Recommended Folk: Folk-Rock music (#1 - #40)
J. MATTHEW GERKEN, CHRISTIAN KIEFER, AND JEFFERSON PITCHER: Of Great and Mortal Men: 43 Songs for 43 U.S. Presidencies
A triple CD of Presidential history in an indie rock / folk package.
CD price: $27.99 / MP3 price: $20.99
JOHN VESTER: All the Way Out West
Folk/Americana accentuating the western side of country & western with a colorful variety of ethnic influences, lyrically ranging from funny to romantic to irreverent to random thoughts.
MP3 price: $12.00
THE APPRENTICE: The Apprentice
Acoustic folk with pop sensibilities from young folk from the hills of kentucky.
CD price: $9.99
THE HAPPIES: Meet the Happies
Melodic Lo-fi Indie
Recommended if you like Simon & Garfunkel, Guided by Voices, Syd Barrett, Belle and Sebastian, Ween, The Shins.CD price: $10.00
TONY PENN: The Quicken
Stories of heartache, love, loss, sin and redemption.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $10.00
AKRON/FAMILY: Meek Warrior
A wide, open space where antique folk balladry, primal drone and explosive improvisation meet and melt in a woodland psychedelia that answers an age-old musical question: What if Pink Floyd gave birth to Ummagumma in the Band’s basement at Big Pink?
Recommended if you like Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead.CD price: $13.00
AKRON/FAMILY: Akron/Family
Akron/Family is a six-year old band that in its various incarnations embrace ecstatic chanting, wild improvisation, Beatles harmonies, hushed laptop folk, West African grooves and fourth-wall detonating live performances.
Recommended if you like Grateful Dead.CD price: $13.00
ANNE MCCUE: East Of Electric
Acoustic folk rock - a tribute to albums such as Rubber Soul, Aftermath, Teaser And The Firecat and bands such as The Byrds.
Recommended if you like Lucinda Williams, KT Tunstall.CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
SLINGS: The Old Hopeful Trail
A unique mix of folk, rock, acoustic, Americana, and hymns. And some other stuff too.
Recommended if you like Neutral Milk Hotel, M. Ward.CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
JANIS IAN: Best of Janis Ian: The Autobiography Collection
A two-disc companion piece to the Penguin/Tarcher Book "Society's Child: My Autobiography." 29 songs, 31 tracks, including "At 17," "Jesse," "Society's Child," remastered from the original analogue sources, and bonus tracks galore.
CD price: $19.95
THE CEDAR: I'm Always Explaining to Mom How It's Different Here
Unique folk rock music for smart people using ukulele, viola, glockenspiel, clarinet, cello, accordion, banjo, tiny cymbals, trumpet, hearts, brains, and more.
RICHMOND FONTAINE: $87 and a Guilty Conscience
Folk/Rock Americana with a dose of melancholy.
CD price: $10.00
JUSTIN BENNETT: Wanting More
Indie Rock with lush harmonies and hook filled choruses.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE WEST: Awake & Waking Up
The West takes lo-fi to the next level, creating lush harmonies and foot stomping melodies. From a faded second story bedroom in the city, they wash every note in young ideas and fresh blood, straight from the heart.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
AITCH: ¡Aitch Y Double Hockey Sticks!
Eclectic indie rock, beautiful, abrasive and layered for your listening pleasure.
CD price: $12.97
CHRISTINA MARTIN: Two Hearts
She's opened for the Alt Rock band Wilco in the US, and shared stages with Canada's Matt Mays + El Torpedo in Canada. Martin's artistry ranges from a Mazzy Star-like ethereal quality, to majestic folk/rock reminiscent of Emmylou Harris.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
THE CIRCUS CONTRAPTION BAND: The Half-Wit's Descent
When carnies get the day off, they swarm into town and take over the music halls of small towns everywhere. This music embodies their drinking, carousing, and merriment.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
THE JOHN HENRYS: Sweet as the Grain
".cosmic country-rock sounds of Gram Parsons-era Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers down to a science. Sweet little bits of heartache underneath pedal steel and raucous barroom sing-alongs…
Recommended if you like Wilco, The Sadies.CD price: $12.97
DAVE GRANT: Bubbalon by Bass
Late bassist, Dave Grant, is joined by renown players Dave Matthews, Peter Rowan, Tim O'Brien and David Nelson and many more on this posthumously released album of covers and originals.
GARY YERKINS: Compass
The long-awaited solo effort from a journeyman songwriter and long time front man for Chicago bands The Insiders and the Juleps. This slow-burning, at times atmospheric collection of tracks includes folk/rock, blues and a little bit of soul.
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
ROBYN LUDWICK: Too Much Desire
Southwestern Poetry. roots/americana music with dirt floors and electric guitars
CD price: $12.97
BEN LUNDQUIST: Afterthoughts
With an indie sound that is rooted in folk rock, this album offers us a story of heartache and motion. At times, it will open up expanses in you, while occasionally asking you to swim towards the surface for breath.
CD price: $9.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
WEINLAND: La Lamentor
"Four Stars--An amazing & intimate collection of hauntingly beautiful folk lullabies. The kind of music that gives you goose bumps (in that good sort of way)." - The Portland Mercury
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
DAVE GRANT: Bubbalon by Bass
Late bassist, Dave Grant, is joined by renown players Dave Matthews, Peter Rowan, Tim O'Brien and David Nelson and many more on this posthumously released album of covers and originals.
CD price: $15.00
PETER MULVEY: Notes From Elsewhere
Songs that sounds like a haywagon rolling downhill on fire, driven by a man wearing an expensive suit.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.49
BOB SCHNEIDER: I'm Good Now
He continues his quest to be indefinable with his latest musical entries.
CD price: $14.99
JOSH RITTER: Live at the Record Exchange EP
This is a 6-song acoustic EP recorded live at the fabulous Record Exchange store in Boise, Idaho on Aug 19, 2006.
CD price: $5.97
BRIAN GLADSTONE, PRODUCER: Protest Songs For A Better World, Volume Ii
An anthology of original songs with themes for an improved earth. All tracks have been selected for their excellence, among the hundreds of submissions we received from all over the globe.
CD price: $12.97
CRAIG CARDIFF: Goodnight (Go Home)
This singer/songwriter and troubadour builds landscapes of sound using live digital loops and brings the room to a hush. Edged folk, that is simultaneously beautiful, melancholy and left leaning.
MP3 price: $12.97
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Dreamboat Records 2008
The annual sampler of independent folk, electronic and experimental music available from Dreamboat Records
MP3 price: $12.97
MARSHALL MCLEAN: A Road To Antioch
A Folk-Rock, Concept album based on the Sermon on the Mount. Intensely real, honest vocals. Songwriting from a different angle.
Recommended if you like Keith Green, Derek Webb.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
SEAHORSE: I'll Be New
Timeless melodies and a unique lyrical mythology create the foundation of each spectacular Seahorse song.
MP3 price: $9.99
A BOY NAMED SUE: Selling Road Maps for the Soul
Acoustic alternative folk rock
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
AVI FOX-ROSEN: One
Ear candy for the over-educated; lyrical, ethereal, folk, jazz, world and rock with a solid groove.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JOHN JENNINGS: It's All Good
A "one-man-band" project, from Grammy-nominated producer/guitarist/singer/songwriter with numerous folk/rock credits.
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $11.97
THE CEDAR: Grannies' Knitting Café
Unique folk rock music for smart people using ukulele, viola, glockenspiel, clarinet, cello, accordion, banjo, tiny cymbals, trumpet, hearts, brains, and more.
CD price: $9.99
ODESSA CHEN: The Ballad of Paper Ships
Elements of folk, indie rock and classical choral music combine with ethereal vocals, poetic lyrics and fingerpicking (almost classical) guitar.
CD price: $13.00
STEPHANIE DELK: Burning Bright
Acoustic folk rock filled with soaring vocals and lyrics riddled with heartache.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
NICK PAGLIARI: Please and Thank You
Good singer/songwriter with Folk Rock, Pop, and Americana influences.
CD price: $12.99
