Toledo native, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, instrument inventor, multi-medium artist, and environmental activist, Bryan Drewyor has done what most musicians only dare dream about. He's biked across the country performing his his [Click here to open...]
Chris Murphy – The Tinker’s Dream
New York state born and raised Irish-Italian world-music guru Chris Murphy is the kind of stuff legends are made of. He writes music. He records music. He performs music. He teaches music. We are guessing, when cut, he bleeds in song. A [Click here to open...]
Ryan Lee – Always A River
Born in Janesville, WI, right down the road from our Madison, WI headquarters, singer/songwriter Ryan Lee has been described as the artistic offspring of Woody Guthrie, Tracy Chapman, Rufus Wainwright, Joni Mitchell and Cat Stevens. He's a guy who's [Click here to open...]
Rogue Valley – radiate/dissolve
Ambition. This is the lone adjective one could safely use to sum up the personality of the Minneapolis, MN based folk-rock band known as Rogue Valley. But let me explain...I'm not talking about a materialistically inclined breed of ambition. I'm [Click here to open...]
Deborah Savran – Let My Heart Lead The Way
"There is an energetic responsibility of being a musician. Rather than being invested in how the music will be received - which crushes all true joy and imposes the artist's need on the listener - the focus is on coming home, on a quality of presence [Click here to open...]
The Pines – Pasture II
Picking up immediately where they left off with Pasture I: Folk Songs, The Pines have just released their breathtaking followup, Pasture II. Every song on the 6-track EP speaks to---and continues to define---the group's self-proclaimed genre [Click here to open...]
The Ericksons – Bring Me Home
When we set out to create The Ark of Music, there was a short list of artists that we felt we absolutely must review---regardless of when their last album was released. The Ericksons were on that list (which included other Midwestern greats like The [Click here to open...]
Thomas Charlie Pedersen – Second Hand War
For about a decade, Thomas Charlie Pedersen has been making music---really good music---with his band, Vinyl Floor. And, like most veteran artists (particularly the singer/songwriter multi-instrumentalists types), this Copenhagen, Denmark native felt [Click here to open...]