T-shirt and jeans, against a dormitory wall bedecked with psychedelic posters, bears out her recollection that she resembled Joan Baez, a folk-singer.
An up-and-coming folk-rock singer-songwriter who crafts brooding, timeless, sophisticated pop songs, Elvis Perkins has earned lofty comparisons to the likes of Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan.
The instrumentation is full and Jaymay's voice is out front as opposed to the withdrawn minimalism of current art-folk singer-songwriters.
Alt-folk singer-songwriter Sean Hayes may not have generated much name recognition beyond the San Francisco area, where his early acoustic performances provided a welcome and humanizing respite from the tech-utopian music scene of the mid-'90s.
She says New York's best music scene - called anti-folk and comprising singer-songwriters who perform informally - did not get covered by the NME's recent cover story about the city.
She moved to London to work the 'alt-folk' and singer-songwriter circuits, although in a fairly unfolky manner she's attracted the attention of Bauhaus's Peter Murphy and Mike Mason of Swallow (1990s 4AD act), who both speak highly of her.
Canadian country-folk singer Tom Connors has died of natural causes age 77, his promoter has said.
With bare-bones arrangements and Simone's powerful, poignant vocals at the forefront, the record burns through a collection of songs by Siberian punk-folk singer, Yanka Dyagileva, with cathartic fervor.
Among the nominees are noted "vloggers" Paul Robinett (Renetto), British pensioner Peter Oakley, up-and-coming folk singer Terra Naomi, Star Wars parody Chad Vader, actress-turned-teenager Lonely Girl 15, and comic commentator LisaNova (Lisa Donovan).
The folk-pop outfit, formed by singer-guitarist Israel Nebeker and drummer Ryan Dobrowski, has taken two bike tours, playing its music all along the West Coast.
The record's opening track, "Oviedo, " features an accordion drone accompanying Nebeker's doubled vocals, but with orchestration that never takes away from the group's simple, singer-songwriter folk sound.
Imagine a singer-songwriter with a lilting folk-rock style covering the songs of alternative rockers.
English singer-songwriter Newton Faulkner specializes in folk-tinged pop music.
On Susan Werner's newest CD, her sixth, the singer-songwriter moves distinctively away from folk and toward the jazzy American songbook style recently embraced by artists such as Rod Stewart and Norah Jones.
One album I completely missed when it came out last year was the self-titled debut release from Martha Wainwright, the sister of cabaret-pop singer Rufus Wainwright and daughter of folk artists Loudon Wainwright and Kate McGarrigle.
NPR's Neda Ulaby reports on Nora Guthrie's unlikely selection for the latest anointed artist a German cabaret star and former clown, and the first non-English speaker given full access to the famed folk singer's huge archive of songs.
Singer-songwriter Shawn Mullins offers a mix of folk-flavored pop songs in a special, midday concert from the World Cafe live stage in Philadelphia, Pa.
The "fake journalists" said they were travelling to Nicaragua to cover the high-profile of trial of suspects in the killing of Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral last year.
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