This is the first solo album for the former frontwoman of the folk-rock band Espers.

The second solo album for the folk singer was produced by Joe Henry.

The latest album for the Hawaii-born singer-songwriter was self-produced.

The fourth solo acoustic album for the guitarist was recorded in his apartment.

The singer-songwriter's latest album was coproduced by Barry Walsh and features Calexico, Augie Meyers, Van Dyke Parks, and Lucinda Williams as guest singers.

The second release for Peter Pisano and Brian Moen was written after their 2010 tour.

The Texas songwriter releases his 16th album.

The 30-track tribute album to John Martyn was produced by Jim Tullio and features such artists as Beck, Ted Barnes, Phil Collins, David Gray, Morcheeba's Skye Edwards, Beth Orton, The Cure's Robert Smith, Snow Patrol, The Swell Season, and Cheryl Wilson.

The alt-country rocker releases his latest album on Merge Records.

Profits from the eight-track EP of pro-union songs will go to the America Votes Labor Unity Fund.

The singer's latest album features contributions from Levon Helm, Vince Gill, Linda Ronstadt, Dr. John, John Hiatt, and Los Lobos.

The British singer-songwriter covers Bob Dylan's 1967 album, John Wesley Harding.

This is the debut full-length album for the British folk duo of Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies.

The San Francisco folk band release their fifth full-length album.

This is the fourth studio album for the British folk rock singer-songwriter.

The Texas folk rock band's concept album recorded in a Columbus, Ohio, garage in 2008 is the final album with violinist Noel Sayre, who died in a swimming accident.

The latest album for the Canadian folk singer-songwriter was produced by Sandro Perri.

The Texas-born singer-songwriter's second album features nine original songs and covers of Bob Dylan and Radiohead.

The singer-songwriter who has written songs for such artists as Reba McEntire, Trisha Yearwood, Patty Loveless, Faith Hill, and Martina McBride amongst many others returns with her first album in more than a decade.

The second solo album for the cellist from Kentucky blends ideas from other music genres and was produced by Duane Lundy.

The third folk album released by the daughter of Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson focuses on the last 10 years of her life.

The fourth album for the Northumberland folk group was produced by Adrian McNally.

The folk singer-songwriter's third album is the first with all original songs written by her.

The debut album for the Seattle folk rock band was self-released in June 2010 before Sub Pop rereleased a remastered version in 2011.

Noah Lennox, Animal Collective's founding member, releases his fourth solo album.

The recording of the Bob Dylan concert from the Brandeis Folk Festival in Massachusetts was located in Rolling Stone cofounder Ralph Gleason's house and was originally offered as a limited bonus disc with 2010's The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 collection.

The venerable British band led by original member Simon Nicol releases its latest album of electric folk rock.

With her husband and father providing support as part of her backing band, Alela Diane's fourth album was produced by Scott Litt.

The latest album for the Connecticut singer-songwriter features six songs he recorded in the 1970s.

The second solo album for the lead singer of the band Idlewild sees his music move a bit further away from the traditional Scottish folk music of his past two releases.

The band led by Alex Neilson releases its latest album of British folk rock.

The indie folk duo from San Francisco return with a fourth album of psychedelic, atmospheric, genre-bending rock.

Best known as the lead singer of the punk band X, Exene continues evolving her solo music career and in her latest release brings more rock influences to her folk and country style.

The American rock, country, folk and blues singer-songwriter crosses genres and breaks from her traditional songs of heartbreak on her tenth studio offering.

The second album from the Baseball Project continues with more baseball-themed songs with guest singers such as Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard, Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan, Los Lobos' Steve Berlin, The Hold Steady's Craig Finn, and The Decemberists' Chris Funk and John Moen.

Buddy Miller and guitarists Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, and Greg Leisz come together to sing classic country songs and a few originals. Julie Miller, Shawn Colvin, Emmylou Harris, Lee Ann Womack, and Ann McCrary are some of the guests on the album.

The Seattle folk trio's new album is their first foray into a more driving, rock sound -- adding a heavier dimension to their folk sound.

The eclectic, folk-rock foursome's third album was recorded in Central Falls, RI in an abandoned pasta sauce factory and has an old-timey, indie-folk feel.

The third album for the New York-based artist is his first on the Anti label and was recorded in the same building in upstate New York where his grandfather used to run a restaurant.

The British folk singer's latest album is a concept album about the relationships we have with the sea.

Gomez guitarist Ben ottewell releases his debut solo album produced by Will Golden.

The full-length debut from Joy Williams and John Paul White – featured on an episode of Grey’s Anatomy – is a collection of lyrically deep songs of love and the human condition, using the simplicity of multiple instruments and soulful vocals.

The British singer-songwriter releases his debut full-length album produced by Liam Watson.

The country singer's self-released album focuses on the relationships she's had with her family and friends.

The fourth album for the singer-songwriter features appearances by Priscilla Ahn, Pieta Brown, James Gadson, Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, Iron & Wine's Sam Beam, and Calexico.

The British guitarist releases his first solo album since 1998's Traveller's Prayer.

The Nashville guitarist who has worked with Lambchop, Silver Jews, and Bonnie "Prince" Billy releases his debut solo album.

Daniel Martin Moore's latest solo album includes a selection of songs influenced by classic gospel.

The artist combines the sounds of Americana and Asia for her first album on the Rounder label.

This is the first album in four years for the folk band led by Dawn McCarthy.

The Welsh folk singer releases her first album on the Strange Attractor label.

The ninth volume from Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series contains the 47 songs he recorded in 1962-64.

The title of Plant's new album revives the name of his pre-Zeppelin psychedelic band from the '60s and combines folksy rock with his own solo work.

The Icelandic singer-songwriter's second album was produced by Sigur Ros' Kjartan Sveinsson.

The second full-length album for the Canadian band is the conclusion to a trilogy of albums that began with the debut album The Pink Ghosts and the EPs Blankets and Tin Fist.

Songwriter Ryan Bingham has grown tremendously on this third full-length. Barely 30 years old, his previous work showed promise but carried the excess expected of a novice. Bingham won both a Golden Globe and an Oscar for "The Weary Kind," the theme song from the film Crazy Heart. The song was produced by T-Bone Burnett, creating a partnership extended on Junky Star. Bingham and his Dead Horses--drummer Matthew Smith, bassist Elijah Ford, and guitarist Corby Schaub, prove the song was no fluke. The sound is pure Americana; these 12 lyrically sophisticated yet direct songs, reflect a host of tense, lost, desperate, individuals dreaming the same dark dream, one that suggests that we are all growing tenser with the times. Bingham has trimmed his songwriting to the bone, while learing to use metaphor and metonomy like a veteran. A former rodeo rider, he wears his influences proudly: Guthrie, Dylan, Van Zandt, Ely, Earle, Clark, and Hubbard. He begins with a sandblasted vision of America in "the Poet." Amid acoustic guitars, a lonesome harmonica ,restrained electric and bass drum, Bingham's whiskey-smoked vocal offers a lyric theme the entire album turns on: "As I keep walking, people keep talking/About things they've never seen or done/Homeless sleep in the park, lovers kiss in the dark/Me, I keep moving on through time." Time is suspended as Bingham's protagonists tell stories from the road (some of them bone-chilling), from America's past and present, physically and psychologically. Rootlessness as peace of mind is portrayed via country rock in "The Wandering," but the feeling in "Strange Feeling In The Air," the title track, a deeply moving acoustic murder ballad (they are strewn throughout the album), and the angry uptempo "Depression," reflect a contradiction: constant movement is the key to survival, not necessarily peace. "Hallelujah" is another murder ballad with a disturbing twist. "Lay My Head On The Rail," is pure folk poetry illustrated by a lone acoustic guitar. The blues in "Hard Worn Trail," are rooted in poverty worry, strained, broken relationships resulting in the search for comfort. It doesn't come anywehre on Junky Star. "All Choked Up Again," set to Waylon Jennings' brand of outlaw country closes it out by mining the existential darkness deeper. Bingham is unflinching, but his songs hold out for a glimmer of something else. The only real consolation Junky Star offers is that no one need feel alone in her or his desperation-this is a true accomplishment. Bingham has delivered a set of songs that mirrors our uncertain times in a musical language that doesn't unduly distort or romanticise them. ~ Thom Jurek

The first album on new label Savoy Jazz has the guitarist joined by drummer Rudy Royston and violinist Eyvind Kang.

Ray LaMontagne self-produced his fourth full-length, the first without producer Ethan Johns.

The Canadian singer-songwriter from the folk trio Be Good Tanyas includes soul music influences on her first solo album.

The latest album for the John McCauley's band Deer Tick is its first with former Titus Andronicus guitarist Ian O'Neil.

Originally called Peggy Sue And The Pirates, the British trio shortened its name to just Peggy Sue for its debut full-length release.

This is the debut album for the Swedish teenage sisters.

The fifth album for the singer-songwriter was produced by Sam Kassirer.

The latest album for the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter features Vince Gill and Alison Krauss as guest singers.

The former singer for the electronic band Lamb releases her third solo album of folk music.

After his well-received debut album released by Swedish label Gravitation, Kristian Matsson returns with his follow-up on the US-based label Dead Oceans.

The singer-songwriter worked with Nico Muhly on his album of traditional and untraditional songs reworked into folk music.

The fourth album for the British group is its first without cofounder Sam Genders.

The California-born singer-songwriter who has had much more success overseas, releases his fourth album.

The British duo return to their folk rock roots with their debut on the Cooking Vinyl label.

This is the second album for the Australian brother and sister folk duo.

The debut album for the trio formed by The Bird And The Bee's Inara George, Lavender Diamond's Becky Stark, and Eleni Mandell.

The British folk band changed its name from Rachel Unthank & the Winterset to its current (shorter) name after a lineup change.

This is Will Oldham's first Bonnie "Prince" Billy album to credit the Cairo Gang, who performed on the previous three Billy albums.

The concept album about a group of Irish US soldiers who deserted to join the Mexican army during the Mexican-American War was an idea by The Chieftains' Paddy Moloney and co-producer Ry Cooder.

The latest album for the Nebraska-born singer-songwriter features a track released on his Valencia EP.

This is the second album for the Scottish folk singer, who is also a member of Lau.

The final album for the Pelt member, who passed away in December 2009, contains 10 instrumental tracks.

Produced by Markus Dravs, the debut album for the folk rock quartet went platinum in the UK.

Heavily influenced by the likes of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, Adam Green (the alternative-folk singer/songwriter better known for his stint with the lo-fi indie group Moldy Peaches) returns with his sixth studio album.

With the help of Joe Thompson--one of the last of North Carolina's African-American string-band players--the trio seeks to continue the style with its third album.

Hailing from Los Angeles by way of Kentucky, Chandra and Leigh Watson--aka the Watson Twins--follow up 2008's "Fire Songs" with "Talking to You, Talking to Me." It features members of Everest and My Morning Jacket's Bo Koster.

Since 2009's covers collection "Mockingbird," Allison Moorer felt it was time to do something entirely different for her next record. The country-folk singer-songwriter releases her first collection of original material in four years. It features guitarist Joe McMahan, a former member of Moorer's road band for Miss Fortune; and bassist Brad Jones, who contributed to Getting Somewhere.

The Irish singer-songwriter releases his follow-up to his 2006 Mercury Prize-nominated album "The End of History."

The second album for the Canadian singer-songwriter was produced by Howard Bilerman.