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Natalie Spears “Hymn Of Wild Things”

June 25, 2024 Graeme Tait 0

Spears’ debut album uses the natural world to beautifully weave together the emotions of love and loss. Natalie Spears hails from the Roaring Fork Valley of Colorado, where the natural world around her offers a soundtrack […]

Kaia Kater “Strange Medicine”

June 25, 2024 Paul Kerr 0

Kaia Kater steps into the limelight with her baroque like folk stylings on a superb third album There’s a sense that Kaia Kater, a Canadian of Grenadian heritage is hitting the zeitgeist on “Strange Medicine”, her […]

artwork for Ana Egge album "Sharing In The Spirit"

Ana Egge “Sharing In The Spirit”

June 24, 2024 Chas Lacey 0

Brooklyn-based Ana Egge takes another step forward with thirteenth album. The child of itinerant latter-day hippie parents, Ana Egge and her siblings would find themselves driven in a 1969 Dodge van from New Mexico to North […]

Luke Francis “Saguaro”

June 24, 2024 Andrew Raw 0

Gentle indie-folk telling a vivid and evocative story of a break-up. Luke Francis was born and raised in San Francisco but moved to the Pacific Northwest aged 19. He quickly became involved in the indie-folk scene […]

Album cover artwork for Seasick Steve's "A Trip A Stumble A Fall Down On Your Knees"

Seasick Steve “A Trip A Stumble A Fall Down On Your Knees”

June 21, 2024 Andrew Raw 0

The blues fused with other genres to very good effect. Just over halfway through this, Seasick Steve’s fourteenth album, comes the track ‘Funky Music’ with the words “The blues been calling me/ All of my life/ […]

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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Jesse Malin

April 29, 2026 0

New Yorker Jesse Malin began his performing career in the New York hardcore band Heart Attack, before assuming the role of vocalist of glam punk band D Generation. Between 1994 and 1999 D Generation released three […]

Mildred “Fenceline”

April 29, 2026 0

Sensitive sounds carry poetic lyrics and encourage deeper reflections on meaning. Mildred is a four-piece band from Oakland, CA, with members: Henry Easton Koehler (vocals, guitar), Jack Schrott (vocals, guitar), Matt Palmquist (vocals, bass, woodwinds) or […]

Folk Tracks Roundup – April 2026

April 29, 2026 0

We’re heading towards the Summer now, May Day falls this week, and the obvious thing would be to offer you, valued reader, a swathe of music that touches on those themes of rebirth and the explosion […]

Natalie Spears “Hymn Of Wild Things”

Kaia Kater “Strange Medicine”

Ana Egge “Sharing In The Spirit”

Luke Francis “Saguaro”

Seasick Steve “A Trip A Stumble A Fall Down On Your Knees”

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Jesse Malin

Mildred “Fenceline”

Folk Tracks Roundup – April 2026

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