Edinburgh, Scotland-based troubadour Billy Liar, whose take on acoustic punk has been widely appreciated throughout the scene in recent years, is what you get when you consider the punk-before-punk standard of the genre, before much of it was stamped with […]
St. Louis, Missouri’s country, folk, and honky tonk artist Jack Grelle has a brand new ten-song album out on Big Muddy Records as of October 10, 2014. Titled Steering Me Away, this collection of songs is not just an exercise […]
Given, the debut album by singer/songwriter Kevin Lee Florence, shows what a powerful thing it is to have a highly adept artist at the helm and a tremendously talented backing band providing additional instrumentation to that artist’s creations. This release, […]
Dogs in the Daylight, the latest offering by Eugene-based folk artist Jeffrey Martin, is the next album in a small series of indie folk releases by Portland’s Fluff & Gravy Records. Having listened to the album many times in recent […]
Folk duo Cy Winstanley (guitar and vocals) and Vanessa McGowan (bass and vocals), known as the Tattletale Saints, won the New Zealand Music Award for Folk Album of the Year (2014) with their album How Red Is the Blood. After […]
Oregon-based label Fluff & Gravy Records will be releasing a series of albums by three of Portland’s emerging indie folk artists, the first of which is Before Machines by Anna Tivel, on June 17th. Raw yet superbly composed and executed […]
To follow-up his well-received 2011 full-length album Bad Ingredients on Bloodshot Records Texan one-man band Scott H. Biram has released a collection of new songs and covers under the title Nothin’ But Blood. A highly anticipated album, this one, and […]
Irish troubadour Dylan Walshe increased his presence in the music scene a while back with a single on Squoodge Records titled “Blind Is Blind.” After listening to the song it is an easy thing to insert Dylan’s music into the folk blues […]
Albums whose material is tightly wound about a central theme can be a tricky business to get right, and for which it is even trickier still to find a sizable listening audience. Having recently listened to—no, experienced—the new album by […]
Texas-based multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter Zebulon Whatley recently made available the third and final installment in his “Dissolution Trilogy,” titled “Trinity,” under his Sons of Perdition banner. A fevered exercise in dark roots and apocalyptic country, “Trinity” is a mad and rambling […]
