| Chris Smither - Drive You Home Again |
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$17.98
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| Smither's eighth album, Drive You Home Again, offers up another beguiling batch of blues/folk music. |
| Fred Eaglesmith - 50 Odd Dollars |
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$16.50
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| "Initially embraced by the folk music community, Eaglesmith sounds on these tracks as if he grew up listening to Bruce Springsteen in one ear and Tom Waits in the other." - Mike Joyce, Washington Post |
| Holy Modal Rounders - Vol 1 + 2 |
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$17.98
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| The famous and infamous Holy Modal Rounders are showcased here in sessions down back in 1963-64. Take a trip back in time with this psychedelic folk music. |
| Mollys - Hat Trick |
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$15.98
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| According to the band, they play a "mix of Irish, Mexican and American folk music using traditional instruments." |
| Ray Wylie Hubbard - Dangerous Spirits |
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$14.00
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| “Hubbard’s songs embody within hem the entire history of country music, blues, and folk music of the American West." - Thom Jurek, from the liner notes. |
| Sons Of The Never Wrong - One If By Hand |
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$17.50
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| Bruce Roper, Sue Demel and Deborah Lader comprise the Chicago-based Sons, whose brand of harmony-heavy folk music look back to the past while remaining quite contemporary. |
| Tim O'Brien - Crossing |
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$15.00
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| "The Crossing" is a blend of Irish, bluegrass, and Appalachian folk music, both original and traditional, that speaks to O'Brien's Irish and West Virginian heritage. |
| Anthology Of American Folk Vol 4 - Various |
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$31.50
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| Back in 1997, Smithsonian Folkways re-issued the monumental three volume set of the Anthology of American Folk Music. This collection serves as another treasure trove of American music, call it folk, blues, country or whatever. |
| Stephen Fearing - So Many Miles (Live) |
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$15.00
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| Canadian folk musician Fearing's dazzling guitar work - that has drawn comparisons to Richard Thompson - is displayed to great advantage on this live album, recorded at a Toronto appearance. |
| Best Of Broadside 1962-1988 - Various |
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$57.49
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| Broadside Magazine, a bible of socially active folk music, published thousands of songs in its day, and this impressive 5 CD set contains recorded versions of 89 of these tunes. |
| Ruby Rakes - Ruby Rakes (2001) |
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$12.00
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| While Plank turns on the sultry vocals for the torchy "Someone You Know By Heart", most of this album projects a bucolic, Old Timey feel filled with elements of traditional country, bluegrass and folk music. |
| Califone - Roomsound |
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$15.50
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| Back porch picking in an industrial park - Califone melds together the earthen elements of folk music with rich electronic texturing. |
| Folkscene Collection Vol 3 - Various |
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$15.99
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| The third volume of fantastic folk music culled from the Folkscene archives. These never-before-released performances cover over twenty years of Roz & Howard Larman's influential radio program. |
| H.A.R.P.: A Time To Sing! - Various |
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$20.50
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| A summit of folk music icons, this release stands as a truly historic folk album. |
| Hope Sandoval - Bavarian Fruit Bread |
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$17.50
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| Sandoval's ethereal singing weaves wonderfully with the dreamy chamber folk music conjured up by the Warm Invention (led by ex-My Bloody Valentine drummer turned multi-instrumentalist Colm Ciosoig). |
| Norfolk & Western - Winter Farewell |
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$11.00
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| Portland's Norfolk & Western, under the direction or Singer/Songwriter/Producer Adam Selzer, perform ghostly airs and languid orchestrations of moody soundscaping. A sort of folk music for the indie lo-fi set with a host of instrumentation ranging from the standard guitar, bass and drum combo to instruments more colorful. |
| Rowans - The Rowans |
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$13.50
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| In 1975, Peter Rowan teamed up with his brothers Chris and Lorin to make this album for Asylum. An exploration in progressive bluegrass, it takes sidetrips into country rock and cosmic folk music. |
| Pieta Brown - Pieta Brown (2002) |
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$14.00
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| Aided by her co-producer and talented guitarist Bo Ramsey, Brown flavors her country-folk music with blues and jazz elements. Her debut disc evokes the warmth and relaxed feel of a Southern summer afternoon. |
| Bevel - Where The Leaves Block The Sun |
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$13.00
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| The compositions on this album are absolute beauties. . .This album has a cinematic feel and reminds me by fits and starts of Slowdive heavily influenced by acoustic folk music." (Jagjaguwar) |
| Wagons - Trying To Get Home |
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$6.99
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| The thoroughly modern lyrics wedded to the country and contemporary folk music of this quirky Melbourne act provide for an offbeat experience. |
| Anna Fermin's Trigger Gospel - Live Music Volume One |
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$10.00
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| Miss Fermin and band take it down a few notches in this live acoustic performance recorded one night at Chicago’s Old Town School Of Folk Music. |
| Lilly Borthers/Don Stover - On The Radio |
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$14.00
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| Their few but now legendary recordings, radio shows and many personal appearances including Carnegie Hall and the Newport Folk Festival influenced a whole generation of folk music listeners. This disc consists entirely of previously unreleased radio transcriptions of the Lily Brothers from the early 1950, which beautifully reflect the purity, charm and impact of these major figures in early bluegrass. |
| David Ackles - David Ackles |
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$13.50
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| Ackles expanded the definition of singer/songwriter in the late sixties in much the same way Randy Newman, Scott Walker and Harry Nilsson did. From a background in musical theater, he took his folk music roots and added an eccentric twist. |
| Peter Ostroushko - Coming Down From The Red Lodge |
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$16.50
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| Coming Down presents a stirring blend of classical, jazz and folk music from this full-time musical cast member of A Prairie Home Companion. |
| Jean Ritchie - Ballads From Her Appalachian Family Tradition |
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$15.00
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| Born in the heart of the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky and raised on the folk music of that area, Ballads From Her Appalachian Family Tradition delivers just what the title promises. |
| David Grisman - Life Of Sorrow |
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$15.99
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| David Grisman's 40-plus years as a recording artist have yielded many choice collaborations which have produced some of the finest bluegrass and folk music ever. |
| Ruthie Foster - Runaway Soul |
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$14.99
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| "The hottest new voice in folk music may belong to a Texas songwriter named Ruthie Foster." - Scott Alarik, Boston Globe |
| Orange Twin Sampler - Various |
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$6.99
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| Orange Twin Records are currently working on a 150 acre eco-village in Athens, GA and support artists by providing an affordable place for them to display and sell their artwork and music. |
| Michelle Shocked - Short Sharp Shocked |
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$11.99
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| Re-issued on CD, Short Sharp Shocked is the 1988 debut of the girl from Texas who ripped and rattled through blues and rockabilly shuffles and punk rock rants as though they were every bit as much a part of folk music as tender acoustic ballads. |
| Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Trilogy (Box Set/Enhanced/DVD) |
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$46.49
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| In three volumes, over three decades, this adventurous project found the band uniting with a series of bluegrass heavies, as well as some of country and folk music's most respected names. |
| No River City - This Is Our North Dakota |
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$12.49
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| The Village Voice's Andrew Aber calls them "a wonderful duo that through harmonies, slick instrumental and great songwriting skills pull off everything that's right about the new country genre that shuns cowboy hats and beer guzzling for a roots return to true American folk music." |
