by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Video Premiere | John Smith – ‘Lord Franklin’ (Live Session)
Folk artist John Smith is wrapping up with For Folk’s Sake video feature residency with a most lovely performance of “Lord Franklin”. As he tells us, “‘Lord Franklin’ is a song I heard John Renbourn play many times, one that…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | Grace – Autumn/It Is Well
Autumn has come. With it, warm shades of yellow, orange, and red drape much of the world in a familiar vibrancy, embracing a chill in the air that some might otherwise clash with come wintertime. It’s all at once that,…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Video Premiere | John Smith – ‘Master Kilby’
Just a couple of days ago, singer-songwriter John Smith dropped his new album, Hummingbird, for the world to lend its ears to. Replete with resplendent, acoustic storyteller’s music, it’s as much of a heartfelt humdinger as any for the For Folk’s…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Shane Palko – ‘Pick Me Up’
As much as they say never to judge a book by its cover, a picture is also worth a thousand words. If these sayings were only meant to cover generalities, then the latter would only be a quarter of the…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Video | Geoff Gibbons – ‘Rollin’ Free’
Following the release of 2017’s Buffalo Hotel, Geoff Gibbons is freeing himself up on his latest single. This comes quite literally for the Vancouver singer-songwriter, who’s hitting the road on ‘Rollin’ Free’. Instrumentally, the song is an old-school Americana arrangement featuring…
by Lorenzo Righetto • • Comments Off on Album | Any Other – Two, Geography
In the peripheral Italian music scene, the number of acts that have recently achieved international recognition can be counted on one hand. At Adele Nigro’s age, and at only her second album, to have an already scheduled a reasonably sized…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Video | John Smith – ‘Hummingbird’ (Live Session)
On the day following the 2018 Cambridge Folk Festival, John Smith stopped by Moo & Two in Fromme, Somerset. Besides supporting an independent business with a hint of tea or coffee, Smith also hit the artisan brew house with another goal…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Phosphorescent – C’est La Vie
Five years can be a lifetime. Especially when you front a band like Phosphorescent. Yet for Matt Houck it went by in the blink of an eye. Along the way he got married, moved from New York to Nashville, had…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | JP Harris – Sometimes Dogs Bark At Nothing
Joshua Pless Harris seems to be the essence of a Kris Kristofferson song: “walking contradiction, partly truth, partly fiction.” Yet Harris has lived enough in 35 years for three men, leaving home at 14, hopping trains, working as a sheet…
by Bob Fish • • Comments Off on Album | Songs For Walter – An Endless Summer Daze
Songs For Walter was originally the name Laurie Hulme gave to a collection of tracks about his grandfather, songs that garnered a great deal of praise. He also received his share of raves from many of the Radio 6 Music…