Early folk music pioneer Elizabeth Cotten; "Urban" blues forefather Leroy Carr; A psychotic reaction from Michael Powers; Traditional Chinese zheng artist Hong Ting; Music of the Thai Elephant ...

Back in the mid-'60s, Andrew Oldham, manager of The Rolling Stones, saw something promising in a quiet young singer-songwriter named Vashti Bunyan. So he brought her into the studio to record a single ...

In 1970, the English folk singer Vashti Bunyan released one album, Just Another Diamond Day, before slipping into obscurity. That album didn’t sell, but it became a cult favorite, especially among the ...

Light in the Attic Records is releasing a new compilation called Light in the Attic & Friends on November 24. Some of its previously released songs include Ethan & Maya Hawke’s Willie Nelson cover, ...

Hear "Jog Along Bess" and "Glow Worms" from Mutual Benefit's album-length remake of Bunyan's 1970 classic Just Another Diamond Day. Musicians cover each other's songs often enough that the results ...

As far as autobiographies go, this is a bit of an unusual one, but that is fitting for someone with Vashti Bunyan’s history. Named after a line in the titular track of her 1970 debut Lp Just Another ...

The story of Vashti Bunyan’s accidental reputation is a telling one. Bunyan was a folk singer like many other folk singers in mid-’60s England: earnest, not too innovative and a bit naive. But unlike ...

The blame for second-album slumps usually goes to the old notion that, while an artist has a lifetime to craft a debut, she has only a year or three to follow it up. Vashti Bunyan took a little longer ...