Author: Lynn Roberts

Lynn founded For Folk's Sake in 2008. Her favourite artists are Joni Mitchell, The Leisure Society and The Mountain Goats. She plays keyboards in Joe Innes & the Cavalcade.

News | New Decemberists album, single, UK tour

Today is double auspicious, it turns out. There’s a new Decemberists album on the way and you can listen to the first song ‘Make You Better’ right now. The band’s seventh album, What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World, will be…

News | Emmy the Great unveils new song ‘Swimming Pool’

Rejoice! For this is an auspicious day. Our fave Emmy the Great has released a new song onto the great wide internet. ‘Swimming Pool’ has twinkles and atmospheric guitars. Lyrics include: ‘Hey rich kid, I want it, the sunshine, your…

#564 Lewis & Leigh – What is There to Do?

Lewis & Leigh is Al Lewis (of Al Lewis & Sarah Howells and solo fame) and Mississipi’s Alva Leigh. The pair bonded over their love of Gram & Emmylou and Jackson Browne and will be releasing an EP called Night Drives.…

#563 Dubarrys – Undress Your Soul

Brighton four-piece, the Dubarrys, have a mysterious silent member who doesn’t want to be involved in any publicity which makes FFS desperate to know everything about him. Undress Your Soul is the title track from their debut EP. Why don’t…

#548 Patch & the Giant – For Gabriel

‘For Gabriel’ was written by Patch & the Giant’s Angie and Luke after a sorry set of circumstances culminating in a lost fiddle. All proceeds from the sale of the song go to buying a replacement for Patch violinist Gabe’s.…

Playlist | You Are Wolf’s inspiration

Kerry Andrew is You Are Wolf, an experimental folk artist released her debut album Hawk to the Hunting gone. We were so intrigued by her sound, that we asked her to put together a playlist of influences. Over to Kerry:…

Blog | Patch & the Giant’s requiem for a lost fiddle

It was May 2013. Rosie & Zoe from Worry Dolls had asked me to record a bit of piano for their (recently finished) EP. We headed out to Dave Gerard’s studio in Bishop Stortford to join RoZoe. Angie and Gabe…