by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Video Premiere | We Are The Northern Lights – Where Your Heart Is
Comprised of Hadar Orshalimy and Sheldon Low, We Are the Northern Lights describe themselves as indie folk-pop with a soul. A bit of a mouthful at first as it may be, it’s also perfectly indicative of the cross-section that the…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Video Premiere | The Promise is Hope – Every Seed Must Die
The Promise is Hope is a duo that most certainly lives up to the serendipitous tidings of its name. Ashley and Eric L’Esperance first met at a spontaneous song swap and were married a year and a half later. Their…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 Q&A with Josh King
On the cover of his solo debut, Into the Blue, Josh King looks ready to toss his Stetson into the ring alongside modern outlaw-country stars like Chris Stapleton and Jamey Johnson. But when you sit down and listen, the music is as much Jon…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Eric Anders and Mark O’Bitz – Of All These Things
Although Eric Anders and Mark O’Bitz are making their debut as a duo with Of All These Things, the two have been collaborating for 15 years prior to this album’s release. Anders made a good impression right out of the gate…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Watch | Nick and Luke – King of the Road
It’s been a busy year for For Folk’s Sake friends and favorites, Nick and Luke. In the midst of another ongoing nationwide tour, the east coast duo is at it again with a sophomore EP on its way quickly. Featured…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Jared Weiss – Isolated Thunderstorm
Make no mistake—Jared Weiss is a rock artist. With that said, Isolated Thunderstorm began its life as a folk record before tripping the electric. It isn’t to say the album’s sounding like Dylan in his heyday, though. It’s more Reilly than anything if…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Premiere | Kristin Chambers – Springtime Sugarcane
Driven by multiple layers of gorgeous vocal harmonies, Kristin Chambers commands her ballad, ‘Springtime Sugarcane’, with a cathartic resonance. Musically, the track builds into a glorious crescendo, invoking the same sort of power that one might traditionally take from a…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Miles Maxwell – Red Ghost
Something unmistakably vintage pervades Red Ghost, the newest album from Americana outlet Miles Maxwell. Formed by frontman Miles Baltrusaitis alongside brothers Matt and Dan Stankiewicz, this stretching of the roots rock muscles for these three is a natural extension of their previous work…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Album | Randy Forte – Chas Randall
Randy Forte is the type of songwriter who many in and out of Nashville say they miss but never try to be. That is to say, the Americana that the artist embodies is reminiscent of a strong cross-section of warm-bodied 60s…
by Jonathan Frahm • • Comments Off on Interview | FFS 5 Q&A with Kate Vargas
Kate Vargas has packed houses from Ireland’s Westport Folk and Bluegrass Festival to The Troubadour in London, The Mansion on O Street in Washington D.C. to New York’s Bowery Electric. Her latest album, For The Wolfish & Wandering (out now),…