You can quickly recognise Midnight Parade as a European release: for the pretty “standard” style, for the slightly dull expressivity, but also for its melodic exuberance. This is in fact the debut album by a German-Dutch couple, who met at…
In the newly-released music video for Eric Long’s ‘Hey Now Baby’, the Americana tune’s gently infectious sway is captured with beautiful ease by San Francisco Director of Photography Chad Leto. Featuring Long in a gorgeous natural environment as he performs…
Yorkshire’s own traditionalist troubadour Serious Sam Barrett releases his latest record Where The Wild Roses Grow this week (you can check out our review here). While the album sees Barrett break out the banjo, there are still plenty of guitar…
Hailing from Milwaukee, singer-songwriter D.B. Rouse has worked many hats. His previous occupations range from a cruise ship lounge singer between Miami and New York, simultaneously crooning while maintaining trails at a ranch in Austin, and milking goats and making…
Deer Tick aren’t just one band. Under the sobriquet Deervana, they’ve covered the music of Nirvana, and John McCauley served as a replacement Kurt Cobain (along with Joan Jett) during last October’s Foo Fighters Cal Jam Nirvana show with Dave…
Sad without being mournful, there are ghosts at play on Tides of a Teardrop, Mandolin Orange’s latest record. Andrew Marlin’s mother died when he was just 18, yet her influence has been felt greatly over the years. Along with Emily…
Citing Hull folk dynasty the Watersons as a primary influence, fellow Yorkshireman Serious Sam Barrett’s traditionalist credentials are clear throughout a career now stretching to nine albums and a seemingly never-ending touring schedule. This time around, he has branched out…
In late 2018, For Folk’s Sake lauded Julia King upon the release of her single, ‘Cannonball’, for being a genuine article as far as her billing as folk fusion took her. Her take on the Americana genre transports listeners into…
Just as Regina Spektor has found herself to be a famous flower of Manhattan, Heather Gruber is an LA desert rose. Dance Into the Desert affirms as much, detailing the journey that the Tennessee-born singer-songwriter took from her hometown to the…
Albany composer Chris Lastovicka is often regarded as a “mystic minimalist”. Giving an ear to his craft, it does not take long for the mystique of the veneer surrounding such a title to fade, paving a path to legitimacy. While…