Fresh out of journalism school, I started FFS so I’d be able to write about the music I loved. Two years on I’m managing the site more and more and barely getting time to put pen to paper. But so…
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Blog: Songs’ best bits
FFS asked you for your #bestbits of songs on twitter today — your favourite couple of seconds of music, one that makes you swoon, cry or nigh-on burst with joy. You came up with so many good suggestions that we…
Folk Music Film Club: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
O Brother Where Art Thou? is as much about the all-encompassing and redemptive nature of music as it is about the odyssey of the characters involved. It’s an exciting, witty and often hilarious film that deserves to be watched and watched again for years to come.
Video round-up: Joni Mitchell, Melodica, Melody & Me, Local Natives, Johnny Flynn…
Joni Mitchell – California It’s Joni Michell week here at FFS so it’s only right to start with a Joni video. This BBC session performance of California was recommended to us by Nick Hemming from The Leisure Society (he of…
Blog: Will the next Joni Mitchell please stand up?
Mitchell, Baez and Dylan take to the stage during his Rolling Thunder Revue Of course it’s possible to go round in endless circles discussing Joni Mitchell’s recent comments about Bob Dylan’s authenticity, and whether or not they were legitimate, fair…
Blog: Sam Airey on his favourite Joni Mitchell tracks
Leeds troubadour Sam Airey picks his favourite Joni tracks… One of the things I love most is the change of musical and lyrical styles throughout her career. This is noticeably apparent on ‘The Hissing of Summer Lawns’ – arguably one of the finest folk-jazz crossover records ever, it’s one of my favourite albums, and I’m not really into jazz that much at all. The songs I’ve chosen, however, are two of my favourites from the albums ‘Ladies of the Canyon’ and what many consider to be her masterpiece, ‘Blue’. They might be considered fairly obvious choices, but I simply adore these
Joni Mitchell memories from a folkskeptic fan
Folkskeptic Alice Sage gives her heartfelt reasons why Mitchell’s music rules ok. When I was fourteen I bought a copy of Song To A Seagull for my mum’s birthday. But by then she had lost her singing voice to a…
Blog: Brian’s uncle Peter on the Joni/Bob rift
It’s been widely reported that Joni Mitchell called Bob Dylan a ‘phoney’ in a recent LA Times interview. Reading the whole of the article in question helps get the comments into context. The comments on Bob Dylan came after the…
Sean Rawls from Still Flyin’: my top ten Pavement songs + free track
FFS wasn’t at Pavement ATP this weekend. Because we didn’t want to be*. But one of our favourite interviewees ever, Still Flyin’, were along with Blitzen Trapper, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Broken Social Scene and some band called The Fall. Sean’s…
The folk fan’s guide to hip-hop
You won’t be surprised to hear that here at FFS, folk is the only music we claim to know anything about, but that doesn’t mean we’re not open to dalliances with another genre or two. We’ve enlisted the help of…