Articles by Sarah Greene
Sam Larkin
The Secret Songs of Sam Larkin
PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2015
Toronto songwriter Sam Larkin was famously secretive. He didn't like to disclose details of where he lived, what he'd done for a living ...
Jessica Pratt Talks Unexpected Success and 'On Your Own Love Again'
PUBLISHED Jan 28, 2015
Presenting recordings that exude an other-timeliness that almost places her in the '60s and '70s as much as the present, Jessica Pratt ushe...
Jake Xerxes Fussell
PUBLISHED Jan 27, 2015
It takes a lot of work to sound this relaxed. On his buoyant self-titled debut, North Carolina-based, Georgia-raised folksinger and guitari...
Jessica Pratt
On Your Own Love Again
PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2015
Californian critical darling Jessica Pratt came to attention after White Fence's Tim Presley fell so in love with her four-track recordings...
Elephant Micah
Where In Our Woods
PUBLISHED Jan 20, 2015
Do not attempt to hide from the cacophony of modern city life in Indiana songwriter and folklorist Joe O'Connell's (aka Elephant Micah) Whe...
Exclaim!'s 2014 in Lists:
Five Folk Albums from Minimalist to Maximalist
PUBLISHED Dec 19, 2014
Neither the 12-member supergroup nor barebones simplicity took hold as a prevalent theme in 2014 — like the very definition of folk/c...
Alvvays
A Long Journey to Overnight Success
PUBLISHED Dec 2, 2014
It is day two of Alvvays' first-ever headlining North American tour and the band are riding several months of critical acclaim, growing aud...
The Translator
Country Soul
PUBLISHED Nov 10, 2014
What is it? A fusion that points to both genres' shared heritage in the American South, country soul came to prominence after Ray Charles'...
