Move To The (Algo)Rhythm Of Some Fine Folk Music...

Algorhythms, baby, sometimes they work against you, and sometimes they actually help you. No, I am not talking about joining the A.I. revolution - if you've been here a while you'd know better, though the wife has embraced Claude who thankfully is not another man, as one could assume by its stupid French-ass name. Oh, sorry, I digress. What was I talking about again? Oh, yeah, digressions. How about digressions by algorhythm? Still not a streamer, but even trusty old Youtube, my music service of choice, is obviously trying to lure me with tempting 'oh, you might like this' suggestions on the sidebar. And wouldn't you know it, today's offering comes straight from the Youtube pipeline. I don't know which modern folk-related artist I was looking up in winter/spring 2023, but all of a sudden Youtube proposed me at every visit two or three new related suggestions for vaguely folk an Americana-inspired artists, and dutifully I clicked my way through their suggestions. Also dutifully, I took note and load of those I liked, and one of the results is the One Buck Record of the day. 

When I published Americana 2 about two weeks ago, I mentioned in the write-up that a good number of those tracks, most by little-known or unknown artists were outtakes from another project, and this is said project. When finally finishing compiling these, I finally decided to throw off the truly country-tinged songs, knowing that I had a perfect album to put those on, while everything that was decidedly more folk was kept here, for the first of three volumes in this little series. I slapped the name New Folk(s) on it, because...well...these folks were new to me and...I guess you can figure out the rest. Now, that they've been lying around in a folder for two and a half years, these folks and their music aren't as new as they once were, and in truth some of these songs might now almost be a decade old. But hey, I'm slow with modern music, and it's a title I like, so New Folk(s) stays, even if the fresh paint might be peeling off one or two tracks. A reader also mentioned "some nice melancholia" on Americana 2. Well, if some nice melancholia is your thing, you're definitely going to find that here. 

It wasn't necessarily the main criteria - that'd be song quality, natch! - but I realized that pretty much every artist here is one I hadn't heard of before, and most are in double or triple digits as far as subscribers go. Now, there's some fantastic artists on the Tube who have a ridiculously low number of subscribers (like, say, The Fly Birds straight out of my Bluegrass Chartbusters series, who surely deserve more than 355 followers), but I liked that this was, in more ways than one, a voyage into the unknown. Which it will stay, for me as for you, prospective listeners. I could look up all these artists and give you one-line descriptions and what have you, but I'm not gonna. Instead, it's the One Buck Records algorhythm that will surprise you, in much the same way I was surprised when these songs first showed up. I just added a nicely flowing running order, and some cover art, and that's it. The exploration is still on, and if you find someone or their song that you like, well, investigate. or, you know, tell us about 'em. Folks like Andrew Tasker, Justin Prins, Sounds Like April, William Troia, Missing Teeth, Catseye Parrish, Fixer, So Impartial and Sambassadeur are awaiting you. 

So, I'll just leave this here, enjoy these New Folk(s), folks...