Folk / Singer-Songwriter

http://www.last.fm/music/%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A7+%D7%90%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%A9%D7%98%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9F wrote:Arieh “Arik” Einstein (Hebrew: אריק איינשטיין‎ ; 3 January 1939 – 26 November 2013) was an Israeli singer, songwriter and actor. He was a pioneer of Israeli rock music and considered an important figure in Israeli music and culture.

Einstein collaborated with many Israeli singers, songwriters and musicians, including Shalom Hanoch (שלום חנוך) and Yoni Rechter (יוני רכטר). Einstein wrote many of his own songs, and was also a vocalist with The Churchills, Batzal Yarok and HaHalonot HaGvohim

http://www.clickhorning.com/ wrote:The Lake Sunapee, NH region has always had more than its share of musicians. Maybe it's the mountain air or maybe it's the scenery, but something keeps them coming back. Just ask Click Horning, New London's singer songwriter who left when he was seventeen for the Big Apple. Twelve years, a record contract and an album later it was time to come back. Early influences were Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, Peter Paul & Mary, as well as rock and roll and R&B
that he listened to growing up.

https://www.facebook.com/tomelliotmorris/info wrote:Tom Morris self released a total of six EP's during 2011, following that output with a full length album in February named 'We Were Animals' on his own label Olynka Records. Since then he has released an art print with an accompanying song-track called 'The Roots Run Deep'.
August 2012 saw a very limited release of Morris's second album entitled 'And You Were The Hunter'. The album was released worldwide in June 2013 via Function Records

"I normally play for Her Name is Calla. This is an outlet for my solo work"

http://www.last.fm/music/Jesse+Sykes+&+The+Sweet+Hereafter wrote:Seattle, United States (2002 – present)

Jesse Sykes is a Seattle-based singer-songwriter. Her backing band is The Sweet Hereafter, which features Phil Wandscher (late of Whiskeytown) on guitar.

In 2002 they christened their “collective” Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter.

Jesse Sykes belonged to another band, Hominy, along with her former husband Jim Sykes, who played guitar. The band released a self-titled album in 1998 on the Ivy label. Other members of The Sweet Hereafter include Anne Marie Ruljancich (also of the Walkabouts), Bill Herzog on bass, Kevin Warner on drums (for the first two albums) and currently Eric Eagle on drums. Most recently Jesse contributed vocals and co-wrote the song “The Sinking Belle (Blue Sheep)” from the Sunn O))) & Boris collaboration album Altar. Bill Herzog, Phil Wandescher also contributed to Altar.

http://www.last.fm/music/Justin+Sullivan wrote:Justin Sullivan is a UK singer/songwriter born April 8, 1956 in Jordans, Buckinghamshire to Quaker parents.
More famous as the frontman of New Model Army his solo work is often sadly overlooked. His voice is given more emphasis than in the bands material, with some breathtakingly emotional lyrics accompanied by gentle acoustic guitar and soaring strings.

https://www.facebook.com/Jinnwoo/info wrote:The Fly Magazine - "Leicester’s best kept secret Jinnwoo sneaks unassumingly into view, packing a chest infection which thankfully proves no impediment to him unleashing a voice awash with waves of sorrow. His acoustic, dark–edged folk speaks directly to that part of us all which has sat forlornly on dirty doorsteps after the pubs close, trying desperately to put feelings into words."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keaton_Henson wrote:Keaton Henson is an English folk rock musician, visual artist and poet from London.
As a musician Henson usually sings and plays guitar. Henson suffers from serious stage fright and, as a result, he rarely plays concerts. His art show "Hithermost" took place at the Pertwee, Anderson & Gold gallery in London in January 2013 and "sold quickly" He has also released a wordless graphic novel called "Gloaming", published by Pocko, which is "essentially a field guide to a spirit world beyond our reality

http://www.last.fm/music/Rowland+S.+Howard/+wiki wrote:Rowland Stuart Howard (24 October 1959 – 30 December 2009) was an influential rock musician, guitarist and songwriter, based in Melbourne, Australia, best known for: his work in the Antipodean discophile art-rock groups Young Charlatans, The Boys Next Door and The Birthday Party (both featuring the singer Nick Cave), Crime And The City Solution and These Immortal Souls; his macabre lyrics and imposing roots-based guitar playing; and his song Shivers, which he wrote early in his career, and for which he received peer group kudos.
In 1999, he released his first solo album, “Teenage Snuff Film”, which he followed up with the album “Pop Crimes” a decade later. The second album was released in October 2009, only 2 months before his passing.
He passed away on December 30th, 2009 after a long battle with liver cancer.

http://www.maplemusic.com/artists/ray/bio.asp wrote:Ray Materick is a songwriter’s songwriter. His name first emerged on the International music scene in the 1970’s when he garnered Top 20 Radio hits with songs like, Linda Put The Coffee On, which was one of the first Cancon radio standards.

"Ray Materick is a man harboring a deep well of street-smart perception. He’s a writer able to tell the average man’s tale with the force of a jackhammer and the sweet words of a poet. His music stands up to – and sometimes over – the work of John Mellencamp, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Graham Parsons. In short, it sounds like it’s already famous.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Moore_(musician) wrote:John Moore joined the Jesus and Mary Chain in 1986, succeeding Bobby Gillespie on drum duties, later moving to guitar.[1] When he left the Jesus and Mary Chain in 1988, he formed John Moore & The Expressway,[1] releasing two albums.[2] He later formed a new band called Revolution 9 who released several singles, and one album You Might As Well Live.

In 1997 he formed Black Box Recorder with Luke Haines and Sarah Nixey. The band released three studio albums: England Made Me, The Facts of Life and Passionoia, as well as a compilation The Worst of Black Box Recorder. The single "The Facts of Life" reached number 20 in the UK chart and the band appeared on Top Of The Pops.

In 2005, he released an album, Half Awake on his own The Germ Organization label.[2]

Following a 2007 collaboration with Art Brut and an appearance at the Nick Sanderson (Earl Brutus) tribute concert in October 2008, it was announced that Black Box Recorder would perform their first headlining gigs in five years during February 2009.

Moore is also known for his saw playing; he has played saw on both Art Brut albums, namely the 2007 single "Direct Hit".[3] Moore also occasionally plays saw at Haines' concerts.

Moore has also contributed articles to British newspaper The Guardian,[4] and also releases his own music through his Myspace page.[5]

In the 1990s, Moore was at the forefront of the revival of interest in absinthe.[6][7]

http://www.gillsandell.com/ wrote:Now a widely known singer/songwriter and guitarist in her own right, Gill also plays accordion, piano and flute — and sings backing vocals — as a part of Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo, as well as playing regularly with other musicians and bands. Her lyrical modernist folk conceals a dry wit and some darkly complex and carefully nuanced songwriting...

https://www.facebook.com/vikeshkapoor/info wrote:Following a spur-of-the-moment cross-country trip with a pair of fiery European girls, Vikesh Kapoor left school for a brief yet inspiring stint as a mason’s apprentice. The America he had previously known resided narrowly between his childhood home in rural Pennsylvania and the New England university he left home for. Alongside his parents’ own immigrant struggles, these experiences quickly witnessed Kapoor to the scope of the American dream.

A few years later, Kapoor performed at Howard Zinn’s memorial service in Boston, in front of Zinn’s family and colleagues (including Noam Chomsky). Roused by Zinn’s lifelong battle against class/race injustice, Kapoor spent the next two years in Portland, Oregon working on his full-length debut record. The Ballad Of Willy Robbins, a concept album loosely based on a newspaper article, chronicles the brutal but hopeful story of a working class man who slowly loses everything: ambitions, health, family and shelter. It’s a worker’s tale, less specific to the blue-collar life as it is about anyone struggling to make something of themselves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Sage wrote:Greg Sage (born 1952) is an American songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist, regarded as an important influence on many punk rock and post-punk artists. Between 1977 and 1988, Sage was the principal songwriter of the influential Portland, Oregon-based band Wipers.
The mood of Sage's lyrics is frequently dark, and rife with references to confusion and severe alienation. His song structures often take unexpected turns and are typified by fractured melodic passages punctuated by massive, intricate guitar parts, usually played on a Gibson SG.

http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2013/11/19/mike-fiems-i-would-dream-1974/ wrote:Wanting to “mellow” out in the early ’70s, Link Wray’s elder brother Vernon moved to Tucson, Arizona. There, he reassembled the infamous Wray brothers’ Three Track Shack, rechristening it his “Record Factory.” There, he recorded his classic, Wasted. In December 1973 and January 1974, he welcomed a Tucson-based songwriter named Mike Fiems into the Factory, where he served as the producer of Fiems’ I Would Dream. While the LP – recently posted in its entirety by the Tyme-Machine — shares a certain dusty sensibility with Wasted, also released on Tucson’s Vermillion Records in scarce quantity, I Would Dream is an entirely different beast than Wray’s busted heart record.

Mastered by a mysterious “Graybeard,” this is kaleidoscopic sunshine pop as played by sand-caked types. Fiems augments his natural child incantations with folk, soft rock and Sonoran country timbres. He plants his feet in two worlds, one wistful and one jagged. Opener “I Would Dream” sounds appropriately dazed, that is until Fiems curses and steers his sidemen – bassist Charlie Gould and guitarist/drummer Bill Kennedy – into rougher territory.

The lyrics, written by Fiems and his wife (or sister?) Coleen, are alternately naturalistic and doggedly rowdy. “The world is my woman, woman and my child,” Fiems sings on “My Lady,” with a piano that bears a resemblance to the elegiac barroom piano featured on Wray’s “Lonely Son.” Occasionally the record veers into theatrical territory: “Sing It” sounds like it wouldn’t be out of place in the hippie-fied Broadway musicals of the day. But mostly, Fiems mines a unique intersection between cosmic wanderings and rural grooves. words/ j woodbury

http://www.last.fm/music/+noredirect/Morita+Doji wrote:Dōji Morita (born January 15th 1952 in Tokyo) is a Japanese singer-songwriter.
After a troubled time at school and inspired by the death of a friend, in 1975 she recorded her first LP, “Good Bye グットバイ”. On December 25th 1983, she played her last live at Shinjuku Loft and the left music altogether in favour of being a homemaker.