Richard Thompson Acoustic Classics Beeswing 002 www.richardthompson-music.com An entire studio album of Richard Thompson re-imagining a batch of his songs as acoustic performances is truly way overdue. The program is drawn from his entire … Continue reading →
Pieta Brown Paradise Outlaw Red House 280 www.redhouserecords.com Recorded in just four days at Justin Vernon’s (of Bon Iver) April Base studio in Wisconsin, this lovely album has a live feel you can’t get … Continue reading →
DJ Sean P Rock It… Don’t Stop It! BBE Music www.bbemusic.com London-based, deep grooves DJ Sean P has compiled a series of early Hip Hop recordings from 1979 to 1983, an era sometimes labeled … Continue reading →
Jack White Lazaretto Columbia Records www.columbiarecords.com Blind Willie McTell’s 1928 Victor recording “Three Women Blues” was pure Piedmont blues with undertones of racial pride in his yellow, black and brown-skinned lovers. In Jack White’s … Continue reading →
MARAH Presents: Mountain Minstrelsy of Pennsylvania Valley Farm Songs www.marah-usa.com Philadelphia roots-rockers Marah have gone “up the country,” relocating to the small town of Milheim, PA, and embracing their new community wholeheartedly. Hence the … Continue reading →
Pantaleimon The Butterfly Ate The Pearl Grass Girl www.pantaleimon.com Modern psych-folk can be a dangerous thing these days. It’s easy to go from mind-bending to disastrously corny in a heartbeat, but Andria Degens does a good job of walking the … Continue reading →
The Quiet American Songs From A Rocking Chair Aaron Keim www.quietamericanmusic.com Among the many duos plying Americana waters these days, The Quiet American may rank as the old-timiest of all. Aaron and Nicole Keim have left Boulder for the Pacific … Continue reading →
Rod MacDonald Later That Night Blue Flute Music 107 www.rodmacdonald.net Every few years the mainstream media drives a lame stallion out of the stable to see if he’ll gallop. All of a sudden there will … Continue reading →
Bradford Lee Folk & The Bluegrass Playboys Somewhere Far Away Bradford Lee Folk www.bradfordleefolk.com A decade ago one of the hottest bands on the bluegrass circuit was Open Road, a Colorado-based outfit headed up by guitarist … Continue reading →
I DRAW SLOW White Wave Chapel Pinecastle 1187 www.pinecastlemusic.com In the folk music world on this side of the Atlantic, it’s hard to throw a stick without hitting a band composed of Americans doing their … Continue reading →
