Category: Freak Folk
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Ghost Bees & Laura Barrett
photo taken from Aberdeen show flyer So upcoming concert possibility is Ghost Bees and Laura Barrett here in Calgary on December 4th. I am still up in the air on participating so I am putting up a couple of tracks to see if you can convince me that I will be missing something by not…
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Slowcoustic Song of the Week
Just so everyone knows that I now have a song of the week, and folks this is it. I have recently picked up the Callers Album “Fortune” that was released this past August and fully missed them if it weren’t for my Western Vinly playlist. The more I listen, the more I enjoy this album. …
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A daily discovery – Solomon’s Hollow
Well my daily discovery a few weeks back will be your daily discovery today. Ladies and gentleman, I bring you the rolling stone named Nate A. Nate currently records and performs under the guise of “Solomon’s Hollow” – and if you take a look at his MySpace page you will find out the name is…
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Boduf Songs – How Shadows Chase the Balance (2008)
I know I just posted on the weekend saying I wasn’t posting on Boduf Songs, but…. So you think you know evil? Well I don’t think you know it like Boduf Songs emanates it. Pulsing and dark with an ominous soundtrack provided by Matthew Sweet. Yes, a man with a surname of Sweet, brings this…
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The Fairer Sex
So notoriously a fan of the male troupador and down on HIS luck singer songwriter, I have been having a bit of a rip in my very own space-time continuum. I have been listening to a lot of female artists lately, and it has been incredibly good. While I do have the staples down, and…
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Chriss Sutherland – Who is this guy, no really?
So I admit I am a bit late on this one….2007 release from Chriss Sutherland “Me in a ‘field’”. I found it via a commenter on this blog (Time Fades Away Blog) and a post they had from this past January – they had posted “La Familia” from this album. I, of course, immediately went…
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Singer? Songwriter? Actor? Blurring the lines in Indie-ville.
***Guest Blogger Alert, guest blogger alert!*** The very musically experimental Devendra Banhart has been a staple on the indie circuit for many years. He recently featured his ladylove Natalie Portman (and porn legend Ron Jeremy) in his music video for Carmensita from Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon. Carmensita is styled like a 60’s / 70’s…
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Bon Iver, Joanna Newsom, Alec Ounsworth, et al.
Independent Artist Vocals Styles – A dissection. I was thinking in traffic the other day about the “indie” band/artists and the vocal styling they can have. What I am alluding to is the fact that often a vocalist in the “off the beaten path” side of the music industry can sometimes be…”not a formally trained…