Hear the Best New Folk Music with Fresh Cuts Friday
Discover the Best New Music of the Week!
We’ve pulled together some of the best new music we’ve heard lately — and you can hear it all on Fresh Cuts, my weekly radio hour. Tune in every Friday at 2pm ET / 11am PT on Folk Alley’s 24/7 stream — available on our website, mobile app, or your smart speaker too.
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In the meantime, here’s a sneak peek at some exciting new music that’s caught our ears this week!
Maya de Vitry, “Any Bell I See”
It’s always a treat when there’s new music from Maya de Vitry and she’s hinting there’s more to come with her new song “Any Bell I See.” Maya says I “wrote this one as a song-gift to my friend Lindsay Lou. I never intended to record it, but a chance session with some folks at Steve Dawson’s studio changed that… more on all that later.”
John Prine, “Hey Ah Nothin”
Oh Boy Records just announced a 30th anniversary of John Prine’s Lost Dogs & Mixed Blessings (out 9/12/2025). The deluxe edition features a never before released recording “Hey Ah Nothin” along with a very sweet dog-centric music video.
Sadie Gustafson-Zook, “Singing for Something”
Sadie Gustafson-Zook’s new single “Singing for Something” was inspired by getting arrested for singing hymns with a bunch of Mennonites at a ceasefire action back in 2024. Gustafson-Zook says, “I was so struck by how powerful it felt to be singing in this setting, finding safety in the knowledge that we were many individuals acting as a collective, and finding safety in myself – knowing that I was standing firm in my beliefs.”
Olive Klug & wasp eater, “Honeysuckle”
Makena Brown (wasp eater) told her friend Olive about removing invasive species from a local park. Olive, surprised to discover that the beautiful and sweet honeysuckle is actually an invasive species, jokingly compared the deception of the plant to deception they’d experienced in past relationships. In this shared moment of divine inspiration, they picked up their instruments and started singing about how toxic, deceptive relationships invading your life can look a whole lot like toxic, deceptive plants invading your local park.
More this week on FreshCuts!
Anna Tivel – “White Goose”
Beoga – “Tradfather”
Frazey Ford – “The Happy Song (Dum-Dum)”
Grain Thief – “Heartbreak & Red Wine”
Hayes Carll – “High”
Nathan Evans Fox – “Hillbilly Hymn (Okra and Cigarettes)”
Shannon McNally – “After Midnight”
Silvana Estrada – “Dime”
Wood Brothers – “Witness”
