Folker is Paul Westerberg's sixth solo album.

Westerberg has stated in interviews that he wanted to create a folk album in the vein of Rod Stewart's earliest solo work, consisting of an acoustic bass with minimal instrumentation layered on top of the tracks.

Westerberg shopped "Jingle" around to major retailers like Target and Best Buy for use in advertising, but they passed.

[2] All versions of Folker contain the Sandy Denny song "Who Knows Where The Time Goes," which follows "Folk Star" in track 13.

The European release of Folker has a second hidden song on track 13, "Be Bad For Me," which plays after approximately three minutes of silence.