Author: Jonathan Frahm

Interview | Ryanhood talk ‘Yearbook’, the folk duo’s first-ever independently-tracked record

Fresh off their whirlwind week at Folk Alliance, Tucson, AZ folk-duo Ryanhood was gracious enough to field my questions about their 6th studio album, entilted Yearbook. Ryan and Cameron talk about the past, present, and future of their band, as well…

Album | zenxienz – Mind Sighs

We here at For Folk’s Sake are best known for covering, well, folk music. It’s what’s on the tin. Quite often, though, pretty much since our foundation, we have extended our reach beyond purely folk to embrace the many genres…

Album | Tom Woodward – Beautiful Shadows

Riding the line between old-school folk and country straight into a heap of psychedelia is Australian singer-songwriter Tom Woodward. Sonically speaking, Woodward’s sound lies somewhere between Donovan, Campbell, and the soundtrack to outer space. Previously, when For Folk’s Sake had…

Single | Tom Woodward – Beautiful Shadows

Tom Woodward is a heck of a guy. This goes without saying for fans of the fruit-harvesting, high school music theory text-pilfering, South Wales woods tent-living ways of the artist, but for those just catching up, Woodward is an artist…

Album | KING ROPES – DIRT

Bozeman, Montana—the birthplace of rock stars. Didn’t sound convincing? Perhaps the darkly Americana of KING ROPES could help change your mind. Akin to something between Shovels & Rope, Neil Young in his Crazy Horse era, and Mitski, the band is…

Album | Verena von Horsten – Alien Angel Super Death

Alien Angel Super Death—if that isn’t a metal album title, then what is it? Perhaps with a swig of whiskey one can successfully label it folk right on the first go. Wherein Swiss artist Verena von Horsten’s latest record fails…

Album | von Konow – Lieder

Have you ever felt the outstanding need to claw your way out of your own self-made conformity and aspire to develop something totally new, yet, in part, old as it was crafted out of your pure ingenious reflection on the…

Premiere | The Suitcase Junket – ‘The Next Act’

Whether we’re talking the incredible multi-instrumental and production capabilities of a Paul McCartney or Patrick Stump in-studio, live-loopers like Ed Sheeran and Keller Williams, or those who really do take on multiple roles at once this side of Joe Hill…

Single | GEA – ‘Pink’

One great thing that has come out of folk music in the modern age is that it’s become more of an attitude. We live in a world where, arguably, an artist like RiverChild is just as “folk” as, say Angel…