If you’re looking for one word to sum up the music of Ordinary Elephant, the title of their new album will do you. Honest. Honest in its tradition, honest in its sentiment, honest in its sound. ‘Jenny & James’ fits…
Since the days of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, modern folk music and organized religion have had a tenuous relationship at best. Yet, there’s also the twist and turns that the genre has shared with gospel hymns, present in every…
With his self-titled debut album, J.W. Teller rung in the year right for folk listeners like us. Each song present on the LP serves the same function of illustrating a separate part in Teller’s life, the singer-songwriter recalling these moments…
Like many of us throughout the world, when news of the 2016 US Election hit, Sarah Eide was at a loss. She recalls, “I felt there was an ever growing chasm between myself and many people I love and respect,…
Steve Earle knew he had to make Guy, when Guy Clark died of lymphoma at the age of seventy-six in 2016, because he’d already made a record for Townes Van Zandt. “I knew when Guy died that I’d have to…
Portishead has been on an extended sabbatical since the release of Third in 2008. Other than the release of their cover of ABBA’s ‘SOS’ in 2016, the band has been quiet. Left to her own devices, Beth Gibbons responded to…
Shedding the glitzy braggadocio of modern pop poseurs, Dylan Owen’s brand of rap comes from a place of sincerity without stepping over any lines. This is an artist who acknowledges his place in the world and comfortably lies in it,…
Firefly Burning will return with their third studio album Breathe Shallow on May 31, and you’re going to want to circle the date. Working with famed producer Tim Friese-Greene, best known for his work with Talk Talk, the London collective…
We’ve not heard from Golden Fable since 2017’s In The Aerie, but it turns out they’ve been away working on something special. A new record is on the way on 2019, and early signs point to something epic. What are…
After excelling themselves with 2018’s Awake, Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage are returning with a trilogy of singles written on the road and inspired by their relationship to the spirit of place. Here we bring you the premiere of the…