Essays, artist interviews and music recommendations centred on folk music, especially the Australian folk scene. Its recurring Song Lore series has musicians trace their origins through the songs that shaped them, with companion playlists.
Website: https://bespokefolk.ghost.io/
A personal newsletter from a New Orleans-based music industry professional who writes about life, travel, and his work in the record business, alongside event announcements like a Brooklyn Alan Lomax archive benefit. Entries are chatty, anecdotal, and built around everyday observations rather than deep reporting.
Outlaw Creative is an experimental newsletter of fragments, essays and song lyrics that mixes folk-blues cadence, Southern rural imagery and surreal myth-tech themes. Readers get poetic, allegorical pieces about deception, fear, blame and mythic landscapes rather than practical information.
Bagaduce Music is a Maine folk music organization whose blog shares news, event announcements, and stories from its song collection. Recent posts cover the history of a West Indian halyard shanty tied to sea-shanty scholar Stan Hugill and a reflection on the North Atlantic Song Convention in Edinburgh.
Bennett Konesni's songbook newsletter shares original folk-style songs with lyrics, chords-free teaching notes, and stories behind each piece, written for community singing at meals and seasonal gatherings. Each issue gives a song to sing with friends plus practical tips on teaching it to a group.
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