We’ve been inundated with phenomenal “folk” music vignettes recently.   While it suits our purposes to gather these three artists here, they obviously differ in significant ways.  First up is John Fullbright singing his gripping song Jericho for a Best Fit Session.  Fullbright is the Oklahoman folk-singer whose 2012 album From The Ground Up found its place on many Best Albums of 2012 lists.  Following is the multifaceted Chuck Prophet (with wife Stephanie Finch) singing The Left Hand and The Right Hand for the BBC.  Prophet was born a rocker (Green on Red), but can do it all including this folked-up version of his song about the famous Mitchell Brothers of San Francisco off of his fantastic, Frisco-centric album, Temple Beautiful.  And last in our Friday folkpendium is Son Volt‘s new Cajun-inflected song Hearts and Minds off their impending back-to-basics album Honky Tonk.  Listen as leader Jay Farrar bares his heart and and then stitches it back together with some pedal steel and fiddles.