It’s been quite the year for For Folk’s Sake favorites The Accidentals, who’ve been riding through 2017 on a wave of good vibes and stellar new music after being signed by Sony Masterworks. The inimitable Michigan trio has been touring…
For every Young, McCartney, and Baez—brilliant songwriters who find acclaim on a much-deserved international scale—there’s a composer, performer, and lyricist who can prove their worth just as well who falls through the cracks. In the case of artists like Chaim…
For the uninitiated, Michael P Cullen is an eclectic artist who, much like Cohen and Cave before him, dares to explore the darker edges of Americana to the point that one might be inclined to call it Gothic. Cullen offers…
What a thrill it was to first crack open American High’s debut full-length record for a potential review from this writer. Not because the associated press release attached to the Sacramento-based quartet promised tunes both bizarrely pop-oriented and thematically dark…
Sweet, heartfelt, and soul-bearing, the music of Lesley Kernochan is quick to fall in love with. With her lilting, storyteller’s vocals spinning a healing yarn against a warm acoustic backdrop, we at For Folk’s Sake certainly have. In our premiere…
While pop radio formats would rarely allow it, the recent rise of the underground poking its way through social media has given a new audience to the oft-underrated fully instrumental stylings of modern day composers. Whether it be Kaki King…
Melding soaring pop-rock sensibility with the organic nature of acoustic folk music, Ryanhood are a duo that has been influenced by the world that they’ve uniquely lived through touring together as both artists and human beings for the 14…
Blessed are the genre-benders. One might think that there are only so many chord progressions to take into account before music becomes stale, but breaking into the modern era are new sets of singer-songwriters willing to innovate in ways never…
Outside of seldom few this side of Lennon, McCartney, and Cohen, Bob Dylan is, among other things, often considered to be the greatest songwriter of modern times. Though his gritty, offbeat vocals may be seen as less than preferential by…
In the ever-expanding world of indie records that are far better than their cover art may imply comes Jay Regan’s Wash Me. Developed with an admittedly rather captivating swirly, 70s-inspired psychedelic center, Regan’s pasted-on logo and Arial font title prove…