Buffy Sainte-Marie’s ‘It’s My Way!’ at 60: Maybe Not Entirely Her Way!
For decades, Buffy Sainte-Marie was celebrated as America’s most famous Indigenous musician. Recent revelations force a reconsideration of her music.
For decades, Buffy Sainte-Marie was celebrated as America’s most famous Indigenous musician. Recent revelations force a reconsideration of her music.
The underlying theme of folk artist Tom Rush’s new LP, Gardens Old, Flowers New, is that the greatest pleasure lies in human relationships.
Taylor Swift, BTS, and Stromae are at the frontlines of de-stigmatizing mental health challenges as something so relatable that they can make a hit song about it.
Too Many Souls is the latest installment in Canadian alternative folk artist Avi C. Engel’s pursuit of “one long continuous song”.
Bob Dylan’s third album The Times They Are A-Changin’ was his darkest and most political, a modern folk landmark that remains a template for socially conscious music.
Chelsea Wolfe is as uncompromising a poet as she has ever been on She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She. The purpose is not to be more of the same.
Polaroid Lovers, the seventh studio LP by Grammy-winning songwriter Sarah Jarosz, finds the songwriter capturing a new energy with her take on American music.
Musically and lyrically, Richard Thompson’s I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight is a provocative album that marks a radical advance in English folk rock.
Folk music’s Willi Carlisle suggestively reminds us of our place in the animal kingdom as we are just critters doing the best we can with Critterland.
Adam Remnant’s new EP is full of narratives about mistakes of the past, life routine, and nighttime miracles, with a touch of Elliott Smith and Bright Eyes.
Combined with TK & The Holy Know Nothings, Americana/folk artist John Craigie finds that new kind of redemption on Pagan Church.
Lizzie No knows all things must pass. Halfsies is a beautiful Americana/folk record with the lovely theme of freedom implicit in the lyrics.