Front Country: Other Love Songs
San Francisco-based Front Country continue to defy the constraints that oft define bluegrass or string band music on Other Love Songs, a follow-up to their acclaimed 2014 album For The Sake Of The...
View ArticleTom Russell: Play One More: The Songs Of Ian & Sylvia
On Play One More Tom Russell celebrates the songs of Ian & Sylvia Tyson, the Canadian folk duo who were there at the start of the Greenwich Village folk boom and who also were early starters in the...
View ArticleStu Larsen: Resolute
On Stu Larsen's Resolute, the ten songs float finely from the speakers, his voice an intimate postcard from abroad while the arrangements are nimble and sure footed, an attractive blend of confessional...
View ArticleDavid Ramirez: We’re Not Going Anywhere
With David Ramirez's 'We're Not Going Anywhere' it's his songwriting which shines the brightest. He's an acute observer of the fractured state of the nation, its lost souls and lost ideals but even as...
View ArticleTom Russell: Folk Hotel
Folk Hotel is ultimately another reason to celebrate Tom Russell and his ongoing quest to keep alive the culture and traditions of American dreamers. The album is an excellent collection of songs...
View ArticleBruce Cockburn: Bone on Bone
Bone On Bone is a powerful declaration from a mature observer of human nature. It's gutsy and incisive with Bruce Cockburn delving into his musical roots and his personal concerns and ladled with...
View ArticleJosh Ritter: Gathering
Gathering is Josh Ritter's best collection so far of fractured and fearful characters who are battling the elements and their own inner demons. The album itself is a roller coaster of emotion with...
View ArticleAnjana Vasan: Too Dark For Country
Too Dark For Country, a four-song EP by actress/musician Anjana Vasan is the first release from Folkroom Records in three years but it's been well worth the wait. Recalling at times the authenticity...
View ArticleDan Michaelson: First Light
Dan Michaelson releases his second solo album, taking on that hypnagogic time of day when one is waking from slumber. First Light is a wallow in angst and misery given wings by the superb music and his...
View ArticleCharley Crockett: Lonesome As A Shadow
Crockett slips into his songs like a duck to water - It's hard to imagine what he might have added to enhance this experience, some more songs of course, but Lonesome As A Shadow is small and perfectly...
View ArticleJeffrey Lewis: Works By Tuli Kupferberg (1923-2010)
This is a sheer pleasure to those who cherish Tuli Kupferberg. It's a grand salute to a man who, with The Fugs, exorcised The Pentagon in 1968 (and caused it to levitate - true story). Source
View ArticleOrit Shimoni: Lost and Found on the Road to Nowhere
Orit Shimoni is an excellent teller of tales who should be more widely recognised as she roves around baring her heart. Her latest offering is a nod to her nomadic life. Source
View ArticleMichael Hurley: Living Ljubljana
Throughout his career, Michael Hurley has inhabited his own niche, a living embodiment of the songs Harry Smith collected for his Anthology Of American Folk Music. Living Ljubljana is an excellent...
View ArticleHoth Brothers: Workin’ And Dreamin’
It’s not that often that an album from an unknown quantity totally blindsides you, forcing you to listen, once, twice, thrice and more, all the better to wallow in its excellence. Such is the case with...
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