Folk/Roots

Recalling Ennio Morricone spaghetti westerns, the electrified belly dance music of Omar Khorshid, and '90s bedroom psychedelia at once, the music of Branko Mataja is from its own epoch. Snatched from the streets of Belgrade as a teenager, Mataja spent Wor

2005's Superwolf is an acclaimed collaborative album from songcrafters Matt Sweeney and Bonnie Prince Billy aka Will Oldham. Bonnie challenged Matt to write music to a series of song lyrics, and this collaboration was done over some months, and included l

Back in 1971, Barbara Keith, a singer-songwriter that started her career at Greenwich Village’s famous Café Wha? recorded this album for Warner Bros with a cast of musicians that included Jim Keltner, Spooner Oldham, Lowell George and Jim Gordon, amongst

Originally released in 1999, I See A Darkness is Will Oldham's debut full length under the Bonnie Prince Billy. Features 11 tracks of unmistakable palace-style moody sweetness with long-time Palace players: David Pajo, Paul Oldham, Colin Gagon, Bob Arella

Beyond The Willow Tree is a hauntingly beautiful anthology of folk songs chronicling the experience of a young black man growing up in the segregated south. A balanced mix of covers and originals, Cleveland Francis’ body of work seamlessly blends deep, so

My Proud Mountain and Neurot Recordings are thrilled to release Songs Of Townes Van Zandt III, continuing the tradition of well-known artists in the heavy music and dark genres covering the songs of Townes Van Zandt. This album features nine new and uniqu

I’m the Sky: Studio and Demo Recordings, 1964-1971 compiles the enduring and unheard work of Norma Tanega, the musician, painter, activist, teacher, and dreamer. Tanega’s lifelong pursuit of art and individualism was revolutionary in its implicit defiance

Richard Dawson will release new album Peasant via Weird World / Domino on 2nd June 2017. Coinciding with the announcement, Dawson has shared a video for the album’s first single ‘Ogre’, directed by Matt Stokes.

“A crack team of physicists, leather-work

Neal Francis' sophomore album offers up a body of work both enchanting and painfully self-aware. Recorded entirely on tape and mixed by Grammy Award-winner Dave Fridmann (Spoon, Tame Impala, Flaming Lips), the record spotlights Francis's refined yet free-

Singer-songwriter David Crosby's solo debut, If I Could Only Remember My Name, was dismissed by critics when it came out in 1971. Over the years, however, appreciation has grown for the album's adventurous aesthetic, stacked harmonies and haunting lyrics

Back in 1975, singer-songwriter Naomi Lewis entered the studio to record her first album, Cottage Songs. The result was a beautiful album inspired by family, friends, got and nature. And also, an obscure secret is known by very few. Lewis’ songs are equal

1976’s Seagulls and Sunflowers is Naomi Lewis’ second album. This is the result of a young songwriter’s dream. She was involved in all the process from songwriting to vinyl pressing to be sure that her second album was exactly as she wanted it to be. And

Husky voiced 21-year old Canadian singer-songwriter Colter Wall releases his self-titled debut album on Young Mary's Record Co. via Thirty Tigers. Helmed by Grammy Award-winning producer Dave Cobb, the 11-track album was recorded at Nashville's historic R

A native of Swift Current, Saskatchewan Canada, Colter Wall's sound is comprised of resonate and raw baritone vocals, folk and bluegrass style guitar and banjo picking, steady kick-drum stomping, and visually provoking, story telling lyrics. Since debutin

remastered from the original analogue master tapes by original sound engineer john wood at abbey road studios! pink moon, nick drake’s third and final album, was originally released on island records in 1972 and is the record that made him the cult figure