For Folks Sake favourites The Unthanks have announced their latest release, Diversions Volume 4: The Songs and Poems of Molly Drake, set for release on May 26th 2017. Ostensibly a continuation of their exploitative work into the folk traditions, Songs of……
It is a rare moment where a band presents themselves as being an ensemble performing expansive chamber-pop, yet, back with their third LP of such music, San Fermin return with Belong. Primarily a construct by Ellis Ludwig-Leone, who has previously…
The voice of Charlie Fink is a joy to hear, especially so in the current climate of political and social upheaval and troubles. Noah & The Whale were unfairly typecast after the success of ‘5 Years Time’, a shame, as…
Seven years have passed since Karen Elson’s debut record first wowed audiences with its blues-tinged ballads of murder and desolation. Unfortunately, this was a time where Elson met celebrity not for her music, but rather for the one she was…
Joan Baez is an artist who needs no introduction. Often lauded as the greatest folk artist to ever grace our planet Earth—and often sparking debate with Cohen and Seeger diehards who would argue otherwise—Baez has made a name for herself…
A growing trend of the modern folk music era has been albums wildly introspective in their craft to the point that their aural cosmetics are best described as something that has strayed far into the realm of melodic experimentation. We…
Folk and rock singers have strummed their way through this common theme through eras come and gone for so long that it’s become a timeless sentiment: the working class are underprivileged at best and oppressed at worst. Such has been…
Long past are the days of the outlaw, or so it had seemed. The country and Southern rock music scene have seen a revival of that respective subset of the genres recently, characterized by bluesier, grittier, and altogether more substantive…
It comes across romantically, much like the Shakespearean works that have made the majority of his career leading up to this moment—D.G. Adams, actor by day and quiet student of music all the rest of the time. For those who…
Innovation is, thankfully, the key to great success in the new age world of roots music. This innovation, of course, crops up in different forms, though we have seen it in the way that Sturgill Simpson wrapped his way around…