seeing jessica pratt tonight, excited
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 13:51 (eight years ago) link
Meg Baird record is really good! Also really into that Circuits Des Yeux record, heavy but beautiful record.
― grandavis, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 14:06 (eight years ago) link
don't think the album is from this year but I saw Jennifer Castle last week really enjoyed her, a little twee
Best album of the year IMO is Not So Deep as Well by Myriam Gendron
amazing adaptations of Dorothy Parker poems as singer-songwriter folk....shades of Nina Nastasia (a.k.a. the co-GOAT w/Joni)
http://tunes.mamabirdrecordingco.com/album/not-so-deep-as-a-well
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 14:27 (eight years ago) link
You should check out her albums UMS, specifically Pink City which is brilliant.
― xelab, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 14:29 (eight years ago) link
yeah i just found out about her, just great
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 14:38 (eight years ago) link
castle's on no quarter, right? that label has it down when it comes to this kind of thing -- great records by zachary cale and joan shelley coming out in a couple months.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 14:52 (eight years ago) link
yeah, also obv solar motel too, good label
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 15:02 (eight years ago) link
last year's castle album was tremendous - my #1 vote
― Mordy, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 15:04 (eight years ago) link
Love love loving the new Sam Lee albumhttp://www.npr.org/2015/07/27/425256277/hot-pants-glitter-and-alan-lomax-how-a-rising-singer-found-folk-music
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 July 2015 14:57 (eight years ago) link
This is a quick, third-quarter reminder that all available tracks mentioned on this thread (and a handful of album selections from each listed) are being updated to the thread-specific Spotify playlist as posted. I just did another top-to-bottom sweep prior to posting this message and have revised as of today with everything that's been added since first mentioned. Subscribe if you're into it!
It's 24 tracks, over an hour long.
Rolling Folk/Singer-Songwriter 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 26 September 2015 18:45 (eight years ago) link
I feel like today's listening will mostly consist of a surprise (to me anyway) new album by Alela Diane (with Ryan Francesconi, whom I only knew from his nice instrumental album Road to Palios but is/was apparently in Joanna Newsom's live band) and the dark folk of Dorthia Cottrell's self-titled (she's the singer of doom metal band Windhand).
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Friday, 16 October 2015 10:40 (eight years ago) link
one mention upthread and some discussion in the Fahey thread, but it's worth noting here, too: Joan Shelley's Over And Even is absolutely stunning, and one of the best albums of 2015 in any genre. check it out if you have not.
― alpine static, Monday, 23 November 2015 07:16 (eight years ago) link
The new Baby Dee album is really beautiful and characteristically haunted-sounding: https://tinangelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-a-stick
― one way street, Monday, 23 November 2015 17:26 (eight years ago) link
YESthink it's one of my favorites of the year; saw her do the album premiere party and it was definitely one of the best shows of the year
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 November 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
Joan Shelley's great, thx for the tip
― niels, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
not quite confirmed yet, but joan shelley might be doing a house concert ... at my house!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 16:23 (eight years ago) link
!!
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 19:47 (eight years ago) link
y'all are invited ...
― tylerw, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 20:04 (eight years ago) link
damn, sounds awesome!
― niels, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 20:35 (eight years ago) link
can't remember who exactly are colorado people on this board (i think some exist?) but once details are nailed down, I'll post about it...
― tylerw, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 20:40 (eight years ago) link
you should cross post 2 the fahey crv thread too
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 21:20 (eight years ago) link
the heidi berry fan in me is totally loving this.
https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlf1/v/t1.0-9/12274474_10154357667247137_1210492800646538947_n.jpg?oh=3804768df3ea71b78c92fdd24881eb40&oe=56E457B5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIDvKqCPI5w&feature=youtu.be
― scott seward, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 20:12 (eight years ago) link
yeah she's great
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 25 November 2015 20:25 (eight years ago) link
thx for the heads up on shelley- gorgeous
― Mordy, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 22:21 (eight years ago) link
I love that Joan Shelley album
― xelab, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 22:32 (eight years ago) link
she should have her own damn thread!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 22:33 (eight years ago) link
Joan Shelley
― tylerw, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 22:35 (eight years ago) link
https://40.media.tumblr.com/7fd50f07edb289f65c8cd293e7b8dc4b/tumblr_nyorda4Q2J1qzy30io1_1280.jpg
― tylerw, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
Still really enjoying the new Josh Ritter album. Lots of tunes, lots of good lines. As a singer he's too sunny to sell the apocalyptic stuff -- he should've sold "Birds of the Meadow" to Nick Cave. But I love the fast ones, and one of the slow ones -- "The Stone" -- is on my shortlist of songs of the year.
― something totally new, it’s the AOR of the twenty first century (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 16:02 (eight years ago) link
As we move into December, I'd like to drop a quick note to encourage any readers / lurkers / ilxors to post their favorite folk-y tracks or albums from this year to the thread so that I can hoover them into the ongoing spotify playlist. Last chance for any accessible stragglers that may not already be in the lexicon.
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 17:02 (eight years ago) link
Enjoying the new Simon Joyner album 'Grass, Branch & Bone'. Makes for a good late night listen.
https://simonjoyner.bandcamp.com/album/grass-branch-bone
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Wednesday, 16 December 2015 21:57 (eight years ago) link
Simon is amazing. Love this record.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, 18 December 2015 01:39 (eight years ago) link
guess we need a new thread ... but this 2015 Tiny Ruins release sounds great - https://tinyruins.bandcamp.com/album/hurtling-throughhas hamish kilgour on it ... think the myriam gendron fans here would dig.
― tylerw, Monday, 4 January 2016 17:59 (eight years ago) link
and this one too! seems to be getting a little attention -- a bit angel olsen-y? https://scissortail.bandcamp.com/album/listen-to-formation-look-for-the-signs
― tylerw, Monday, 4 January 2016 18:11 (eight years ago) link
oh I had missed that one, thanks for the heads up
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Monday, 4 January 2016 18:39 (eight years ago) link
really is great -- recommended!!!!
― tylerw, Monday, 4 January 2016 18:41 (eight years ago) link
I'm wrapping this playlist for the year. It has been updated with a few new adds (Dorthia Cottrell, Alela Diane, Meg Baird, The Weather Station) and includes every track mentioned on thread that is available via Spotify's US catalogue as of EOY 2015. If I missed something or if a track comes available sometime in the future, bump here to let me know and I'll add.
Rolling Folk 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 07:37 (eight years ago) link
Julien Baker's Newport Folk set now live streaming on NPR:http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2016/07/22/486910594/were-off-to-newport-folk-festivalMight be posted later; some from earlier this weekend are starting to show up. Unpretentious, fervent sonic-spiritual testimonial speculations, or quest if you like. She knows what she thinks and feels, but gets why they call it "faith."John Moreland's Saturday set was very good too. ("Hang me in the Tulsa stars.")
― dow, Sunday, 24 July 2016 18:00 (seven years ago) link
joanne robertson is inexplicably underrated, appeared on a few dean blunt things and she suits that hazy intimacy v well. I guess it's on her to record all the new cat power albums now, including this year's wildflower released a month before the avalanches' one. really like her spare guitar playing and the whole thing has an effortless strength to it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3aiuan3Pk0
― ogmor, Saturday, 27 August 2016 15:08 (seven years ago) link
dori freedman made one of this year's best albums
― Mordy, Saturday, 27 August 2016 15:15 (seven years ago) link
would love for this thread (or a new 2017 thread) to be more active in the coming year!
― alpine static, Friday, 30 December 2016 06:43 (seven years ago) link
me too!
it doesn't help that some of this stuff is already covered in the post-fahey brigade thread
some of the things I enjoyed this year, some with vocals, some without:
Sarah Louise - VDSQ Solo Acoustic Vol. 12Marisa Anderson - Into the LightGlenn Jones - FleetingLuke Roberts - Sunlit CrossMarissa Nadler - StrangersJackie Lynn (aka Circuit des Yeux) - s/tMike Wexler - SyntropyGareth Dickson - Orwell CourtBrigid Mae Power - s/tMatt Elliott - The Calm Before
― Dinsdale, Friday, 30 December 2016 11:51 (seven years ago) link
Hope everybody heard these in 2016:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7b3Mrtzm-0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUeU3FgFCOs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHyMtYdAX2E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHLIKOoX_n8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r08sY9lzFpQ
https://fredericksquire.bandcamp.com/album/spooky-action-at-a-distance
https://newdog.bandcamp.com/album/lost-weekend
― sean gramophone, Saturday, 31 December 2016 01:20 (seven years ago) link
yes, see, thank you for these ^^
i don't know if i am mellowing in my old age or what but i think i'm more into "Folk/Singer-Songwriter/Americana" than ever before.
2016 faves include Lori McKenna, Andy Shauf, Laura Gibson, Lydia Loveless, case/lang/veirs and Eric Bachmann, plus the great Stephen Steinbrink, though he's probably more "indie" than belongs in this thread.
― alpine static, Sunday, 1 January 2017 10:52 (seven years ago) link
The new Duke Garwood album 'Garden of Ashes' is a bit of a Lanegan-esque dark blues affair and it's better than anything Lanegan has done in years. Here's the 1st track:
https://youtu.be/9Ok3ztBXQIU
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 9 February 2017 21:20 (seven years ago) link
Full disclosure, I've done some writing for the roll-out of this album, but it's just wonderful, wonderful:
https://soundcloud.com/secretcityrecords/03-leif-vollebekk-elegy
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 9 February 2017 22:02 (seven years ago) link
Really love that Duke Garwood album.
― john. a resident of chicago., Thursday, 9 February 2017 22:19 (seven years ago) link
woah I had totally forgotten about Leif Vollebekk, love this guy's previous album, that's great news
― Dinsdale, Thursday, 9 February 2017 22:45 (seven years ago) link
new julie byrne record is extremely nicehttps://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/not-even-happiness
― tylerw, Thursday, 9 February 2017 23:10 (seven years ago) link
yeah the julie byrne is nice
here's something else in that vein, from Hand Habits aka Meg Duffy
https://handhabits.bandcamp.com/album/wildly-idle-humble-before-the-void-2
― Dinsdale, Friday, 10 February 2017 22:13 (seven years ago) link
I'm very much into this French guy right now:
https://talitres.bandcamp.com/album/the-silver-veil
― Dinsdale, Sunday, 4 June 2017 10:47 (six years ago) link
I saw that on the overlooked albums thread, that is a great release. Raoul Vignal's soft whisper and his fluid restrained guitar play remind me a little of Nick Drake. Vignal is more serene than melancholic though. So tender and smooth, perfect lullabye music.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 3 October 2017 09:12 (six years ago) link
Bands I really should explore more of part #123: Elephant Micah.
This version of Still Life Blues is so fucking good.
https://youtu.be/_1eqA681el4
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 20 October 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
this guy from Portland should be much better known, his 2017 album is excellent:
https://jeffreymartinportland.bandcamp.com/album/one-go-around
― alpine static, Friday, 1 December 2017 10:15 (six years ago) link
This new Lotte Kestner record is right up my alley. You know the deal by now: melancholic tunes ala Marissa Nadler, Alela Diane etc.
― Dinsdale, Monday, 8 January 2018 22:24 (six years ago) link
It's quietly been quite a good year for Americana/Roots records. Amanda Shires released a fantastic album. But the one I want to tell you all about is Life Ain't That Long by Rich Krueger. It's his debut album, he's a 58 year old neonatal doctor from Chicago who happens to be a fantastic songwriter.
If you like this genre, you will love this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_gKj7hS6OQ
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
Nice tune, but just once I'd like to hear one of these guys play a chord that can't be found within the first three pages of the Mel Bay Beginner Guitar Method Vol. 1
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjB3Qwjcimw
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 15:50 (five years ago) link
she knows a lot of chords
You are right about the chords but it'd be better if she would not sing.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
I made it about twenty seconds into that one
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
she's great but she already has two threads of her own! (for Big Thief and solo work)
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
I have never heard of this person but that's some of the most insufferable singing I have heard in a long time. Sorry.
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
tbf that's by some distance as out-there/incantative as her vocals get, stuff like "cradle" and "womb" are more representative
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link