The Starfolk - The Starfolk - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The breezy jangle of InchGet Away,Inch the opening track off Belle Adair's striking new album, Tuscumbia, might not be the first thing you'd expect to hear from an Alabama band named after a John Steinbeck reference. Combining mellow, atmospheric rock and swirling, retro power-pop, it's more Big Star than Swampers, but it's an ideal gateway into the blissed-out world of Belle Adair, a group that manages to make even worry and isolation sound inviting. Recorded at Muscle Shoals' legendary FAME Studios with Wilco producer/engineer Tom Schick, Tuscumbia calls to mind everything from The Byrds to Teenage Fanclub as frontman Matthew Green's meditative lyrics navigate a slew of major life changes, contemplate the meaning of home, and grapple with the realities of life on the road.

The fourth and final installment of the popular 60's folk compilation InchStar FolkInch originally released in 1966, features iconic West Coast folk stars Hoyt Axton, Barbara Dane, Barry McGuire, Barry Kane, Josh White, Travis Edmonson, the Travelers Three and the Shenandoah Trio. This compilation showcases the best tracks from various solo albums from these artists recorded from the early to mid 1960's and remains a true folk classic, representative of a great era in folk music history. All selections newly remastered. Album Tracks 1. Thunder 'N Lightnin' 2. To Love (Young Man) 3. If I Had a Hammer 4. Ride, Ride, Ride 5. The Things I've Saved 6. Jelly Jelly Blues 7. In the Pines 8. Land of Odin 9. Sailing Song

If Grizfolk, the band, are a study in dichotomy and contrast, then Grizfolk, the album, is the bridge where it all connects. With the of their self-titled third full-length record, the band creates a place where folk stompers and electronic synths cozy up to the same driving backbeat and golden riffs in a pertinent and perfect way. And just as we all were forced to adjust our ways of working-and existing-during the pandemic, the band, too, learned to adapt their own methods and evolve with the era. The band embraced the benefits this brave new style of working afforded them while also keying in on the sound's similarities to both their previous albums, calling the process both nostalgic and new. From the emotional charge of InchFumesInch and it's Inchvoice for the voicelessInch sense of overcoming fears to find confidence, to the ferociously catchy riff that begins the upbeat lament of InchNow That I Know,Inch the new tracks work together with their Rich Costey-sessions material (including InchThe RippleInch) to present a band firing on all cylinders by revisiting everything they have done before in order to put forward the best current version of themselves. Album Tracks 1. Fumes 2. Be My Yoko 3. California High 4. Now That I Know 5. Gone 6. The Ripple 7. Money 8. Queen of the Desert 9. Howlin 10. Stargazer