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You may have already heard Folklore’s second album, Carpenter’s Falls.  The band has been selling it themselves at their shows for the past year or so.  And prior to that, there was a short EP called Carpenter’s Falls, which is significantly different, consisting mainly of demos from what would eventually become a full-length complement-album to their debut, The Ghost of H.W. Beaverman.  Carpenter’s Falls continues the Beaverman mythos, but telling the ghost-story-that-wasn’t from different points of view–though with one solitary voice this time, as Jimmy Hughes (also of Elf Power) now handles all the vocals (after dividing those duties with a number of well-known, Athens-based singers on H.W. Beaverman).  Now BumbleBEAR Records is finally set to give the album its official release on October 21st.

On Carpenter’s Falls, Hughes is once again joined by Folklorists Jon Croxton (Wee Turtles), Aaron Jollay (Dark Meat), Ian Rickert (Nana Grizol), Raoul De La Cruz (The French Toasts), Che-Na Stephens, and David Specht, with guest appearances by Will Quinnell, Chris Bracco, Adam Spiegler, Linnea Weiss, Margaret Child, and Cousin Steve.  The band is already hard at work on their third album, Home Church Road, with a concept that sounds a bit like George Orwell’s Animal Farm.  You can read my review of both of Folklore’s albums here, and download Folklore MP3’s at their website.


Folklore – The Village Green Preservation Society (Kinks cover – Live)