To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings, Found Dogs uncovers rare recordings from the original sessions. The record includes alternate takes, acoustic versions, and four never-before-heard tracks all newly mastered for vinyl that offer a deeper look into John Prine’s creative process. Featuring gems like “Hey Ah Nothin’,” “World Without Love,” and “Dogs in Burlington,” the collection captures Prine’s humor, heart, and storytelling. This foil-numbered LP is exclusive to Record Store Day, giving fans the first chance to experience these long-lost moments.

John Prine recorded live for BBC radio. Featuring solo performances of songs from his first two albums. First official release. 1-LP 140g black vinyl.

The new two-disc archival release from John Prine featuring studio & live recordings dating back to 1970, one year before his debut album. Long before the awards and accolades, the concerts and albums, John Prine trudged through snow in the cold Chicago winters, delivering mail to his childhood suburb. “I always likened the mail route to a library with no books,” says John Prine. “I passed the time each day making up these little ditties.” 'The Singing Mailman Delivers' is a two-disc archival release featuring the earliest studio and live recordings from Prine dating back to 1970, one year before his debut album. In August 1970, John Prine visited a Chicago radio station for an interview. “I asked after the show if it were possible to stick around and tape all the songs I had written up until then,” says Prine. The live performance was recorded at the Fifth Peg in Chicago in November 1970, where Prine played three nights a week, while still delivering mail during the day. Prine takes the live audience through twelve of his classic tunes, a few of which already sound like crowd favourites. These amateur recordings on 'The Singing Mailman Delivers' truly show Prine as a poet whose songs were refined since inception, and written by an unassuming songwriter, trying to pass time on his mail route.

Love Forever, our 2025 set of demos from Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Jackie DeShannon, set collector hearts a-flutter all over the world with it's collection of introspective, folk rock-flavored tunes drawn from her unreleased recordings for Metric Music Publishing. Now, we're one-upping ourselves with Girl of Yesterday-Acoustic Folk Demos, a collection of COMPLETELY UNRELEASED acoustic folk demos from Jackie, taken from the same rich source of material. Folk music came naturally to Jackie. She got her start singing gospel at home and in church as a child in her native Kentucky, and then singing country songs in her teens on her own weekly radio show. And her first, self-titled album for Liberty in 1963 consisted entirely of folk repertoire. But that album only featured folk songs written by other artists. Girl of Yesterday-Acoustic Folk Demos, on the other hand, presents a dozen tunes, all penned by Jackie for an album distributed by Metric in 1964.

2010 Box Set Containing 5 Original Albums By Italian Folk-rock Band. Includes ‘Se mi rilasso… collasso’, ‘Bondo! Bondo!’, ‘Tre passi avanti’, ‘Ottaavio’, ‘Allegro ma non troppo’. Italian folk/rock group Bandabardó got involved in the local scene in the early '90s, mostly playing acoustic tunes based on inspiring lyrics about positivism. Formed by singer/songwriter Enrico Erriquez Greppi and guitarist A.M. Finaz, the band was later joined by percussionist Paolino, bassist Don Bachi, guitarist Andrea Orlandini, also known as Orla, and C.C. Cantini.

Richard Thompson is the sort of artist destined to be a cherished cult item rather than a bona fide star, which at the dawn of the 21th century puts him in an uncomfortable place in the music industry – being able to reliably sell 100,000 copies of an album makes you too small for a major label, no matter how long they've kept you on the roster. In 2000, after a dozen years with Capitol Records, Thompson's contract was not renewed, and 2003's The Old Kit Bag found him recording for an independent for the first time since 1985. Creatively, this actually turns out to be a good thing; after the periodically excessive and self-conscious production Mitchell Froom imposed on nearly all of Thompson's releases for Capitol, 1999's Mock Tudor (produced by Tom Rothrock and Rob Schnapf) found Thompson going for a more lean and live sound, and with John Chelew at the controls, Thompson follows suit on The Old Kit Bag. Cut in a straightforward and stripped-down manner, with just bassist Danny Thompson, drummer Michael Jerome, and harmony vocalist Judith Owen along for company, The Old Kit Bag captures Thompson in spare but sympathetic circumstances; the performances are strong and confident, without a note or gesture wasted, and Thompson's interplay with his rhythm section is nothing short of superb.

Recto Verso is the second studio album by French singer Zaz, released on 10 May 2013 under the label Play On. The album was Zaz's first album in three years, after her eponymous début, released in 2010. It débuted on the French Album Chart at #2 and to date has spawned three singles, "On ira", "Si" and "Gamine". Musically, it is largely in a similar style to Zaz's début album. The title refers to the two sides of Zaz's personality, which she wished to express in the music of the album. Recto Verso went on to spend ten weeks in the top 10 albums and has been certified Double Platinum as of December 2013.

JP Soars has spent over two decades building his reputation the way roots music was meant to be built: onstage, night after night, delivering a high-energy, blend of roots music that moves effortlessly through blues, rock & roll, Latin grooves, country, and gypsy jazz-never confined by genre, always guided by feel. That musical vision comes fully into focus on Gypsy Blue Revue, a collaborative project with acclaimed violinist, vocalist, and songwriter Anne Harris (Keb Mo & Taj Mahal, Otis Taylor, Cracker): a blend of songwriting styles and instrumental chops, set to a backdrop of Southern soul, roadhouse blues and rock, and eclectic folk music, recorded "all in one room, playing together. We just wanted it to sound like we do live."

The first time June Tabor and Maddy Prior made a duo recording, it was released under their names and was entitled Silly Sisters. On this, their second album, Silly Sisters is the name of the group. Officially, it still consists of just Tabor and Prior, but most tracks also feature Breton guitarist Dan Ar Braz, Welsh harpist and keyboardist Huw Warren, and various other guests. As with their first album, the program is a winning mix of traditional and modern British folk music. An eerie and haunting arrangement of Andy Irvine's "Blood and Gold" is followed immediately by an almost African-sounding instrumental by Ar Braz; Tabor and Prior perform a brief a cappella "catch" by Henry Purcell entitled "Cakes and Ale"; and the traditional "Hedger and Ditcher" shows up in an arrangement that features both bagpipes and soprano saxophone. But interesting as things get instrumentally, Tabor and Prior's almost telepathic musicality and sharp, reedy voices are always at center stage, and the songs are always well served by the arrangements.

Richard Thompsons new album, 13 Rivers, is the artists first self-produced record in over a decade. 13 Rivers is a very stripped down, bare-bones recording and according to Thompson the album is a reflection of current events that have happened in his life. This has been an intense year for myself and my family, getting older doesnt mean that life gets easier! There are surprises around every bend. I think this reflects in the immediacy of the stories, and the passion in the songs. Sometimes I am speaking directly about events, at other times songs are an imaginative spin on what life throws at you. The music is just a mirror to life, but we try to polish that mirror as brightly as possible. The album was recorded at Boulevard Recording in Los Angeles, California. 13 Rivers features Richards regular accompanists, Michael Jerome and Taras Prodaniuk, as well as Thompsons guitar tech, Bobby Eichorn, on second guitar. Each track on the album was recorded in analog, with minimal overdubbing.

Gabriel Auguste poursuit sa métamorphose artistique entamée après son départ du groupe Wall of Death. Paradis terrestre débarque deux ans après La Grande Gomme, un disque collectif et ambitieux, dans lequel folk et électronique se rencontraient avec originalité. En matière d’originalité, le présent album se pose là également puisqu’il s’inspire directement de la passion de Gabriel Auguste pour la montagne, loin des préoccupations souvent urbaines ou hédonistes d’une certaine French pop. Randonneur et alpiniste amateur, il transforme ses expéditions dans le massif du Mont-Blanc ou les Pyrénées en matière musicale qui touche par sa simplicité et sa singularité.

Grammy Award winners Old Crow Medicine Show's new album Union Made is rooted in the people, places and pulse of America. It features special guests such as Ray Benson, Evan Felker, Del McCoury, Lee Oskar, Maggie Rose, Molly Tuttle, Jesse Welles, and more. It has ten new OCMS songs and two classic covers: Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" and Merle Haggard's "Rainbow Stew." The album arrives just in time to celebrate America's 250th Anniversary.

Having already transitioned from traditional acoustic jazz and blues to her own eclectic folk- and pop-leaning originals on past albums, Madeleine Peyroux once again embraces the latter on 2018's Anthem. Named after the Leonard Cohen song that she covers with emotive precision here, Anthem finds the former busker turned chanteuse collaborating with a team of highly regard musicians, arrangers, and songwriters including longtime producer and multi-instrumentalist Larry Klein, guitarist and primary lyricist David Baerwald, organist Patrick Warren, and drummer Brian MacLeod. Also joining in at various times are guitarist Dean Parks, saxophonist Chris Cheek, drummer Jay Bellerose, and vocalist Luciana Souza (who does not sing but instead adds subtle percussion accents), and others.

Restoration Ruin is a real oddity in the Jarrett catalog: a vocal album on which he plays all the instruments. And not a jazz vocal album, either, but a folk-rock one in which he alternates - quite literally, track to track - between sub-Dylan outings and more folk-Baroque ones that echo the late-'60s work of artists like Love and Tim Buckley. There's a certain amateurish appeal to the LP, in keeping with other crossover acid folk artists of the period. Yet the fact is that Jarrett is a major jazz musician, but a journeyman-at-best folk-rock singer (with a hoarse, wavering croon-whine), instrumentalist, and songwriter, with a bent for flaky wordplay that gives this a bit of a fried-psychedelic tinge. At times, to be harsh, it's less than journeyman, particularly on the Dylan-esque cuts, which have almost embarrassing wheezing son-of-Dylan harmonica and some downright embarrassing out-of-sync drums…

NOW is proud to present the next instalment in our ongoing ‘Yearbook’ series. It’s back to 1972 with 80 stellar tracks… this special edition 4-CD is housed in ‘hardback-book’ packaging featuring a 28-page booklet which includes notes about each track. NOW – Yearbook 1972: Celebrating a brilliant year of pop singles.