…The expanded digital album includes 11 bonus tracks in total: the three songs from the 2007 ‘End Like This’ EP, four previously unreleased outtakes, and four demos.
Makers is Rocky Votolato’s fourth album, appearing fittingly in line after 2003’s Suicide Medicine, but with a worn resilience all its own. It finds Votolato sounding older and weathered, more content than jaded, and there’s a modest quality to his steady voice that projects words as both sincere and comforting.
Some songs are country-tinged — with touches of harmonica, pedal steel, violin, and piano supporting the focal acoustic guitar — but it’s more that they simply evoke images of rural dirt roads, long walks and quiet autumn nights at home…
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Searows’ second album, 
The Lowest Pair is an American folk duo made up of Kendl Winter and Palmer T. Lee, known for their intertwined vocal harmonies and banjo-forward songwriting. Formed in 2013, the pair has built a dedicated following through records that balance traditional folk roots with plainspoken, emotionally direct lyrics. Having a particularly prolific run in their early years, releasing six albums in their first seven years, the pair haven’t released a new album since 2020’s 
The warm sounds of folk guitar provide the roots of 
A bold statement for a new year. The seventh studio album by Australian band The Paper Kites, 
So far, Atlanta-based singer songwriter 
Imagine you’re in a watering hole somewhere, the English Midlands or the U.S. Midwest. The bar is in a strip mall, but perfectly fine. Perhaps it’s called the Trysting Place or a name with the word ‘lounge’. Maybe you’re alone nursing an old-fashioned, or you’re with somebody you want to get to know a little better.
Nobody knows who 
In the realm of indie folk music, the strength and veracity of the work springs from the sincerity in which it is sung. All of which may be worth bearing in mind when it comes to a songwriter’s jaundiced perspective on their surroundings. In terms of 
It’s in the nature of 
Nashville-by-way-of-Philly musician 
There’s a slight “Sympathy For the Devil” tone to the opening seconds of “Pendulum Swing”, the first track on the US country adjacent stylist and former Grammy nominee Courtney Marie Andrews’ ninth studio album – the descending piano figure, the circling percussion. As the song opens out, it develops into a dark-light exercise in contrasts, along the lines of the more muted moments of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours.
Having been friends and occasional touring partners for well over a decade, Asheville, NC-based singer-songwriter-guitarist 
On Bloodline, singer-songwriter 
Throughout her debut record, Things I’ve Said Before, classically trained folk musician 
In Piers Haggards’ 1971 folk horror classic, Blood on Satan’s Claw, a remote, idyllic rural community has its peace burst into flames when someone unwittingly unearths a deformed skull from a freshly plowed field. Suddenly and with no warning, the town’s previously cloistered innocent youth turn to the dark side, guided by their beautiful, charismatic leader into wanton acts of lust and bloodshed.