5 posts tagged “folk”

There is always a powerful joy in discovering a lyrical and emotionally deep musician for the first time. You get to find the nuances, the highs and lows of the music and the lyrics as if they had never occurred to anyone before. You are there at the moment of pain and joy and insight. Then you play the album a second time and a third. Many times the feeling becomes stale, familiarity stealing much of the power in the experience. But in the really great music, the attachment just deepens over time, the insight becomes clearer and the highs and lows a familiar friend. Such is the case with 14 Days, the first album by Plunkett.  Ranging from purely folk style songs in the style of Bob Dylan to  higher energy Indie Rock songs with a little bit of old Simon and Garfunkel style story singing in the middle, this is a great album from beginning to end.  This is an album with really great lyrics, songs that move you and make you think set to excellent music.

How much better when the back story behind an album is a great love story, a story of creativity and disappointment, of pain and triumph over time. Here is a now married couple who won out against hardship and bad times and are making a go of it on their own. 

There are rumors of an album to be released before the end of the year, and I can only hope that it is true.

Eleanor L Vault is one of the classic things I most love about Amie Street.  In the classic world of music distributed on plastic the odds that this group would even make an album, much less that I would chance across a copy of it to purchase are very small. Here is a group that is a side project for a few folks, not a full time job, but they are making wonderful enchanting ambient folk styled music. Ethereal is the best word to describe what they create. If you like the samples here, go download their latest album, Ghosts and Thieves. 

Here is a song from Tom Beaudreau that everyone should hear and hold close in their heart. As you make plans to party this weekend, remember there are soldiers out there dying every day. A Father's Prayer from his album  All Mine, will go straight to your heart strings. With a voice that is part Johnny Cash and part Tom Wait, this is a song worth every listen and download it can get.

From the songs for under a quarter file, if you have any leanings toward the pro-evolution belief, you will love this song which features classic folk rock stylings. This Lemmings song, Evolution, could have come straight from Simon & Garfunkel. if nothing else, the line "God created stupid people too..." makes it all worthwhile.