Sarah Burton is a young, Canadian songwriter and self-taught guitarist who last year, released her debut EP, Love Is For Pussies. The collection, like it's tongue-in-cheek title, features a smart selection of original, charismatic songs about breaking up and making up and the many shades in-between.
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Together, Young and McQuaid have created a very unique record with Crow Coyote Buffalo . One that will require several listens to truly absorb.
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Possessing a clear folk-rock sound, Hanson's songs are engaging, precise and melodic. Her voice and message carry well through her songs and she's received tremendous praise from critics.
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At the risk of forgetting other noteworthy albums that were released within the last 365 days, here are Womenfolk's top 10 albums of 2008 that I truly felt were top drawer.
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Waggoner's music possesses elements similar to that of a three-act play, beginning one way, then drastically altering both tempo and instrumentation, and then reverts back without losing its cohesiveness or its audience
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Ireland's Lisa Hannigan, a songwriter who for the last several years, has been providing her talents to other artists like Damien Rice, the Frames and Herbie Hancock, now poises herself for the spotlight with the release of her debut album, Sea Sew
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Fabchannel, an online concert website based in Amsterdam, has posted a live performance by singer-songwriter, Heather Nova on their web site.
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An outdated message board is all it seems we're able to go on in regards to the current status of Poe, the once popular performer and songwriter
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The enchanting and poetic Martha Tilston
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While reading up on Grey Anne, I quickly realized there is a whimsy and charm to its sole member, Anne Adams. From what I'm able to gather, Adams spent her childhood in Florida, but later made Anacortes, Washington her home. Her love of musicals and experiences in church choirs solidified her future as a songwriter and [...]
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How can one not appreciate the music of Sweden’s (by way of Norway) Ane Brun? Her sweet, affecting voice and truly unique song-writing style can be incredibly moving. Her songs are the embodiment of ‘heart-felt,’ each track carrying a melody that is as memorable as the story being told. And with Seasons, Brun seems to [...]
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Although her album, Elevator Ride, was released over two years ago, Bronwen Exter’s gorgeous debut still resonates.The album is a collaboration between songwriter Johnathan Spottiswoode and Exter, who sings Spottiswoode’s songs like a snug, velvet glove. Exter’s voice is a thick blend of mystery and sensuality, quickly recalling vocalists like Peggy Lee and Hope Sandoval, [...]
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With every album she’s created, Canada’s Jill Barber has inched closer and closer to the beautiful gems found on her latest, Chances.Barber’s unbridled love with the sounds of 50’s and 60’s jazz and folk is the flame that sets Chances afire. And her distinctive, smokey voice is the perfect instrument for a sound that is [...]
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Although she still remains largely unknown in America, despite the many soundtrack appearances and the occasional tour, Heather Nova is a much more embraced artist in Europe. And now her fans have more to appreciate with the release of Nova’s seventh (not including her live contributions), The Jasmine Flower.Recorded in her native Bermuda, The Jasmine [...]
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Amy Ray’s first two solo studio albums (2001’s Stag and 2005’s Prom) featured her southern-fried rock and punk roots in sharp contrast to her contemporary folk-oriented success as half of Indigo Girls. Her new record Didn’t It Feel Kinder, released on her own Daemon Records label, showcases her sharp pop song-writing by exploring new musical [...]
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Singer-songwriter Zoë Young (nee Pollock) has re-emerged to the music scene from a twelve year hiatus with a re-recording of one of her most notable songs, 'Sunshine On A Rainy Day,'
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The music of Aussie opera/folk/rock star Kate Miller-Heidke is as colorful and bright as it is playful and strange. A trained opera singer with an accolade of countless awards, Miller-Heidke found the world of pop music to her liking and in the course of just a few years, has a released a string of EPs [...]
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Stirring together elements of traditional folk and a smattering of rock sensibilities, songwriter Emily Asen has created a remarkable full-length debut with Proof, the second release on her own Violet Maiden label.Of the album’s eleven songs, ten are Asen originals, including ‘Play With Fire’, ‘Treading Water’ and the title track, three of the album’s standouts. [...]
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With Don’t Do Anything, Sam Phillips‘ third album for Nonesuch Records, the songwriter has again made an album to become awestruck by.Phillips’ albums are thematic the way pieces of fine art are; unique and often beautiful, but not immediately coherent or comprehensible. She is charmingly eccentric, using abstraction as a paintbrush, leaving plenty of room [...]
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I was extremely pleased when I learned that Nashville based songwriter, Katie Herzig had a new album on the horizon a couple of months ago. Her previous releases, 2004’s Watch Them Fall and 2006’s Weightless, are beauties to behold and I anticipated that her latest, Apple Tree, would be of the same vein. And I [...]
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