On A Memory / The Market
    $275.00 | ,

    Label: Oak (11) – ES 9848 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: Canada Released: 1975 Genre: Pop, Folk, World, & Country VG+/generic Psyched out folk country on the A Side. […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Bob Walker – Dirt Bike Vacation
    Bob Walker – Dirt Bike Vacation
    $24.00 | ,

    “Friends, they are my ticket out of this place I am in… feels like nothing more than a dirt bike vacation stop between Phoenix and San Diego.” Dirt Bike Vacation—for […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Bob Martin – Seabrook
    Bob Martin – Seabrook
    $21.00 | ,

    Bob Martin began what would become his final studio album in a beach front condominium in Seabrook, New Hampshire in May 2008. The recordings sat dormant for the next 13 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Cara Beth Satalino – Little Green
    Cara Beth Satalino – Little Green
    $24.00 | ,

    Cara Beth Satalino built her adulthood in feral, eccentric Baltimore, Maryland, waiting tables and playing in a band, keeping her schedule flexible just in case an opportunity arose. Though [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Ralph E. White – It’s More In My Body Than In My Mind
    Ralph E. White – It’s More In My Body Than In My Mind
    $21.00 | ,

    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
  • Blaine Todd – Goodbye ‘Til I Do Good By You
    Blaine Todd – Goodbye ‘Til I Do Good By You
    $10.00 |

    All songs written by Blaine Todd except Just As You Are written by Robert Wyatt Blaine Todd: guitar, bass, voice Henry Birdsey: pedal steel Liam Herb: synth on Wild Desperation […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Ralph E. White – It’s More In My Body Than In My Mind
    Ralph E. White – It’s More In My Body Than In My Mind
    $13.00 |

    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
  • Bob Martin – Seabrook
    Bob Martin – Seabrook
    $13.00 |

    Bob Martin began what would become his final studio album in a beach front condominium in Seabrook, New Hampshire in May 2008. The recordings sat dormant for the next 13 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Gerycz / Powers / Rolin – Activator
    Gerycz / Powers / Rolin – Activator
    $20.00 | ,

    “Activator” is the third installment from the trio of Jayson Gerycz, Jen Powers and Matthew Rolin, who respectively need no introduction writ-large. For anyone observing the American [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country