Tag Archives: Folk

Their rather bizarre name means “scruffy, unkempt person” — which might summarize their appearance (“we sold our souls towards the scarecrows” they joke) but is severe on one of the very most interesting young instrumental folk bands to emerge in England in the 21st century. Raised within an Essex family …

Caitlin Canty is a Nashville-based singer/songwriter using a skill for distilling blues, folk, nation, and rock and roll into her own personal make of dusky Americana. Delivered and elevated in Vermont, Canty started writing and executing in her past due teenagers. After graduating from university in Williamstown, Massachusetts, she shifted …

The Boxcars certainly are a bluegrass outfit whose collective pedigree includes former associates of Lonesome River Music group, Union Place, Blue Moon Rising, and J.D. Crowe, amongst others. Produced in past due 2009 by mandolinist Adam Steffey, guitarist Keith Garrett, banjoist Ron Stewart, bassist Harold Nixon, and fiddler John Bowman, …

Most widely known for his are the painter at the rear of such album spencer seeing that R.E.M.’s Reckoning and Speaking Heads’ Small Creatures, Howard Finster was possibly the most prominent and famed person in the so-called “outsider artwork” motion. A indigenous of Athens, Georgia, Finster spent the better component …

Created in 2000 by Tim Ashton (b. 21 March 1970, Bradford, Western Yorkshire, Britain; vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion, whistle), Athene Roberts (b. 15 Sept 1971, Northampton, Northamptonshire, Britain; fiddle, vocals) and High Mulryne (drums, percussion), 3 Daft Monkeys are eventually seen as a folk trio, however their astonishingly varied range …

Johanngeorgenstadt, Saxony-based volksmusik (traditional German Alpine music) trio De Randfichten shaped in 1992 throughout the abilities of Thomas “Rups” Unger, Michael “Michl” Rostig, and (afterwards) Thomas “Lauti” Lauterbach. Initial called Primary Arzgebirgische Randfichten, the music group transformed its name to its current incarnation upon the discharge of Perform Pfeift dr …

One accusation no-one can level against Eivør Pálsadóttir is that she’s stayed within a rut. Actually, there has been such an assortment to her music that it is impossible to anticipate her following move. Blessed in 1983 in the administrative centre from the Faroe Islands (which participate in Denmark), she …

Generally acclaimed the best author of the fourteenth century is Guillaume de Machaut, born in Champagne about 1300. In the first 1320s he joined the support of John, Duke of Luxembourg and Ruler of Bohemia, who guaranteed for Machaut numerous ecclesiastical posts, recorded in some papal bulls. Probably one of …

Worm is a one-of-a-kind vocal/songwriting duo of twins: a homosexual sibling and a lesbian sister. On the debut discharge, they touch an analog synth creation audio that hearkens back again to Yaz and early Eurythmics. The duo mixes beautifully well balanced harmonies aswell as vocal solos that sibling and sister …

Longtime blues singer and pianist whose ’50s recordings were published by Arhoolie. They possess been recently reissued on compact disk.