Roots (Country, Folk, Americana)

Artist Joan Baez
Title Baptism
Label Vanguard

Artist Joan Baez
Title How Sweet The Sound (CD+DVD)
Label Proper
This is the first comprehensive documentary to chronicle the private life and public career of Joan Baez presented here as a deluxe edition with the extended 1.5 hour edition DVD, with extras and CD soundtrack.
The documentary features never before seen footage of Joan performing as early as 1958, footage of Joan with Martin Luther King, legendary Newport Folk Festival clips and much more.
Interviews with Bob Dylan, David Crosby, Roger McGuinn, Steve Earle and Rev. Jesse Jackson are also included.

This DVD/CD will feature the film with bonus content and an audio CD of music from the film. The audio CD contains rare live performances and studio recordings that span her career.

Artist Joan Baez
Title Joan
Label Vanguard
  1. Be not too hard
  2. Eleanor Rigby
  3. Turquoise
  4. La colombe
  5. Dangling conversation
  6. Lady came from Baltimore
  7. North
  8. Children of darkness
  9. Greenwood side
10. If you were a carpenter
11. Annabel Lee
12. Saigon bride

Artist Joan Baez
Title Volume 1
Label Vanguard
  1  Silver Dagger  
  2  East Virginia  
  3  Ten Thousand Miles aka Fare thee well  
  4  House Of The Rising Sun  
  5  All My Trials  
  6  Wildwood Flower  
  7  Donna Donna  
  8  John Riley  
  9  Rake And The Rambling Boy  
10  Little Moses  
11  Mary Hamilton  
12  Henry Martin  
13  El Preso Numero Nuevo  
14  Girl Of Constant Sorrow  
15  I Know You Rider  
16  John Riley

Artist Joan Baez
Title Noel
Label Vanguard
  1. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
  2. Coventry Carol
  3. Good King Wenceslas (Instrumental)
  4. The Little Drummer Boy
  5. I Wonder As I Wander
  6. Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella (Instrumental)
  7. Down In Yon Forrest
  8. The Carol Of The Birds
  9. Angels We Have Heard On High (Instrumental)
10. Ave Maria
11. Mary’s Wandering
12. Deck The Halls (Instrumental)
13. Away In A Manger
14. Adeste Fidelis (Instrumental)
15. Cantique De Noel (O Holy Night)
16. What Child Is This
17. Silent Night
18. The First Noel
19. We Three Kings
20. Virgin Mary
21. Good Christian Kings (Instumental)
22. Burgundian Carol
23. Away In A Manger (Instrumental)

Artist Joan Baez
Title Best Of
Label A&M

Artist Bellowhead
Title Burlesque
Label Westpark
First ever full length album by brit-folk massive.

Artist Bellowhead
Title Hedonism
Label Navigator

Artist Bellowhead (DVD)
Title Live At Shepherd Bush Empire
Label Westpark
Concert : 98 mins
Tour Diary: 25 mins
Interviews: 50 mins

Artist Martin Belmont
Title The Guest List
Label Gold Top

Artist Bill Callahan
Title Woke On A Whaleheart
Label Drag City
You could say this is Bill Callahan’s debut album. Although he’s sired a dozen albums under the name of Smog, he has laid that name to rest and, well, Woke On A Whaleheart. Boasting the propulsive, glittering and classically pretty arrangements of Neil Michael Hagerty (Royal Trux) this album manages to bypass the trends of the modern day while shunning retro entrapments.
With a mix of gospel backing vocals, incediary guitar work and honeyed violins the music on this album touches on gospel, tough pop and American Light Opera. (in the loosest sense!) 

Artist Andrew Bird
Title Armchair Apocrypha
Label Fargo
Recorded mainly in Minneapolis at Crazy Beast Studios (Ben Durrant) and Third Ear Studios (Tom Herbers) and mixed at the famed, haunted Pachyderm Studios in Cannon Falls, the album sums up where Andrew Bird’s career has taken him, yet is completely very much of his artistic present. Supported by a cast of collaborators drawn from the surrounding music scene (drummer and keyboard player Martin Dosh, singer Haley Bonar, bassist Chris Morrissey, and multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Ylvisaker), Bird sings with humor and lightness the lyrical depth of his pocket masterpieces, adding to the mix his unnatural whistling ability and his unconventional manner of playing the violin. From ‘Fiery Crash’, described by his author as a superstitious incantation to protect him from plane crashes to the final notes of ‘Yawny At The Apocalypse’, varied and stunning musical tapestries embellished with lyrical vignettes and musings that veer fluidly from almost childlike innocence to seasoned, darkly comic wit, with brilliant and unexpected twists at every turn.

Out 16 April.

Artist Emit Bloch
Title Dictaphones Vol 1
Label One Little Indian
Emit Bloch’s ’Dictaphones Vol. 1’ is truly a credit-crunch album. Fuelled by Bloch’s rapid-fire lyricism, unique guitar styling and cosmic / comic imagery, the sixteen songs collected here are a tour through a wild west of eloquent grifters, talking rivers, bleeding clouds, interplanetary frontiersmen and neighbourly psychopaths.

Artist Rory Block
Title The Lady and Mr.Johnson
Label Rykodisc
The spirit of Robert Johnson and the Delta Blues tradition come to life on Rory Block’s Rykodisc debut, The Lady and Mr. Johnson. The recording, comprised entirely of Robert Johnson’s music, may be the most compelling and important release in the celebrated blueswoman’s 40-year career. An expert slide guitarist and a masterful singer, Block’s unmatched understanding of the complexity and form of Johnson’s music has gained her the resounding support and encouragement of the Johnson family and the Robert Johnson Blues Foundation. The album features thirteen of the King of the Delta Blues’ classics stripped down to the very essence of vocals and acoustic guitar.

Artist Kath Bloom
Title Thin Thin Line
Label Calde Verde

Artist Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Title Ask Forgiveness
Label Domino
A collection of cover versions as performed by Will Oldham. Featuring songs originally recorded by Bjork. Merle Haggard, The Mekons + R Kelly (!) This album was recorded with Meg Bard + Greg Weeks from Espers in Philadelphia. And there’s a brand new bpb track amongst the covers!

Artist Bonnie Prince Billy
Title Ease Down the Road
Label Domino

Artist Bonnie Prince Billy
Title I See a Darkness
Label Domino

Artist Bonnie Prince Billy
Title Lie Down In The Light
Label

Artist Bonnie Prince Billy
Title Master and Everyone
Label Domino

Artist Bonnie Prince Billy
Title The Letting Go
Label Domino

Artist Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney
Title Superwolf
Label Domino

Artist Billy Bragg & Wilco
Title Mermaid Avenue Vol. 1
Label Elektra

Artist Billy Bragg & Wilco
Title Mermaid Avenue Vol. 2
Label Elektra

Artist Chris Brecht
Title Dead Flower Motel
Label Blue Rose
The singer/songwriter Chris Brecht is considered one of the biggest talents in the Austin music scene today. Dead Flower Motel, his second record shows a clear
move away from the conventional country and folk structures of his debut leaning more toward the early cosmic American-free-spirits of the Flying Burrito Brothers
and The Band to the unconventional Alt. Country Rock of today à la Iron & Wine and the literary roots rock of Richmond Fontaine.

Artist Bright Eyes
Title Motion Sickness
Label Saddle Creek
A documentary of the sold out ’I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning’ shows of early 2005. 

 

Artist Bright Eyes
Title Noise Floor
Label