Category: Records

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…

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…

Album | Amanda Shires – To The Sunset

Amanda Shires wrote much of To The Sunset hiding in the closet of her Nashville home, but she opens the record by gazing at the stars on ‘Parking Lot Pirouette’ – “the stars, the shapes the constellations make, the burning…

Watch | The Rabbitts – Wild

With a new EP recently set out into the wild, For Folk’s Sake is keen to share some of the Rabbitts’ latest work. The UK-Canadian group of folkies embraces an inspired jubilance towards the natural world that we seem to…

Single | Alex Ileo – Go Alone

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ27ajS838g[/embedyt] I am looking as we speak not at my computer keyboard (I can touch type), but at the new video, released last week of Alex Lleo’s track ‘Go Alone’. Filmed during his recent headline tour of Scotland, the…

Premiere | Palamara – Misunderstood

Palamara’s A Voice in the Wilderness has a little bit of everything for those hoping to garner a tad more from their listening experiences than a cool beat or an undulating rhythm. The singer-songwriter’s music looks back at life’s larger moments…

Video premiere | Natalie Evans – Empty Rooms & Aeroplanes (Small Pond Session with Ayumi Konno)

It has been far too long since we last featured Natalie Evans on the site. Since then she has honed her virtuosic playing, continuing to pair complicated guitar or harp structures with simple vocal melodies to create a unique style…

Album | Morrison Kincannon – Beneath the Redwoods

From Jim Croce to John Denver and Joni Mitchell, folk music flourished from the 60s on through the 80s for singer-songwriters whose first name started with the letter ‘J’. They also managed to bring some stragglers-by along the road with…

Album | Ruiners – Typecast

Crunching electric riffs, driving percussion, and hearty shouts reminiscent of the garage and post-punk scenes does not a folk album make. If your perception of the genre is skin-deep, you might find albums like Wilder Mind to define the entirety of the…

Premiere | Bri Murphy – ‘Wait For Me’

Following the release of her album, Things We’d Rather Not Say, earlier this year, Bri Murphy is sharing a poignant live performance of the LP’s leading tune with For Folk’s Sake. ‘Wait For Me’ aches with a yearning that is only…