Folk: Folk Pop and Mood: Brooding
JENN TARANTO: we will not fade
Slow, moody, pop/folk.
Recommended if you like Björk.CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
LAURIE & JOHN: Arabella
Drifting and melancholy, this is The Carpenters meet Autumn Defense, the latter another of John (Stirratt of Wilco)'s side-projects.
CD price: $11.00
DANIEL FOLMER: Wear Headphones
A tale of a thousand tangled wires that somehow find a way through the inner ear to the brain.
MP3 price: $6.99
JONATHAN EDWARDS: Man In The Moon
The most satisfying and beautiful discs by singer/songwriter Jonathan Edwards in a history filled with such work. The title track is simply amazing in its subtlety, but every track on this disc has a presence and deep emotion.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
STEVE BIEGNER: As the Orchestra Swells (the lights go out)
Sparse, organic sounds to lushly orchestrated songs with strings, banjos, and beautiful vocals - the songs will break your heart, soothe your heart, and sometimes rock you senseless.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
BOBBY PENNOCK: 10,000 Stories
Sounds like what would happen if James Taylor had lunch w/ The Beach Boys, The Beatles stopped by, and they all drank w/ Pink Floyd.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Coming Up Roses -- Sacramento Remembers Elliott Smith
A tribute album featuring artists from Sacramento, CA covering Elliott Smith songs.
Recommended if you like Elliott Smith.
KEVIN CONNOLLY: Mystery Water
New York Times..."Connolly’s music cuts a fairly wide swath through pop music culture, touching on everything from blues to folk to country to rock — and often a combination of all four"
Recommended if you like John Hiatt, Steve Earle.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
FRUIT OF CHOICE: Vow
Award winning songwriting and world class musicians weave a strong, intricate soundscape that has elements of 70's soul, folk, and rock. All channeled through a truly original and honest medium that leaves no doubt that this music is alive in today.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
CHRIS WARREN: Beautiful Ruins
Mixing depth and whimsy, pop and folk, Lennon and McCartney, the minutiae of daily life and the big picture, and delivering it in a strangely intimate voice and deftly finger-picked guitar.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MICHAEL MILLER: When We Come To
The Beatles making sweet love to Radiohead and Beck, conceiving the White Album's illegitimate, in-bred son while Elliott Smith and Nick Drake film it in slow motion.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $11.99
SULKY DARKY: The Heavy Hearts Ep
Music to pine away over lost loves. late at night. all alone.
CD price: $7.97 / MP3 price: $7.97
FRED GRITTNER: Copper-Lined Sky
Powerful, lyrical, passionate American roots music that addresses love, death, family, betrayal, and the myths of America.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
WILL ELLIOTT AND THE HERETICS: Beat This Horse
A lush sonic landscape, where the accompanying music and Elliott's voice follow one another through tales of travel, kinship, and of the characters passed along the way.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE BLH THREE: Tea, Horse and Crime
An album of thoughtful songwriting that moves effortlessly across genres and textures. Understated songs that speak to the listener about the world they find themselves in day after day.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MARTHA BERNER: ...this side of yesterday
Alternative contemporary acoustic folk rock combining honest, evocative lyrics, strong melodies, great vocals and well-written songs with a raw musical edge. Martha Berner's songs are often intensely personal, yet her heart-felt delivery gives them a uni
CD price: $11.97
LANCE WHALEN: she's not coming tonight
Americana flavored lyric focused music. containing melancholy waltz , reflective strolls and the occasional rocker.
CD price: $11.95 / MP3 price: $11.95
BAR 61: Berlin Heights
Two songwriters come together to create an album of reflective lyrics and music.Tinged with acoustic guitars, Rock melodies, and female backing vocals. Bar61 encompasses heartfelt americana
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
LARRY JOHN MCNALLY: Vibrolux
One of the great songwriters, his songs have been recorded by Bonnie Raitt, Aaron Neville, Rod Stewart, Joe Cocker and more. Come hear this intimate soulful album of his own performance he calls "Folk Hendrix".
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
KATHLEEN LUNDQUIST: Mystagogia - the EP
Piano-based folk/pop with lyrics and vocal stylings evoking innocence, tragedy, and hope.
CD price: $6.50 / MP3 price: $6.50
CHRIS TORRES: From the Cranberry Sun
Singer/songwriter who is a soulful musician built from the heart out.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SIMON MOORE: Twenty Five Hour Day
A fresh blend of honest, plaintive lyrics, and hook filled, inventive melodies, Simon Moore bridges the gap between Bridge Over Troubled Water and Elliott Smith's XO.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
TRUTH SERUM: Truth Serum
Music that probes beneath the skin. With haunting melodies wedded to sophisticated acoustic guitarplay and intelligent, literate lyrics, TRUTH SERUM is a dose of singer/songwriter in a syringe, music so sharp it's guaranteed to leave a scar.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
LEIGH MARBLE: Peep
"A sort of outlaw-folk. Marble's got rhythm, attitude and excellent songwriting." - West Coast Performer
CD price: $11.95 / MP3 price: $9.95
JOSEPH PARSONS: Now & Then - Vol. 1 (1990-2000)
An eclectic mix of songs from 5 of Joseph's CD's and an un-released track. Along with the normal CD tracks, it also contains MP3 tracks of each of the songs.
Recommended if you like Cat Stevens, Alexi Murdoch.CD price: $10.99
MATT ALLISON: Where This Road Leads
Gentle, acoustic guitar-based music suggesting a well-trodden path of folk clubs and festivals, road trips and soul-searching. A man singing about first principles like love, longing and faith. Delicate songwriting complemented by rich production.
CD price: $10.00
COLIN BROOKS: Chippin' Away at the Promised Land
"..a certain nocturnal intimacy with a voice that's dark and wistful and haunted--sort of a Chet Baker meets Ry Cooder as they take Robbie Robertson for all he's worth in some Louisiana pool hall dive." Dakota Lane
MP3 price: $14.99
GANDALF MURPHY & THE SLAMBOVIAN CIRCUS OF DREAMS: A Good Thief Tips His Hat
Raggedy-ass hillbilly punk-floyd folk pop with primitive classical elements and spooky surreal overtones.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
JESSE SPRINKLE: The Corner of an Unlit World
Fans of early Posies, harmony-ridden, acoustic-driven pure pop, REJOICE. It`s hard to find a band that better epitomizes what why so many folks fell so hard for The Posies during their "Failure" and "Dear 23" period(those Hollies-esque harmonies.) than in
Recommended if you like Will Smith, Neil Finn, The Posies, Michael Penn, Hands To, Ice Cream, Elliot.CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $13.97
ARLINGTON PRIEST: The Memory of Your Company
Arlington Priest creates Americana marked with beautiful harmonies, emotionally charged lyrics and a timeless, soulful style.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
OTHER DESERT CITIES: On the Verge of Collapsing
Dark folk-ish, twangy, melancholy, pop songs. A mixed drink of Dylan, Young, Wilco, Damien Jurado, and Richard Swift. Dark, twangy, melancholy songs with a pop twist.
CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
THE OXYGEN PONIES: The Oxygen Ponies
Minor chord folk/pop for the end credits, a dozen songs delivered in a raspy voice that sounds broken beyond repair." MAGNET MAGAZINE Jan/Feb 2007
CD price: $10.00
JAY RAY: Near Disasters / Sweet Hereafters
A modern folk / pop singer songwriter with great depth and sensibility.
Recommended if you like Jack Johnson, Ryan Adams.CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $13.99
DOLLY ROCKER: Hello, Dolly Rocker!
Simple, Nico-esque folk melodies with a western accent.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
LN: Novel
Washes of sound under ultra lush vocals and heart breaking melodies.
Recommended if you like Death Cab for Cutie, Interpol.CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
RED HEART THE TICKER: For the Wicked
A haunting album mixing the genre's of indie, folk and rock graced by etherial voices and intimate harmonies.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
DARYL JAMES: Balance
Something a little Hootie, a little Indigo, a little homemade to think about...
CD price: $5.00
LESTER HIRSH: Strangers or Lonesome Friends
Country folk Crossover with a touch of jazz
CD price: $12.97
HEATHER HILL: Listen
Adult Contemporary - a passionate storyteller with soaring melodies.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
SOULE: Not to be Had for the Wanting
Eclectic blending of blues and jazz + traditional Irish and Eastern European sounds, + an underlying sophistication that runs through it all + wicked fiddle + little wailing woman on lead vocals.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
DARBY DARL: Ghosts & Angels
Superb Americana rockers and ballads from Texas singer/songwriter Darl's latest release.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
PETER ULRICH: Enter the Mysterium
A richly textured blend of world music, art pop, dream pop, old music and darkwave.
CD price: $12.50 / MP3 price: $7.50
BEN KRIEGER: Drama Queen
(2003) Rock band GunStreetRadio has been described as "Guided By Voices meets Fleetwood Mac." This solo CD by GSR's primary songwriter, Ben Krieger, can best be described as "Guided By Voices meets Fleetwood Mac, loses Stevie and gets really, really sad.
MP3 price: $8.99
KEVIN WAITE: B-Sides for the Vacuum
Kevin blends the dark humor of Rufus Wainwright with the pop sensibilities of Elliott Smith on his latest release, B-Sides for the Vacuum, a collection of songs that chronicle an intense period of loss, self-doubt, urgency, and finally, self-awareness.
CD price: $10.00
SILLAN & YOUNG: Better Thing
Acoustic jazz infused folk music with an urban soul sound.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JEREMIAH BIRNBAUM: Dawn
"NYC strummer Jeremiah Birnbaum brings a hint of soul to the world of folk. His strong vocals and evocative piano flourishes recall a young Van Morrison or an upbeat Mark Kozelek. Birnbaum has reinvigorated the singer-songwriter tradition." -Download.com
CD price: $6.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
DAVE BOYLE: Fall Into My MInd
Folk music that winds its way through various dark states
CD price: $12.97
HEATHER SHAYNE BLAKESLEE: Bones
Cowboy zen with a nose ring: alt-folk, pop, and country-twinged narratives that'll make you want to cry in your whiskey.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
PATSY MCGLAMRY-DEAN: Heartaches
soulful,traditional country, jazzy country, country blues, country folk, country western country folk, country western
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $5.00
LAWSON: So Much More Than This
Lawson makes music for the thinking man. A sad tale of love lost and found, "So much more than this" will appeal to fans of such groups as Dashboard confessional and Bright Eyes.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DOUG BURR: The Sickle & the Sheaves
Original gospel tunes with a vintage feel; Think Daniel Lanois meets Blind Willie Johnson. The Music Editor of the Denton Record Chronicle has referred to Doug's music as conjuring "Lucinda Williams on Revival High".
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $11.99
SUE WITTY: Hydroplaning Ragamuffin
This album--sue's third CD--reveals her uncanny ability to successfully walk the line between blues & folk music. This album oozes emotion--one listen and you'll be writing us asking about the follow-up project....
CD price: $13.00
PAXTON: Paxton
Angry singer-songwriter often compared to Collective Soul, Bowie, and Teenage Fanclub. Songs to save you from -- or drive you to suicide.
DR J: floating
A brooding baritone drifts over an eclectic landscape of introspective lyrics and unique multi-layered instrumentation/background vocals.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
