Don Armstrong is a family man. Urbane in philosophies on faith, love, and life, the New York-gone-Arizona singer-songwriter has long since developed an intuition for riding the humanity tramway. Armstrong’s observations on sheer mortal grit have developed him into an affable everyman—a folk artist whose music is denoted by the same traits that he is identified with in everyday life,...
Shot in El Reno, OK last May, Joey Frendo debuts an acoustic rendition of his single, ‘Lordstown’, with For Folk’s Sake. It’s a hearty slice of bonafide blue collar Americana, wedged finely between the songwriting inclinations of a Jason Isbell or Arlo McKinley. An everyman himself, Frendo wears the suit well in his new solo endeavors—arguably, the...
by Jonathan Frahm • 6 October 2021 • Comments Off on Single | Brett Altman – Benches in the Park (feat. Sam de Jesus) Brett Altman is the folk-pop pride of the Northeast, producing blues-influenced acoustipop tunes from his residence in Hoboken. Sam de Jesus, meanwhile, kicks it out in Florida as their musical wunderkind. Her gorgeous pipes and vibrant energy...
by Jonathan Frahm • 3 October 2021 • Comments Off on Video | Elliot Cole – ‘November 1 (Homesick)’ YouTube capture Contemporary classical composer Elliot Cole debuts five new compositions in Journals, Vol. 1. The album is crisp, clocking in just shy of 20 minutes, and its stirring performances make it seem to pass by...
From the opening blast of horns, Ana Egge establishes that her new album Between Us is going to be a bit different than her 11 previous ones. That shouldn’t really come as a surprise. Egge has constantly found new pathways, this one discovered during the heart of the pandemic in 2020, when she began collaborating over Facetime with Irish...
If you’re looking for someone to blame for the new album by Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine, A Beginner’s Mind, blame Bryce Dessner of The National. After all, it was his house in New York’s Catskills mountains where the two spent a month watching movies at night, then spent the next day writing songs about those films...
Faced with the harsh realities of the impending global pandemic, Mackenzie Shivers hunkered down with her husband and friend at the latter’s Cape Cod home. For the next three months, in the midst of uncertainty, she flourished. Without her trademark piano, Shivers partnered with her heirloom guitar, Murphy, to write the songs that comprise Rejection Letter. Inspired...
Ajay Mathur has lived a life worthy of a motion picture. A Switzerland import by way of New Delhi, he grew up surrounded by music and the arts. A painter, singer, and songwriter, Mathur found inspiration in meeting his idols—the likes of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and the Beatles—while coming up in India. Since, he’s topped charts...
by Duncan Martin • 11 September 2021 • Comments Off on Session | Katie Grace Harris – Hard Times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlfZ2Cj_5s0 Today’s session comes from emerging artist Katie Grace Harris, accompanied by Alex Duncalf on cello, and her version of the 19th century song ‘Hard Times’. Katie traces her folk roots to singing along as a girl with her Dad as they...
Photo by Micah Hagen Mikey James’ artists path has meandered and wounded through a number of idiosyncratic lives. From developing demos on a 4-track in the early 90s to drumming with indie rock wonders Longwave, James has lived the life of a bonafide troubadour. The ebb and flow of his career has now led him to another...
The “great cremation ground” of Father John Misty’s Mahashmashana provides Josh Tillman with a way to examine the wonderfully...
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