Herb Pedersen is an American musician from California who plays in styles such as country, bluegrass, folk, and other related genres. Pedersen has been in the music scene since 1961, and over…
Category: folk
Bonnie Dobson – Bonnie Dobson (1969)
Bonnie Dobson is a Canadian folk singer/songwriter who was mostly active during the days of the American folk revival movement of the early 1960s, up through to the mid 1970s. Bonnie Dobson…
June Tabor – Abyssinians (1983)
June Tabor is an English folk musician who has been active in the music scene since 1972. Tabor was notably influenced by Anne Briggs, an English folk singer who was active mostly…
Tom Waits – Closing Time (1973)
Tom Waits is an American singer/songwriter who has been active in the music industry since 1971. I first found out about Waits about a week or two ago when I found out…
The Fernweh – The Fernweh (2018)
The Fernweh is a modern psychedelic folk band from Liverpool, England. The idea for the group first came about in 2007, though their first (and only album thus far) wasn’t released until…
The Babies – Our House On the Hill (2012)
The Babies are a garage rock band from Brooklyn, and have been active since 2009, though they have been mostly inactive since about 2014 so that at least some of the band…
Trembling Bells – Carbeth (2009)
Trembling Bells was a Scottish folk rock group that was formed in 2008 and based in Glasgow, until the band ultimately split up in 2018. After about 10 years together, the band…
A.L. Lloyd – The Foggy Dew and Other Traditional (1956/2012)
Tonight I’m going to be listening to The Foggy Dew and Other Traditional English Love Songs (1956) by A.L. Lloyd featuring Alf Edwards. A.L. Lloyd has been noted as an influential figure…
Anne Briggs – Anne Briggs (1971)
Anne Briggs is an English folk musician who was mostly active from 1963 to 1973, though she was also briefly active in 1990 and 1993, at least according to her Wikipedia page….
Trader Horne – Morning Way (1970)
Trader Horne was a British folk duo comprised of Jackie McAuley, a former keyboard player and vocalist in Them, and Judy Dyble, the former lead vocalist of Fairport Convention. Though the group…