by Devon Léger - Expand your horizons and pick up one of these albums this Bandcamp Friday. Each Friday of each month through 2020, Bandcamp is waiving their admin fees to help artists, so this is the perfect time to try out a new band.
Every song on Powell’s When I Wait for You, illustrates Powell’s ability to capture a moment of life, to explore its intricacies, and to revel in its beauty, its sadness, its joy.
Brilliant as the noonday sun, Noon illuminates the glimmering facets of Leo Kottke’s and Mike Gordon’s sparkling musicianship.
…but i’d rather be with you illustrates Molly Tuttle’s exceptional musical intuition and creativity and her ability to know exactly how to bring out the essence of a song. She dwells in these song deeply, making them her own, showing us why we should be listening to Molly Tuttle’s entrancing playing and singing as much as we can.
Sojourn of a Burning Sun carries us on a journey into and out of ourselves, with Daniel Rodriguez as our guide. On his debut solo album, Rodriguez illustrates his artful ability to plumb the depths of our hearts and souls and to offer us a healing balm for whatever ails us.
Since the start of this COVID crisis, Bandcamp has been waiving their fees for artists on the first Friday of each month. These “Bandcamp Fridays” have become an excellent excuse to pick up new music and merch in order to support your favorite artists, most of whom are seriously struggling right now. Because Black Lives Matter, this list is a roundup of some of the best Black roots music on Bandcamp that’s been released recently, much of it from elders of the tradition
Do what you can to support artists and to amplify Black voices this Bandcamp Friday, 8/7!
Live from Lincoln Theatre illustrates what’s best about Milk Carton Kids: their blend of folksy humor and roots music charms and entertains, and their transcendent harmonies transport us momentarily out of ourselves, even as the duo’s humor reminds us of our foibles, counseling us to laugh at them.
The rhythms and melodies on No Summer circle back on themselves, creating a lush forest of sounds that enfold us in their encircling arms. Baker creates mesmerizing songscapes that unfold spaciously, inviting us to enter them wherever we find a space and to inhabit them and dwell in their haunting and transporting beauty.
Saro Lynch-Thomason & Sam Gleaves', I Have Known Women: Songs by Si Kahn Celebrating Women’s Lives and Struggles is the album for our times. It’s fierce tenderness, passionate commitment, tenacious devotion to honoring women, and subtle beauty create a songbook that could easily carried to streets and meetings where the songs could be sung fervently to inspire change and hope for now and for the future.
Woodstock Under the Stars reveals the clarity and depth of Eric Andersen’s musical vision. It’s a chance to celebrate the quiet beauty of his songwriting and music, and it testifies to the power of his music to continue to transform us.
