April 19th Newsletter
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  • John Prine – The Tree Of Forgiveness
    John Prine – The Tree Of Forgiveness
    $28.00 | , Add to cart

    The man looking out from the cover of The Tree of Forgiveness is 71 years old and just a bit worse for wear. He clearly has his wits about him, […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Dave Van Ronk – Dave Van Ronk Sings Ballads, Blues & A Spiritual
    Dave Van Ronk – Dave Van Ronk Sings Ballads, Blues & A Spiritual
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    Dubbed “The Mayor of MacDougal Street,” Dave Van Ronk (1936–2002) was an iconoclastic folksinger and an influential figure in the American folk music revival of the 1960s. Because of his […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Emmylou Harris – Wrecking Ball
    Emmylou Harris – Wrecking Ball
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    Wrecking Ball is a leftfield masterpiece, the most wide-ranging, innovative, and daring record in a career built on such notions. Rich in atmosphere and haunting in its dark complexity, much […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Lucinda Williams – Ramblin’ On My Mind
    Lucinda Williams – Ramblin’ On My Mind
    $25.00 | , Add to cart

    American singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams’ Southern blues roots are unmistakable on her debut record Ramblin’ on My Mind, showcasing the artistry that would make her an icon. Recorded in [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • John Prine – Now Playing
    John Prine – Now Playing
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Introducing John Prine Now Playing on Cobalt Blue vinyl – This Now Playing John Prine’s tracklist features a collection of deeply personal and storytelling songs that span folk and [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Linda Perhacs – Parallelograms
    Linda Perhacs – Parallelograms
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    Released by the Kapp label in 1970 and produced by the Oscar-winning Leonard Rosenman, Parallelograms was the first and only album by American psychedelic folk singer Linda Perhacs until the […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Nick Drake – Bryter Layter
    Nick Drake – Bryter Layter
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    The second album from Nick Drake came in 1970, and while not quite as melancholy as his debut, Five Leaves Left, there are certain brooding qualities that continued to propagate […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Jessica Pratt – Jessica Pratt
    Jessica Pratt – Jessica Pratt
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    “I never wanted to ever start a record label. Ever. But there is something about her voice I couldn’t let go of. It’s an actual voice. An actual beautiful voice. […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Abner Jay – Folk Song Stylist
    Abner Jay – Folk Song Stylist
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    Long awaited follow up to the “True Story of Abner Jay” LP. Abner Jay was a man who had a grand sweeping vision of what folk music was. In his […]

    GENRE: Blues, Folk / Country
  • Gene Clark And Carla Olson – So Rebellious A Lover
    Gene Clark And Carla Olson – So Rebellious A Lover
    $20.00 | , , Add to cart

    “A feeling of spontaneity and warmth of spirit fills So Rebellious A Lover, Gene Clark & Carla Olson’s only collaboration before Clark’s sudden passing in 1991. [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Catherine Howe – What A Beautiful Place (Purple Vinyl)
    Catherine Howe – What A Beautiful Place (Purple Vinyl)
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    “A true rainy-day affair, What A Beautiful Place is the Brit folk autobiography of Howe, aged 20, one that appeared only fleetingly in 1971. Most artists are too young for […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Blod – Helvetet Pa Jorden Skona Ingen Fast…..
    Blod – Helvetet Pa Jorden Skona Ingen Fast…..
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    With the intention of doing a proper and full out choir record, Helvetet På Jorden was initiated by Blod two years ago. While the finished album became something slightly different, […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Joseph Allred – New Jerusalem
    Joseph Allred – New Jerusalem
    $22.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Joseph Allred isn’t sure how many albums they have released. It is thought to be in the neighborhood of twenty-two, not counting collaborations, digital only, and split releases. Most of [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • James Elkington – Pastel De Nada
    James Elkington – Pastel De Nada
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    “In 2023 James Elkington released Me Neither, a double album of solo guitar improvisations and experiments. He ended up thinking of it as a wordless collection of library music. [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Here Comes Your Midnight Man – A Folk Mixtape – Radio Topo #5
    Here Comes Your Midnight Man – A Folk Mixtape – Radio Topo #5
    $8.00 | , Add to cart

    Sullen folk / psych-folk mixtape from many years back by John Rich & Alex. Mostly all bleak tracks.   C60

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Dorothy Carter – Troubadour
    Dorothy Carter – Troubadour
    $29.00 | , Add to cart

    The first official reissue of Dorothy Carter’s folk-music exegesis comes 46 years after its original release, 20 years after Dorothy passed, and 11 years before the centennial of her birth. […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Jody Reynolds – Devil Girls With Raven Hair (1958-1966) (red vinyl)
    Jody Reynolds – Devil Girls With Raven Hair (1958-1966) (red vinyl)
    $30.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Direct from the master tapes for the first time on LP, come the original, earthshaking rockabilly/proto-gothabilly/country-noir-pop 45s of Jody Reynolds. A seminal and influential figure, [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • P.G. Six – Parlor Tricks And Porch Favorites (Expanded)
    P.G. Six – Parlor Tricks And Porch Favorites (Expanded)
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    Amish Records is pleased to finally announce an expanded and remastered edition of P.G. Six’s 2001 debut album, ‘Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites’, to be released as a gatefold [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Dorothy Carter – Waillee Waillee
    Dorothy Carter – Waillee Waillee
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    Palto Flats / Putojefe Records present the first ever reissue of the work of American composer Dorothy Carter, master of the hammered dulcimer, zither, and other instruments of the hammer […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Cleveland 1970
    Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Cleveland 1970
    $10.00 | , Ships on/around Apr 25, 2025 Add to cart

    Blown out nasty recording. Crazy Horse are white hot. Recommend with a doob. Fan club tape – ships April 25th

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Gene Clark – 1975
    Gene Clark – 1975
    $10.00 | , Ships on/around Apr 25, 2025 Add to cart

    Live & unreleased 1975 tracks from Gene Clark with a KILLER band. Must have. Fan club tape – ships April 25th

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Townes Van Zandt – Live Europe
    Townes Van Zandt – Live Europe
    $10.00 | , Ships on/around Apr 25, 2025 Add to cart

    Live european recordings of TVZ! Fantastic release. Fan club tape – ships April 25th

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Golden Spine – Universal Prayer
    Golden Spine – Universal Prayer
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    “Andrea, Václav and Lenka recorded at Golden Hive Studios, Prague with Amák Golden during Winter and Spring 2019. Each of the guest appearing musicians recorded at their homes. Universal [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Greg Kelley, Rob Noyes – Greg Kelley / Rob Noyes
    Greg Kelley, Rob Noyes – Greg Kelley / Rob Noyes
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    “Greg Kelley, trumpet Recorded January 26, 2019 by GK in his kitchen, Seattle WA Rob Noyes, guitar Recorded January 22, 2019 by Sam Moss at Warrior Camp, Somerville MA” Label: […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Ela Stiles & Jensen Tjhung – Golden Scalpel
    Ela Stiles & Jensen Tjhung – Golden Scalpel
    $7.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Ela Stiles (Bushwalking / Solo) & Jensen Tjhung (Deaf Wish/ Lower Plenty) bring you ‘Golden Scalpel’ – two blissful yet world weary sides of transportive, mostly [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Shin Otowa – わすれがたみ
    Shin Otowa – わすれがたみ
    $12.00 | , , Add to cart

    “In 1974, Shin Otowa 音羽信 (Elia Taniguchi) recorded this album, わすれがたみ (wasuregatami, “memento”) at Gyoen Studio in Tokyo with his friend Makoto Kubota & others, with [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • The Handsome Family – The Handsome Family
    The Handsome Family – The Handsome Family
    $60.00 | , , Add to cart

    Pre-Odessa, self-released cassette by the americana duo. Label: no label – no cat number, self-released Format: Cassette, Album Country: US Released: 1994 VG+/VG+. No oval/sticker. Scuffing [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • May Witch – May Witch
    May Witch – May Witch
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    “Jacob Sunderlin: guitar Ezra Buchla: viola Andrew Mansberger: banjo Ariel Ackerly: autoharp, mountain dulcimer recorded spring 2019 at Jacob’s house in Athens, GA improvised live to [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Jon Collin – What Is Thunder
    Jon Collin – What Is Thunder
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    “On recent releases Jon Collin has taken to the woods, mostly near his adoptive home of Stockholm, playing amid the sounds of birdsong and waterfalls. Meanwhile, those who’ve caught [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Karen Dalton – Recording Is The Trip Karen Dalton Archives
    Karen Dalton – Recording Is The Trip Karen Dalton Archives
    $175.00 | , , , Add to cart

    “Recording is the Trip – The Karen Dalton Archives is a three-LP, three-CD box set, including a download card and a shirt. Three LPs: Includes for the first-time ever on […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Gillian Welch ‎– Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs (Vol. 1 | 2 | 3)
    Gillian Welch ‎– Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs (Vol. 1 | 2 | 3)
    $110.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Unearthed from a cache of home demos and reel-to-reel recordings, Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs is the second release of archival music from the vault of Gillian Welch and David [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Trees – Trees
    Trees – Trees
    $80.00 | , , , Add to cart

    “It’s now over fifty years since Trees’ formation, a band who helped define ‘Acid Folk’, creating a sub-category in the lexicon of record dealers and music critics alike. Earth’s new […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy* – Will Oldham On Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (2×10″ & book)
    Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy* – Will Oldham On Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (2×10″ & book)
    $150.00 | , , , , , Add to cart

    Limited edition of 300 copies encased in a chocolate and silver Solander box. Included is the signed and numbered hardback edition of the book ‘Will Oldham On Bonnie ‘Prince’ [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Cameron Knowler – CRK
    Cameron Knowler – CRK
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    ***Ships On Or Around 04/04/25 “Pure musical expression pulling from over a hundred years of American folk history but still feels unburdened by the past and looks sharply towards the […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Dylan Golden Aycock – No New Summers
    Dylan Golden Aycock – No New Summers
    $30.00 | , Add to cart

    ***Pre-Order Item – Ships on or around 3/21 Nice to hear the first solo LP in a good while by this most excellent guitarist who also runs the superb Scissor […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Dino Valente* – Dino Valente
    Dino Valente* – Dino Valente
    $18.00 | , , Add to cart

    “Dino Valente’s sole album recalls the one issued by another San Francisco artist signed to CBS in the late ’60s, Skip Spence: quirky, lyrically vague, folky yet psychedelic, [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Half Shadow – At Home With My Candles
    Half Shadow – At Home With My Candles
    $9.00 | Add to cart

    At Home With My Candles, Half Shadow’s third LP is an album of mythopoetic paeans to the domestic uncanny—the mysterious and unseen worlds experienced at home. Recorded almost entirely in […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Chevrolet Pile – The Crunchy Western Commotion Of
    Chevrolet Pile – The Crunchy Western Commotion Of
    $9.00 | Add to cart

    It’s as if the all star cast of a specific midwestern underground scene conspired to turn to their roots, an expansive flat land, rows of corn and a god damn […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Gypsy ‎– Hooked On A Memory / The Market
    Gypsy ‎– Hooked On A Memory / The Market
    $340.00 | , Add to cart

    Label: Oak (11) – ES 9848 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM Country: Canada Released: 1975 Genre: Pop, Folk, World, & Country VG+/generic Psyched out folk country on the A Side. […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Edsel Axle – Variable Happiness
    Edsel Axle – Variable Happiness
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    North Carolina based singer/songwriter Rosali Middleman has spent the last decade using her voice and guitar to construct tunes built upon the spectrum between joy and pain – deeply [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Bob Walker – Dirt Bike Vacation
    Bob Walker – Dirt Bike Vacation
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    “Friends, they are my ticket out of this place I am in… feels like nothing more than a dirt bike vacation stop between Phoenix and San Diego.” Dirt Bike Vacation—for […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Bob Martin – Seabrook
    Bob Martin – Seabrook
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    Bob Martin began what would become his final studio album in a beach front condominium in Seabrook, New Hampshire in May 2008. The recordings sat dormant for the next 13 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Old Saw – Dissection Maps
    Old Saw – Dissection Maps
    $26.00 | , Add to cart

    Old Saw, the enigmatic New England collective led by Henry Birdsey (Tongue Depressor), return with their third long-playing record, Dissection Maps. _____________________________________ It is [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Folk / Country
  • Cara Beth Satalino – Little Green
    Cara Beth Satalino – Little Green
    $27.00 | , Add to cart

    Cara Beth Satalino built her adulthood in feral, eccentric Baltimore, Maryland, waiting tables and playing in a band, keeping her schedule flexible just in case an opportunity arose. Though [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Ralph E. White – It’s More In My Body Than In My Mind
    Ralph E. White – It’s More In My Body Than In My Mind
    $23.00 | , Add to cart

    Recorded in Austin, Texas in March of 2020, just days before the city and the rest of the world shut down, Ralph White spent two days with producer, Jerry David […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Lone Mesa – Dirt Park
    Lone Mesa – Dirt Park
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    home recordings, with ambient folk / american primitive influences

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Blaine Todd – Goodbye ‘Til I Do Good By You
    Blaine Todd – Goodbye ‘Til I Do Good By You
    $10.00 | Add to cart

    All songs written by Blaine Todd except Just As You Are written by Robert Wyatt Blaine Todd: guitar, bass, voice Henry Birdsey: pedal steel Liam Herb: synth on Wild Desperation […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Ralph E. White – It’s More In My Body Than In My Mind
    Ralph E. White – It’s More In My Body Than In My Mind
    $13.00 | Add to cart

    Recorded in Austin, Texas in March of 2020, just days before the city and the rest of the world shut down, Ralph White spent two days with producer, Jerry David […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Bob Martin – Seabrook
    Bob Martin – Seabrook
    $13.00 | Add to cart

    Bob Martin began what would become his final studio album in a beach front condominium in Seabrook, New Hampshire in May 2008. The recordings sat dormant for the next 13 […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country
  • Gerycz* / Powers* / Rolin* – Activator
    Gerycz* / Powers* / Rolin* – Activator
    $22.00 | , Add to cart

    “Activator” is the third installment from the trio of Jayson Gerycz, Jen Powers and Matthew Rolin, who respectively need no introduction writ-large. For anyone observing the American [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country