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Ben Collier - Bardo Junction

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 …
Lebo Jenkins - Couch's Barn and Fretless

Lebo Jenkins
Couch's Barn and Fretless

I met Lebo Jenkins in early spring when he was organizing and playing on an event with Moses Nesh and Sarah Louise in Atlanta. He knows a lot about old-time music, banjos, old pickers and he likes to tell stories. He can scratch tunes out of a f …
Andy McLeod - From the Attic

Andy McLeod
From the Attic

This is the first EP of fingerstyle guitarist Andy McLeod from Philadelphia, PA. Inspired by Jack Rose, Pelt, Fahey, Delta Blues and rural Chester County, McLeod taught himself how to finger pick the guitar in open tunings and play the banjo in c …
Lac La Belle - A Friend Too Long

Lac La Belle
A Friend Too Long

Every time I get back from the United States into my cozy little German town, I realize how big America is, how much music is going on there, and how many amazing musicians collaborate, compete and dream the American dream of making a living doing wh …
Ben Collier - Reels, Rags, & Relics

Ben Collier
Reels, Rags, & Relics

​What a great, entertaining tape Ben Collier has put together here. It's that "lazy afternoon on the back porch" kind of songs. Well known tunes like Candyman (the only one I recognized) and own songs, recorded in a very lofi one-man- …
dfbm #66 ~ When You Are Around

dfbm #66 ~ When You Are Around

Is that Jeremy Earl from psych folk rockers Woods out of Brooklyn on the cover? Most probably not. Maybe his mom and his dad. But who ever these two are, the picture is a great cover for this collection of songs. Old and new, homerecorded folk music …
The Modern Folk ~ American Mountain

The Modern Folk ~ American Mountain

2014 # folk, americana
Fellow music blogger Josh Moss aka The Modern Folk of America is also a musician with several projects ranging from garage rock to folk. His new effort is inspired by american folk music where most of the songs are traditionals. Josh is playing every …
Lac La Belle ~ Bring on the Light

Lac La Belle ~ Bring on the Light

Lac La Belle is an American Folk duo from Detroit that consists of the two great musicians Jennie Knaggs and Nick Schillace. The latter one released two solo guitar records in 2005 and 2008, unfortunately under the radar and earlier than American Pri …
Holiday Rambler – There is No End to the World, and Nothing Can Shatter the Earth

Holiday Rambler – There is No End to the World, and Nothing Can Shatter the Earth

If you are alone at Christmas, join the lone stroll of the Holiday Rambler. D. Alex Meeks aka Holiday Rambler from Toronto presents a very bleak and minimal take on americana. It's a lazy fingerstyle played guitar and the guy's voice. That …

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