Folk: Alternative Folk and Type: Acoustic
BELUGA WHALE: Under Glass
Whale songs, sea shanties, popular hits and traditional favorites.
CD price: $10.00
MIKE AND RUTHY: The Honeymoon Agenda
An acoustic duo from Woodstock, NY with gentle, tight harmony singing on classic and original folk and pop songs, Mike & Ruthy accompany each other on guitar, fiddle, banjo, ukulele, and the occasional harmonica or glockenspiel.
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $12.00
COLIN MCGRATH: Window Seat
Thoughtful, intricately crafted songs with expressive, honest singing and rich, organic textures and arrangements. Window Seat is a moving collection of sketches and observations, a gently instructive album that offers something new with each listen.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $9.99
THE BOOGLERIZERS: Ironbound Blues
singer songwriter, acoustic blues and old time naughty jazz.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SILVER DARLING: Your Ghost Fits My Skin
Last-call wails and prayers from this soul-stirring Americana trio from Sacramento, Calif. like Nick Cave taking residency in the Deadwood Saloon
CD price: $13.00
PAUL JACOBSEN AND THE MADISON ARM: Paul Jacobsen and the Madison Arm
"A little Grant Lee Phillips, a little Elliott Smith, a little Ryan Adams, You Might Regret You Ever Cared is dead-on songcrafting and alt-country/chamber-pop sheen tailor-made for critics lists." SLC Weekly
CD price: $12.97
THE LOW ANTHEM: Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
"a collection of superbly crafted, grandly eloquent songs." - Boston Globe
Recommended if you like Tom Waits, Neil Young.CD price: $14.97
MARY GAUTHIER: Genesis
Southern folk story songs that are gritty and real.
Recommended if you like John Prine, Steve Earl.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
HELEN AVAKIAN: I Love The Moon
Dreamy neo-folk "New and exciting. Indelible songs centered around a girl and her guitar, singing what matters most" - Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange
CD price: $12.97
CARL CLEVES: All Alone
A contemporary mixture of folk, jazz, world and insightful lyrics
CD price: $12.97
MICHAEL KITSON: What This Means
With solid hooks, quiet voice, and great playing this Portland Oregon based singer/songwriter gently eases the senses with 10 songs for everyone. This album is filled with simple words and melodies that will leave you humming.
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $9.97
JACQUELINE STEM: Streams Of Consciousness
Alternative acoustic folk
CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
BARRETT JOHNSON: In Case I Went Missing
BY ERIN DEWITT-OC WEEKLY Either it’s that whole tortured-artist thing, or Barrett Johnson is a great pretender at having his heart broken. But unlike other folk musicians who take the dusty road toward twangy alt-country, Johnson ventures out on a differ
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
ROB SZABO: After The Gravity
"musically & lyrically brilliant", intense & articulate acoustic-folk/pop. Honest music for music lovers.
MP3 price: $9.99
ABBIE GARDNER/ANTHONY DA COSTA: Bad Nights/Better Days
The songs they used to be afraid to write. Real, Raw, and recorded in 3 days.
Recommended if you like Damien Rice, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
FOREST SUN: Harlequin Goodnight
if earthly and mystical poets Pablo Neruda and Jalal-e-Din Rumi found acoustic guitars and wrote Americana songs together with wine and dancing girls and late night crickets for company it might sound like this
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
SIDESTREET RENY: Not Seen the Light of Day
Urban avant folk 'n blues trio, featuring fingerstyle resonator guitar upright bass and drums. A seemingly organic blend of the elements, sewing 100 plus years of American music into a rich tapestry of eclectic yet somehow familiar sounds all their own.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
PETER KOVACS: My World
Critics and peers agree, Kovacs has distinguished himself as one of the most asinine and pointless musicians in the country.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING: Elvis Has Left the Building
Lyrically insightful vocal harmonies, guitar, mandolin, and cello derived from a unique combination of acoustic Americana and power folk.
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
CHARLES ALLISON AND BLACK EYED DOG: Some Queer Raincoat
Sweet and shuffling Americana folk pop.
CD price: $6.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
PRAISE THE TWILIGHT SPARROW: Praise The Twilight Sparrow
Twisted dark folk recalling hints of Devendra Banhart and Iron & Wine.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
JOSH GEFFIN: Wake
Sun-kissed melancholia, wry ruminations, arresting man-and-guitar compositions dappled with cello, piano, backing vocals and electric guitar - an outstanding debut from the London based fingerpicking troubadour.
CD price: $5.97 / MP3 price: $5.97
GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV: That Sea, The Gambler
"While some music fans might not consider themselves fans of "folk," they still bow at the alters of Jeff Tweedy, Andrew Bird and Jolie Holland. And now you can add Isakov to that list." - Denver Post
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
LLOYD THAYER: The Bumper Pool Diaries
13 Ballads of hope and beauty, with pedal steel echoes of Appalachia, the Delta, and old weird America.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JADE DAY: Of Waking...
Alternative Folk Pop expressed in dymanic vocals, moving melodies, and concise acoustic instrumentation
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ROESY: Only Love is Real
Alternative folk Irish singer songwriter blessed with crystalline vocal chords with joyful heart warming lyrics.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
SOMEONE'S SISTER: Calm in the Chaos
A diverse mixture of harmonies, messages and instruments. Calm in the Chaos is from the heart.
CD price: $20.00
K.C. MCKANZIE: Hammer & Nails
K.C. McKanzie places herself somewhere between the English Folk of the 60s and 70s and the Americana acoustic sound of today.
Recommended if you like Gillian Welch, Sandy Denny.CD price: $14.99
PATRICK CUNNINGHAM AND JOHNNYNOSHOES: The Weather-side of a Downeast Home
Alt-country folk with a unique New England roots feel.
Recommended if you like Slaid Cleaves.CD price: $10.00
CAROLINE SMITH AND THE GOOD NIGHT SLEEPS: Backyard Tent Set
Indie music with banjos, accordions, and a revolving door of instruments to accompany a unique voice and a peculiar style of writing.
Recommended if you like Joanna Newsom, Feist.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MERDUR: The Cattlemen's Club
Enjoy a bourbon and branch at the Cattlemen's Club while plotting your next oil deal, adulterous affair, or weekend backstabbing as the captivating saloon rock of merdur animates your every move.
Recommended if you like Air Supply, Kenny Rogers.CD price: $10.00
HILLBILLY VOODOO: A Farmer's Prayer
Combines two Americana style folk songwriters with a footstompin hillbilly blues sound.
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $14.97
NICOLE REYNOLDS: Unordinary Mine
A charming and playful singer/songwriter, she has earned herself a deserved reputation for smart lyrics and subtly tackling big topics.
CD price: $12.97
DREW NIX AND THE ELEPHANT ARMY: Sun - Ep
Debut EP recorded live, mixing bluegrass, folk, and country with a punk rock mentality and a modern sensibility.
CD price: $7.00
PAT KEESEY: The Marfa Demos
Dark and haunting ballads of loss and longing with exceptionally well crafted lyrics, sung simply, in a slow and gentle style, and often accompanied only by an acoustic guitar. - a 4 song EP.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
COREY HEUVEL: Evers - EP
Vibrant sounds of acoustic folk conveyed by mesmerizing guitar and pensive lyrics from a young Canadian singer/songwriter.
CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $4.99
NORDGARDEN: The Path Of Love
"The closest a new Norwegian singer/songwriter has come the timeless qualities of Ryan Adams" (Stein Ostboe at VG, Norways biggest newspaper)
CD price: $20.00
NOELIE MCDONNELL: Beyond Hard Places
Described by Hotpress as 'a Hybrid of John Prine, Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan'
Recommended if you like John Prine, Ryan Adams.CD price: $14.97
STEVE REYNOLDS: The Carnival Papers
Songs created in the woods in Canada, recorded in a farmhouse in France, and completed in Los Angeles.
Recommended if you like Elliott Smith, Radiohead.CD price: $12.97
ADAM MICHAEL ROTHBERG: Another Spin
Steeped in twenty years singer/songwriter tradition and Beatlesque sensibilities with smart engaging lyrics and stunning musicianship, Rothberg's songs are fast cult favorites among fans of Randy Newman, Michael Penn, Paul Simon, Jeff Tweedy, and more
Recommended if you like Randy Newman, Michael Penn.CD price: $18.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
CATHY'S FOUNDATION: Musicians For Stroke Awareness
9 incredibly talented artists came together to support 1 incredibly important cause. Soulful and honest original music with lyrics that mean something … sung from the heart and destined to become hits.
CD price: $15.00
SILVER DARLING: Wrap Around My Heart
Sonically rich original songs with deep,dark harmonies and sparse folk arrangements create a powerful debut EP from this Sacramento trio.
CD price: $7.00
TRUE NORTH: Pluck
Combines traditional bluegrass instrumentation with soulful vocals, fat harmonies and folk-edged songwriting for a decidedly modern acoustic sound.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
J. SCOTT HINKLE: Blueridge Martini
Take a penetrating acoustic-folk-roots foundation, add melody-driven conversations, and you will hear - Blueridge Martini music.
Recommended if you like Steve Earle, Ryan Adams.CD price: $15.00
LIZZIE NUNNERY: Hungry EP
Intimate narrative alt folk: Lizzie Nunnery has stories to tell you and a voice to make you listen.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
WILL DERRYBERRY: Seven
"Seven" is a journey of brokenness, seeking restoration. Before releasing the album, NBC used Will's songs in the TV dramas, "Friday Night Lights" and "Life". Much like these TV shows, "Seven" plays like a soundtrack to the light and night of our life.
MP3 price: $10.00
MICHAEL CARDENAS: You Evil and I
12 new original songs with music by Muddy Waters, Verdi and Sade.
CD price: $7.99
RANDY KAPLAN: Ancient Ruins
A bluegrass rendition of Grandmaster Flash's "The Message", a folk version of Nirvana's "On a Plain" (find out what Kurt's lyrics actually are), Prince's "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" to a country beat. And ten Kaplan originals.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
BRIAN CHARTRAND: Sleeping With Giants
Contemplative, acoustic music with honest vocals, finger picking guitars, and warm orchestral arrangements. RIYL hearing your favorite pop song boiled down to its skeleton and given an acoustic guitar. Fall in love with these songs.again.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
RYAN DAVID ORR: My Fair February Notable Shimmer & Grin
Indie folk styled singer/songwriter. Mellow and colorful with sweet melodies and poignant lyrics.
Recommended if you like John Mayer, Damien Rice.CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
THE BLACK SWANS OF TRESPASS: Duttigalla Exile
More "roo grass" than bluegrass, they fuse trad and modern feels in jazz, bluegrass, colonial folk, mento and blues to make a very unique but accessible sound.
Recommended if you like Tom Waits.CD price: $20.00
STRAWBERRY HILL FIDDLERS: Evolution
These young Hudson Valley fiddlers—praised by Jay Ungar as “skilled and inventive.infectious and inspiring”-play folk music ranging from Appalachian, Cajun and Country Western to Celtic and Scandinavian tunes.
CD price: $12.97
FISH & BIRD: Fish & Bird
A Canadian acoustic duo who draw from and push the limits of various folk traditions, producing an intriguingly eclectic yet sublimely cohesive sound.
CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
THE GYPSY NOMADS: Eternal Summer
French female vocals w/gypsified folk rock arrangements driven by guitar and percussion.
WOODY SIMMONS: Oregon Mountains
First released in 1977, this 30th anniversary edition of Oregon Mountains is primarily of bluegrass influence; the album also contains some of Simmons' jazz, folk and pop inflected music as well as two impressive frailing banjo instrumentals.
CD price: $14.97
DAVID LYNCH: David Lynch
Finding something important that has been lost for a long time, finally making it home after a long night's drive, watching your kid pass the ball to the kid who has no talent because it was the right thing to do (even though the coach told him not to).
Recommended if you like Himself, David Lynch (not the director).CD price: $10.99
CANOE: Places
A clarion call from the music-saturated city of Portland, Oregon, their debut album comes as a fresh and innovative thesis of what indie-folk can and should be.
CD price: $11.99
ANDREW SHEA: Everything Is Alright
A collection of singer/songwriter type songs that stand on their own but are brought to life in these full band recordings.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MARK FRY: Shooting The Moon
Late-night, reflective, bittersweet songs from enigmatic English artist Mark Fry, back in the studio for the first time since his 1972 psych-folk debut album, the cult classic "Dreaming With Alice".
CD price: $18.00 / MP3 price: $18.00
DAVID LYNCH & FRIENDS: Dozen
California Bluegrusion. California influenced songwriting, Bluegrass instruments (guitar, dobro and mandolin) but NOT Bluegrass. Elements of Blues, Folk, and Jazz (a fusion of all of the above).
CD price: $12.99
CHRISTOPHER BUCKINGHAM: On Oak and Pine
Sad, lonely, happy, party, uncomfortable, slow and fast songs recorded in bedrooms and basements in Portland, Oregon. Songs played on a guitar and sung.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
DIXIE REMEDY COMPANY: Dixie Remedy Company
Out of south Georgia, they do a variety of original eclectic old time style music using high caliber and vintage stringed instruments taking the listener on an acoustical musical journey.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JORDAN T WEST: (Love) An Asylum Amongst The Convulsions
A young twenty-somethings perspective on life as he knows it. Taking the best from the worlds of Dylan, Paul Simon, Ryan Adams and more, this album is sure to make you wonder why you haven't been listening all along.
MP3 price: $12.97
NEAL MCCARTHY: The Sassaquin Sessions
Acoustic blues folkAmerican countryish original songs. Bare bones recording. Stripped down format. Focuses on raw vocal performance.
Recommended if you like Kris Kristofferson, Leon Russell.CD price: $12.97
HILLS ARE MOUNTAINS: EP
Drenched in atmosphere and affecting melodies, the kinship that is hills are mountains specialise in lush and delicate compositions that frequently result in spine tingling, heart-skipping wonderment.
MP3 price: $5.00
THE TIGER AND ME: The Tiger and Me
The Tiger and Me tell arresting stories with intertwining vocals and subtle arrangements combining guitar, violin and piano. They blend various styles and genres into an entirely new, entirely feline take on 'folk-duo'.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
DUMB ANGEL: Ghost Dance
Nick Drake grows up thirty years later in the middle of the Canadian prairies instead of the English countryside, listening to space-rock instead of delta blues.
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $11.99
THE WIYOS: The Wiyos
Vaudevillian ragtime, jugband blues and hillbilly swing
Recommended if you like The Avett Brothers, Old Crow Medicine Show.CD price: $15.00
PAMELA WYN SHANNON: Courting Autumn
Pastoral Folk. Courting Autumn was recorded largely by Pamela on her own throughout New England and is a rustic almanac of autumnal songs burnished with a melancholy mood, wistful vocals, and delicate hand-spun guitar playing.
CD price: $15.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
PUTNAM SMITH: this blue
Foot-stomping banjo, melancholy guitar, funky cello, and other acoustical treats, from Maine based troubadour Putnam Smith.
CD price: $15.00
POSSUMHAW: Madtom
Driving folk. Front porch bluegrass picking and tight harmonizing surrounds captivating female vocals and original songwriting to blend old and new.
Recommended if you like Gillian Welch, Alison Krauss.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
AIMÉE RINGLE: Aimée Ringle
Astringent folk driven by a rich dark voice and intricate lyrical guitar work. These songs stay with you. Play this for people you love.
MP3 price: $9.95
VELVET MISHKA: Falling Down
The debut album. The eight songs are mellow, beautiful and sad. Perfect with a dram of whiskey and a rainy day.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
CHRIS SMYTH: This Is Our Factory (Let's Make Good)
Fans of Wilco, Bright Eyes and Neil Young will love the music of Chris Smyth. Atmospheric arrangements and thought-provoking lyrics make this CD a must have.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
PIEDMONT CHRIS JOHNSON: Something To Unwind
Original contemporary folk & blues songs, performed by an artist whose playing style is rooted in the earth and music of the Carolina Piedmont.
CD price: $15.00
LAURA LOVE: NeGrass
This folk-funk diva ditches the funk and dives headfirst into this mostly bluegrass and old time exploration of her African-American families' first steps into freedom at the end of the Civil War.
Recommended if you like The Duhks, Ruthie Foster.CD price: $15.99 / MP3 price: $11.99
THE DANDELION GREENS: The Dandelion Greens
Dusty rusted acoustic Americana in a bluegrass hat and rockabilly boots
CD price: $13.97
JAMES WHETZEL: Subcontinental Palmwine Punk
An iconoclastic mix of DIY style with African palmwine guitar music and Indian classical sarod music. Plus tabla beats turned into spoken word like you've never heard before.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
PETER WALSH: Forbidden Road
"If you fused the poetic lyrics of Bob Dylan, with the unplugged sound of Neil Young and added a generous dose of Townes Van Zandt's finger picking style.you'd be left with this".
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
JESS HILL: Road
A hopeful melancholy.anchored in the traditions of folk, jazz and blues.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
DEREK CLEGG: Dust For Clues
Indie acoustic folk/pop mix with influences of David Gray, Damien Rice and Coldplay
MP3 price: $5.00
JOEY LATIMER: Emerald Green Universe
A contemporary folk/pop anthology featuring carefully woven vocal harmonies, tasty acoustic muscianship, and subtly integrated percussion.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $7.97
ROBIN HUNTER AND THE SIX FOOT BULLIES: You Just Gotta Get Used of It
The lonesome sounds of Dobro, mandolin and upright bass blended with Hunter's distinctive vocals and twisted wordplay, a haunting record of beautiful acoustic textures and meaningful songs.
CD price: $12.97
HENRY HANEY: August - EP
Folky, acoustic, simple music with honest lyrics and catchy melodies.
CD price: $6.99 / MP3 price: $4.95
ROBERT COLEMAN TRUSSELL: Juice & Jive
Americana, roots, folk, alt.country, psychobilly -- all this and more.
CD price: $12.97
THE SHAMBLERS: Steps Toward Home
The Shamblers are a unique blend of Rock, Folk and Pop.
CD price: $10.00
PLAINVILLE: Since December
New acoustic alternative rock.
Recommended if you like Nickel Creek, Brett Dennen.MP3 price: $4.00
PEANUT ALBINOS: Falling From The Saddle Of A High Horse
'Imagine a band that look like a bunch of old-fashioned tinkers, who play skiffle banjo, mandolin and brushed drums with a masterful depth of dark gothic and celtic soul.'
CD price: $10.00
CAMERON LATIMER: Fallen Apart
‘Fallen Apart’ is the eagerly-awaited solo debut by Vancouver singer-songwriter Cameron Latimer and his first release on Black Hen Music. Featuring producer Johnny Ellis (Barney Bentall, Dustin Bentall, Ridley Bent), drummer Pat Steward (Bryan Adams)
CD price: $13.97
JIVE WHITE BOY: Knives That Stab Your Face
Sing-a-long indie-rock music with a message that defines these modern times of war, human disconnectedness and an unquenched thirst for truth.
Recommended if you like Radiohead.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
BOB CORLEY: Never Too Late
Alt-Folk/Americana. What’s a young man to do in Amsterdam in 1971? Do you enjoy good beer? Ever been stuck in the bathroom with no toilet paper? All this, and more.
CD price: $12.97
DIRTBIRD: Cathedral
Majestic , slo-mo alt. country acoustic duo featuring sparse guitar, soaring cello, lush harmonies and dark, visionary songs.
Recommended if you like Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Gillian Welch.CD price: $12.97
TALKING ABOUT COMMAS: Sick Of Blocking Out The Sun
The debut album from this up and coming composer, singer/songwriter. A rich texture of words and music combined with an incredible mix of styles and influences. Listen to this again and again, you will hear something new every time.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
RICHARD LLEWELLYN-DAVIES: I'll Be A Sailor
Contemporary Folk
Recommended if you like Tracy Chapman, David Gray.CD price: $15.00
HARLEY STRING BAND: Didn't Come to Stay Long
Original Americana, folk nouveau with an edge.
CD price: $12.00
THE POLAROID TRUTH: Last Day As Children
Contemporary folk: acoustic music with an edge.
Recommended if you like Ryan Adams, Damien Rice.CD price: $9.00
HYMN FOR HER: YEAR OF THE GOLDEN PIG
H4H=Rapid emotion through space causing elation. A duo that takes you over the stars and the sands, playing soul-scaping music with voices and hands.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
KEVIN BROWNE: Georgia Sky
Rich acoustic instrumentals combine with sometimes playful, often hard-hitting, but always meaningful lyrics to create a distinctive musical experience.
CD price: $14.15
STACY K: Little Glass Houses
Singer Songwriter, simple organic melodies- alternative folk, with a dash of funk, rock and reggae.
CD price: $10.00
NICK KEIR: Fishing Up The Moon
Unique Scottish singer-songwriter best-known for his work with The McCalmans and the Tolkien Ensemble. Haunting melodies and insightful, but accessible lyrics.
CD price: $12.97
BEN WELLS: Best Friends and Dead Ends
Ben's music is bold yet southing, something to chill out to relax too. Music for all moods. his voice is soft and tender flowing and linking with his riveting lyrics that touch anyone who listens. indie and surfy sounds.
Recommended if you like Lior, Matt Costa.CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
ANN REED: Through The Window
Female contemporary folk; singer/songwriter; acoustic guitar; 12-string guitar
CD price: $12.97
MJ BISHOP: Pull of the Moon
Folk Americana with attitude – lyric-driven melancholy that’s gutsy, introspective, organic, emotive, acoustic – and laced with twang. A modern-day Patsy Cline whose voice has been seasoned to Americana perfection.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
IAN FOSTER: Room in the City
The truth about stories is that they're all that we are, Thomas King wrote. This is an album of stories, told with a real voice--evocative, cinematic, at times heartbreaking--an album about people moving into and out of cities.
CD price: $14.99
MARK BOULLE AND THE HABA DUDES: Music Will Make You Go Insane
Fresh Folk Roots from the Gold Coast Hinterland, Australia.
Recommended if you like Bob Dylan, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.CD price: $12.97
PETE LASHLEY: Voices From The Ocean Road
Beautiful acoustic melodies and rhythms, mesmerizing guitar work and soaring vocals.
CD price: $12.97
JIM ABEL: Thunder
Intelligent, clever and interesting folk/acoustic music performed by the singer/songwriter, dealing with human relationships, serious and funny.
CD price: $10.00
RICHARD ALAN: Yesterday's Wine
A lyrical, melodic collection of "helplessly hopeful romantic" songs, wrapped up in a smooth, mesmerizing, evocative voice and delivered, "heart to heart" with love.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
YESHU DAS: Today
Music to relax and to contemplate about life, fate, peace and love. Acoustic Singer Songwriter Folk with touching melodies and lyrics straight from the heart.
CD price: $16.97
NIGEL HOBBINS: In A Hole
Nigel considers himself foremost to be a Kent singer who's musical styles conjure mainly folk and country but is comfortable allowing other world music styles to flavour his songs.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
FRANK SCHWARTZ: Below The Radar
Original vocal and instrumental songs and tunes blending folk, blues, jazz and R&B to create a collection of soulful music.
Recommended if you like Van Morrison, John Gorka.CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $13.95
GOR MKHITARIAN: United Fantasies: Exit Ahead
The Soundtrack of your life.
CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $13.95
ZONGO AMBASSADORS: Ayijah
American Singer-songwriter John Meldrum meets the African music traditions of a huge village in Ghana and writes music inspired by this experience.
Recommended if you like Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon.CD price: $17.97
BIRCH AND CROW: Love and Water
Intimate stories of heartbreak and hope floating over acoustic guitar; postfolk songs for the hopeless romantic; raw, unprocessed understatement.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
RICK YOUNGLOVE: Prey
Erie soundscapes and intricate guitar work. Freak Folk without the beard?
CD price: $11.97
KATE PHIPPS: Before We Go
This CD is full of heartfelt, thought-provoking lyrics addressing both the personal and political, powered by a rhythmic and sometimes percussive acoustic guitar style.
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
MY POLITIC: A Few Words I Couldn't Find Yesterday
Simple yet thought provoking folk. insghtful, lyrical, and hopefully sincere
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
NOMI: Thank You For All The Love
She has a voice and folk songs with an uncanny depth that can tear u apart, and knit you back together again.
CD price: $10.00
TAREK KANAAN: Northern Place
Eclectic poetic folk-rock music from talented new indi artist
CD price: $9.00
JIM MALONE: Malone Alone Red
New american acoustic alternative singer songwriter folk
CD price: $12.97
RICK FORD: Smoke and Mirrors
Music of ragged beauty and raw emotion in which guitars, harmonica, mandolin, dobro and organ mesh together into a spare melodic setting for songs that touch the soul with their honesty and power.
CD price: $7.97 / MP3 price: $7.97
VARIOUS: The Blue Sky Project: A Clorox Charity Collection
Uplifting songs used in popular Clorox commercials, extended to full-length tracks by the original musicians, with half the purchase price benefiting Music In Schools Today, a charity that supports music programs in public schools (mustcreate.org).*
MP3 price: $5.99
THISFUNCTIONALL: Time To Turn It Off
A smiling sad, cinematic sound. Acoustically asking some seriously deep questions. With trance like melodic melodies, that make you search for your own answers.
CD price: $6.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
NERISSA & KATRYNA NIELDS: Sister Holler
Folk rock drawing from old time songs.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $11.99
JIM PAGE: I See What You Mean
Self penned ballads and folk songs recorded with great Nashville players.
CD price: $15.00
SARAH MAC BAND: Open Fire
Bluesy, jazzy rock with a healthy dose of soul. People have said this is the best cover of gershwin's summertime they've ever heard. Judge for yourself.
CD price: $9.00
MASON KINARD: Mason Kinard
Mason Kinard, folk blues singer-guitarist from Austin, Texas, combines a slow, steady rhythm guitar with poignant lyrics. With songs about life as he understands it, his music grows from a diverse range of vast landscapes, hard times and life loved.
CD price: $5.00
DAVE HOWARD: Live at the Sierra Theatre
Warm, strong vocals over well-crafted, literate songs about life and how we get through it.
Recommended if you like Bruce Cockburn, Paul Simon.CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
RICHARDS AND FITCH: A Couple Of F Holes
A sense of humor mixed with old fashioned songwriting and mandolin.
Recommended if you like John Prine, Bobby Bare.CD price: $13.89 / MP3 price: $12.00
PAUL CRESEY: Piece The Picture
This Edmonton based folk artist uses fingerpicking and strumming techniques backed by strong witty lyrical accompaniments and plays and sings all original songs from blues to folk-rock and celtic to romantic ballads.
Recommended if you like Jack Johnson.CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $13.97
STROATKLINKERS: Knap Stoaltje
Fantastic Dutch folk-bluegrass band perform songs by the late great local dialect troubadour, Ede Staal.
CD price: $14.97
SUNSHINE DORAY: Sunshine Doray
Female piano based cabaret folk jazz duo
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
HONEYGENE: A Beautiful Place to Get Lost
"Spooky folk songs with a big imagination" NME
CD price: $9.64
BEEFBONE MUSIC: Criminalized
Acoustic, Alt Folk, Urban Avant-Americana, Traditional.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
KEITH FORRESTER: Darkwaters
Eclectic and soulful fingerstyle guitar fueled by inspiration from the likes of Phil Heywood, John Fahey, Leo Kottke, Michael Hedges etc.
MP3 price: $7.00
RYAN DONN: This Life
Scottish born Canadian singer/songwriter. Rhythmic acoustic, melodic vocals, engaging lyrics.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
ROMA DI LUNA: Face Of My Friends *(Out Of Print)
Americana-based, old timey with a modern twist, haunting, bittersweet ballads.
THE REVISION: In the Midst
Laid-back smooth acoustic music. Has a delicate blend of guitars, percussion, bass, keys, and two vocalists. Follows an alternative and folk trend but spiced up with some Spanish rhythms and melodies that are quite complex but enjoyable.
CD price: $13.49
SCOTT COOK: Long Way to Wander
honest acoustic roots music that sounds like freedom & the great outdoors.
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $11.97
BENYARO: Benyaro
Soulful acoustic roots act from NYC strongly influenced by Wilson Pickett, CSN&Y, Gillian Welch, James Brown, and Malcolm Holcombe. A new approach to American Music results in a unique, sweet sound.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $8.91
ROB SWEET: Introducing Rob Sweet
An up and coming artist with an honest approach to the quasi-folk, Americana, neo-hippie sound of the mid to late twentieth century.
Recommended if you like John Hiatt, Todd Snider.CD price: $12.97
HUTCH AND KATHY: Hutch and Kathy
Indie folk, personal, poltical, heart felt on sleeve, punk rock with acoustic guitars.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DANIEL MAKINS: Peanut Butter...and Other Things I Know
New folk music full of insights, humor, and observation personal yet familiar to all; melding genres and revealing a people-watching west texas upbringing.
BRENT RATKOVICH: the simple things
Simple, melody rich, acoustic music in the classic singer/songwriter style. Songs from the heart.
CD price: $5.99 / MP3 price: $4.99
GREG ZIESEMER AND KRISS LUCKETT: Bare Bones
Acoustic Americana/contemporary folk music from the heart and soul.
Recommended if you like Alison Krauss & Union Station, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings.CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $10.97
