Folk » 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
RICHMOND FONTAINE: $87 and a Guilty Conscience
Folk/Rock Americana with a dose of melancholy.
CD price: $10.00
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
GARLAND OF HOURS: The Soundest Serum
Set sail on the sonic seas of darkly harmonic cellos, guitars and keyboards. A voyage of folktale melodies buoyed up by Amy's sureshot vocals and a randy rhythm section.
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $11.97
THE DECEIVERS: ...In Troublesome Creek
Unique, Texas born Rock and Roll. From the light and beautiful to Dark Gothic Folk Rock. In Troublesome Creek boldly pushes the boundaries of Rock and Roll taking you on a ride with warm bowed basses and scornful violin glued together.
Recommended if you like Elliott Smith, Nirvana.CD price: $10.00
ANNEN BERG: All Things Must Last
60's style folk, bedroom occult, and Nico-esque acoustic minimalism; "Paul Simon meets Edgar Allen Poe"
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
BLAKE MACKEY: C'mon Eschaton
Singer songwriter with an amazing sonic colorization to every song; maybe what Elliot Smith would have done if he were in Sonic Youth.
Recommended if you like Elliott Smith, Sonic Youth.CD price: $8.88 / MP3 price: $8.88
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
LINDSAY HOLLER & THE DIRTY KIDS: Love Gone Awry
featuring a retro, soul-filled voice, Lindsay Holler is a magnificent display of pleasure and pain.
CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $7.99
CATOAN: and will i
A rare mix of the simple and the textured, the plainsong and the cathedral of sound
CD price: $10.49 / MP3 price: $3.99
AIRPORT CATHEDRAL: Jet Lag
Emotional art rock that hits the proverbial nail with gutsy exuberance.
CD price: $8.97 / MP3 price: $8.97
JOHN HENRY LAMBERT: Gone Away
Deeply atmospheric acoustic songs from a true English eccentric songwriter, a mix of the folk tradition with the atmosphere of late night ambient jazz.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
BROWN BIRD: such unrest
Singer/songwriter David Lamb, cellist Jerusha Robinson, and multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Robinson, known as the dark Americana trio Brown Bird, have brought subtly disturbing lyrics dressed in soothing harmonies to those who will listen since 2003. These
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
ALLEGRA GELLAR: Cassette
The third full length release by this LA-based indie-folk-electronic band. Between tape hiss and protools these thoughtful acoustic based songs combine seamlessly with ambient, ethereal, and electronic textures.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
TRY ME BICYCLE: Voicings
Folk with a solid jazz sensiblity.beautifully organic production with an emphasis on rich vocals/harmonies, musicianship, and recording live heartfelt studio performances.
CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $13.00
ADAM FREEDMAN: Best Laid Plans (Gone Wrong)
Music that could have been written by the unclaimed love child of Ani Difranco and Elliot Smith, conceived on the bed of Seattle indie pop.
CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $13.00
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
MR JULIAN GASKELL: Technology Will Make Us Better
Pulsing, thrusting, scratchy guitars and scrapes of slithering mandolin ebb and surge dramatically - hungrily - throughout seventeen tracks, whilst squelches of saliva and leering consonants scuttle about above.
CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $16.00
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
THE CROOKED JADES: Seven Sisters: A Kentucky Portrait
Across the wide seas, distant mountains, and the vast emptiness of the soul, this soundtrack by The Crooked Jades emphasizes the lonesome in "high Lonesome" music, their old-time music roots reflecting the cultural melange and longing
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
HEROES IN THE SEAWEED: Warmth In Your Distance
Folk-influenced indie rock that blends surly voices and acoustic and electric guitars with cello and percussion.
CD price: $6.00 / MP3 price: $3.00
ROBERT DEEBLE: Earthside Down
"Wistful folk-pop, sparsely arranged, gracefully performed, and achingly beautiful to behold" -The Santa Barbara independent.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
HEAVY WEATHER: Resonance
Possibly the best, as yet, undiscovered rock album in exsistence. Elements of Rock, Folk and Blues, allied to strong lyrical statements, shape songs of meaning and atmosphere, with a timeless quality
Recommended if you like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin.CD price: $12.97
LUX INTERNA: A Lantern Carried In Blood And Skin
An introduction to the musical and mystical journey of this neo folk act
CD price: $13.98
PINEBOX SERENADE: Let the River Take Them Home
Pinebox Serenade continue to spread their dark, snake-oil concoction of folk, country, and rock with their sophomore release on Devil's Ruin Records.
CD price: $11.99
ALEXANDER MCKENZIE & THE UNDERPAID: Ribcage Versus Unguided Missile
Poignant melancholy & nostalgic cynicism.
CD price: $15.00
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
THE SILENT COMEDY: The Silent Comedy
Raucous Americana
Recommended if you like The Decemberists, Arcade Fire.CD price: $6.99
SCOTT TYLER: Storyville
Intimate folk music to confess your sins to.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
THE ACCIDENT THAT LED ME TO THE WORLD: The Accident That Led Me to the World
Modern Folk Music
CD price: $10.00
JASMINE JAMILLAH: When Heaven Falls
Edgy soul in a 25-year old package
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JOHN GERARD: All The Right Words
Metaphorical songwriting, powerful three octave vocals, he tells you everything.
CD price: $12.97
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.
JIMMY HONEYMAN: Jimmy Honeyman
Like Richard Hell leading Buffalo Springfield through a remake of Gasoline Alley.
CD price: $12.97
SAUL ASHBY: Saul Ashby
Soulful folk pop that takes you back to when the singer/songriter had some depth and meaning. Saul Ashby's sound is timeless.
CD price: $8.99 / MP3 price: $8.99
THE WHEAT POOL: Township
The new face of country rock. Dark driving music. Whiskey-soaked stories of grown-up disappointment told on highways across Canada. A remarkable effort of Canadiana rock n roll.
CD price: $12.97
ANTIC CLAY: Hilarious Death Blues
A slow dark ride across the scorched hide of America. Think Johnny Cash riding a skeletal mule to Hell. Not without moments of beauty and hope, however. An audacious DOUBLE CD.
MP3 price: $14.97
NATHAN SINGLETON AND HIS SIDESHOW TRAGEDY: Borrowed Guitars, Unwound Hearts, and Broken Strings
An eclectic stew of literary, emotionally evocative lyrics and raving bluesy jug-band histrionics--think Dylan writing songs for Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
CD price: $10.99
THE MILKMAN'S UNION: Oh Boy
Indie pop for discerning listeners. Catchy but thoughtful.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
MARK MATHIS: We Both Was Young
Come walk on an intoxicating, summer night to an ancient grove of trees, soft with moss and a backdrop of fireflies. Hear the chorus of cicadas, echoes of pleasure and pain, and murmur of prayers made and love lost.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
NATHALIE NAHAI: Nathalie Nahai
"Simple songs of love, loss and mourning... a brief patch of sweetness and light" OMH.com
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
THE BLACKTHORNS: The Blackthorns
With traditional tools, the Blackthorns play the sort of folk songs you’d expect to hear rising from the screen porch after a bomb has been dropped on a decaying Midwestern town.
GREG WEEKS: Bleecker Station
My second release, this EP was recorded on 4-track cassette, then mixed in a high end studio. Why? Because I worked there durring the mix. So its kinda the most hi-fi of lo-fi recordings.
RACHEL TAYLOR BROWN: Ormolu
Icarus's poor legs stick out of the placid pretty sea.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
2 1/2 LOUNGE: Superstructure
Heavy, but important; like Santa Claus.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
HAZY LOPER: The Ballad Of Lucy Gray
Dark american folk with a strong gypsy bite. Banjo, guitar, fiddle, upright bass and drums drive a haunting path through the shadowy landscape of deep longing to create a raw, gritty and wild blend of eastern and western sounds. Moody and haunting.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE CROOKED JADES: World's on Fire
Innovative road less-traveled: rare & obscure repertoire, hypnotic fiddle tunes, haunting original ballads, inspired arrangements & eclectic/vintage instrumentation.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
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
VERA DEIRDRE: Before Morning Arrived
Folk and old-timey. Kind of dark country music. Somewhere between a waltz and a funeral march.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MADAGASCAR: Forced March
"Somewhere between the faux-Eastern European vibe of DeVotchKa and the post-rock gloom of Canadian bands like Do Make Say Think and Explosions in the Sky, Forced March is an endlessly fascinating and enjoyable album." -- Stewart Mason, All Music Guide
CD price: $10.00
KEATING: Cemetery
A midwestern, singer/songwriter blend of folk, pop, antipop, and indie rock.
Recommended if you like Bright Eyes, Neutral Milk Hotel.
KENDRA FLOWERS: Yesterday's Girl
Melancholic and bluesy, Yesterday's Girl holds beautifully crafted songs of relocation & adaptation...if you've ever left the safe for the unknown, Kendra Flowers wrote these songs for you.
CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $13.00
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
STEVEN MARK: Distraction
Debut CD which blends poetic introspective lyrics with sixties inspired musical arrangements and lush vocal harmonies. Elliott Smith meets The Byrds. Hightlights include Get Off The Ride, Under The Covers, Another Day Insight and Dumb It Down.
CD price: $9.99
MATT BOYER: Sukuinage
Haunting acoustic melancholy from the guitarist of Sun Kil Moon.
CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
PETER C. JOHNSON: Soul Sherpa
Edgy singer-songwriter a la Tom Waits/Lou Reed with offbeat lyrics and great players (including Bonnie Raitt and Kris Delmhorst. CO PRODUCED BY HOWARD THOMPSON (BJORK; 10,000 MANIACS; PSYCADELIC FIRS, BILLY BRAGG)
CD price: $12.97
JOEL MURACH: Greetings from the middle of nowhere
10 classic American songs lost in the postmodern world.
CD price: $9.95 / MP3 price: $9.95
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
MATT JOHNSON AND BONEYARD: A Drop of Sun
Acoustic-Electric Folk/Groove. "Folk with stubble"
CD price: $15.00
LYNN JACKSON: Soft Stars
A lushly orchestrated roots record with hauntingly beautiful melodies.
Recommended if you like Patty Griffin, Feist.CD price: $12.97
LOOSHES: Used and Abused
An interesting combination of acoustic and electric guitar, walking the fine line between pain and pleasure.
MP3 price: $4.95
(EX) CAT HEADS: Our Frisco
A unique blend of jangly, melodic indie rock and alternative folk on this deluxe reissue by alumni of San Francisco's legendary Cat Heads. "Sharply poignant strum-rock that doesn’t sacrifice gut for soft-spoken beauty or vice versa."
Recommended if you like The Replacements, Camper Van Beethoven.MP3 price: $11.98
BEN SURES: No Absolutes
Uncle Tupelo meets Don Freed, Wilco, Townes Van Zandt, acoustic road wrecks, No Depression.
Recommended if you like Uncle Tupelo, Townes Van Zandt.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE MIXED GRILL: Pain
A delicious fusion of neo folk, alt country and pop roots all dished up by one band for your listening pleasure.
Recommended if you like Tom Waits, Ryan Adams.MP3 price: $5.00
KENT GUSTAVSON AND DEJAN ILIJIC: I Am Here
Serbian & American electronic traditional world pop.
CD price: $16.97 / MP3 price: $16.97
ANGRY JOHNNY: Finally Gave Up Missing You Today
Acid folk and Americana in the vein of Neil Young and Nick Cave.
MP3 price: $9.99
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
DAVID ULLMAN: Dog Days
His music is at once poignant, intimate and fiercely intense. In outpourings of passion that are sometimes savage and other times delicate, Ullman sings brooding "sad bastard" songs with an underlying optimism.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DAN WEINTRAUB: Rudderless
If Woody Allen played folk music he'd write a few of these tunes.
CD price: $12.97
IF WEN: Take A Look At The Sea
'' Sublime multi-tracked vocals soar over earthy fingerpicked guitar with a melodic pop sensibility whose closest comparison is an extroverted Elliott Smith circa Figure 8."
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ERIK BALKEY: Deadpan Alley
He's a moody, humorous, down and out, spirited, deadpan, self-conscious singer-songwriter and sloppy poet who isn't comfortable talking about himself in the third person but expects he'll get used to it.
CD price: $11.00
CALEB CAUDLE: Red Bank Road
He treades in Americana, although his songs stretch across trite genre classification to touch the hearts of anyone willing to take the time to listen.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
PAINTED SAINTS: The Bricks Might Breathe Again
Heroin klezmer sad bastard spaghetti western folk chamber pop
CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $11.99
JUSTIN HEWITT: Justin Hewitt
Dynamic, raw, and emotive. Justin Hewitt captures you from beginning to end with his debut album, a record displaying his natural talent as a world class singer-songwriter. Produced by Joby Baker (dbClifford, Alexis Puentes, Rachelle Van Zanten).
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MARY GAUTHIER: Between Daylight And Dark
Southern gothic minimalism
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
BRODY BOND: Lovers Try
A simple analysis of hope amidst discontent. Melodically wondering about life, girls, and God.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
LEVI WEAVER: Of Bridges Burned (single)
The first single from the upcoming full-length album.
CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
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
DANNY MACK (THE CEMENT CITY COWBOY): We All Fall Down
A dark moody cityscape. Tales of hookers, junkies and thieves. Very cool contemporary singer/songwriter CD written for the feature film of the same name. Starring Martin Cummins, Ryan Reynolds, Barry Pepper, etc.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MATTHEW CHRISTOPHER DAVIDSON: The Waiting Place
Mid-tempo, acoustic, melodic, layered vocals, clever lyrics, catchy.
MP3 price: $12.97
THE BEWITCHED: The Bewitched
Dark, Euro cabaret interwined with medieval, classical and jazz influences.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
TIMOTHY DICK: On a Grassblade
Keeper of a deep, gleaming mine of songs, some sooty and rough, others white and chiseled.
CD price: $12.50 / MP3 price: $12.50
SAINT ANDREW: Live
Acoustic with an edge from punkrocker turned solo. Combining slide, harp and edgy lyrics.
CD price: $12.97
MICHAEL DE JONG: Imaginary Conversation
Acoustic, emotional fragility - "honest and intense" from a man who's seen and done it all best describes this imaginary conversation, an alblum themed around a conversation with a woman that goes nowhere.
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $13.97
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
JEFF LAWRENCE: Emily
Folk and classical guitar; hauntingly hits you like the pain of the liars dance
Recommended if you like Bruce Springsteen, Garth Brooks.
JASMINE JAMILLAH: Estimates (Live Cuts EP)
raucous roomy blues to intimate, soulful folk with songs about betrayal, loss, love, plants and cars.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
JUST THE DUST: Rattle Of Stones
From the twisted woods and abandoned quarries of the heartland
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
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
BOB FRANK AND JOHN MURRY: World Without End
A collection of murder ballads co-written by Bob Frank and John Murry based on true-but-forgotten tales of American violence and destruction. Produced by Tim Mooney (American Music Club, Toiling Midgets) and mastered by Matt Pence (Centro-Matic, South San
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $9.99
JUDITH AND HOLOFERNES: Abraça a Tristeza
An American variation on traditional Portuguese fado.
Recommended if you like Madredeus, Amália Rodrigues.CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
BLACKBIRDS: Anatomy of Melancholy
Some stories, some poltical statements, some lost love and lost friends, all done up in guitar-driven acoustic style.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
CATHERINE FEENY: Hurricane Glass
Folky Pop that will soothe you into quietude with strummed guitar and mellifluous vocals
ERIC COOPER: Brood
Singer/Songwriter, Finger-picked acoustic guitar and breathy vocals, Progressive/Contemporary Folk
CD price: $8.95 / MP3 price: $8.95
EMMA ZUNZ: Emma Zunz
Ghostly belles pursued by a rabid culture into a better fiction.
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
DAVID ROSS MACDONALD: Knuckled Brass and Bone
American Songwriter Magazine “Macdonald is one of those few songwriters like Nick Drake, Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes) and Josh Ritter that can captivate his listeners armed only with a voice and guitar.”
CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
DUDLEY SAUNDERS: RESTORE
"Even formidable comparisons to Joni Mitchell and Lyle Lovett don't do Dudley Saunders justice. Heartbreaking and original, his songs are like musical cinematography, weaving an American landscape of love, loss, and bittersweet struggle." (Flavorpill.com)
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
CHRIS TRAPPER: Songs From The Drive-In
Ecclectic Acoustic Guitar Singer/Songwriter
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
PINEBOX SERENADE: Pinebox Serenade
Texas collective known as Pinebox Serenade present their self-titled debut of gothic Americana. It`s a loose array of dirgey mountain folk, dark ballads and gypsy tales, all graced with bluegrass elements and bedeviled with the irreverence of alt. country
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DAVE MCCANN & THE TEN TOED FROGS: Woodland Tea
"A Canadian who delivers honest hillbilly music that's more country than much of the pasteurized schlock coming out of major-label Music Row these days." (Performing Songwriter Magazine Nashville TN.)
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
FRESHET: Freshet
A Finnish-American quartet combining Petri Hakala and Tapani Varis on mandolin and bass with John Miller and Ruthie Dornfeld on guitar and violin to bring you a rousing program joining traditional and original tunes.
CD price: $15.00
DAY OF LIONS/BRYAN FREE: Day of Lions/Bryan Free Split EP
Mellow and shuffly folk pop with guitar and piano.
CD price: $10.00
RED ROOSTER: Porch Songs
The music draws from its American roots of blues, folk, and bluegrass staying true to its history while adding a modern edge.
CD price: $12.95 / MP3 price: $4.95
BEN WEAVER: Hollerin' At A Woodpecker
Like a hillbilly Leonard Cohen
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE NEW BLACK TRIO: The New Black Trio
"...a combination of Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, and David Bowie...Howard possesses a voice that is, at once, rough around the edges and perfectly melodic..." - SFWeekly
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
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
THE LONESOME SISTERS: The Lonesome Sisters With Riley Baugus: Going Home Shoes
Sarah Hawker, winner of Merlefest 2004 songwriting contest & Debra Clifford team up with Riley Baugus of Cold Mountain. Hard hitting acoustic lonesome female duet. strong harmonies & mountain sound. Includes Merlefest prizewinning song "Forgiveness".
Recommended if you like Gillian Welch.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
BASEMENT 3: Fuzzyland
Agro-jazzy urban folk-core from bottomland---basement 3 is where musical styles meet at a crossroads, mix, and explode like a volatile yet seductive coctail. vocals, strings, guitars, horns, drums, piano and a washing machine...
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
THE LONESOME SISTERS: The Lonesome Sisters
Sarah Hawker winner of the 2004 Merlefest songwriting contest and Debra Clifford. Traditional lonesome mountain sounds, with sparse instrumentation and strong, distinctive high female harmonies, clawhammer banjo & fiddle.
Recommended if you like Gillian Welch.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
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
CLAY BARTLETT: Fixin' To Break Down
An album steeped in the roots of American music, "Fixin' To Break Down" blends blues, old-time, country, folk and rock.
CD price: $10.49 / MP3 price: $10.49
GAVIN: breathing hole
Folk/Funk and Mood Rock interlaced with soul and groove guitar and bass.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
JONATHAN POINTER: Love Songs From The Outskirts Of Bliss
Eclectic adult alternative music from an artist who has become a "songwriter's songwriter."
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
FLARE: Bottom
Chamber goth pop. Haunting like Low, melodic like Red House Painters.
Recommended if you like Morrissey, This Mortal Coil.CD price: $14.00
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
THE GREAT OUTDOORS: Summer
For our summer Ep we dusted of a set of 1970's Slingerland drums and smoked some Morroccan black hash. We cranked up the amps and got sweaty.
CD price: $5.00
THE YELLOW FAIR: All the Comforts of Home
This alt/folk rock project's initial report from the cracked earth.
CD price: $12.97
VIAROSA: Send For The Sea
Sweeping, melancholy waves of fresh art-rock help anchor an album unleashing a sea of joy and sorrow.
CD price: $10.97
JEREMY SHARMA: Albatross
An emotionally-charged album of songs which draw influences from folk, bar/lounge jazz, post punk and electronica.
Recommended if you like The Blue Nile, Tindersticks.CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $12.97
TIM NIELSEN: Ghosts
Memorable songs in a country/folk vein. Seasoned, believable vocals and great textural guitar work.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
OSVALDO PAESE: Definitions
The songs Gwen Stefani and Jonny Lang will be writing in the year 2089 sung by Leonardo the Ninja Turtle.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
NAT KENDALL PRESENTS: SONGBIRD SING: Songbird Sing
Truest stories of the broken heartist drawn out of a drum machine, acoustic guitar, piano and more. Rich truth laced with the abstract emcee, nat kendall, and the luscious vocals of vegas songstress, paige rasmussen.
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $13.99
SHANNON REYNOLDS: Growing
This is something very special a rare songwriting gift; a combination of strong melodies, seductive lyrics, darkness and humor - its story will talk to your soul.
Recommended if you like Joni Mitchell.CD price: $12.97
CEDARWELL: Smoky Mountain Bear
Weaving richly textured layers of sound, yet remaining undeniably sparse, the new album is a meditative self-confrontation that is raw with mournful honesty and rife with expansive landscape imagery.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
KARMMA: 16th St.
Introspective folk-oriented rock and roll with various moods.
Recommended if you like O.A.R., Josh Ritter.CD price: $11.50 / MP3 price: $8.50
HOWARD MURPHY: 911-we Know
An elusive mix of country, blues, and unique rock.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $7.11
WADIRUM: Letters I Never Plan to Mail
Indie Rock with harmony, hooks, and kick ass cello.
Recommended if you like Damien Rice, Swell Season.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
PAUL EVANS: Agua Noir
If Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and Mark Knopfler had a baby, this would be it.
CD price: $12.97
KEITH NEWBERRY & LOT 5: They Told Us Lies
Political rock - modern day protest songs with excellent lyrics, superb female vocalist, professional musicians, and me.
CD price: $15.00
ROBYN LUDWICK: For So Long
Her words are beautifully impure, covered in blood, bone and marrow. Anyone with blood instead of sawdust in the veins will sit a few moments and drink in the extraordianry gift that for so long is.
Recommended if you like Stevie Nicks, Janis Joplin.CD price: $12.97
HAVOC IN THE HEAVENS: Havoc in the Heavens
Acoustic rock, Each song is a little journey.Incredibly intimate. Get ready to melt into the woodwork.
CD price: $12.00
NAFREGAH: Fall 2007 EP
The style of this album stays near the vein of early Black Metal with undertones of Anglo-Saxon, Slavic, and Rroma melodies.
Recommended if you like Darkthrone, Sapthuran.CD price: $7.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
DEEPRESSION FALLS: Deepression Falls
I am the shadow that shuts out the last shard of light in your unhappy little insignificant life.A ten thousand strong emo procession leading an unplugged musical mass requiem through the streets of a Twin Peaks like town. Acoustic, melancholic, brooding
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
TRACY MORROW: Morning Is the End of the Day
A stark, solemn collection of acoustic ballads for fans of of lonely back-roads, cheap whiskey, and maybe a little Leonard Cohen/Neil Young.
Recommended if you like Neil Young, Leonard Cohen.CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
DAN WEINTRAUB: What's Your Point?
Disdain is a good thing.
Recommended if you like Warren Zevon, The Cramps.CD price: $12.97
ANGRY JOHNNY: Overcome With Lonely
A broken heart soaked in whiskey, set to music and left to rot.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
VIAROSA: Where the Killers Run
“a swooning blend of violins, mandolins, country death songs and Nick Cave vocals… this is the sound of revenge. Served icy cold. ” - The Independent
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $8.97
DAN WEINTRAUB: Loose Ends
Dark, darker, darkest. Folk and country with an edge.
Recommended if you like Merle Haggard, Joe Jackson.CD price: $12.97
TRACY MORROW AND THE MAGI CHIPPIE: Someday You Will Find A Home
A stark, solemn collection of acoustic ballads for fans of of lonely back-roads, cheap whiskey, and maybe a little Leonard Cohen/Neil Young.
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
EDENLIGHT: Up Calihona
The sound of footsteps stumbling home. A blend of punk sensibilities, Dylan style folk, old hymns and earthy vocals brewed into a strong cup of coffee.
CD price: $10.00
THE GREAT OUTDOORS: Food, Booze, and Entertainment
Drifting indie folk rock
CD price: $17.50 / MP3 price: $17.50
LEVI WEAVER: You Are Never Close to Home, You Are Never Far From Home
Taking on Americana, country, pop, rock, and whatever-it-is-those-weird-indie-kids-are-doing, this debut album is a patchwork quilt of lyric-sheet-reading poetry.
CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
PAUL CARNEY: Dying Days
If you like listening to easy, laid back music with a modern contemporary feel, strong melodies and great instruments then you'll love Paul's music. He sings with passion about tragedies we can all relate to and his voice is simply stunning.
Recommended if you like James Blunt, Paolo Nutini.CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $1.00
IVAN SANDOMIRE: If You Say So
Biodegradable, sanitized, and home cooked for your scuba diving pleasure- mind the sharks
Recommended if you like Radiohead, Jeff Buckley.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ABSOLUTE GREY: Greenhouse
Part of a 1980's sound & scene that included early REM, Dream Syndicate, Rain Parade, 28th Day, and Let's Active.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
RHUBARB: The Julius Work Calendar
The long-awaited new album from Richard Haswell - ".glorious, like rain in a desert…a subtle record with the atmosphere of a storm… chaotic and brooding with flashes of incredible brilliance and loud bangs." ClickMusic
CD price: $15.98 / MP3 price: $11.98
CHRISTIAN KIEFER AND SHARRON KRAUS: The Black Dove
Weaving quiet, near-tradition folk music with hushed indie rock murmur in a series of letters between ghosts and the living.
CD price: $12.99
THE DREAMSCAPES PROJECT: There Are No Safe Words
Self recorded and mixed at Dragonfly Studios in Haymarket, VA. Mix of rock, folk, blues, and funk.
Recommended if you like Soul Coughing, Tool.MP3 price: $10.00
ROB ROPER: Some Songs I Wrote
A do-it-yourself recording by Rob Roper. Roper wrote all the songs, played all the instruments, and recorded them himself at his Denver home.
CD price: $7.50 / MP3 price: $7.50
MARK STEINER: Fallen Birds
With the voice of a dark and powerful seasoned crooner, Mark Steiner's special brand of 'Lounge-Noir' makes it difficult to quit smoking cigarettes and cut back on the booze.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
JANE LUI: Barkentine
headphones recommended. This lo-budget hi-concept record is dreamy organic & highly detail oriented. Piano at age 4, conducting by age 9, she was an awarded singer/songwriter with influences wide as Bjork, Feist, & A.C. Jobim.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $9.99
PAINFUL REMINDER: World of Filth and Sin
Songs to slit your wrists by. For when you want to snap your fingers with one hand and hold a shotgun to your head with the other. Post-punk influenced acoustic rock.
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