Here's the best folk music of this year from seasoned guitar virtuosos to fierce female singer-songwriters. He is the one, after all, who penned an Op-Ed for The Guardian claiming that it was him and his fellow Brits who invented Americana at all. Regardless, Bragg's latest carries on in the steely vein of traditional folk music he helped forge, full of displaced loss and fervent anti-establishment vibes. There's even some bemused "kids these days" scolding on the excellent "No One Knows Nothing Anymore"—he's cranky, cohesive and still fighting with all he's got. One of 's most poignant folk releases was recorded in the s. Nick Drake's mother, Molly Drake, used to record her own original songs at home on the family's reel-to-reel recorder. The 19 tracks were restored by John Wood — an engineer who frequently collaborated with Nick and is often credited for "discovering" him — and released as a self-titled album by the label Squirrel Things Recordings. They are accompanied by " a biography written by Molly's daughter Gabrielle Drake, a custom letter-pressed jacket and family photos. Not only do these songs offer a new starting point as to Nick's influence, but they also reveal the quietly fierce musings of a housewife in the '50s, a woman with an artistic soul whose pristine voice and imagist poetry were captured, lost, and then rediscovered.


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