This Week in Folk

All the News From The Week That Was

– Sydney alt-country duo Jep and Dep released their brand new video “Bluebird Skies”. Details here

– Timber and Steel had an exclusive first play of the new track “Amsterdam” from Wes Carr’s Buffalo Tales project. Details here

– Ella Hooper and Texture Like Sun have announced a Tuesday night residency at The Toff in Town throughout June. Details here

– Once I Was An Eagle from Laura Marling comes out today (see below) but if you want to try before you buy you can stream it on NPR Music. Details here

– Irish music legend Eleanor McEvoy returns to Australia at the end of this month for an east coast tour. Details here

– The Palm Creek Folk Festival has just announced its 2013 lineup including Mal Webb, Nicky Bomba’s Bustamento, Penny Larkins and Carl Pannuzzo, Richard Perso, Siskin River and Totally Gourdgeous. Details here

– Sydney alt-country songstress Katie Brianna has just released her new video “Oh Night”. Details here

– Matt Corby released a brand new single, “Resolution”, ahead of his Australian tour. Details here

– Xavier Rudd, Donavon Frankenreiter and Nahko and Medicine for the People are teaming up for a tour this September and October. Details here

– Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros revealed “Better Days” the first single from their upcoming self-titled album. Details here

– Boy Outside celebrates the Australian outback in his new video “River Runs To The Sea”. Details here

– The April Maze released a really sweet, vintage style video for their cover of “Two of Us”. Details here

– Our favourite bluegrass festival JamGrass is heading “On The Road” with a warm up event in Sydney this August. The lineup includes Mustered Courage, The Steamgrass Boys, Rattlehand, Green Mohair Suits and Oh Willy Dear. Details here

Interviews

“In a certain sense I definitely am a folk singer because I sing folk songs, but in a certain sense I’m not a folk singer at all because I’m not trying to sing them at all in the way that other people would expect. I’m using that as the source material to make music” – Sam Amidon talks to Gareth Hugh Evans. Interview here

Blog

“I am freaking out. I’m 20 days into my 30 day crowd-funding campaign for my new record. It’s sitting at 30%, and pledges seem to have slowed to a drip. I’ve been warned it would be like this, I’ve watched Packwood manage to successfully raise the last $3,000 in the last few days of his crowd-funding campaign to reach his target (plus an extra $2,000 on top), but I’m freaking out anyway. I’m a perfectionist and a control-freak, I’m doing everything I can, and it still doesn’t feel like enough” – Rose Wintergreen talks Crowd Funding in the second of a four part series. Blog here

“While there have been artists interpreting and refining the traditional folk music canon since the first collectors ventured out in the late 19th century every now and then an artist will emerge who takes traditional music in a completely new and exciting direction – away from the simple guitar or harmonic singing” – Gareth Hugh Evans explores the artists that are on the cutting edge of the traditional music scene. Blog here

Reviews

Recordings

“Obvious comparisons are made of their careful, gentle contemporary folk sound with the likes of Simon and Garfunkel and The Everly Brothers. Such comparisons are useful and accurate in a descriptive sense, but also stifling and reductive to the level of recognition deserved of the band’s creativity, imaginativeness and craft” – Thom Owen Miles reviews The Ash & Clay from The Milk Carton Kids. Review here

Releases This Week

Stories from a Porcelain City – Imogen Clark
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Once I Was An Eagle – Laura Marling
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Timber and Steel Presents

Owls of the Swamp
Thursday 30th May – The Newsagency, Sydney, NSW
Friday 31st May – The Hideaway, Brisbane, QLD
Tickets

Pilko and the Binrats with Max Savage & The False Idols, Cherrywood
Sunday 26th May – The Workers Club, Melbourne, VIC
Tickets on the Door

Gigs Next Week

Achoo! Bless You and The Mountains
Sunday 26th May – The Brass Monkey, Cronulla, NSW
Wednesday 29th May – The Front, Canberra, ACT
Thursday 30th May – The Espy, Melbourne, VIC

Eleanor McEvoy
Friday 31st May – Wollongong Diggers, Wollongong, NSW

Folk Club feat. Boy Outside, The Falls, Little Bighorn
Wednesday 29th May – The Soda Factory, Sydney, NSW

Good Oak
Friday 24th May – The Armidale Club, Armidale, NSW
Saturday 25th May – Brighton Up Bar, Sydney, NSW
Sunday 26th May – Hoey Moey, Coffs Harbour, NSW

Little Features feat. Mark Bulmer, Colin Jones, Arbori, Charlie Gradon, Bec Sandridge, Yetis
Saturday 25th May – Hibernian House, Sydney, NSW

Matt Corby with Grace Woodroofe
Sunday 26th May – HQ, Adelaide, SA
Friday 31st May – Palace Theatre, Melbourne, VIC

Mustered Courage
Friday 24th May – The Polish Club, Canberra, ACT
Friday 31st May – Clancy’s Fish Bar, Fremantle, WA

The Stillsons
Saturday 25th May – Mars Hill Café, Parramatta, NSW
Sunday 26th May – The Grand Junction Hotel, Maitland, NSW

Friday Folk Flashback

“Run On” – Moby

If you’ve been following Timber and Steel over the last few weeks you know we’ve been a little obsessed with the early collectors of traditional music. That inevitably leads us to Moby’s 1999 album Play which featured a number of tracks containing samples from the field recordings of Alan Lomax. The track “Run On” is inspired by the traditional “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” and features a sample from Bill Landford & The Landfordaires.