On her debut album Somerset singer-songwriter Kitty Macfarlane presents an occasionally dazzling set of songs that span traditional and contemporary folk, and includes a few numbers that might well deserve a spot among the English folk canon themselves. The press…
Easy to categorize as the “Dutch Bonnie Prince Billy”, Tonnie aka ‘Broeder’ Dieleman has ventured into a career of his own, made of strong asceticism and unrelenting musical research. These are ingredients that place him among a restricted circle of…
The career of Dawn Landes hasn’t run in a straight line. She has always gone where the spirit moved her, never making the safe choice. That would explain why she released Covers, an EP of tunes by Bruce Springsteen, Tom…
If Low’s last album, 2015’s acclaimed Ones and Sixes, saw them slip off their slowcore shackles, Double Negative feels like a near-detonation of all that’s gone before. As the band moved into their third decade, a sense of consolidation surrounded…
The Good Morning Nags’ new EP, No Damn Good, just goes to show that ‘short’ often does mean ‘sweet’. At the very least, it sure does in this instance. The two songs that decorate its quaint halls assure listeners of that.…
At the end of a very painful breakup, Lizzie Weber harnessed her emotions in a set of songs that were too painful to perform. Now, some four years later, the scars have lost much of their sting. The results found…
When Chuck Whyard hits the stage, he becomes the electrifying Americana artist, C-Wired. A free-wheeling mystic capable of producing powerful, tenacious grooves, he and his band develop a multifarious collection of songs for their debut EP, Omega. Washed with lush production…
Mitch Bradford is a contemporary artist who appreciates the warm minimalism of vintage folks and roots rock. Taking a page from the likes of Jackson Browne and Neil Young, his style is unvarnished, conversational, and from the heart. Ergo, it…
Those of you who follow the For Folk’s Sake sessions will already be excited about Ben Somers’ new record Poor Stuart after he popped by to perform ‘Life On The Road. Now we can offer up the premiere of the…
With a vinyl release in just four days and a digital one soon to follow on 21 Sept., Katie Barbato is sharing the title track of her forthcoming EP with For Folk’s Sake today. Accompanying it is a gorgeous video…