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 …
Category: Folk
Le Wrens – Don’t Forget Me EP
My biggest regret from the Noah Gundersen show in Pittsburgh last month was not meeting his younger siblings Abby and Jonny. It is Jonny and fellow sibling Lizzy Gundersen who are the key artists in Le Wrens, a Seattle-based folk-country act that should …
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 …
Free Music Friday! Bandito Folk
Bandito Folk is the fun name of a group of Australian musicians putting out some awesome free folk music. It’s a little bit like Fleet Foxes in its complexity and a little like Bon Iver with its high vocals, but it doesn’t really …
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 …
Artist Interview: Penny and Sparrow
The kind gentlemen of Penny and Sparrow completed the musicians’ collective least favorite task, the “email interview” for us. It’s because they love us (we hope). Anyways, check out their answers to some of our burning questions about the remarkable music of Penny …
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 …
Free Music Friday! Seth Philpott
Happy Free Music Friday everyone! And happy hockey playoffs too! We pride ourselves here at EarToTheGround Music for finding new things. Today, I’m really excited to show you a free download of Seth Philpott, the “Modern Country Gentleman”. His music is a funky, …
David Ramirez – “Find The Light”
Sometimes, we just need a song to pick us up, one that lets us know that things are going to get better. If things are good, then let this song reinforce that for you. If things are bad, just enjoy David Ramirez’s amazing …
Fruition – “Wasting Away”
Fruition is one of those bands that it’s hard to categorize. It’s a little bluegrass (mandolin!), it’s a little bit folk, a little bit pop, a little bit of something else really good. Anyway, here’s “Wasting Away”, one of those songs that everyone …
