Tag Archives: Contemporary Folk

Along with his warm and slightly world-weary baritone voice, solid classical guitar playing, and gifted if hardly prolific songwriting skills, Tom Rush was among the finest & most unsung performers to emerge from the ’60s urban folk revival. Created Feb 8, 1941 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Hurry began his carrying …

Americana vocalist/songwriter Tom Russell was created in LA in 1950. Elevated within the cowboy music from the American Western, he was raised to be always a talented songwriter, and started issuing albums under his personal name in the first ’70s. Russell’s materials, nevertheless, was also documented by such luminaries as …

Tom Ovans is really a Nashville-based, Boston-raised road rocker and music poet who’s comfortable performing folk, blues, and hard-driving rock and roll. His vocal design is eerily much like that of Bob Dylan, with the energy of Joe Ely.

Troy Campbell, the former frontman for Austin root base rockers Loose Diamond jewelry, released his single debut, Guy Vs. Beast, by himself M. Ray label in 1999. The kid of the Kentucky truck drivers along with a Korean mom, Campbell didn’t grab your guitar until he was 21. Along with …

Younger brother from the past due Harry Chapin, singer/songwriter Tom Chapin continued his sibling’s legacy admirably, learning to be a popular children’s entertainer. The child of jazz drummer Jim Chapin, he was created in NEW YORK in 1945; he and his brothers performed music collectively regularly throughout their adolescence, later …

The Local American music tradition continues to be raised to contemporary standards by New Mexico-born producer, vocalist, songwriter, and owner of the best Local American-oriented record label, Audio of America Information (SOAR), Tom Bee. Under Bee’s command, SOAR has continuing to grow. As well as the mother or father label, …

For quite some time, Máire Brennan has been the lead singer from the Celtic modern group Clannad. In 1992, she released her first single record, Máire, on Atlantic Information. Three years afterwards, she released Misty Eyed Travels on BGM. For 1998’s Ideal Time, she turned labels and agreed upon with …

A almost forgotten singer/songwriter from the ’60s, Tim Rose’s early function bore a solid resemblance to some other Tim employed in Greenwich Town around 1966-1967 — Tim Hardin. Rose also preferred a throaty blues folk-rock design with pop creation flourishes, though he appeared to outside materials even more, wasn’t quite …

Mike West’s skills on stringed instruments just like the banjo, mandolin, and acoustic guitar have received him a faithful base of fans and three consecutive awards from Offbeat Journal for the name of Best Nation/Folk Artist from 1995. The journal also honored Western in 1996 for Greatest Folk Recording, a …

Delivered in 1956, Cheryl Cloud started her composing and singing profession at the first age group of seven. Her first tracks had been first publicly performed by her regional cathedral choir when she was eight. She continuing performing, and in senior high school started performing live in addition to on …