by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Single | Dark Model – Survivors
Japanese composer Tatsuya Oe is best known for the upbeat work of his original stage moniker, Captain Funk. In recent years, though, Oe has developed another alias to release music as. His latest project, Dark Model, is regarded as Captain…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Single | John Hickman – Hello Hello
Who needs an introduction to The Beatles? In just around a decades-long career together as a band, they revolutionized the popular music scene of the 60s and 70s with their sweeping, multi-faceted soft rock—so much so that, outside of Dylan,…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | Ryanhood talk ‘Yearbook’, the folk duo’s first-ever independently-tracked record
Fresh off their whirlwind week at Folk Alliance, Tucson, AZ folk-duo Ryanhood was gracious enough to field my questions about their 6th studio album, entilted Yearbook. Ryan and Cameron talk about the past, present, and future of their band, as well…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | zenxienz – Mind Sighs
We here at For Folk’s Sake are best known for covering, well, folk music. It’s what’s on the tin. Quite often, though, pretty much since our foundation, we have extended our reach beyond purely folk to embrace the many genres…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Justin Allen and the Well Shots – White Oak & Kerosene
An ongoing trend in Americana is a revival of a particular edge straddling the line between country, blues, and rock and roll, reminiscent of artists along the lines of John Mellencamp or Chris Stapleton. Straight out of the capital city…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Tom Woodward – Beautiful Shadows
Riding the line between old-school folk and country straight into a heap of psychedelia is Australian singer-songwriter Tom Woodward. Sonically speaking, Woodward’s sound lies somewhere between Donovan, Campbell, and the soundtrack to outer space. Previously, when For Folk’s Sake had…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Single | Tom Woodward – Beautiful Shadows
Tom Woodward is a heck of a guy. This goes without saying for fans of the fruit-harvesting, high school music theory text-pilfering, South Wales woods tent-living ways of the artist, but for those just catching up, Woodward is an artist…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | KING ROPES – DIRT
Bozeman, Montana—the birthplace of rock stars. Didn’t sound convincing? Perhaps the darkly Americana of KING ROPES could help change your mind. Akin to something between Shovels & Rope, Neil Young in his Crazy Horse era, and Mitski, the band is…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Verena von Horsten – Alien Angel Super Death
Alien Angel Super Death—if that isn’t a metal album title, then what is it? Perhaps with a swig of whiskey one can successfully label it folk right on the first go. Wherein Swiss artist Verena von Horsten’s latest record fails…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | von Konow – Lieder
Have you ever felt the outstanding need to claw your way out of your own self-made conformity and aspire to develop something totally new, yet, in part, old as it was crafted out of your pure ingenious reflection on the…