It’s 2024 recap time on Basic Folk! Cindy & Lizzie dive into a most special year-end reflection, featuring highlights from our honest conversations with folk musicians. We revisit THE top episode of the year, Anna Tivel & Jeffrey Martin‘s insightful discussion on navigating artistic challenges and living a simple life. Cindy shares her favorite episode featuring her co-host Lizzie No talking about her career-defining album, Halfsies (our 250th episode!). In turn, Lizzie’s favorite honest convo came from Leyla McCalla onboard…
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Basic Folk 166 – Richard Thompson
Richard Thompson‘s memoir, Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967 – 1975 (now out in paperback) is a…
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Basic Folk 165 – John Doe
Powered by RedCircle John Doe‘s career has gone from poetry to punk to country to acting to punk to folk…
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Basic Folk 164 – Steve Forbert
Steve Forbert is not a dramatic person. His stories are fairly straight forward even though he’s lived a pretty incredible…
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Basic Folk 163 – Lily Henley
Fiddler and sing/songwriter Lily Henley‘s latest album, Oras Dezaoradas, is a full-on celebration of her Sephardic Jewish Heritage. The lineage…
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Basic Folk 162 – Grace Givertz
Powered by RedCircle Grace Givertz, born and raised in South Florida, began writing and performing at age eleven when she…
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Basic Folk 161 – Amy Correia
LA-based singer/songwriter Amy Correia will tell you that she is not a prolific writer, which… okay maybe she doesn’t write…
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Basic Folk Presents: Why We Write
Editor’s note: Basic Folk is pleased to introduce our listeners to one of our favorite podcasts by sharing an episode…
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Basic Folk 160 – Mason Jennings
Powered by RedCircle Mason Jennings has the most interesting songwriting process I’ve come across. Since he was around 13 years…
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Basic Folk 159 – Tatiana Hargreaves
Powered by RedCircle When Tatiana Hargreaves was younger, she was a shit-hot fiddle player; recording her debut album at age…
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