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  • Flanger Magazine – Breslin
    Flanger Magazine – Breslin
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    “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
  • Willie Lane ‎– Guitar Army Of One
    Willie Lane ‎– Guitar Army Of One
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    “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
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    “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
  • Various – Spela Själv (Repress)
    Various – Spela Själv (Repress)
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    “A bit of confusion surrounds this release: The album has been credited to Träd, Gräs och Stenar, but they aren’t featured on it. Bo Anders Persson did, in fact, in […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, 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
  • Noah Sterba ‎– The 13-Bar Blues
    Noah Sterba ‎– The 13-Bar Blues
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    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
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    ”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
  • V/A  – Buried Country: An Anthology Of Aboriginal Australian Country Music
    V/A – Buried Country: An Anthology Of Aboriginal Australian Country Music
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    Mississippi compile a selection rootsy Aboriginal music which has never been reissued on vinyl before. Political and powerful songs from communities throughout Australia. Label: Mississippi [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, International
  • Emmanuelle Parrenin – Maison Rose + 17 Decembre / La Foret Bleue
    Emmanuelle Parrenin – Maison Rose + 17 Decembre / La Foret Bleue
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    An album such as this obviously owes a lot to the atmosphere in which it was recorded, which we can imagine was magical. We know it took place in Fromentel, […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Lucinda Williams ‎– Lucinda Williams [1988 pressing]
    Lucinda Williams ‎– Lucinda Williams [1988 pressing]
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    “Lucinda Williams took eight years to write and record her second album of original songs. While some producers and record executives have said that she is difficult to work with, […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • The Jayhawks ‎– Blue Earth (1989 TwinTone Pressing)
    The Jayhawks ‎– Blue Earth (1989 TwinTone Pressing)
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    “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
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    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)
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    “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
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    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
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    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
  • Henri Cole – Orphic Paris
    Henri Cole – Orphic Paris
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    Henri Cole’s Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning American poet, [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume I, 1957-1969
    In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume I, 1957-1969
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    For fifty years Samuel Delany has cultivated a special relationship with language in works of fiction, criticism, and memoir that have garnered critical praise and legions of fans. The present [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Non-Fiction
  • Pelt ‎– Pearls From The River
    Pelt ‎– Pearls From The River
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    “All acoustic epics from the “classic” Pelt trio lineup of Jack Rose, Mike Gangloff, and Patrick Best. Recorded in a single March 2003 session in VA by Mikel Dimmick, this […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Hannah baer – Trans girl suicide museum
    Hannah baer – Trans girl suicide museum
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    one part ketamine spiral, one part confessional travelogue from the edge of gender, tgsm is a hallucinatory transmission on sex, identity, the internet, and the flickering wish not to exist […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Unica Zurn – The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts
    Unica Zurn – The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts
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    What our staff has to say: “A unique and disturbing memoir from an underread surrealist master” – Cleo Anagram play meets psychic crisis in Unica Zürn’s acclaimed [...]

    GENRE: Memoir, Weird Fiction/Sci-Fi/Unexplained Phenomena
  • Lee Hazlewood ‎– Cowboy In Sweden
    Lee Hazlewood ‎– Cowboy In Sweden
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    “At the turn of the ’60s, Lee Hazlewood decided to leave America for Sweden. He had already spent time in the country, appearing as an actor in two television productions, […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Rock / Pop
  • Emmett Williams – My Life in Flux & Vice Versa
    Emmett Williams – My Life in Flux & Vice Versa
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    This is an endlessly stimulating memoir, by a figure who was involved in some of the most astounding art of the post-war era, and a fresh, spontaneous account of the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Memoir
  • Patricia Highsmith – Her Diaries And Notebooks
    Patricia Highsmith – Her Diaries And Notebooks
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    Relegated to the genre of mystery during her lifetime, Patricia Highsmith is now recognized as one of “our greatest modernist writers” (Gore Vidal). Beloved by fans who were unaware of […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Lily & Maria – Lily & Maria (2003 Reissue)
    Lily & Maria – Lily & Maria (2003 Reissue)
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    Lily & Maria’s sole, mighty rare album is a strange oddity, all the more so for its appearance on a major label. As singers, Lily & Maria sound very much […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • The Ambivalent Crowd ‎– Bagong Umaga
    The Ambivalent Crowd ‎– Bagong Umaga
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    Ambivalent Crowd is a defunct Pinoy band that gained popularity during the 1970s. The members of the group were Pol Enriquez, Celeste Legaspi, Cynthia Patag, Gigi Escalante, Mae Cendana, Pinky [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, International
  • Bert Jansch ‎– It Don’t Bother Me
    Bert Jansch ‎– It Don’t Bother Me
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    “Bert Jansch recorded his second album in 1965, just after his self-titled debut earlier that same year. The sessions were a step-up from the intimate, field-recording setting of his first [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Norma Tanega – Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog (Green & Purple Vinyl)
    Norma Tanega – Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog (Green & Purple Vinyl)
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    The theme song “You’re Dead” to the FX show What We Do in the Shadows has fostered a new appreciation for the singular talent that was Norma Tanega. And it’s […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Cowboy Junkies – Lay It Down
    Cowboy Junkies – Lay It Down
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    Every Cowboy Junkies album is a sonic treat, full of gorgeous guitar tones from Michael Timmins, haunting vocals from Margo Timmins, and beautiful arrangements, and 1996’s Lay it Down is […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Moby Grape – The Place And The Time
    Moby Grape – The Place And The Time
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    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
  • Johnny Cash – Now Here’s Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash – Now Here’s Johnny Cash
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    From the minute he walked into Sun Studios, Johnny Cash began a career that would see him become one of the biggest and most influential musicians of our time. Though […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • John Rechy – About My Life and the Kept Woman: A Memoir
    John Rechy – About My Life and the Kept Woman: A Memoir
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    The untold personal life story of the novelist whom Gore Vidal has hailed as “one of the few original American writers of the last century.” John Rechy’s first novel, City […]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Morrissey – Autobiography
    Morrissey – Autobiography
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    Autobiography covers Morrissey’s life from his birth until the present day. Book is in “Like New” condition. Some light superficial wear and/or remainder mark might be present.

    GENRE: Memoir
  • 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 the Planned Promised Land in the Pacific Northwest
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    “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
  • Richard & Linda Thompson – Shoot Out The Lights
    Richard & Linda Thompson – Shoot Out The Lights
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    “Richard & Linda Thompson’s marriage was crumbling as they were recording Shoot Out the Lights in 1982, and many critics have read the album as a chronicle of the couple’s [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • John Prine – Common Sense
    John Prine – Common Sense
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    John Prine’s fourth studio album Common Sense was produced by Steve Cropper and was recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis and Larabee Studios in Los Angeles. The album features [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Gram Parsons – Now Playing
    Gram Parsons – Now Playing
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    Light Blue Vinyl LP pressing. Dive into the timeless sound of Gram Parsons with this captivating tracklist that effortlessly blends country, rock, and folk influences. From the heartfelt melodies [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard – My Struggle: Book 2
    Karl Ove Knausgaard – My Struggle: Book 2
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    “In the second installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental six-volume masterpiece, the character Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, where, having left his wife, he leads a [...]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard – My Struggle: Book 1
    Karl Ove Knausgaard – My Struggle: Book 1
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    “A New York Times bestseller, My Struggle: Book 1 introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative [...]

    GENRE: Memoir
  • Pearls Before Swine – These Things Too
    Pearls Before Swine – These Things Too
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    “By the time of their third LP, Pearls Before Swine’s mainstay Tom Rapp hadn’t changed much in his approach. He was still singing inscrutable folk-rock-psychedelic songs with a [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • Tom Rapp, Pearls Before Swine ‎– City Of Gold
    Tom Rapp, Pearls Before Swine ‎– City Of Gold
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    “”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 Spiritual
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    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
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    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
  • Abner Jay – Folk Song Stylist
    Abner Jay – Folk Song Stylist
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    Long awaited follow up to the “True Story of Abner Jay” LP. Abner Jay was a man who had a grand sweeping vision of what folk music was. In his […]

    GENRE: Blues, Folk / Country
  • Joseph Allred – New Jerusalem
    Joseph Allred – New Jerusalem
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    “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
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    “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
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    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
  • Ela Stiles & Jensen Tjhung – Golden Scalpel
    Ela Stiles & Jensen Tjhung – Golden Scalpel
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    “Ela Stiles (Bushwalking / Solo) & Jensen Tjhung (Deaf Wish/ Lower Plenty) bring you ‘Golden Scalpel’ – two blissful yet world weary sides of transportive, mostly [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • The Handsome Family – The Handsome Family
    The Handsome Family – The Handsome Family
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    Pre-Odessa, self-released cassette by the americana duo. Label: no label – no cat number, self-released Format: Cassette, Album Country: US Released: 1994 VG+/VG+. No oval/sticker. Scuffing [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Karen Dalton – Recording Is The Trip Karen Dalton Archives
    Karen Dalton – Recording Is The Trip Karen Dalton Archives
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    “Recording is the Trip – The Karen Dalton Archives is a three-LP, three-CD box set, including a download card and a shirt. Three LPs: Includes for the first-time ever on […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Witold Gombrowicz – Kind of Testament
    Witold Gombrowicz – Kind of Testament
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    A Kind of Testament is part autobiography and part justification of the life’s work of one of Poland’s most important novelists and playwrights. Written in France in 1968, this personal […]

    GENRE: Memoir