Folk Alley

FolkAlley.com is a nonprofit, listener-supported online music platform that operates 24/7, showcasing a variety of genres including folk, roots, Americana, Celtic, contemporary singer/songwriter, world, and acoustic music. Established in September 2003, it is produced by WKSU-FM based in Kent, Ohio. The site features a music stream along with a real-time playlist, and it includes additional channels such as Fresh Cuts (for new music), an Irish Music stream, and various seasonal and thematic streams. Users can also enjoy exclusive in-studio video sessions known as Folk Alley Sessions, along with song, video, and album premieres, music news, new releases, interviews with artists, and much more. WKSU is affiliated with Kent State University.

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Folk Alley Radio Show #250320

1 month ago | folkalley.com | Linda Fahey

This week on Folk Alley, join Cindy Howes to welcome in Spring with music from Gillian Welch, Chris Coole, David Francey, The Early Mays, and Richard Shindell. Hear new music from Valerie June, I’m With Her, Alison Krauss & Union Station, and Kristin Scott Benson, Gena Britt, & Alison Brown, along with favorites from Joy Oladokun, and The Wood Brothers.
Album Review: Kris Delmhorst, 'Ghosts in the Garden'

2 months ago | folkalley.com | Henry Carrigan

On her new album, Ghosts in the Garden, New England-based singer and songwriter Kris Delmhorst passes through the permeable borders of the physical and the spiritual, exploring in haunting vocals the ethereal and transitory character of life and the shadowy world that inhabits the gardens and seasons of our lives. Like the poems of Keats, Shelley, and Emily Dickinson, Delmhorst’s songs flourish as odes to impermanence and memory.
Album Review: Sierra Hull, 'A Tip Toe High Wire'

2 months ago | folkalley.com | Henry Carrigan

On her new album A Tip Toe High Wire mandolinist and guitarist Sierra Hull dazzles us with her balancing act as she moves in sure-footed fashion across a high wire of bluegrass, folk, jazz, and old time music.
Album Review: Jason Isbell, 'Foxes in the Snow'

2 months ago | folkalley.com | Henry Carrigan

Over the span of five days in October 2024, Jason Isbell holed up in Electric Lady Studios and laid down eleven spare, haunting tracks for his new solo acoustic album Foxes in the Snow. “Bury Me,” the album’s first track, opens with Isbell’s keening a cappella vocals that lead into a cantering Western rhythm that travels along a story about being a prisoner of fame and a prisoner of the road.
Folk Alley Radio Show #241205

Dec 6, 2024 | folkalley.com | Linda Fahey

This week on Folk Alley, join Elena See for a cozy mix of songs for December, featuring The Henry Girls and Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum, along with new music from Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis, and Karine Polwart. Celebrate Tom Waits’ 75th birthday with a special salute, and revisit some Folk Alley favorites from 2024, including Anna Tivel, Bonny Light Horseman, The Decemberists, Joy Oladokun, and more.
Hear the Best New Folk Music with Fresh Cuts Friday

Dec 6, 2024 | folkalley.com | Cindy Howes

Ready for some of the best new music we’ve heard this week? It’s a great list as you’ll see below — and as you’ll hear when you join me for my ‘Fresh Cuts’ radio hour! Listen every Friday at 2 p.m. Eastern, 11 a.m. Pacific via the 24/7 stream on our website, app, or your smart speaker. Or, just click on the Fresh Cuts stream whenever it’s convenient for you. In the meantime, check out some of the best new music we’ve been listening to this week.
Basic Folk podcast, eps. 289 – Dave Simonett (Trampled by Turtles) - Folk Alley

Dec 5, 2024 | folkalley.com | Cindy Howes |Dave Simonett |Lizzie No

Lead singer and songwriter of the bluegrass-adjacent Trampled by Turtles, Dave Simonett is a talented musician AND a great outdoorsman. From the small town of Mankato, Minnesota, to the vibrant music scenes of Duluth and Minneapolis, Dave shares his upbringing in a musically inclined, nature-loving family, shaped by the sounds of church hymns and classic rock.
Folk Alley Radio Show #241128

Nov 29, 2024 | folkalley.com | Linda Fahey

This week on Folk Alley, join Elena See for an encore presentation our annual 50 year throwback show. Hear the sounds of 1974 featuring music by John Denver, Dolly Parton, Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Taj Mahal, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Jorma Kaukonen, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Waits, and Doc & Merle Watson.
Album Review: 'Lucinda Williams Sings The Beatles from Abbey Road'

Nov 26, 2024 | folkalley.com | Henry Carrigan

During the pandemic, Lucinda Williams and her band found a way to release their creative energy; they produced a series of livestreams and records with Williams interpreting other people’s songs with the title Lu’s Jukebox. On the first volume of Lu’s Jukebox, Williams delivered her down-to-the-bone versions of Tom Petty’s songs, and, by the end of 2020, Williams had recorded six volumes of the project with the final album devoted to the songs of the Rolling Stones.
Folk Alley Radio Show #241121

Nov 22, 2024 | folkalley.com | Linda Fahey

This week on Folk Alley, join host Elena See for new music from the Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, and Caroline Spence. Celebrate Thanksgiving with songs from Loudon Wainwright III, The Mammals, and Mary Chapin Carpenter, plus enjoy favorites from Iron & Wine, Tom Waits, Dom Flemons, Willi Carlisle, and Guy Clark.