Folk Music: Sourcing the best New Vinyl Releases & Reissues at STPR

The second album Judee Sill made, proved to be her last.

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Smithsonian Folkways Special Series Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train And Other North Carolina Folk Songs And Tunes

Elizabeth Cotten’s 1958 debut album on Folkways is best known for containing the earliest recording of her classic Freight Train.

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Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train And Other North Carolina Folk Songs And Tunes

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A mythical and misplaced masterpiece of lost soft rock and acidic folk funk by a one-hit wonderer lost in the wilderness for four decades.

Susan Christie - Paint A Lady

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Lilith Records Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes

With the release of their debut LP in 1968, Os Mutantes cracked the already red hot Tropicalia scene wide open.

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Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes

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Previously unreleased collaboration between Rick Tomlinson (Voice Of The Seven Woods), Chris Walmsley and Pete Hedley. Limited to 300!

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En Dag - En Dag

£17.99

Paradise Of Bachelors Michael Chapman - True North

True North finds the elder statesman of British song writing and guitar plumbing an even deeper deep and honing an ever keener edge to his iconic writing.

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Michael Chapman - True North

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Third Man Records This Is The Kit - Cold and Got Colder

Stables' uniquely-textured voice possesses a tone that quietly reels you in, and - following the tradition of exquisitely strange troubadours like Karen Dalton, Will Oldham, or Robert Wyatt - is simply arresting.

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This Is The Kit - Cold and Got Colder

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The Great Destroyer is fascinating in that it blends the band’s austere melodies with an aggressive guitar onslaught.

Low - The Great Destroyer

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This Mortal Coil’s debut album It’ll End In Tears (1984) forged the template; helping to crystallise 4AD’s emerging signature sound whilst shining a light on some of their stable.

This Mortal Coil - It’ll End In Tears

£36.99

Sony Music Entertainment Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan

The debut studio album from US singer/songwriter/icon. Originally released in 1962 on Columbia Records.

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Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan

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One of the most important records ever made, it is almost impossible to imagine any jazz collection without it.

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

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For All the Fucked Up Children was first released as a bootleg record in 1995. The record consists of Spacemen 3's first ever recording session from 1984.

Spacemen 3 - For All The Fucked Up Children Of This World We Give You Spacemen 3

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Freed from the Sugarcubes' confines, Björk takes her voice and creativity to new heights on Debut.

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Björk - Debut

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Heavenly Sweetness Various - Ethiopian Modern Instrumental Hits

Absolutely one of the best ethno-funk-jazz LPs around, a true cult classic from 1970s Ethiopia featuring main man Mulatu!

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Various - Ethiopian Modern Instrumental Hits

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Heavenly Sweetness Various - Ethiopian Urban Modern Music Vol. 3

More Ethiopian Soul And Groove has been repressed by Heavenly Sweetness on three different occasions.

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Various - Ethiopian Urban Modern Music Vol. 3

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As it was, this was a deceptive calm-before-the-storm since both artists would soon play central roles in the wild, psychedelic experimental scene known as Tropicalia.

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Caetano Veloso - Domingo

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Drag City Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender

Classically trained harpist Joanna Newsom uses her appreciation of Appalachian folk and bluegrass for an oddly alluring set of indie rock melodies.

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Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender

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Though Rounds is experimental by nature, Kieran Hebden's gift for melody and emotional shading allows his records to be enjoyed by an audience wider than merely experimental listeners.

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Four Tet - Rounds

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This 1972 release was his first for a major label after more than a decade of issuing work privately or on small imprints, and also the first instance of Fahey having access to a large ensemble of musicians.

John Fahey - Of Rivers And Religion

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Recorded in the height of Robbie Basho's creative career, Visions of the Country was originally released in 1978, and has been out of print for nearly 36 years.

Robbie Basho - Visions Of The Country

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Pink Moon more than anything else is the record that made Drake the cult figure he remains.

Nick Drake - Pink Moon

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A fantastic debut appearance, and if the cult of Drake consistently reads more into his work than is perhaps deserved, Five Leaves Left is still a most successful effort.

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Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left

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Better than any album before it, Dummy merged the pinpoint-precise productions of the dance world with pop hallmarks like great songwriting and excellent vocal performances.

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Portishead - Dummy

£27.99

Drake reaches for a perfectly artful reflection on loss and loneliness and succeeds wonderfully.

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Nick Drake - Bryter Layter

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