John and Beverley Martyn are an English folk singer/songwriter husband and wife duo, who mostly had their own individual careers apart from their work as a duo, but did make two albums…
Roy Harper – Stormcock (1971)
Roy Harper is an English folk artist that recently came to my attention when an album of his was suggested to me by Apple Music. Harper was mostly an acoustic guitarist, but…
Merl Saunders – Merl Saunders (1974)
If you’re familiar with the jam band community at all, there’s a good to fair chance that you’ve heard of Merl Saunders, as he often sometimes played keyboard with the Jerry Garcia…
Arlo Guthrie – Alice’s Restaurant (1967)
Arlo Guthrie was an American folk artist, who has since retired. Similar to his Father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo was somewhat of a specialist with protest songs against social injustice through storytelling and…
Tom Paxton – Ramblin’ Boy (1964)
Tom Paxton is an American folk artist, who began his career in 1962, and has toured as recently as 2019. He’s won the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and created modern folk standards…
Message – The Dawn Anew Is Coming (1972)
Keeping with the minor trend starting from yesterday, today I’ll be listening to an album from another genre I haven’t written about yet, Krautrock (this is a subgenre that Discogs lists for…
Blackbird Raum – Under the Starling Host (2009)
A genre I had never thought about until recently was folk punk music. When I was first told about Blackbird Raum, I was immediately interested in giving them a listen, and tonight’s…
Elias Hulk – Unchained (1970)
I don’t quite recall which album I was listening to when this album showed up on my dashboard under the ‘also suggested for you’ section on Apple Music the other night, but…
The David – Another Day, Another Lifetime (1967)
The David was a psychedelic garage rock band from Los Angeles, first formed in 1965 under the name of ‘The Reasons’, which eventually changed by the time the band released their only…
Scott Walker – Scott (1967)
Scott Walker was a pop turned avant-garde musician who was born in Ohio, lived in California, but became something of a British singer-songwriter by the end of his career. Walker passed away…