by Kim Ruehl, for folkalley.com Album titles can be a funny thing. Sometimes artists go for something cryptic or pull a lyric from the center of one of the songs on the disc – a sentiment which seems to sum […]
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Hear It First at Folk Alley – Rayna Gellert: ‘Old Light: Songs from My Childhood & Other Gone Worlds
by Kim Ruehl, for FolkAlley.com This is where I must begin,” sings Rayna Gellert at the onset of her new album – Old Light: Songs from My Childhood and Other Gone Worlds. With that, she pulls the listener into a […]
by Kim Ruehl for FolkAlley.com For all the buzz that’s been madeabout members of Black Prairie having performed for years as the Decemberists, one truth has stuck through their releases. This is a separate band built on a foundation of […]
Caroline Herring’s new album, Camilla will be released on Aug 28, and you can listen to it in its entirety at FolkAlley.com, until that date! by Kim Ruehl, for FolkAlley.com There’s something about the way Caroline Herring delivers a line […]
by Kim Ruehl, for FolkAlley.com Folk music can be a tricky thing sometimes.There’s a temptation, as an instrumentalist who knows and loves the way their instrument sounds, to follow any fluid emotion through an overreaching solo. When your bow draws […]
By Kim Ruehl, for FolkAlley.com Woody Guthrie grew up in a nowhere town in the heart of the Dust Bowl, in an America not altogether different from the one we live in today. As a young man, he joined the […]
**On June 26, Mindy Smith releases her latest album, ‘Mindy Smith,’ and you can stream it in its entirety at FolkAlley.com until then.** CLICK HERE to LISTEN by Kim Ruehl, for folkalley.com It’s been eight years since Mindy Smith dropped her […]
**This ‘Hear It First’ album is no longer available for streaming.** by Kim Ruehl, for folkalley.com Two songs into his new album Hundred Dollar Valentine,Chris Smither sings, “I don’t have to prove anything to anyone.” Considering his entire career, that […]
Joe Pug performs “Hymn #76” in the Folk Alley (folkalley.com) studios on May 23, 2012. The song is from his 2012 CD, ‘The Great Despiser’. To see more session videos and listen to Joe’s interview with Jim Blum, visit http://www.folkalley.com/music/extras/joe-pug
**Audio for this Hear It First feature is no longer available for streaming** by Kim Ruehl, for FolkAlley.com A memoir can be a shaky thing. The author has to balance two very delicate plates: her memory and the truth. The […]
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