On-line album reviews
edit- All Music Guide (Most comprehensive site around, folk and world music coverage is spotty)
- BBC Artists, Albums and Guides, (blues, soul and reggae, folk & country, world music)
- BluesWax (requires free membership)
- Robert Christgau/Consumers Guide (good rock critic, seems to hate most folk music)
- Country Standard Time
- Fish Records (singer-songwriter, folk and acoustic reviews from the UK)
- Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange (Album reviews index)
- FolkWax (requires free membership)
- Freight Train Boogie
- George Graham's Weekly Album Reviews, Public Radio host/producer/programmer "Triple-A (album post-childhood alternative)"
- Jam!
- The Onion A.V. Club
- Kevin's Celtic & Folk Music CD Reviews, Kevin McCarthy, published folk music fan
- Minor 7th (Reviewing the best in non-mainstream acoustic guitar music)
- The Music Box "Exploring the World of Music"
- Music Matters Review, "Folk/Singer-songwriter (and what doesn't fit anywhere else!)"
- metacritic (draws on various sources/not much folk music)
- National Public Radio
- Pitchfork Media (indie rock, not much folk)
- PopMatters (music reviews)
- Puremusic.com, "singer songwriters and music for grownups"
- Rambles: A Cultural Arts Magazine
- Richie Unterberger (lots of vintage folk and rock, not much contemporary folk)
Magazines
edit- Acoustic Guitar, back issues, google site
- American Songwriter, back issues, google site
- Americana Rhythm Music Magazine, google site
- Bluegrass Now, back issues, google site
- Bluegrass Unlimited, search archives, by date, google site
- Blues Revue, back issues, google site
- Dirty Linen, back issues, google site
- fRoots, features index, reviews index, cover features index, google site
- Global Rhythm, back issues, google site
- Living Blues, back issues, google site
- Mandolin Magazine, back issues, google site
- Mandolin World News (back issues only), google site
- Maverick, back issues (American country music magazine from the UK), google site
- No Depression, back issues,google site
- The Old Time Herald, archive, google site
- Paste, artists, google magazine site, google store site
- Performing Songwriter, back issues, google site
- Sing Out!, back issues, google site
- Songlines, archive features, google site
Charts
edit- FolkDJ-L / Folk Radio Airplay Dhart (archives to January 1998, annual summaries of top song, album, artist) Monthly reports ~ 150 DJs, Annual ~ 190, participants in FolkDJ-L listserve (copy from Richard Gillman's site)
- Americana Music Association (current top 40 with some data from past 2 weeks, archives?) >350 DJs
- 3rd Coast Music Magazine / Freeform American Roots Chart (archives to August 1999, annual summaries) ~130 DJs
- Americana Roots Radio ?
- Roots Music Report Folk & other categories, archives?) claims > 1000 stations & > 300 reporters
- Billboard genre charts (Top Blues album, Top world album, etc.)
Major newspapers
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On-line libraries
edit(most require some sort of subsciption)