Author: Jonathan Frahm

Interview | Ross Cooper tells FFS about his brand of ‘alternative western’ music

For Folk’s Sake recently had the opportunity to catch up with rising western artist Ross Cooper. This interview succeeds the recent release of Cooper’s excellent I Rode the Wild Horses on 9 March, which he initially successfully crowdfunded via Kickstarter. As…

Album | Magical Beasts – When Love’s a Stranger

Magical Beasts are a rising Chicago roots band whose primary goal is to make “mostly simple folk and songwriter music set to compelling, lyrical instrumentation and interwoven vocal harmonies.” Or, so it goes on their IndieGoGo campaign page, anyway. The…

Interview | FFS 5 Q&A with Pedigo’s Magic Pilsner

Released just over a week back, Pedigo’s Magic Pilsner is the self-titled debut of John Pedigo’s latest musical endeavor. Decorated with the detailed down-on-their-luck personas and emotions that only a folk-laden release could ever hope to pursue, Pedigo keeps things varied…

Interview | Roots rocker Charlie Overbey talks growing up loving hard work, folk art, low-riders, tacos, and life

Though he’s spent his entire life in California, Charlie Overbey’s music is unapologetically steeped in deep Southern influence. Growing into the world of roots rock and alt-country at a young age, Overbey was raised in “the school and church of…

Interview | Sir Canyon bears his ‘surf country’ soul to FFS

Sir Canyon’s Noah Lamberth is an innovator. Yet, whenever he’s successfully blending genres, influences, and ideas, into his next psychedelic country fête, he makes it look oh-so-easy. The masterful singer-songwriter wasn’t always intent on producing the newfound windswept sound that…

Premiere | The Price Sisters – Widow of the Mountain

It all began on their eighth birthday, when twin sisters Lauren and Leanna Price were gifted a mandolin and a fiddle. Encouraged by the music of O’ Brother, Where Art Thou?, their intrigue in the traditional bluegrass movement—a genre in itself…

Album | Andy Michaels – Revisited

Imagine that, right in front of you, you have all of the makings of a cobb salad splayed out on a counter. It’s just about time to blend all of these ingredients together to make a proper meal. You’ve got…

Video Premiere | Saw Black – Water Tower

In the 21st century, Saw Black defines the term “Americana”. Raised on music, the artist first tried his hand at playing himself once his jazz pianist grandfather gifted him an electric guitar when he was 11. From there, Saw’s gone…

Album | Brett Randell – Rise

Brett Randell’s Rise EP begins with a soulful, sensuous inflection on one of his most celebrated singles, ‘The Waitress’. Calling to mind a hip folksiness akin to some of Jason Mraz’s early work, the 28-year-old New Yorker commands the stage in…