Best Folk of 2006

By Steve Horowitz

English and Scottish ballads, Cajun songs, protest music, and covers of everything from Mississippi John Hurt to Prince populate this year's notable folk records. [20 December 2006]

Slaid Cleaves: Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away

By Juli Thanki

This is the album of Slaid Cleaves's career. It's also the best alt-country album of 2009 thus far. [24 June 2009]

Slaid Cleaves: Unsung

By Jason MacNeil

Slaid Cleaves comes up smelling like roses again with this album, even if he had nothing at all to do with writing any of the material here. [7 July 2006]

Slaid Cleaves: Wishbones

By Chris Fallon