[Louisville, KY]
Perhaps you havent been paying attention, but Bonnie Prince Billy is clearly one of the great American songwriters to emerge in the last decade. Listen more closely, and youll see. Over the course of five albums and countless singles, compilation tracks, collaborations, live ... + MORE

[Cincinnati, OH]
The Heartless Bastards' story starts in Dayton, Ohio, where Wennerstrom found the name on a multiple choice video trivia game at a bar.
As a songwriting teenager during a time when GBV and Brainiac were packing local bars and three of the Breeders were still in town, Wennerstrom ... + MORE

[Waco, TX]
I was not even born yet when my father first tried to kill me.

It was June and the evening light had started to fade, but it was still hotter than nine kinds of hell. We were outside of Corsicana, a little cotton town in northeast Texas, and I was in my mother's belly, two ... + MORE

[New York, NY]
It is a special time for Langhorne Slim as he is so proud to announce and present Be Set Free, his mighty third album being released by Kemado Records. One of the most endearing and standout qualities of Slim's live shows is the sureness that one is always entering a genuine gospel-like ... + MORE

[Vancouver, BC]
Beloved East Vancouver alt folk trio The Be Good Tanyas have achieved cult status since their inception in the late 90's. With classic albums Blue Horse, Chinatown and Hello Love, the three young women were met with ever growing critical and fan acclaim, appearing on countless ... + MORE

[Seattle, WA]
Here is the mystery of Seattle's Cave Singers: They never listened to much folk music, they never intended to play folk music, and more importantly, their guitarist never picked up the instrument until recently. Yet, this strange trio is writing and performing some of the most hypnotizing ... + MORE

[Durham, NC]
Based in Durham, North Carolina, Megafaun was built by brothers Brad and Phil Cook and fellow Eau Claire, Wisconsin, native Joe Westerlund. The trio, plus longtime friend Justin Vernon (a.k.a. Bon Iver), made the cross country move together from WI to NC as the band DeYarmond Edison, ... + MORE

[Portland, OR]
Despite their individual musical pedigrees, the seasoned musicians that make up progressive string band Black Prairie aren't moonlighting. The ensemble is pulled together from different corners of Portland, Oregon's remarkably rich music scene, and while the high profile of each ... + MORE

[Greenville, MS]
On July 22, 2008, James "T Model" Ford stepped into Planet Paul Studios in Wichita, KS at the end of his first formal tour in years. Rumors of his demise had been laid to rest after two weeks of T Model's performing his raw, rough, & tumble blues. T wanted to play acoustic guitar ... + MORE

[Lafayette, LA]
Hard driving, witty, eclectic, and honest, the music of the Red Stick Ramblers is inseparable from their way of life and the rich Louisiana culture that first inspired them. Their fifth album, My Suitcase Is Always Packed, is as much a travelogue as a sound recording, complete ... + MORE

[Portland, OR]
Richmond Fontaine was formed in 1994 at the Portland Meadows horse track over a shared love of old SST records and bad whisky. Never has quite so propitious a venue been the point of a band—fifteen years later, it's as though they never left. Recording on Cavity Search alongside ... + MORE

[Raleigh, NC]
Ten years in, the four gentlemen that form Chatham County Line have a lot to reflect on. Sold out shows in the US and overseas, appearances on national Radio & TV, four solid selling records, and four really dirty suits. "We want to be the band that puts on the most professional ... + MORE

[Lexington, KY]
With their third full length release in 18 months, These United States surrender themselves to unbridled rock and roll exuberance: ringing guitars, thundering drums, desperate yearning bordering on hope. Everything Touches Everything came together the week of January 20th, 2009, ... + MORE

[Astoria, OR]
Michael Hurley is one of the last remaining ramblin' American folk troubadours. Hobo-ing around the country, making music since the days Bob Dylan first set foot in New York City's Gaslight club, Hurley recorded his first album for Moses Ash's legendary Folkways label in 1964 and ... + MORE

[East Jordan, MI]
How did we carve to this?
I guess we whittled from the inside out at first, trying to cultivate and catapult these small songs over the castle wall. With instruments, levers, wires, and the sturdy encouraging hands of friends, we formed the band / art project, Breathe Owl ... + MORE

[Knoxville, TN]
Jill Andrews has been a musician all her life: from her first original tune in kindergarten - a ditty about the letter P - to the stage at Fillmore East. Jill picked up a guitar for the first time when she was 19; armed with only three chords, she had all she needed to create ... + MORE

[Toronto, ON]
Stalking shadows on the prairies with a compass and set of matches, shaking the mountains loose with howls and footstomps and, settled in meadows, while whispering tales under darkening skies, obsessed with history or historically obsessed, either way, Elliott BROOD have a penchant ... + MORE

[Asheville, NC]
Imagine the band that occupies the common ground between traditional bluegrass, outlaw country, and pure old time mountain music. A group that harnesses the frantic energy of the modern punk string band, yet still remains respectfully rooted in the tradition of Bill Monroe. Imagine ... + MORE

[Metuchen, NJ]
My grandparents were ornithologists, even during the war. My grandfather, stationed in Japan, did intelligence work for the army collecting data on Japanese birds and bugs. He walked shirtless through the jungle so they could study his mosquito bites. They had pet opossums and ... + MORE

[Portland, OR]
Foghorn Stringband plays old time string band music deeply rooted in the American folk tradition. It's a pre-copyright, post-bluegrass style, but the Foghorns put their own stamp on it. Stephen "Sammy" Lind's fiddle and Caleb Klauder's mandolin play tight unison lead lines ... + MORE

[Austin, TX]
Last summer, out of the ashes of the Hacienda Brothers, sprung the Stone River Boys featuring Dave Gonzalez and Mike Barfield. When the Hacienda Brothers released their third and final studio album titled Arizona Motel in June, guitarist Dave Gonzalez was left with the unfortunate ... + MORE

[Portland, OR]
It's uncommon for a contemporary artist to create a timeless album, an album that is both surprising and comforting. Yet after only a few listens to the new record from WEINLAND, a soon to be well known quintet from Portland, Oregon, you'll know it's still possible. Their achievement ... + MORE

[Portland, OR]
Sallie Ford hails from Asheville, North Carolina, just east of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Enjoying a musical upbringing surrounded by performers, she grew up playing the guitar and the violin in addition to singing. On a whim, Ford pulled up her Carolina roots and moved across the ... + MORE

[Lake City, MI]
Michigan has, for some time now, been a deep resource for songwriters and roots musicians. Two favorites, Seth Bernard and "Daisy" May Erlewine, well-known to audiences as single acts, have been performing and recording together for almost six years. Before they teamed up, they ... + MORE

[Saskatoon, SK]
The timeless sound of the aptly named "The Deep Dark Woods" belongs to the depressing winters of the north. Pulsing with human warmth, these original songs echo through the lonesome night. Ryan Boldt's plainspoken lyrics offer a strong but gentle tone which understates poetry, ... + MORE

[Asheville, NC]
Certain talented musicians have the ability to transport the listener to a different time by just hitting some strings or directing the air that fills their lungs. For Woody Pines, you find yourself in the Mississippi Delta when AM radio is king, sippin' whiskey if you're fortunate ... + MORE

[Los Angeles, CA]
"A young Californian who sings and plays as someone who's crawled out of the Virginia mountains carrying familiar songs that in his hands sound forgotten: broken lines, a dissonant drone, the fiddle or the banjo all percussion, every rising moment louder than the one before ... + MORE

[Cumberland, MD]
Biology says: That people who live at high altitudes must develop physiological adaptations to the decreased amount of oxygen available in order to maintain homeostasis. The list of adaptations includes a heart that is proportionally larger thanthat of a person living at sealevel. ... + MORE

[Johnson City, TN]
Since first gaining national attention for her songwriting at the prestigious Chris Austin songwriting contest at Merlefest in 2004, Martha Scanlan has covered a good deal of ground, creatively and literally. Her voice was featured on the soundtrack to the film Cold Mountain, ... + MORE

[Knoxville, TN]
Born in the rumbling cab of a stone truck and aged in the oak of Tennessee's smoky night haunts, The Black Lillies have come to the forefront of the Americana scene in little more than a year. Founded by multi instrumentalist and vocalist Cruz Contreras, co-founder of Robinella ... + MORE

[Seattle, WA]
Casey MacGill's Blue 4 Trio performs music that swings. Nat "King" Cole Trio meets the Mills Brothers. Fats Waller meets Fats Domino. Slim Galliard meets Fred Astaire. It is music of many decades and no decade in particular, all happening at the same time, woven into a seamless, ... + MORE

[Portland, OR]
Hailing from Portland, Oregon, the Water Tower Bucket Boys play raw, hard-driving music with tight harmonies and virtuosic instrumental work. The Bucket Boys formed in 2005 with Josh Rabie (fiddle, guitar, banjo) and Kenny Feinstein (guitar, mandolin, harmonica) in their senior ... + MORE

[Portland, OR]
Captain Bogg & Salty began as a pirate-themed, children's concept CD by Kevin Hendrickson and Loren Hoskins in 1999. The band now includes five members with diverse backgrounds in musical theater, sketch comedy, and children's theater. Filled to the brim with sea dog swagger and ... + MORE