folk

Song of the Day: Davy Graham “The Fakir”

English folk guitarist Davy Graham provides a real guitar tour-de-force with the Middle Eastern-tinged “The Fakir”.

Categories: Blog, folk, Raga, Song of the Day Tags: acoustic guitar, Davy Graham, folk, guitar, music, song of the day, UK folk

A top track from everyone’s favorite doomed Northern European chanteuse, “The Fairest of the Season” finds Nico at the peak of her powers.

We kick off America Week with a remarkable guitar soli cut from one of the DC area’s native sons, the iconoclastic John Fahey,

A strange hybrid of English folk, jazz and pure psychedelia, John Martyn pushes the Echoplex unit to its limits with this live cut.

Maâllem Mahmoud Guinia is an absolute master of the traditional Moroccan musical form of Gnawa. Let him be your guide.

Ti Paris‘ “Cochon St. Antoine” is a Haitian torch song of great intimacy and immediacy performed to absolute perfection.

Categories: Blog, folk, music, Song of the Day Tags: folk, folkloric, haiti, international, music, song of the day, ti paris

Amália Rodrigues‘ “Fado Português” typifies Fado: a heart-wrenching, yet uplifting art form and underlines why she is a legend in Portugal.

Categories: Blog, folk, music, Song of the Day Tags: Amália Rodrigues, Fado, folk, Frederico Valério, music, portugal, song of the day

To commemorate Labor Day, we present Tennessee Ernie Ford‘s celebrated take on Merle’s Travis‘ labor rights anthem, “Sixteen Tons”.

Producer Daniel Lanois pulls out all the stops on “Under a Stormy Sky”, a lovely slice-of-life that bridges French Canada and America.

Categories: Blog, music, Song of the Day Tags: Daniel Lanois, folk, indie, quebec, song of the day

English folk musician Bert Jansch performs a harrowing and beautiful minor-key traditional story-song with ‘Jack Orion’.

Categories: Blog, folk, music, Song of the Day Tags: burt jansch, english folk, folk, pentangle, song of the day