Realising one’s role in the world is a seminal point in life that is too often underestimated, ignored. I doubt that Tiger Woods remembers the exact moment he picked up his first golf club, or the first time he saw…
Author: Lynn Roberts
Lynn founded For Folk's Sake in 2008. Her favourite artists are Joni Mitchell, The Leisure Society and The Mountain Goats. She plays keyboards in Joe Innes & the Cavalcade.
Peggy Sue reveal album artwork + tour dates
FFS’s favourite three-piece Peggy Sue have revealed the album artwork and tracklisting for their brilliant debut album Fossils and Other Phantoms, which will be released on 5th April 2010. Peggy Sue’s Katy Young said: “Fossils was recorded over a year…
Album: Communion Compilation
Look, the clue is in the name – this offering from the burgeoning club night established by Ben Lovett (Mumford & Sons) and Kevin Jones (Cherbourg) is a bringing together of musical souls and a testament to the talent that…
EP: Lissie – Why You Runnin’ (Fat Possum)
So I have been trying to figure out where I have seen this angelical face of Lissie, with this profound and roaring voice like a storm; and I can’t, for the love of me, remember at all. It is one…
EP: Caitlin Rose – Dead Flowers
Nashville’s Caitlin Rose sings and sounds like June Carter. She’s part of a new generation of country folk singers but her debut EP Dead Flowers could have been lifted straight from the late 1960s. It’s full of catchy little country-esque…
Special edition of new Laura Marling album to feature 45-minute documentary
Laura Marling’s new album will feature a plethora of special features. The special edition of I Speak Because I Can, Laura’s second album and reportedly the first of two studio releases this year, will be released on 22nd March along…
The Low Anthem present weekly radio show
The fine folk over at The Waiting Room alerted us to the fact that The Low Anthem have started a weekly radio show on Texas-based internet radio station Woxy. Their show, Trala-lala Radio Hour was first Broadcast last Sunday (31st…
Album: First Aid Kit – The Big The Black and the Blue
Callum Mitchell says: “First Aid Kit have made an album way beyond their years; their sound evoking an image of a couple of worn out, world-weary housewives sat on their Kentucky porch strumming away and singing songs of lost lovers and meetings with the dead”
Blog: Moseley Folk Festival recommends
In 2009 Moseley Folk Festival played host to Beth Jeans Houghton, Frida Hyvonen, Kelli Ali, Drever McCusker Woomble, Rose Elinor Dougall, Smoke Fairies and many more. They kindly got in touch to recommend we listen to Goodnight Lenin recently, and…
Video Round up: She & Him, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Left With Pictures
A smorgasbord of motion picture magic including Charlotte Gainsbourg feat. Beck – Heaven Can Wait, She & Him – Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?, Left With Pictures – Constantly, Broken Bells – The High Road and Kate Bush – Babooshka