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dfbm #84
Songs of Wild Nothing Pt. 2

# folk, outsider folk, religious, lofi, world, mixtape, loner folk

For this new installment of Songs of Wild Nothing, I dug through the internets attic, dusted off some mp3 and polished some gems. You might know that electronic-music composer Laurie Spiegel has her roots in folk music. She learned how to pl …

Sarah Louise
Ripple (The Avant Ghetto DJ Premium @WFMU Fundraiser 2016)

# american primitive, folk

The world’s best freeform radio station, WFMU, is in the midst of their annual fundraiser to keep the boat afloat. During the month of March all listeners are asked to pledge what they can. Every DJ at WFMU has created a one-of-a-kind compilati …

The Matchsellers
Songs We Made Up

2016 # bluegrass, folk

This bluegrass duo, consisting of Julie Bates and Andrew Morris, met a few years ago in Leipzig. While many young Americans want to go to Berlin and maybe stay there either to get away from their student debt or because it's supposed to be a very …

Ben Collier
Bardo Junction

2016 # lofi, folk, americana, blues

Some new tunes from Ben Collier a farmhand and musician from Trappe, Pennsylvania. Collier's music sits somewhere between the lofi singer-songwriter folk of Simon Joyner or Michael Hurley and Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. Cr …

dfbm #79
Every Place Is Home

# singer-songwriter, folk, psych folk

Hello to a new year! I hope you all had a grand ending of 2015 and a nice start into 2016. Nobody can predict the future so we have to rely on our dreams and hopes and most important to our ability to do things, to move into the right direction. Enou …

Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker
Land of Plenty

2015 # guitar, folk, instrumental, american primitive

Land of Plenty is a phenomenal collaboration between the two Chicago based guitarists Bill MacKay and Ryley Walker. It was crafted over a month long, Friday night residency at The Whistler, a live music venue/gallery/record label in Chicago’s L …

Johnny Young
II

2015 # american primitive, folk, fingerstyle, solo guitar

Chicago based guitarist Johnny Young offers a cassette of fine old school fingerstyle guitar via the Voyager Golden Records label from Portland, OR. So far this seems to be the only release of this label, so chances are you've never heard of either o …

dfbm #76
Morning Raga Pt. V

# american primitive, folk, psych folk, mixtape

Welcome to this new Morning Jam. Expect some guitar magic embedded in full band settings, but also good old solo explorations. Slowly the fall is creeping in here in the mountains. I think this mix is a nice soundtrack to this time of year. I wou …

Kyle Fosburgh
One Night

2015 # american primitive, solo guitar, folk

Kyle Fosburgh is the head behind the Grass-Tops Recording label, responsible for some great Robbie Basho reissues and musician himself. He just released his latest album "One Night" on CD and a vinyl and reel-to-reel edition is in the makin …