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Vocalist/songwriter Emily “Birdie” Busch produced her debut with 2006’s The Methods We Try, having traded in her day time job (like a cafe hostess in downtown Philadelphia) for the folksy instrumentation and delicate-voiced melodies that characterize her music. Originally from Collingswood, NJ, Busch went to the College or university of …

A native of the tiny rural Oregon town of Coquille, singer-songwriter and classically trained cellist Laura Gibson is area of the Pacific Northwest folk-pop picture that centers around the Portland-based indie label Hush Information, formerly the house from the Decemberists. Previous Decemberists drummer Rachel Blumberg takes on on Gibson’s 1st …

We were young in Idaho, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist Korby Lenker began acquiring piano lessons in 1984 at age eight, and he really never appeared back, proclaiming that he never really had a backup program, that “it had been always gonna end up being music.” He previously a music …

Folk singer/songwriter Kate Rusby offers lived in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, since delivery, and was raised in a music family members. Her parents acquired a ceilidh dance music group and presented her to United kingdom folk young. Alongside her sister, Emma, Rusby became a member of the band, performing back-up and …

Nation, blues, folk, choice rock, and some jazz all get together in the wonderful world of Po’ Gal. Think sluggish melodies, sweet tranquility, and mellow grooves and there is a bit of a concept of how they audio, however the freewheeling Po’ Gal will have a technique or two up …

Jim & Jennie as well as the Pine Barons, a contemporary-minded traditional bluegrass four-piece from Philadelphia, PA, have gained an market which range from purist to passerby making use of their rollicking mixture of originals and addresses amid good-natured stage banter. Within the 1980s vocalist and guitarist Jim Krewson performed …

Canadian singer/songwriter Devon Sproule was created in Kingston, Ontario, within the springtime of 1982 and was raised on the sprawling hippie commune in rural Virginia. At a age, Sproule used vocal tranquility with her dad, later on using his aged acoustic guitar to strum out her 1st tentative records. By …

Although her country-flavored and blues-infused version of contemporary folk (which can also include healthy doses of rockabilly and surf) has drawn comparisons to musicians like Lucinda Williams, Gillian Welch, Jolie Holland, as well as the Be Good Tanyas, Eilen Jewell’s strongest influences have already been the classic sides documented by …

Elevated in South Dakota by Mennonite missionaries, singer/songwriter Rachel Ries spent her formative years immersed within an unusual mixture of Congolese spirituals, Mennonite hymns, and the favorite Carpenters tunes of your day. Now located in Vermont, Ries produced her documenting debut in 2005, liberating For You Just, a charming group …

Alt-country singer/songwriter Mary Gauthier exploded onto the picture in 1999 subsequent her self-released sophomore work, Move Queens in Limousines. The record, which garnered her a Crossroads Sterling silver Star along with a four-star ranking in Rolling Rock, had critics evaluating her self-described “nation noir” to famous brands Townes Truck Zandt, …