Rachel Baiman is a Midwest grown, Nashville based singer, songwriter, composer, banjo/fiddle player. Growing up in Illinois, she won numerous awards for her fiddle playing, eventually winning Illinois State Fiddle Champion at age 17. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Vanderbilt University with …
Guest Review – David Demaree on John Griffin McKay – Wilderness EP – Intimate songwriting highlights new singer songwriter album
Armed with a guitar and piercing lyrics, John Griffin McKay is a new musician you need to know. His voice reverberates from his hometown of Waco, Texas with pain, longing, and hope. Hailing from the same Lone Star State, David Ramirez’s fingerprints are …
Noah Gundersen – Ledges – Brilliant Debut Album from Accomplished Seattle Singer Songwriter
Calling this album a “debut” is a bit misleading. Many of us in the indie music world have been well familiar with Gundersen’s unique, deep folk music for several years. There are a number of songs on the album that avid Gundersen fans …
Gretchen Lohse- Primal Rumble
Gretchen Lohse. Primal Rumble. 2013. http://gretchenlohse.bandcamp.com Gretchen Lohse is a Philadelphia native, and recently released her first solo album. She’s trained on the violin, but also plays a number of other instruments, and turns VHS home-videos into a source of sound for her work. …
Help Wanted: Redditors, Twitter users, and avid Facebook users – Help us help musicians
We need help with our social media efforts here at EarToTheGround Music. We have a few folks that do their best to spread the word, but we want to enlist a small army of folks. Will you join us in this endeavor? What …
Free Music Friday! Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk
Happy free music Friday everyone! This week we’ve got a full length album from Canada’s Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk. They’re a little bit pop, a little bit folk, a little bit rock and a lot of good music. As always, …
The Ghost of Paul Revere – Believe – Self proclaimed “holler folk” betrayed by beautiful harmonies
Here we have another band that knows how to hook someone. “The Ghost of Paul Revere? What does a band with a name like that sound like?” is what I found myself asking. Well, if you thought the same thing, and even if …
Planes on Paper – The East End Session – Phenomenal folk music duo with breathtaking debut EP
The adjective “breathtaking” might be one of the most misused words in the English language, but I have to say the first (and several subsequent) listen of this duo, Planes on Paper, made me stop in my audio tracks. With a solo electric …
Guest Review: Dave Terenzoni on Cereus Bright – Happier Than Me – Modern folk band shines with great lyrics and beautiful melodies
Cereus Bright is a gorgeous white flower that survives in the desert, one of the most difficult environments on earth the grow in, and blooms only in the darkness of night. This folk rock band from Knoxville,TN wears that name as a badge …
The Gloria Darlings – Come Home to Me – Seattle folk music and bluegrass duo
This duo, Pandi and Milly, bill themselves as “folk grass,” which I immediately took as one of those marketing ploys because, well isn’t all bluegrass fundamentally folk music? And then I heard this incredible album. This… friends… is “folk grass.” It’s beautiful. It …
