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Basic Folk Debate Club: Your Career vs. Your Soul
Basic FolkAug 31, 2023

Lancaster-born, Nashville-based Nina de Vitry's debut album, What You Feel is Real, shines while showcasing her passion for jazz and folk music. de Vitry's name may sound familiar, as she comes from a musical family and is the youngest sister of folk superstar Maya de Vitry (formerly of The Stray Birds). She grew up fiddling…

Basic Folk Debate Club: Your Career vs. Your Soul
Basic FolkAug 24, 2023

Ben Harper has this deep connection to music through his family, who own a beautiful music store in the Inland Empire of California. The legacy of the store is founded on ensuring its community always has access to music. That legacy has deeply impacted the type of person Ben Harper continues to be throughout his…

Basic Folk Debate Club: Your Career vs. Your Soul
Basic FolkAug 17, 2023

Canadian-born, New-York based banjo person Taylor Ashton's second solo album, Stranger to the Feeling, was recorded on a coast-to-coast road trip in 2021. These were the two weeks post-vaccine where we thought everything was A-OK, so Ashton and producer Jacob Blumberg set out on a recording adventure that included collaborations with friends new and old.…

Basic Folk Debate Club: Your Career vs. Your Soul
Basic FolkAug 10, 2023

The headline for Los Angeles-based Raye Zaragoza's new album Hold That Spirit is that after she broke off her engagement, she used her wedding budget to fund the recording. She wrote the songs the year she turned 30 while she was thinking of the expectations placed on women in society to have everything together at…

Basic Folk Debate Club: Your Career vs. Your Soul
Basic FolkAug 3, 2023

It's been 10 years since Boston-area Meg Hutchinson has released an album ... and she did it super quietly, so no shade if you didn't realize that your favorite middle sister is back with some seriously devastating songs. Meg grew up just outside of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where she had an idyllic childhood surrounded by…