Folk » Type: Improvisational
EOIN DUIGNAN: Coumineol
Original compositions played on uilleann pipes and low whistles based in the Irish and celtic traditions both haunting and exciting
Recommended if you like Paddy Keenan.CD price: $17.50 / MP3 price: $17.50
LEON HUNT: Miles Apart
Music spanning bluegrass, Irish, jazz and all points in between. A true 'transatlantic session' featuring some of the best acoustic musicians from the UK and the US including Stuart Duncan, Viktor Krauss, Michael McGoldrick, Flook etc.
CD price: $15.00
NAT KEEFE: Concert Carnival
The guitarist of Hot Buttered Rum produces a variety show, including musicians from ALO, Peter Rowan/Tony Rice Quartet, New Monsoon, Everyone Orchestra, and Hot Buttered Rum.
Recommended if you like The String Cheese Incident, Yonder Mountain String Band, Hot Buttered Rum String Band.MP3 price: $12.97
THE RIVER PILOTS: The Unexpected Adventures Of...
A sonic adventure for the soul.
CD price: $16.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
MEGAN WASHINGTON & SEAN FORAN: Nightlight
This beautiful recording of vocals with trio of piano/bass/drums sits solidly in a beautiful place between jazz, folk and contemporary pop music, transcending categorization with its defining characteristic being the sublime vocals and inventive writing.
CD price: $20.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
GONSTERMACHERS: Gonstermachers
Originally written and performed traditional and new blues with performed on non traditional instruments
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
BRAGOD: KAINGK
6th-17th century Welsh music and poetry, with bowed lyre or crwth and voice: 2CD box set includes lavish booklet with parallel text translations, photos and two videos of performance.
CD price: $25.00 / MP3 price: $25.00
VARIOUS ARTISTS: The Great Accordionists
Impressive performances of Bulgarian accordionist players. VISIT www.bulgarianmusic.net
MP3 price: $12.97
THE TOSSERS: Communication & Conviction: The Last Seven Years
Although their name may be irreverent, their music certainly is not. The heart of their distinct sound is derived through the melding of traditional Irish and Punk Rock roots.
Recommended if you like Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly.
SKYE STEELE QUINTET: late bloomer.
Jazz with rhythms and melodies from every corner of the world: Turkey, Brazil, Ireland, Sesame Street, and your backyard.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ROBERT COATES: Dragonfly
Warm, earthy guitars, mellow vocals, unique rhythms, a perfect blend of modern folk, jazz, and rock.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
EXPERIENCE KEF: Songs of the Harvest
Experience Kef is breaking boundaries and revealing a new genre that sends you into space with tight grooves of jazz and funk, while bringing you back to Earth with touches of folk and reggae.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
DAVID MOLINARI: Whispering To A Crowd
Insightful lyrics merge with elements of folk, rock, and jazz, all dished up by a multi-talented songwriter/musician and his first-class backup band.
THE WILD BAND OF SNEE: Playhouse of the Universe
Wild colorful melodic music from the Land of SNEE.
MP3 price: $15.00
JEREMIAH MCLANE: Freetown
Celtic and Acadian Instrumental
Recommended if you like Nightingale, Amestoy Trio.CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $13.97
THE MCDADES: For Reel
Innovative roots-based groups blending Celtic, World & Jazz in an explosive cocktail of original & traditional vocal and instrumental music. Crafting a new Canadian sound.
CD price: $15.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
HORSES BRAWL: Horses Brawl
Exuberant Traditional and Medieval music. "toe-tappingly jolly to sensually languorous.an astounding range of textures.superb musicians"
CD price: $16.99 / MP3 price: $16.99
GREAT UNCLES OF THE REVOLUTION: Blow The House Down
Acoustic, eclectic avant-folk by Juno Award-winning quartet
CD price: $13.97
STONECIRCLE: Alchemy
A vibrant five-piece, Celtic fusion band that creates a musical experience that is both ethereal and beautifully uplifting. A language of haunting melodies and mystical storytelling.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
AARON BAER: The Show
A Ukulele & coffee driven eccentric mix of jugband, ol tyme country, bluegrass and folk.
Recommended if you like Squirrel Nut Zippers, Lil Will.
ALEX WHYTE: Silent Space
Music for soft-shelled hearts. Alex Whyte is a story-teller, raising your memories, and evoking what hangs in the background. Her blend of jazz, folk and country with a voice full of nuance can cut like a knife or rock you to sleep.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
TOM CARTER & CHRISTIAN KIEFER: A Rather Solemn Promise
Experimental folk music comprised of dueling stringed instruments performed live in the studio. In the vein of Espers, Charalambides, Nels Cline, and Pelt in a hand-screen and numbered edition of 500. Covered hand-screened by Rob Fisk (ex-Deerhoof).
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
DALLA: Rooz
Traditional Cornish Celtic acoustic roots music; fans of Celtic music will find Dalla's music surprisingly strange yet strangely familiar.
MP3 price: $17.00
DALLA: A Richer Vein
Traditional Cornish Celtic acoustic roots music; fans of Celtic music will find Dalla's music surprisingly strange yet strangely familiar.
CD price: $17.00 / MP3 price: $17.00
STOLEN SHACK: Stolen Shack
Mellow traditional folk/bluegrass with a Baroque and jazz twist. Featured on National Public Radio (NPR) All Songs Considered. "A mind-bending journey of improbable range and vision, Stolen Shack imagines the sound of a brave new world..." Leo Sacks, Sony
CD price: $13.95 / MP3 price: $9.95
ANDREW STRANGLEN: Deep Wood
Solo Steel String Syncopated Fingerpicking guitar: this style has been described as "American Primitive Guitar", and draws heavily from early Americana Folk/Blues/Roots music.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MIKE TRUITT: Coming Out of the Blue
Mike is a genuine down-home original Delawarean who composes and plays his own unique blend of blues, folk, and gospel, with some folk tales added to the blend.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
GNARKILL: Gnarkill vs. Unkle Matt & the Shitbirdz
Gnarkill must have picked up the Shitbirdz, went to the Pawn Shop and swapped the keyboards for a Les Paul and Marshall Stacks because a lot of the songs on this record are Heavy as Hell. Dico and the boys are at full velocity on this one.
CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $8.88
MIKE TRUITT: Plain Slice Mike
Mike is a genuine down-home original Delawarean who composes and plays his own unique blend of blues, folk, and gospel, with some folk tales added to the blend.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
FOLIAS: CARMEN MARET AND ANDREW BERGERON: Tangos Metamorphoses
Folias’ debut CD features original arrangements of traditional Argentine tangos, Astor Piazzolla’s History of the Tango, along with two world premier compositions by Andrew Bergeron.
DALLA: More Salt
Traditional Cornish Celtic Acoustic Roots Music Fans of Celtic music will find Dalla's music suprisingly strange yet strangely familiar.
CD price: $17.00 / MP3 price: $17.00
PINK SABBATH: The Pink Sabbath
The Siren Folk Metal Quartet entertains with Andrews Sisters-esque vocal harmonies over accordion, violin, electrack bass and Pinky's club fist factory Martin guitar; the occasional drumkit's thrown in 'cause Saturday Night's Allright for fightin'
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
GREAT UNCLES OF THE REVOLUTION: Stand Up!
Instrumental, avant-folk by Juno Award-winning quartet
Recommended if you like Ry Cooder, Bill Frisell.CD price: $13.97
LORI PRESTHUS: A Moment in Time-cello improvisation
"A Moment in Time" is a rich and evocative improvisational cello work consisting of two tracks ebbing and flowing in exquisite harmony.
CD price: $15.00
ANDY GUTHRIE: Milk and Waste
Milk and Waste is without a doubt Andy Guthrie's most sophiticated album. Combining his voice to the cello, the trumpet or the wurlitzer, Andy has created an unforgettable mix of genres, moods and poetry.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
BIOSINTEZ: Deity
Jazz with Tuvan throat singing
Recommended if you like Sainkho Namtchylak.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
RADCLIFFE AND OLIVEIRA: Two Hot to Handle
Hot traditional jazz duo -- 'Ragtime' Jack Radcliffe on piano and the late Al Oliveira on clarinet and tenor sax. Traditional roots music at its purest and hottest.
Recommended if you like Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson.CD price: $9.98 / MP3 price: $9.98
TRICYCLE: Emerge and See
Featuring banjo, guitar, upright bass and drums, Tricycle is a fresh response to music-making, alternately dark, meditative, spacious, free -spirited and down-home.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
HAWK LITTLEJOHN: Native Blues
Pictorial improvised compositions derived from stories of the Cherokee and land in North Carolina.
Recommended if you like Robert Mirabal.
LEFTY JONES BAND: Sea-Monster
Loose and lyrical, improvisational Americana from a prolific recording artist.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
DONALD RUBINSTEIN: Long Parade
"A FASCINATING, ORIGINAL EXPERIENCE" blends modern modern folk with avante classical and jazz
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE PORCH PISTOLS: The Porch Pistols
Called 'Improvised Acoustic Americana' by this heartfelt duo -- the trademark sound includes acoustic guitars, harmonicas, bluesy vocals and the channeled spirit of the hillbilly shaman.
CD price: $12.97
SARAH FRIDRICH: EP 2007
Sanguine Portishead tempos and sultry vocals make up this debut EP. An emotional travelogue filled with acrid political commentary, Sarah's sophisticated sound is embedded with catchy songwriting.
CD price: $10.00
THE COAL MOUNTAIN RAMBLERS: CMR To The Max
Contemporary improvisational acoustic roots music: see also original songwriting, bluegrass, folk, rock, blues, jam band, improvisational.
Recommended if you like Neil Young, Grateful Dead.CD price: $11.99 / MP3 price: $11.99
SEAN BLOSL: Rhythm Train
Rhythm Train is a mixture of fingerstyle acoustic guitar and field recordings. Sometimes rambunctious, sometimes melodic, sometimes slippery.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
ISAAC PADDON AND THE TIDES: A Stones Throw From Home
A raw, organic blend of roots, rock, reggae and folk.
CD price: $19.95
BEN MCCLELLAND: Pretty Little Dog
Bluegrass and classic/contemporary folk fiddle
Recommended if you like Kenny Baker.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
DOMINIQUE EADE: Open
Jazz/singer/songwriter“The Boston-based vocalist recently came to town and introduced a handful of new, grippingly poetic tunes as well as very impressive pianist, Jed Wilson…she sings [them] with a voice that enjoys its own acrobatic splendor.” Jim Macni
CD price: $12.97
JASON MORROW: 40 Weeks
With the blues of Clapton, a jam band's openness to explore and the things of the spirit on my mind.
Recommended if you like Jack Johnson.CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $8.00
DECIMA Y PUNTO CUBANO: Te Invoca mi Sueño Herido
You can enjoy the playing and singing of those who met at the 1999 Encuentro de Decimistas y Versadores (Ten-line Stave Writers) to improvise in this age-old Spanish verse tradition which thrives in many parts of the Americas and Spain. It so happens i
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MYSTIC FOG GARDEN: Memories in the Attic
Music you can feel that has soul. This album was improvisational and caught at the moment of creation in 1988, Mystic Fog Garden livingroom.
Recommended if you like The Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ANDY GUTHRIE: 1616 Burdette
In this gorgeously dark acoustic album, Andy Guthrie's bare guitar chords, melodic piano, and beautiful voice combine to create a haunting mood. It is utterly sincere, vibrant, intoxicating.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
CROOKED KILT: Complex Presence
this diverse group plays a host of genres, from folk, cowboy, oldtimey, originals, to Irish/Scottish all with a celtic influence. sure to please both the traditionalists, and the not so traditionalists.
CD price: $15.00
JUSTIN PURTILL: Permanent Mystery
This music is both honest and spiritual, raw and urbane, and is primarily rooted in the rock and free music genres
CD price: $9.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
ANDREW COLLINS AND MARC ROY: Likewise
A collection of original duets, showcasing the mastery and virtuosity of two great instrumentalists.
MP3 price: $15.00
NED EVETT FRANCK VIGROUX: Evett Vigroux
Ned Evett Franck Vigroux, twins of the fretless guitar, brothers in sound. Their eponymous debut on the D'Autres Cordes label. The CD is a leap of creative effort, with the duo capturing a spontaneous but highly organized and entertaining field of sound.
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $13.97
NEIL GELVIN & FIDDLIN' PETE WATERCOTT: Folk Songs and Fiddle Tunes
Favorite folk ballads, fiddle tunes, and some free form guitar and fiddle jams bring the sense of live performance into your home.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
AEOLIAN MUSIC WORKS: COSMIC PODUNK
A compilation album of independent artists performing ambient-tribal, blues, folk, jazz-rock, space-rock, and spoken-word music.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
WOITCHECK: La MontaÑa
It's a kind of Ibicencan(Ibiza's) Love ballade ...talking about ... mountains .. and LIFE,....in spanish....
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
ERLING LANDSVERK: Memories and Dreams
Easy listening classical guitar
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
CHRIS ALVINO: Brighter Than The Sun
Alternative folk, melodic, love songs , controversial ,new sound.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SIECOX: Noisy Folk
The astonishing, experimental improvised guitar and vocal works of Sabrina Siegel and Charles Coxon.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
BOB BASSARA, CLAYTON BAILEY, JON RASKIN: Kaolithic Music, Sounds from the Pre Credulous Age
3 jaw harp players recorded in a 538 gallon vase that was used to establish a time-continuum link to the Kaolithic Age. A intimate, vibrate acoustic space ideal for creative music from one of the original instruments created by humans.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
GOOD MORNING MAXFIELD: 2290 (Live EP)
At once familiar and forward-thinking; Maxfield combines elements of old country, new folk, jamrock, and more in a song-driven, organic sound.
CD price: $5.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
ALLISON LEE SCOTT: small & infinite
Their music SparKles. A combination of Pop, Jazz & Folk. Beautiful vocals, complimented and expanded by lush instrumental nuance. These songs will light a fire and snuggle in with you.
CD price: $14.00
SWAMPJAZZ: Romp In The Swamp
Swampjazz is a loose organic, groove oriented interpretation of rock, blues,jazz, folk, cosmic country and doo wop.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
DETERMINED LUDDITES: String Theory
The Determined Luddites play twin mandolin and D-28 driven original progressive acoustic string music.
Recommended if you like Nickel Creek, David Grisman.CD price: $12.97
BEAUCOUP BLUE: Hearts At Home
Bridging many gaps in American music, their soulful traditional and contemporary style mesh into an innovative and authentic sound.
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $13.99
EARTH'S SEDUCTIVE HAZE: Resurrection Revisited
A cross-genre album, with influences ranging from Native American, to Blues, to Folk, to Jazz. Track #8 was selected to be used as part of the soundtrack to a film called "The Hatch" which showed at the 2006 Banff Film Festival.
CD price: $6.97
DAVID GANS: Solo Electric
Americana-type songs, ethereal loop jams, sardonic humor.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
ED ENGLERTH: D.I.A.L. Business
""Moody Intelligent Folk Jazz Blues" - Masterful guitar playing and lyrical depth, a rare combination.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
HOODOOH: The Sisyphyus Project
Groove music with the special touch of Mountain Wank or Funk, Folk, Jazz, Rock Combo...
MP3 price: $9.00
RALPH FAMIGLIETTI: Nice Work If You Can Get It
Adult Alternative fusion of bluegrass and 60's pop. Call it "popgrass", Hendrix meets Bill Monroe, melodic acoustic music.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SOUND PROOF: The Chicago Bus
Sound proof is rootsy folk-fueled organic blues music.
CD price: $15.99 / MP3 price: $15.99
TOM COLLINS: On The Rocks
Folk Rock, jazz and blues mixes. Medium Up Tempo.
CD price: $19.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
DESTEFANO & MCLEOD: Coloring the Sky
A folk-jazz hybrid - instrumental and vocal acoustic guitar duo, featuring improvisational twists and turns. Truely something unique.
CD price: $9.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
DAVID TAFFET: TOTALLY GRASP HARMONY Guitar Lesson DVD
This video presents information for those often-neglected players, the intermediate to advanced guitar student. With this DVD you'll fill in all the gaps in your understanding so you'll always know where you are when improvising your way through a song.
CD price: $29.95
EVAN RAYMOND: Broken Cage
Spatial engaging instrumental sound; philosphically-wandering, contemplative rock.
Recommended if you like Neil Young, Jerry.CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
JANA: Smoke & Mirrors
A surpisingly eclectic mix of Rock, Jazz, Folk, Pop and more... Jana's lyrics & vocals take you on a journey to an intimate part of your soul. Phenomenal instrumentation & acoustic driven.
CD price: $12.00
TOM DEWS & JASON GROSS: Buttons Ballads Blues
Acoustic folk/blues, with deft simultaneous guitar and harmonica complemented with wicked mandolin - all surrounding distinctive vocals on some haunting originals and covers.
Recommended if you like Guy Clark, The Soggy Bottom Boys.CD price: $10.00
WYNDFALL: Piper's Dream
Traditional & original Celtic & Folk Rock music on guitar, vocals, flute, cello & drums. Some songs are high energy, others are sweet.
CD price: $14.15 / MP3 price: $14.15
THE YAKIMA 2: Trees Of Fire
Folk rock
Recommended if you like Van Morrison, Les Paul.CD price: $9.99 / MP3 price: $3.00
BILLY X. CURMANO JOHN PENDERGAST: Amanita (Aminita)
Atmospheric and sweet, but never saccharine, acoustic folk jazz with dulcimer, guitar, harmonica, mbira and voice.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE NETTLES: The Nettles
This progressive Celtic group takes traditional Irish and American music and sets it ablaze with wild improvisation and driving rhythm.
CD price: $11.97 / MP3 price: $10.00
GEORGE STETTEN: Awake at the Wheel
Folk-rock with a jazz influence.
Recommended if you like James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Bill Evans, The Allman Brothers Band, Bill Staines.MP3 price: $10.00
JOHN HEALY: Pay To Play
A blend: rock, bluegrass, R&B, and soul. A modern folk record.
CD price: $19.99 / MP3 price: $19.99
NYLON & STEEL: Slip Behind The Molecule
Vintage mid-sixties style folk rock tinged with Haight Ashbury fuzz and flowers
CD price: $12.00
DAVID GANS: Solo Acoustic
Psychedelic folk-rock singer-songwriter Americana
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
LONG BEACH MERCENARIES: Greasy Fingers
One of the top 10 biker albums of all time now available through CD Baby.
Recommended if you like Bob Dylan, Dire Straits.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
JOHN ARNOLD: SMOOTH JAZZY FEELINGS
This is smooth jazz with a Caribbean feel,melodies that put put you in a space where you experience a blend of folk, world music, and jazz.The album addresses the various moods you go through in your life.LISTEN
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
TRIPLE DOG DARE: Virtual Radio
Whether you think it's New Wave Folk ...Psychoactive Pop ...Rockin' Shoe ...Cosmicomedy ...Indie Improv ...or just plain Heavy Mellow, you're probably right; but don't take our word for it: keep it spinnin' for awhile and see where those pesky labels fall
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
DE EENHEID: Sampler
This is only jamming in Villa Gaasloos in Holland Amsterdam in the squat and in some many different places from Holland;the Hague and even in the USSR Hungary. This cd is recorded on MP3.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
