by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Single | Geoff Gibbons – Keep on Driving
Just around two years ago, Geoff Gibbons touched our hearts with the moving folk of his previous release, Shadow of a Stone: Songs of Remembrance. Aptly making its debut just five days before Remembrance Day, Gibbons’ natural knack for writing…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 with Annamay
With a new band at her side, Stockholm artist Annamay is more equipped than ever to present the healing tides of her brilliant songwriting to audiences. The songstress has recently released two new singles that highlight this latest musical shift,…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 with Guy Grogan
Through Same Morning Light, Guy Grogan is at it again with more of the textured alternative rock that listeners have come to appreciate. Albeit, the overall presentation is just a tad folksier this time around. The UK-gone-US singer-songwriter’s goal with…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 with Allison Leah
Most of us have held an ear privy towards the old pronoun once or twice before—that “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” And for many of us moreover, no singular year has better expressed this tone…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | The Rough & Tumble – Monkey Around
The Rough & Tumble are great innovators. In light of a worldwide pandemic and protests, the Nashville folk duo is still working to unearth nuggets of positivity. Whether it be in an ongoing food blog appropriately titled ‘The Rumbly Tummy’…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 with Nathan Kalish
Over the course of two years spent out on the road, tirelessly playing show after show, Nathan Kalish cultivated a collection of story songs grown from not only his own life experiences but also incorporating the experiences of the people…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | Melissa Bel – Can’t Go Home
Awash in lo-fi reverb and the drone of a synthetic bass, Melissa Bel’s spin on country through ‘Can’t Go Home’ comes in abundantly modern light. At its crescendo, the country-pop tune is set aflame with a searing culmination of organic…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Todd Warner Moore – Overnight Flight
Only a few years back, Todd Warner Moore wrote his first set of lyrics for his ‘Birdsong’. Since, the artist has turned out well over sixty tracks. The philosophical troubadour of Hong Kong’s Lamma Island originally hails from across the…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Feature | The Coo Take Us on a Track-By-Track Tour of Their New Album, ‘Amsterdam Moon’
Like true, blue folkies, the Coo’s adventure began with a serendipitous meeting at an open mic in Amsterdam. Such is why the duo—comprised of Matt Arthur and Jara Holdert—meeting in an Amsterdam cathedral to perform their new EP, Amsterdam Moon,…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | Andrea Magee – Floating Heart
Andrea Magee’s ‘Floating Heart’ is just the kind of music that we need right now, more than ever. Especially in the face of times uncertain, a message of peace in a reminder that everything will be alright in the end…