Six years after his much-praised Jungle Blues album, Australian bluesman C.W. Stoneking is finally preparing for the official release of his third studio album, Gon’ Boogaloo. Scheduled for a June 3rd, 2016 release on Stoneking’s own King Hokum Records, Gon’ […]
The Dad Horse Experience, a name that can be traced back to the roots revival boom that hit the scene hard the better part of a decade ago, has just released his fifth album, Eating Meatballs on a Blood-Stained Mattress […]
While many of the early bluesmen were six-string pickin’, singing and whooping it up at juke joints throughout the Mississippi Delta, focusing more on vice than virtue, Blind Willie Johnson was playing his unique guitar style and singing in his […]
Fringe Sound Records’ second release, while not strictly an experiment in cross-genre collaboration, is largely an album whose ten songs involve a number of artists who may never have come together to make music had they not been challenged to […]
With his debut solo album, 4 Strings, folk singer-songwriter Willy Tea Taylor showed that he has a remarkable ability to translate life’s experiences into song in such way that they resonate in the hearts and minds of listeners all over. He has achieved […]
New Zealander Delaney Davidson is a troubadour who is all over the map, both musically and geographically, and has been for many years. The road he travels winds darkly through a sort of funeral folk, avant-rock ‘n’ roll, fringe country […]
Vacilando, the project of Portland-based musician and singer/songwriter John Shepski, is preparing for its debut release, While They Were Dancing. True to the meaning of the Spanish word Shepski and his cohorts borrowed for the name of their band, Vacilando’s music is […]
Missouri-based singer/songwriter Molly Gene, who is well known throughout today’s fringe roots scene by the stage name Molly Gene One Whoaman Band, has recently released her third full-length album. Tilted Delta Thrash, this nine-song offering is somewhat of a departure […]
Canadian folk artist Dana Sipos has released a new twelve-song album, Roll Up the Night Sky, on Muddy Roots Recordings. Sipos is a consummate singer/songwriter whose wholly distinct sound is as purely organic as the wild flowers of spring in […]
Darius Koski, longtime vocalist/gutiarist and co-founder of San Francisco punk band Swingin’ Utters, has finally taken that narrow, dusty, lonesome path that leads away from the wider, busier, noisier road of punk to write and record his debut solo album […]
