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Basic Folk 101 – Cinder Well
Powered by RedCircle Cinder Well, who is California-born Amelia Baker, makes spooky folk songs in the Irish music tradition. Amelia grew up in Santa Cruz, California in a non-religious Jewish family. Her parents always had music on the stereo: Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and The Grateful Dead. Music was always on in the…
Read MoreBasic Folk 100 – Rose Cousins
Powered by RedCircle Canadian songwriter Rose Cousins hates small talk. She’d much prefer to get down to the bone of your humanity and know about your struggle than talk about the weather. Raised in the tight-knit community on Prince Edward Island, at a young age, Cousins had the sense of helping out others and lifting…
Read MoreBasic Folk 99 – Auyon Mukharji of Darlingside
Powered by RedCircle Auyon Mukharji, of the Massachusetts spacey-folk band Darlingside, grew up in Kansas with first generation immigrant parents. Nature, music and sports all played a big role in his formative years. He ended up studying biology at Williams College, where he met his future bandmates in Darlingside. He joined an a capella group…
Read MoreBasic Folk 98 – Chris Smither
Powered by RedCircle The one and only Chris Smither! Influenced by Mississippi John Hurt and Lightnin’ Hopkins, Smither’s guitar playing is centered around the beat and around the groove. He mics his feet during concerts and loves being able to sound like several different instruments as his heroes did. Smither says “Groove is the essence…
Read MoreBasic Folk 97 – Almeta Ingram-Miller (The Legendary Ingramettes)
Powered by RedCircle Gospel musician Almeta Ingram-Miller of The Legendary Ingramettes is working to preserve the legacy of her mother, Maggie. Maggie was born in 1930 in Georgia. She taught herself piano in order to nurture her gift of singing. She would sing while working in the cornfields as a young girl. She moved to…
Read MoreBasic Folk 96 – Kevin Morby
Powered by RedCircle The music of Kevin Morby has colorful textural layers, much like the human who creates it. On his newest album, Sundowner, Morby is embracing a mellow, yet dramatic sound that runs parallel to his current surroundings of his hometown, Kansas City. He moved back to a house he purchased in 2015 recently…
Read MoreBasic Folk 95 – Shirley Collins
Powered by RedCircle WOW. Shirley Collins has led a wild full life! The British Folk singer, who helped bring about the 60’s folk revival in Great Britain, is on Basic Folk talking about her new album Heart’s Ease and her entire extraordinary career. Shirley also talks about her childhood, which occurred during World War II…
Read MoreBasic Folk 94 – Lizzie No
Powered by RedCircle Around age 10, Lizzie No was getting tired of the violin. The Princeton-born No picked the harp after seeing it being wheeled into an elevator on ‘Diff’rent Strokes.’ It was the weirdest instrument that she could have imagined. While attending Stanford, she took on a job as a research assistant where she…
Read MoreBasic Folk 93 – Lori McKenna
Powered by RedCircle Lori McKenna is on Basic Folk talking about her new album The Balladeer. Lori’s been a huge part of the New England folk circuit for over two decades and for the last ten years has been a much in-demand songwriting in Nashville thanks to Faith Hill, Tim McGraw and Mary Gauthier. Lori grew…
Read MoreBasic Folk 92 – Stella Schindler (Kentucky Avenue)
Powered by RedCircle Stella Schindler is one half of the DC area Americana band Kentucky Avenue, who’s been (safely) working on their sophomore album throughout the pandemic. Stella, an English teacher at an all-girls Catholic School, has led a transient path throughout her life, but music was always constant. She lived in a number of…
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