Browse by tag folk

Nikolai Fox
Two Fiddle Tunes for Guitar

2023 # american primitive, folk

Quick post. In 2008 Nikolai Fox released the really cool docu Music for the Sky with eccentric revivalist old-time fiddlers living in Vermont and Western Massachusetts, USA. It also features a young Anthony Pasquarosa playing old time music, John Spe …

Mixtape
dfbm #108 - Songs of Wild Nothing Pt. 13

2020 # folk, psych folk, outsider folk, acoustic, mixtape

Things changed since the last Songs for Wild Nothing mixtape. We have to believe that everything has to go worse before it gets better. I don't know if that is true. What I know is true, that music is beautiful and hopefully helps to get through bad …

Elijah McLaughlin Ensemble
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2020 # american primitive, string band, folk

Out of the Windy City of Chicago, comes this fantastic debut by the Elijah McLaughlin Ensemble. A modern day avant-garde string band consisting of guitar, bass and hammered dulcimer. The hammered dulcimer exists in almost every folk music tradition a …

Mixtape
dfbm #107 - Songs of Wild Nothing Pt. 12

2020 # folk, psych folk, mixtape

For nr. 12 of the Songs for Wild Nothing series I compiled some really sweet tracks from the last 40 or so years of mostly self-releasing singer-songwriters. TL;DR Starting off with Lucky Luke, a Scottish psych-folk-rock collective from the mid 2000. …

Joost Dijkema
Time Thief

2019 # american primitive, folk

If you are of the age were your parents put up records with songs and fairy tales to entertain you, then the record cover could remind you on one of those children records. If you flip the cover and check the back, you could easily mistake that hands …

H Moore
Woods to Coast E.P.

2019 # folk, psych folk, banjo

UK based banjo player H Moore released a bunch of very cool banjo centered eps over the last years. He mainly plays his own material but also recorded some known tunes like Fred Cockerham's "Little Satchel"1 or "Wabash Blues" on the Sarpa E.P.. It's …

Kevin Henry
Last Thoughts

2017 # american primitive, folk

Kevin Henry's album Last Thoughts is the soundtrack to a documentary and road movie he produced in 2006. In this award-winning documentary, filmmaker Kevin Henry retraces the travels of his grandfather Rob, a former rail-riding hobo who tape-record …

Rick Deitrick
Gentle Wilderness + River Sun River Moon

1978 # american primitive, private press, folk, solo guitar

Tompkins Square just reissued another gem from the treasure trove of their Imaginational Anthem Vol. 8 compilation, while the next one1 is already in the pipes. On that compilation, record collector Michael Klausman and Brooks Rice shared the most ob …

dfbm #96
Songs of Wild Nothing Pt. VII

2017 # folk, psych folk, singer-songwriter, lo-fi, experimental, mixtape

After some silence I worked through my stacks of music to compile a new edition of Songs of Wild Nothing. tl;dr Starting off with an exclusive song by Simone Romei aka Desmoines. He recorded a beautiful folk album that should be of interest for every …