Folk

It is true that songs that can be represented with acoustic instrumentation, devoid of the bells and whistles of modern production, tend to be the ones with the highest values in terms of songwriting. It is also true that given the affordability of an acoustic guitar and the…

Visit’s “Middletown NY” is a single based on the writings of Thomas Pynchon, namely his novel “Bleeding Edge”. Lyrics and sound-wise it’s a song busy with the small American life and its obsessions, turned big worldwide issues. The…

“Death Wish” by Kevin Johnson & Nick Bowen sounds like a tune commissioned for a film-students’ project of directing a western movie. While it sounds, for the most part, just like what you’d imagine such a tune to resemble, the enthusiasm of the…

It’s not long ago that the songwriters which the music press deemed to be the best, told stories through the songs they wrote on their own, and, most likely, carried their guitar and a notepad of their own poetry everywhere they went. That’s at least what you…

While their folkish contemporaries are busy making people dance, or encouraging them to seek spiritual guidance out in the wilderness, Greater Bird of Paradise draws from the rootsy folk-rock that was such an inspiring force at the start of the 1970s. A modern-day Sandy…

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