As of 2011, Gordon Lightfoot had performed at Toronto's Massey Hall 150 times, the most shows any artist had played in the concert hall's 117-year history, so it's only fitting that the venerable Canadian folk icon should release a live ...

Though the Band are often discussed in terms of their contributions to musical Americana, drummer Levon Helm was in fact the only American-born member of the group, and his Dixie-fried, high lonesome lilt was one of the keys to their ...

2011 collection from the late Folk/Pop superstar. This collection features all his great hits and ends with Denver's biggest songwriting success, 'Leaving On A Jet Plane', which now seems inseparable from Peter, Paul & Mary. But to hear Denver sing ...

English folk outfit Mumford & Sons' full-length debut owes more than a cursory nod to bands like the Waterboys, the Pogues, and the Men They Couldn't Hang. The group's heady blend of biblical imagery, pastoral introspection, and raucous, pub-soaked heartache ...

2012 two CD release. Featured here are four early albums from the Folk music icon: Joan Baez In San Francisco, Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square, Joan Baez and her breakthrough album, Joan Baez Vol. 2.

This posthumous anthology is the perfect introduction to the astonishing vocal talents of Eva Cassidy, a young, relatively unknown singer who died of cancer at 33, just as her career was beginning to gain steam. Cassidy, a native of Washington ...

Folk music. Digitally remastered by Andrew Garver, Dan Hersch, and Bill Inglot. He may be remembered by the unenlightened as a purveyor of mellow '70s AM radio hits, but Gordon Lightfoot is as fine a singer-songwriter as Canada has ever produced (no small ...

Folk album. The fourth album by string-band revivalists Old Crow Medicine Show and their first for Nettwerk Records, O.C.M.S. is the band's strongest work. Evenly split between traditional folk and blues songs like "C.C. Rider" and "Poor Man" and originals by the ...

Folk songs. On November 23, 2011, author, singer, and songwriter Leonard Cohen released "Show Me the Way" as a precursor to Old Ideas, his first album since 2004. Two more new songs, "Lullaby" and "Darkness," were showcased during his two-year world tour ...

Folk album. The Carolina Chocolate Drops update their vintage string band sound a bit with New Orleans-based cellist Leyla McCalla and beatbox specialist Adam Matta for 2012's Leaving Eden, which was produced by Buddy Miller. Audio Mixer: Mike Poole. Recording information: Buddy Miller's Home, ...

Principally recorded at The Maryland Inn, Annapolis, Maryland. Includes liner notes by Kevin Howlett. As is so often the case, the talents of singer Eva Cassidy did note come to public attention until after her death. Cassidy died at a mere ...

The Lumineers, a folk-rock trio out of Denver, Colorado, have a pretty interesting sound, an Americana mesh of folk, rock, and gospel that is similar in tone to the Waterboys, say, or an alt-folk version of Bob Dylan circa Desire, ...

Laura Nyro was one of the most strikingly original singer/songwriters of the 1960s and '70s. The way she synthesized jazz, blues, gospel, R&B, and girl-group pop, combining them all into a new paradigm informed by the burgeoning introspective song poet ...

Loudon Wainwright III's Older Than My Old Man Now is his take on a memoir, told in 15 songs. Here he attempts to sum up his tangled family history, three marriages and his relationships to each of his children -- ...

Includes liner notes by David Halberstam. All tracks have ...