Bleed The Rads – “New Year” The whispered vocals on this one will make you feel like you are alone listening to a confession. We appreciate an artist that knows their strengths, and this one does. “New Year” has an interesting mix of …
Category: Folk
Album Review: Noah Gundersen – White Noise
Noah Gundersen is one of our favorite artists at EarToTheGround, so when we heard about this new album we jumped at the chance to cover it. The sound that Gundersen continues to produce – and develop – is fascinating to say the least. …
3 Contemplative Songwriters You Need To Hear
Jason Hawk Harris – “Phantom Limb” This songwriter comes from a long line of musicians who have influenced him through the years. While kids his age were chasing typical adolescent pleasures, he was studying musical composition, and still regrets not being able to …
Album Review: The Other Favorites – Fools
If you’ve been reading ETTG for any length of time, you’ve heard about Josh Turner and Carson McKee, aka The Other Favorites. Turner’s viral YouTube station works to bring some really incredible music to our ears on a regular basis, so we love …
Like Political Rock? Like Country? We Have You Covered
Will Hawkins – “Charlottesville” Originally, this track had a more profane title we were immediately drawn to. Of course, some distributing services don’t take kindly to profanity, so we have a more concise title. We appreciate Hawkins’ endearing songwriting greatly. His ability to …
New Music Friday – Episode 72 – Vote in the poll to decide who wins an artist feature!
Hopefully you had a chance to check out our 24 posts in 24 hours this week. It was a ton of fun to put together and 48 artists found themselves featured on our site. How cool is that? So of these 10 artists, …
The 4 Best Tracks We Heard This (Or Any) Week
Aaeidi – “Run” How do you communicate something beyond “wow”? Whatever feeling you get beyond those borders is exactly the mood we get from this artist. The soulful singer is a master at crafting heart-arresting tracks with her powerful vocals that speak …
Get the folk in here and hang out with us
I know… the tired “folk” as f-word joke. But if you haven’t noticed, we’ve been writing a lot in the last 24 hours, so cut us some slack would ya? Anyways, here are two folk songs that we think you’ll really like. Reddmond …
Acoustic songwriters with moving songs
We’re big fans of magicians who can make strings vibrate and create beautiful sounds. We call them guitar players. But when a really talented acoustic artist can create a song that moves us, we can’t help but share it. Nathan Peterson – “Dance …
New folk for fans of Bon Iver
If emotional, atmospheric folk music is interesting to you, stop what you are doing right now and listen to these two songs. One comes from South Korea, the other from the UK. Both bring a stunning evocative style to new folk music. Gerda …
