[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/180478784″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Picking up from last week’s family act thread, folkfinds this week directs your attention to Edmonton, Canada brother-sister band Cadence & Nathan. Each writes and sings; their work has the intimacy you’d expect … Continue reading →
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/190664673″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] We’ve visited the UK’s thriving old-time scene before, but for our first trip to Scotland we visit multi-instrumentalist Rob Clamp. Rob focuses his musical attentions on his Scottish and American heritage. His original … Continue reading →
My favorite memories of being a parent involve the days when nothing happens. When we’re just laying around doing nothing but basking in each other’s joy and love. – Patterson Hood I don’t believe sorry is strong enough. None of … Continue reading →
“Fatal Flower Garden,” recorded in 1929 by Nelstone’s Hawaiians, is only the second of eighty-four songs on Harry Smith’s epochal Anthology of American Folk Music – a collection justly celebrated in some macabre corners (mine, for instance) for its songs … Continue reading →
LUCINDA WILLIAMS Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone Highway 20 www.lucindawilliams.com After Lucinda’s decades of songs of dead-end men, some fans feared that a good marriage would smooth her bone-lean writing’s jagged … Continue reading →
BEN HUNTER and JOE SEAMONS Take Yo Time Self-Released benjoe.bandcamp.com For anyone who has learned to play an instrument in the usual way – lessons, scales, exercises, practice, recitals – Joe Seamons can make … Continue reading →
Dom Flemons Prospect Hill Music Maker Foundation www.musicmaker.org The Carolina Chocolate Drops have been a brilliant beacon of American music from the beginning. Over time they have expanded their purview from early black string … 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 →
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 →
The Carper Family Old-Fashioned Gal The Americana Agency www.americanaagency.com The CD’s title is perfect because there’s an old-fashioned feel to their rootsy songs, ranging from upbeat swing to classic country to take-no-prisoners bluegrass, all … Continue reading →
