The Head And The Heart

I like folk music. There's a new strain of folk music around the world that draws heavily on the "roots" music of a country, reaching back and past the folkies of the 1960s. In the UK you see artists like Mumford and Sons or Laura Marling going back to the early traditional musics of the countries of the UK for their inspiration. Here in the US you see bands like The Head and The Heart or The Civil Wars reaching into more Americana or Appalachian traditions to take their musical cues.

Karen Dalton's Katie Cruel

This is going to go back a few years, to one of my all time favorite folk singers. She originally only released two albums back in the 1960s, but a third one recently came out this year. You can find out more about Karen Dalton (and you should) at her Wikipedia page here.

And her new album 1966 can be found at the Dellmore Recordings site.

Even though the influence probably isn't intended, I think that you can hear strains of her music in more contemporary "country" folk artists like The Civil Wars or The Head and The Heart.

The Limousines

This cute & silly song is bouncing around in my head :)

the kids are disco dancing they're tired of rock and roll
i tried to tell 'em hey that drum machine aint got no soul!
but they dont wanna listen, no they think they heard it all,
they trade those guitars in for drum machines and disco balls

we cant rewind no we've gone to far, the internet killed the video star...