Americana Music Releases for July 15th

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for July 15th, 2022. Click the artist or album links to find out more. The artist’s names link to their websites and the CD title links go to either Amazon, iTunes, Bandcamp or the artist’s site for ordering or downloading.  A + sign means although not a featured release, it’s a notable album that’s still worth checking out.  Also, this page will be updated as I find out about other new releases so check back again.

Willi Carlisle
Peculiar, Missouri
  (Free Dirt Records)

Bright harmonica, a driving banjo, shades of the late Utah Phillips, the finesse of the late David Olney with the entertaining value-added of the late Boxcar Willie. Big shoes to fill for Willi Carlisle – but you know what? Willi does it. He plays banjo, percussion, acoustic guitar, guitar, button accordion, fiddle, banjo, fretless banjo & harmonica. He sings & plays consistently well on his 2nd LP in his own compelling style. Willi obviously knows how to create music with a circuitry of sensitivity. He says his words evoke the American storytelling of Whitman, Carl Sandburg & e.e. cummings. He summons a Johnny Bond-Johnny Cash talking-vocal style once even popular with Woody Guthrie & Bob Dylan. I like Willi. He has emotional honesty without being soft & always with an entertaining style. Though he can be wordy it can be construed as expressive. He needs a touch more outlaw. He’s closer to Waylon & Merle than George Jones.  (edited from Americana Highways review)

Arlo McKinley
This Mess We’re In
(Oh Boy Records)

With a title like This Mess We’re In, Arlo McKinley’s 2nd album is bound to ring a bell for most listeners these days. But the album is more optimistic than it sounds: The 11 songs find him emerging from darkness and striving toward light. Which can’t have been easy: Over the past two years, the Cincinnati songwriter lost his mother and his best friend and suffered heartbreak as other people close to him struggled with or succumbed to addiction. But music helped him through it all. “I’m private with a lot of things I go through, but in my songs, I’m honest about everything. So I started to write as a way of getting stuff out,” McKinley says . “To me, this is a growth record. I was navigating through a pretty bad time, but also there was the realization that it’s time to really change. I hope listeners can identify with the things they’re too ashamed to talk about or feel,” he continues. “There’s such a stigma that goes along with things like addiction and mental health. I just want them to know that I go through all of that too.”  (edited from No Depression review)

We Banjo 3
Open The Road 
(self-released)

he acclaimed quartet of two sets of brothers — Enda and Fergal Scahill and David and Martin Howley — that hail from Galway, Ireland, continues to share their refreshing perspective through a bluegrass sound that’s translated across continents. Celebrating their 10-year anniversary this year, the band sounds as beautiful as ever with the new album, which captures the essence of bluegrass with organic banjo and fiddle melodies that evoke warm vibes and lyrics that feel like a welcoming embrace. We Banjo 3 spend most of their time offering messages of hope and unity, using themes of growth, nature, and positive transformation to get the point across.  (edited from No Depression review)

Also new this week…

The Broken Spokes – Where I Went Wrong  (self-released)
Nick Dittmeier & The Sawdusters –
Heavy Denim  (self-released)
The Local Honeys – The Local Honeys  (La Honda Records)  +
Merle Jagger – Trash Talking Guitars  (JTM Music)
Tami Neilson – Kingmaker
(Outside Music)  +
Gerry Stanek – Heart In Peril  (self-released)
Jonah Tolchin – Lava Lamp 
(Yep Roc Records) +

Coming out in the next few weeks… Amanda Shires, The Old North,  John Moreland, The Sadies, Josh Rouse, Cahalan Morrison, The Brother Brothers, Kelsey Waldon, Will Hoge, Charley Crockett, Sunny Sweeney and more …

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Bill Frater

About Bill Frater

This blog, Americana Boogie is mostly about new music releases in the Americana music genre. Bill Frater is passionate about Americana and roots music and writes about new releases here. He does weekly radio shows on JiveRadio.org and BluegrassCountry.org. Frater also does a bi-weekly podcast show on http://FTBpodcasts.com.
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