"Like Freshly Mown Grass" by Italian singer-songwriter Simone Romei aka Des Moines is one of my favorite records in 2018. A wonderful album, filled with the most beautiful and saddest folk songs and superb solo acoustic guitar instrumentals.
The whol …
After some silence I worked through my stacks of music to compile a new edition of Songs of Wild Nothing.
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Starting off with an exclusive song by Simone Romei aka Desmoines. He recorded a beautiful folk album that should be of interest for every …
Dutch singer-songwriter Joost Dijkema debuts with a wonderful and diverse album of folk, americana and primitive guitar magic.
The cover artwork is the first thing that gives you a hint where this album will take you. It's an adaptation of Robert Cru …
Hello to a new year! I hope you all had a grand ending of 2015 and a nice start into 2016. Nobody can predict the future so we have to rely on our dreams and hopes and most important to our ability to do things, to move into the right direction.
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Stephen Burch is a modern bard and troubadour, who is travelling around with his guitar and a suitcase full of weird and sometimes dark stories.
As The Great Park, Burch is playing his so called Problem Folk and the stories and songs are ranging …
Here is a nice solo set by Ryley Walker, recorded for the well known Folkadelphia serie, last year.
Beside all the praise Walker will get for his coming album Primrose Green, it's important to keep an ear open for his solo (radio) appearances.
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A sad young man from a tiny northern country singing sad songs in best bedroom folk fashion with hints to dusty Americana.
"It's the same old sad Simon, it's same old sad song, It's the same, It's the same, I'm so sad&quo …
After two pure instrumental, solo guitar releases (one as split with Andrew Weathers), Wes Tirey is going to release his new album "O, Annihilator" on Full Spectrum Records next week.
Like on his debut "I stood among trees", h …
Is that Jeremy Earl from psych folk rockers Woods out of Brooklyn on the cover? Most probably not. Maybe his mom and his dad. But who ever these two are, the picture is a great cover for this collection of songs. Old and new, homerecorded folk music …