by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Video Premiere | Night Flight – Roulette
“I want greatness.” Sam Holmes is pretty clear about his goals for Night Flight. “I don’t think anyone really says that anymore. Some people consider it arrogant, but I truly believe we can be one of the great bands of…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Jared Weiss – Isolated Thunderstorm
Make no mistake—Jared Weiss is a rock artist. With that said, Isolated Thunderstorm began its life as a folk record before tripping the electric. It isn’t to say the album’s sounding like Dylan in his heyday, though. It’s more Reilly than anything if…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | Kristin Chambers – Springtime Sugarcane
Driven by multiple layers of gorgeous vocal harmonies, Kristin Chambers commands her ballad, ‘Springtime Sugarcane’, with a cathartic resonance. Musically, the track builds into a glorious crescendo, invoking the same sort of power that one might traditionally take from a…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Miles Maxwell – Red Ghost
Something unmistakably vintage pervades Red Ghost, the newest album from Americana outlet Miles Maxwell. Formed by frontman Miles Baltrusaitis alongside brothers Matt and Dan Stankiewicz, this stretching of the roots rock muscles for these three is a natural extension of their previous work…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Randy Forte – Chas Randall
Randy Forte is the type of songwriter who many in and out of Nashville say they miss but never try to be. That is to say, the Americana that the artist embodies is reminiscent of a strong cross-section of warm-bodied 60s…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Album | Amanda Shires – To The Sunset
Amanda Shires wrote much of To The Sunset hiding in the closet of her Nashville home, but she opens the record by gazing at the stars on ‘Parking Lot Pirouette’ – “the stars, the shapes the constellations make, the burning…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Watch | The Rabbitts – Wild
With a new EP recently set out into the wild, For Folk’s Sake is keen to share some of the Rabbitts’ latest work. The UK-Canadian group of folkies embraces an inspired jubilance towards the natural world that we seem to…
by Nick Bradford • • Comments Off on Single | Alex Ileo – Go Alone
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ27ajS838g[/embedyt] I am looking as we speak not at my computer keyboard (I can touch type), but at the new video, released last week of Alex Lleo’s track ‘Go Alone’. Filmed during his recent headline tour of Scotland, the…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | Palamara – Misunderstood
Palamara’s A Voice in the Wilderness has a little bit of everything for those hoping to garner a tad more from their listening experiences than a cool beat or an undulating rhythm. The singer-songwriter’s music looks back at life’s larger moments…
by Ian Parker • • Comments Off on Video premiere | Natalie Evans – Empty Rooms & Aeroplanes (Small Pond Session with Ayumi Konno)
It has been far too long since we last featured Natalie Evans on the site. Since then she has honed her virtuosic playing, continuing to pair complicated guitar or harp structures with simple vocal melodies to create a unique style…