• Appleseed Recordings is delighted to announce the release of “Beat Café,” the first new Donovan CD for grown-ups since 1996’s “Sutras”. While “Sutras” emphasized Donovan’s roots in folk music,“Beat Café” is more of a timeless state of mind than a musical genre.

• Eleven new Donovan compositions (plus a version of the traditional “Cuckoo”) were recorded by multiple Grammy-winning producer John Chelew (Blind Boys of Alabama,Richard Thompson,John Hiatt) “in the spirit of the Bohemian café happenings” that date back to the mid-19th Century,as Donovan writes in his liner notes.

Red House solo release of HEATHER MASSE; one-third of hugely popular THE WAILIN’ JENNYS.

Heather and her colleagues recently released Live at the Mauch Chuck Opera House, and this lovely solo album will ride on the wave of sales established by the band’s large fan base. The 13 songs of Bird Song were recorded with a jazzy ensemble, and the CD emphasizes the music that has made Heather a frequent and very popular solo guest on Public Radio’s A Prairie Home Companion in 2009 – alongside artists like Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow and Steve Martin.

As acclaimed for her socio-political compositions (early feminist signposts like “Gonna Be an Engineer”) as for her bottomless repertoire of Anglo-American folk music,Peggy Seeger revisits her traditional roots on Heading for Home,her 20th solo album.
 
When she and her two sons,producers/musicians Neill and Calum MacColl,rented an 18th century British cottage in September 2002 to use as a recording studio,their intent was to create “an album of traditional songs along with a few new songs that sounded like traditional ones,” according to Peggy. They emerged with 40 finished songs,almost all of them traditional,enough for a trilogy of “Home” CDs,of which Heading for Home is the first. And they intend to record more at the end of November!
 

Looking for the Moon is the first new solo studio CD for adults since 1994 by one of the great folksingers and songwriters of this century,Tom Paxton. In a career entering its fifth decade,Tom Paxton has recorded over 40 albums and created a body of incisive,heartfelt and universally relevant songs that have been covered by artists ranging from Pete Seeger to Placido Domingo to Willie Nelson. “The Last Thing on My Mind,” “Ramblin’ Boy,” “Whose Garden Was This?,” “The Marvelous Toy” and “Bottle of Wine” are only a few of the Paxton compositions that have become modern folk and topical standards.

An exquisite weaver of story-songs that strike at the heart of personal experience . . . - No Depression

Masterfully structured,startlingly intimate songs in a beautifully lived in voice . . .- Boston Globe

Gilkyson doesn't pull any punches. She graces the music with her lush and passionate voice; a dark and lonely sound,hope and satisfaction,and edgy lyrics with piercing imagery round out the whole. - NY Times