Hear the Best New Folk Music with Fresh Cuts Friday
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Dervish, “Passage West” (featuring the Indigo Girls)
Later in 2025 will see Dervish’s release of The Great Irish Songbook Chapter 2: Poets and Storytellers. The album will feature newly composed songs from Irish songwriters and special guests like Indigo Girls. “Passage West” was originally written by John Spillane (Cork, Ireland) and released in 2009.
Sister Sadie, “If I Don’t Have You”
New song from Sister Sadie a bona fide love song! “I don’t write too many love songs,” confesses its lead singer, Dani Flowers. “Most of the songs in my catalogue are admittedly pretty depressing. But ‘If I Don’t Have You’ is just that — a love song about loving someone so much that everything you’ve ever wanted or hoped to accomplish now pales in comparison to the need you have to be with that person.”
Jason Isbell just announced his first entirely solo acoustic album, Foxes in the Snow (out March 7). It was recorded entirely on the same all-mahogany 1940 Martin 0-17 acoustic guitar, and in the span of just five days.
Sam’s latest record, Swimming is out on February 7. Of his new song, he shares: “‘Wire’ is a song about trying to be good while a bit of the dread of the world seeps in. Not a song about a revelatory day, just a song about pacing through a day. Isa Burke, whose electric guitar and harmonies weave throughout the song, really shines here.”
