Last year, Goodnight, Texas and their debut album, A Long Life of Living, was my album of the year. It had a depth and range of folk music that I haven’t seen since and hadn’t seen up until that album. Two of the songs …
Category: Acoustic
Dodgy Mountain Men – Simple Man’s Blues
As usual, this band caught my attention because of their awesome name. I mean, Dodgy Mountain Men? That’s awesome. But so is the music. With some djembes, a mandolin, and a guitar, this music takes on a life of it’s own. This is …
Free Music Friday! Centuries Old,
Today is a folk day on Free Music Friday! We’re featuring a couple great sounding folk bands, one from Savannah, GA and one from Vancouver, BC. Free, as always. Centuries Old Centuries Old is a five piece folk band of students from Georgia …
DeYarmond Edison – Bones
We try to stay up on all that’s current in folk and independent music, but, unfortunately, that means that sometimes we miss stuff from years ago. For example, the name DeYarmond Edison is one of those names that comes out of indie folk …
Free Music Friday! The Goodly Beggars Interview
Free Music Friday, this week, has us telling you about our friends The Goodly Beggars. These two guys from DC released a great 4 song EP called Chew The Pages. You can find it featured on Noisetrade this week. The download link is below …
Hem – Departure and Farewell
Sometimes a title is all you need to understand an album. Jason Mraz’s Love is a Four Letter Word or John Fullbright’s From The Ground Up or the beautifully titled Rappalachia by bluegrass/hip-hop group Gangstagrass. With their first album in years, Hem has done that …
Gabriel Kelley – The Only Thing To Do
I had never heard of Gabriel Kelley before OurVinyl posted this recording. It didn’t take long to make me a fan. From articulate guitars to a signature voice, this guy has exactly what we want from a unique and inspiring singer songwriter. Check …
David Ramirez – The Rooster EP
A few years ago Matthew Mayfield told me to listen to David Ramirez. For some reason I must have had cotton balls or something in my ears when I gave him that first listen. I just didn’t “get” what he was doing. Then …
The Ghost of Paul Revere – San Antone
The Ghost of Paul Revere calls themselves a “holler folk band from Portland, Maine”. Well, I don’t doubt that they’re from Portland and it’s certainly folk, but don’t let the idea of holler folk scare you. This is some amazing layered music with …
The Riverside – The Riverside
Recently, thanks to bands like The Lumineers and The Civil Wars, we’ve seen a new sub-genre of music becoming very popular. I’d call it minimalist folk, you may call it pop-folk, others might just call it folk music. One of the newest examples …
