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.

Album Review: Cardinology by Ryan Adams

This album sounds like a soundtrack to an American teen drama, you know, the one’s where beautiful people in their twenties play teenagers with issues and there are lots of lingering moody close ups and sunset shots set to ‘atmospheric’ music.

Maryland

Maryland is Joe Innes from London or thereabouts. He is selling DIY presses of his first album through his myspace. They say: \\”Owing to the use of eventful passages in classic literature and the last song played by the house…

Emmy the Great confirms album release date, UK tour

Hot on the heels of Emmy the Great’s new track ‘We Almost Had a Baby’, which we gave a hearty 8/10 here barely a few days ago, comes the news her long awaited debut album is to be released on February 2.

FFS to DJ at brand new London folk event

For Folk’s Sake enters the realm of DJing to spread around some of the lovely stuff we like listening to at a brand new day of free folk music at the Slaughtered Lamb in Clerkenwell.

Album Review: Tilly and the Wall – O

Tilly and the Wall’s third long-playing effort O sees the Nebraska quintet moving in an altogether more elegant direction. Even devotees of their previous, more charmingly rough-edged offerings will have to admit that this unexpectedly smooth, accomplished offering suits them just as well.