Americana Music Releases for Oct. 2nd

Posted on October 1, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for October 2nd, 2026. 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.

 

John Leventhal
National Drift  (Rumble Strip Records)

Leventhal says his second all instrumental record  a “found album.” Without intending to make a record, National Drift is the result of an outpouring of improvisations recorded while Leventhal was producing Rosanne Cash’s upcoming Blue Note release, Ships. His first solo recording effort, 2024’s Rumble Strip was described by Texas Monthly as “a masterful debut from a promising new solo artist.” His impulse to look for unexpected moments of beauty has served as a compass and survival tactic throughout his eclectic career.


Wynonna
The Hard Truth  (Anti- Records)

Wynonna’s first album in over ten years puts the focus on growing up singing in a cabin with her mother, not the megastar, but the girl from Kentucky who reluctantly stepped into the spotlight when she was still in her teens. She’s gone on to navigate adulthood, difficult family dynamics and unimaginable grief on the world stage, including her mother’s suicide in 2022. Artists calling an album their “most personal yet” has become a cliché in the music media world. In the case of Judd’s The Hard Truth, it’s no empty platitude. The album is a triumph of vulnerability, raw honesty and finding joy and human connection even in the darkest moments.  (edited from Nashville Scene review)

 

Also new this week…

Allison de Groot and Rich Ruth – Allison de Groot and Rich Ruth  (self-release)
Travis McKeveny – From Dublin To Duluth  (Paradiddle Records)
David Miner – West Texas Stars  (Edgewater Music Group)
Joe Rian – Think Yer In Luv  (Rian Records
Rising Appalachia – Trade My Troubles  (self-release)
The Suitcase Junket – To Go On  (self-release)

 

Coming out soon…  Shinyribs, Margo Cilker, Laura Cortese, Todd Snider, Bruce Cockburn, Richard Thompson, Charlie Parr, Willi Carlisle, Kaitlin Butts, Josh Rouse, Sam Burton and more!

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Americana Music Releases for Sept. 25th

Posted on September 24, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for September 25th, 2026. 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.

 

Mary Gauthier
Reckoning (Soundly Music)

Singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier knows what it’s like to be down and out. She’s lived it. This makes her an astute and credible observer of the human condition, told through stories, character sketches, and topics many would avoid. Reckoning has all those, with threads of survival, faith, and resilience running through many of them. The template is Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, almost entirely rendered by Gauthier on her guitar and harmonica. This is heady, perceptive writing from Gauthier, from whom we expect nothing less. Reckoning may well be her most impactful album to date, though Mercy Now is certainly in the same conversation.  (edited from Glide Magazine review)

Ian Noe
Canyon Falls Trailer Band  (Lock13 Records)

Ian Noe thinks big. Containing 16 songs and running nearly an hour, his epic third album concludes a trilogy exploring the world of his eastern Kentucky home. Mixing driving old-school country and moody ballads, Canyon Falls Trailer Band captures the performance of a fictional group auditioning for record executives at a Nashville showcase. Do these hopefuls get signed? He doesn’t say, but this is a dazzling work in any case. Blessed with an easygoing twang, Noe is a fine honky-tonk singer in a noble tradition stretching all the way back to Hank Williams. Encompassing more ideas than Noe can shoehorn comfortably into a single work, Canyon Falls Trailer Band is a concept album begging to be repurposed for the legitimate stage, where his inventive songs could be stitched into a full-fledged narrative. But it’s hardly a crime to offer too much good stuff in one serving. Given the embarrassment of riches on display here, it’s probably wise to keep an eye on Ian Noe. He’s likely headed for even bigger and better things.  (edited from No Depression review)

 

Also new this week…

Wade Bowen – The Version of Me You Get  (Bowen Sounds)  +
Blue Ren – Unbecoming  (self-release)
Pony Bradshaw – Through a Glass Darkly  (Dogs of the South Records)
The Brook & The Bluff – Lookout Pond  (Dualtone Music Group)
Dallas Burrow – Modern Day Vagabond (Forty Below Records)
Mac Cornish – Wayfaring Woman  (self-release)  +
Jeffrey Halford & the Healers – Used Parts  (Floating Records)
The Heists – Break & Mend  (self-release)  +
Hermanos Gutiérrez – Los Ojos Del Cóndor  (Easy Eye Sound)
Humbird – Morning When It Comes  (self-release) +
Israel Nash – Sweetheart of the Rodeo  (Desert Folklore Records))
Joy Oladokun – Hope Is a Heavy Thing  (Feed The Family/Concord Records)  +
Bill Scorzari – Sidereal Days (Day 2)  (self-release)

 

Coming out soon… Wynonna, Shinyribs, Margo Cilker, Laura Cortese, Todd Snider, Bruce Cockburn, Richard Thompson, Charlie Parr, Willi Carlisle, Kaitlin Butts, Josh Rouse, John Leventhal, Sam Burton and more!

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Americana Music Releases for Sept. 18th

Posted on September 18, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for September 18th, 2026. 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.

 

Rhiannon Giddens
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers  (Nonesuch Records)

The 10-song collection was inspired by the beauty of people coming together and drawing strength from each other. It was intentionally recorded live with no frills and few overdubs, just pure and essential music that captures the feeling of community, clarity, as well as the joy and power of creating together. From exploring the lineages that make American music to the community-oriented spirit in which it was conceived and recorded, in many ways the album tells the story of the past 20 years of Giddens’ life. Her seventh studio album was recorded live at The Cypress House in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. Recording live was crucial, to bring the listener into the center of the room. Giddens says that she cannot play without stomping, which can be felt on the opening track. Background noise and the sound of the musicians talking to each other before takes were also intentionally left in. (edited from label’s page)

 

Phil Madeira
The Millionth Mile (Mercyland Records)

Madeira is likely best known as the multi-instrumentalist in the Red Dirt Boys, Emmylou Harris’s backup band for the past 18 years. Americana aficionados recognize him as the steadfast keyboardist and guitarist for Buddy Miller and Julie Miller in the late ’90s and early 2000s. What many don’t know is that Madeira, also an author and painter, has released over 15 solo albums, covering roots, jazz, country, and folk.  Yet, besides his individual pursuits, Madeira doesn’t get enough credit for his own work. If nothing else, it should cement his reputation as a gifted songwriter and his ability to command respect from the elite crop of Nashville musicians he recruited for this effort. Surely, the album is eclectic, but Madeira would have it no other way, as it showcases his adventurous spirit, deep soul, and loving respect for the “world’s greatest, bona fide hippie chick singer.”  (edited from Rock & Blues Muse review)

Also new this week…

Beck – Ride Lonesome  (BH Music)
Jake Blount – Single-Footing Horse  (self-release)
Jack Browning – Painted Skies  (Too Fine Records) +
Sean Burns & Lost Country – Better Off In Time & Other Songs For The Dance Floor  (self-release)
Jake Xerxes Fussell – Old Beloved Path  (Fat Possum Records)
Kelly Hunt – Requiem for a Sleepless Night (Compass Records)  +
Frank Mastra – Bitter End  (Mercury Records)
Kaz Murphy – Making Noise  (Green Monkey Records)
One Acre West – One Acre West  (self-release)
Orville Peck – Mule  (Warners Music)  +
Katie Pruitt – Fools for the Fleeting  (Rounder Records)  +
Seasick Steve – The Last Season of America  (self-release)

 

Coming out soon… Dallas Burrow, Shinyribs, Margo Cilker, Ian Noe, Laura Cortese, Todd Snider, Bruce Cockburn, Charlie Parr, Willi Carlisle, Kaitlin Butts, Josh Rouse, Mary Gauthier, John Leventhal and more!

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Americana Music Releases for Sept. 11th

Posted on September 10, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for September 11th, 2026. 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.

 

Pokey LaFarge
Rent Money  (self-released)

For two decades, Pokey LaFarge has walked his own effortlessly cool road as an exceptionally iconoclastic troubadour – forthright, genuine, and markedly keen to put it all out there. Rent Money now sees him pushing forward yet again in what can be safely declared his finest collection to date, both as an heartfelt expression of personal experience and as no-nonsense social commentary. People are always going to tell you what they think you should play,” says LaFarge, “what you should sing about, how you should sound, how you should look, how you should act. And I’ve always just been like, nah. Nope. I’ve just completely gone my own way, and hopefully I’ve been honest and authentic in the process. I’m just trying to make music that AI can’t replicate. Things are so homogenized right now. That’s what I’m really, really, really resistant to, especially when it comes to music.” (edited from press release)

 

AJ Lee & Blue Summit
Cover to Cover (Signature Sounds Recordings)

AJ Lee & Blue Summit’s fourth album, taps into the energy of the quintet’s live show, collecting eleven of their favorite covers into a showcase not only of the band’s musicianship, but also their imagination as arrangers and interpreters. Featuring guest appearances from Jerry Douglas, Lindsay Lou, Trey Hensley, and more, Cover To Cover reinvents tunes by the likes of Sheryl Crow, Bob Dylan, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and Emmylou Harris, offering up a fresh perspective on the tunes. The songs are delivered with joy and reverence, several are drawn from the band’s earliest days playing bars and cafes around Santa Cruz. Rolling Stone recently declared, “the band can seamlessly weave from bluegrass to country to western swing to folk-rock, with the powerhouse vocals of Lee as the core.” (edited from press release)

 

Buddy Miller
Buddy Miller  (New West Records)

Buddy Miller cleared out the kitchen to make room for a drum kit. What followed is his first solo album in fifteen years — twelve songs of soul, country, early rock ‘n’ roll, and gospel, made with a community of friends and collaborators that spans five decades of American music. Think back to all those fine albums on Hightone and New West with Julie Miller’s great songwriting, the tremolo-soaked guitar solos, those earthy vocals, the careful selection of guest artists, the McCrary Sisters, the knack of unearthing memorable cover tunes, and the overriding soul that covered every song. It’s as if Buddy Miller had that checklist. All those elements and more are present on his eponymous album, a gem that reminds us why we fell in love with Buddy Miller’s music in the first place. Let’s hope we don’t have to endure another long hiatus. Miller has irrevocably proved he can still make a great record that checks all the boxes.  (edited from Glide Magazine review)

 

Also new this week…

Admiral Radio – Heirloom  (Too Fine Records)  +
Angela Autumn – Believer  (Gar Hole Records)
A.J. Fullerton – Baretone  (Gitcha Records)
Dom Glynn & his Sunday Best – This Fast Life is Killing Me  (self-release)
Jason James – Cut The Chain  (Heart of Texas Records)
Pure Grain – Run and Roam  (Sol Records)
Red Dirt Rangers – Red Dirt Town  (Ranger Records)
Eli Paperboy Reed – Getting There  (Yep Roc Records)  +

 

Coming out soon… Rhiannon Giddens, Dallas Burrow, Katie Pruitt, Orville Peck, Phil Madeira, Sean Burns & Lost Country, Shinyribs, Margo Cilker, Ian Noe, Laura Cortese, Todd Snider, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Bruce Cockburn, Charlie Parr, Willi Carlisle, Kaitlin Butts, Josh Rouse, Mary Gauthier, John Leventhal and more!

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Americana Music Releases for Sept. 4th

Posted on September 3, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for September 4th, 2026. 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.

 

Teni Rane
Never Turning Back  (independent)

Tennessee’s Teni Rane has an entertaining tone filled with sincerity & gusto. Not many contemporary singers decorate their compositions with cello, & this is what lends classical airs to the pieces. Never Turning Back unfolds as a reflective journey through the many kinds of places people inhabit over a lifetime. Rooted in intimate storytelling and atmospheric arrangements, the album traces movement not only across landscapes, but also across inner terrain. Each song acts as a waypoint, capturing moments of arrival, departure, and the quiet in-between spaces where transformation often happens. The songs are Americana, but instead of relying on rootsy instruments, Teni takes tentative Nanci Griffith steps & keeps her material absorbing, warm-hearted, & informal. (edited from Americana Highway review)


Benjamin Tod
Country Is Dead  (independent)

Benjamin Tod unveils his new album, Country Is Dead, on which he covers 12 classic country songs by Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, and Bob Dylan, among others. Tod explains, “Some of these songs I started playing on the streets of Nashville when I was a teenager and shaped who I am as a writer and a musician. This was a full-circle kind of moment, and really a means of insight into who I am.” Tod continues, “My general take on covers is they either need to be done differently or done better. There’s a few that are impossible to do either with, but I think we hit that mark on most of this record. I wanted to take on the challenge of making new arrangements, and in some cases, reinventing old standards in completely different ways.” On Country Is Dead, Benjamin Tod delivers some of the tastiest traditional country music around, pushing beyond great into superlative.  (edited from Americana Highway review)

 

Also new this week…

Lisa Bouchelle – Vandals, Thieves & Lovers  (Trash Can Dreams)
Caravan 222 – Rowdy & Pouty (Clairvoyant Records)
A. Lee Edwards – Interpreting Heart Sounds, Vol. II (You Know What… Records)
Rose Gerber – They Can’t Take the Music  (self-release)
Anna Graves – America’s Greatest Burnout  (Rounder Records)
Leon Majcen – The Leaving Kind  (Cloverdale Records)  +
Mr. Sun – The Idea Guys (Adhyâropa Records)
Paige Plaisance – Swampwater (Timeless Echo Recordings)  +
AJ Srubas – Rough & Rowdy  (Common Loon Records)

Coming out soon… Eli Paperboy Reed, Dallas Burrow, Buddy Miller, Pokey LaFarge, Katie Pruitt, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Phil Madeira, Pure Grain, Shinyribs,  Rhiannon Giddens, Margo Cilker, Ian Noe, Laura Cortese, Todd Snider, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Charlie Parr, Willi Carlisle, Kaitlin Butts, Josh Rouse, Mary Gauthier and more!

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Americana Music Releases for August 28th

Posted on August 27, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for August 28th, 2026. 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.

 

The Jayhawks
Sanctuary Park  (SHAM Records)

While you could describe the Jayhawks’ music in simple terms — pop, Americana,  country rock and folk have all applied at one time or another — the truth is that the band’s music is a singular blend of all these styles, and probably others, too. Sanctuary Park is another effective distillation of these styles, and a welcome continuation of the Jayhawks legacy. As the band celebrate their 40th anniversary, Sanctuary Park is notably less adventurous than previous efforts. it’s just as successful, doubling down on the band’s tried-and-true formula of recent years. Lyrics covering a broad range of emotions or concepts, usually supported by  music with a comfortable, melodious exuberance, now carry the day. The band covers love, breaking away, putting one foot in front of the other and helping one another do the same.  (edited from Riff Magazine review)

 

Mountain Grass Unit
Appalachian Smoke  (Dualtone Music Group)

Over the last couple of years, Alabama-based up-and-coming bluegrass band Mountain Grass Unit has really been lighting the bluegrass world on fire, impressing audiences at big festivals, enjoying bigger and bigger opportunities, and generally presenting themselves the future of the genre. However, one thing they’ve been lacking is new music to match their recent evolution and growth, and represent what they do to folks who haven’t seen them on stage. Though Mountain Grass Unit is certainly influenced by jamgrass and psychedelic textures as well, similar to Billy Strings, they also remain steadfastly bluegrass.

 

Billy Strings
So Much For Goodbyes  (Reprise Records)

This is the fifth studio album from Billy Strings, and it’s dedicated to his mother Debra Apostol, who died suddenly in 2025 of an overdose. Produced by T-Bone Burnett, the record is, as you’d expect given the context, a more somber effort than Strings’ sprawling Highway Prayers. Where Prayers blew bluegrass up to swallow rock, country, and the rest of the world, So Much for Goodbyes feels like a return to the verities — faith, mother, high lonesomeness. Strings’ restlessness and inventiveness haven’t disappeared; they’ve just been compressed and channeled. His mother was a visual artist, and she and Strings had long talked about the possibility of her creating an album cover for him. The image shows a kind of cabinet divided into a three-by-three grid. Collaged images of dishes, statues, flowers, a burger, a hand dangling a pendulum fill most of the niches. In the middle, though, there’s a picture of Strings playing guitar in the woods.  (edited from No Depression review)

 

Also new this week…

Alicia Blue – Country Desire  (Soundly Music) +
Sera Cahoone – I’ve Missed You All These Years  (Sub Pop Records)
Laurelyn Dossett – How Many Moons  (Sycamore Road Records)  +
Riley Downing – Landfill Poetry  (Oh Boy Records)  +
Ruthie Foster – Just Say Yes  (Sun Label Group)
Fruition – Something More  (Bloodshot Records)
Bap Kennedy – Above All, Love  (Lonely Street Discs)
Mason Lively – The Hill Country Sound  (independent) 
Mama’s Broke – Reunion  (Free Dirt Records)  +
Richard Peter Morris – Gratuitous Grace (independent)
Son Volt – Sound Signal Serenades  (Transmit Sound)  +
Tiny Habits – Keepers (Mom+Pop Records)
Brittany Ann Tranbaugh – Lucky Broke Girl (independent)
Two Runner – Porchlight  (Gar Hole Records)  +
Leslie Waugh – Night Bloom  (Smallz Records)
Chasen Wayne & The Honky Tonk Machine – The Diamond Saloon (independent)  +
The Wilder Blue – Cinco  (Hill Country Music)

 

Coming out soon… Eli Paperboy Reed, Dallas Burrow, Paige Plaisance, Buddy Miller, Pokey LaFarge, Katie Pruitt, AJ Lee & Blue Summit,  Phil Madeira, Pure Grain, Shinyribs, Mr. Sun, Rhiannon Giddens, Margo Cilker, Ian Noe, Laura Cortese, Todd Snider, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Charlie Parr, Willi Carlisle, Kaitlin Butts, Josh Rouse, Mary Gauthier and more!

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Americana Music Releases for August 21st

Posted on August 20, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for August 21st, 2026. 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.

 

Ray Wylie Hubbard
Reel 2 Reel 4 Real  (WylieWorld Music)

One of the most intriguing features of being an 80 year-old singer/songwriter still composing songs is the acquisition of a lifetime of experience for material. He has cranked out over 20 albums of gruff, no-frills, music racking up an impressive list of high-profile fans including Ringo, Willie Nelson, Larkin Poe and more. Hubbard’s approach can be loosely described as a mix of garage, blues, country, and roots rock with nods to the Stones, Neil Young and Bob Seger. Primarily recorded in Austin (with three songs captured the old-school way, on the tape implied by the disc’s title), the two closing selections find the band in Mike Campbell’s LA studio. If this turn out to be his final curtain call, he’s going out in his own honest, grungy, unflinchingly raw style.  (edited from Rock & Blues Muse)


Keb’ Mo’
The Breakdown (Concord Records)

Keb’ Mo’ has been consistently releasing beautiful, well produced records for 30 years.  The Breakdown finds him in a new, more intimate space. This record narrows the spotlight on Keb’ and his) songwriting skills. The artist arrives now with a stripped-down, intimate set of songs with contributions from the Soweto Gospel Choir & the sextet Take 6. The rest is Keb’ Mo’ voice & guitar. This set comes in the wake of Keb Mo’s profound personal challenges. The songs reflect stark & deeply honest themes, but his voice has no scars. Showcasing him as true troubadour.  (edited from Americana Highways review)

 

Also new this week…

Kimmie Bitter – Bittersweet (independent)  +
Cory Branan – You’ll Live  (Blue Elan Records)
Pieta Brown – Dreamin’ Of  (Righteous Babe Records)
Adam Chaffins – Trailer Trash: Doublewide  (Spirit Nashville Recordings)  +
Clay Street Unit – Live from the Road – Vol. 1  (independent)
The Clover Valley Boys – The Clover Valley Boys  (independent)  +
Brandon Flowers – Thrasher  (Island Records)
Ghost Hounds – Justified  (Maple House Records)
Anna Graves – America’s Greatest Burnout  (Rounder Records)
The Kennedys – Smoketree (independent)
Jeff Mamett – Fortunate Son  (independent)
Chris Pierce – Songs Of The Heavy Hearted  (Missing Piece Records)  +
The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys – Welcome to the Club  (Turnberry Records)
Grace Potter – Trespasser  (Mother Road Records)
Stephanie Sammons – Head Noise  (independent)
Christian Parker, Patrick Cleary, Earl Poole Ball – American Cosmic Revival Vol. 2: Miles From Nowhere  (Edgewater Music Group)  +

 

Coming out soon… The Jayhawks, Billy Strings, Ruthie Foster, Mountain Grass Unit, Eli Paperboy Reed, Two Runner, Pokey LaFarge, Dallas Burrow, Admiral Radio, Buddy Miller, Ian Noe, Riley Downing, Katie Pruitt, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Son Volt, Phil Madeira, Pure Grain, Shinyribs, Mr. Sun, Rhiannon Giddens, Margo Cilker, Laura Cortese, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Charlie Parr, Willi Carlisle, Kaitlin Butts, Josh Rouse, Mary Gauthier and more!

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Americana Music Releases for August 14th

Posted on August 13, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for August 14th, 2026. 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.

Elizabeth Cook
Great Television  (Agent Love Records)

Produced by Shooter Jennings and recorded with Cook’s live band, Great Television mines both her personal experiences and a cast of colorful characters to create an album that is both introspective and a reflection of society. While Cook takes her most expansive approach yet to storytelling on this record, cobbling together disparate tales from people of all walks of life with a novelist’s attention to detail, she’s not afraid to draw from her own life for inspiration. “Razorwire Wall,” one of the more rock-infused track, tells the story of dropping a lover off at jail to serve a short stint for moonshining, a scenario that clearly borrows from the experiences of her own father, who served time for running moonshine. Cook proves once again that few songwriters can match her ability to find grace, humor, and humanity in the people history often overlooks. It’s an album filled with unforgettable characters and richly detailed stories, but it’s also her most emotionally resonant work in years, a reminder that she’s one of Nashville’s most distinctive and underrated voices.  (edited from Glide Magazine review)

 

Lindsay Lou
Bluegrass Women  (Work of Bart Records)

Bluegrass Women is an album of Bluegrass classics that were penned by women over the course of the genre’s history. The project honors women in a predominantly male fronted genre while featuring bands made up entirely of some of the best women and pickers in the scene today. Led by Lou, the album features the likes of Molly Tuttle, Sierra Hull, Aoife O’Donovan and Sarah Jarosz (of I’m With Her), Laurie Lewis, and many more. “Some of these songs I sang for many years before realizing they were penned by a wife/mother/female artist,” says Lou. “As a woman, it’s easy to feel like an outsider, or like you don’t belong, in a genre where there is a noticeable lack of representation of women among the forebears. To know that women’s voices made it into the traditional songs feels like a quiet win, and I want to draw more attention to it.”

 

Also new this week..

Admiral Radio – Love Is Alchemy/Kind To Myself  EP  (Too Fine Records)
Pony Bradshaw – Ode to Humidity  (Dogs of the South Records)  +
Bronwyn – Rattlin’ Bones  (independent) +
Kenny Feinstein – Lonesome L.A. Cowboy  (Sound Biscuit Records)
Jordan Robert Kirk – My Father’s Son (Fight in the Dog Music)
Kate MacLeod’s Mind the Gap – Home-Brewed (independent)
Peter Parcek – Most of the Time  (Lightnin Records)
Tyler Richton & The High Bank Boys – ‘Til the Wheels Fall Off  (independent)
Maggie Rose – Half Moon  (One Riot Records)
Monte Warden and The Wagoneers – Doghouse Flowers (EP) (Break A Leg Records)
Clayton Nile Young – Eddy (Cloverdale Records)  +

 

Coming out soon… Ray Wylie Hubbard, The Jayhawks, Billy Strings, Ruthie Foster, The Kennedys, Mountain Grass Unit, Kimmie Bitter, Keb’ Mo’, Eli Paperboy Reed, Two Runner, Pokey LaFarge, Dallas Burrow, Admiral Radio, Buddy Miller, Ian Noe, Riley Downing, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Son Volt, Phil Madeira, Pure Grain, Shinyribs, Mr. Sun, Rhiannon Giddens, Margo Cilker, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Willi Carlisle, Josh Rouse, Mary Gauthier and more!

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Americana Music Releases for August 7th

Posted on August 6, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for August 7th, 2026. 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.

Arlen Roth
Blues Grass  (MoMojo Records)

Arlen, the “Master of the Telecaster,” began his long music career at the tender age of nine. In 1970, his band performed at the 1st Annual Woodstock Reunion Concert, and soon after he moved to the town of Woodstock. Since those early days, he has traveled the world, performing and recording with countless acts such as Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, John Prine, and The Bee Gees, just to name a few. Releasing numerous guitar-centric albums over many years. On Blues Grass Arlen is joined by a young bluegrass group, The Rank & File Band. They run through a bunch of bluegrass standards, frequently stretching out the solos sometimes with added drums. All in all, it’s a nice collection that guitar fans should enjoy.


Various Artists
Sittin’ With Blaze: A Tribute To Blaze Foley  (Lost Art Records)

The Arkansas-born songsmith made his way to Austin in the late Seventies, befriending Townes Van Zandt and becoming a rowdy fixture at bar stages before he was shot in 1989. A decade later, Lost Art Records released Live at the Austin Outhouse and several posthumous albums since. In the intervening years, label co-founder Craig McDonald has heard Foley’s peers acknowledge his impact and watched his songs reach a new generation of ears. “Recognition and legacy has been growing among contemporary artists too, people covering songs, talking about Blaze,” McDonald says. He began “herding cool cats,” as McDonald puts it, including Phosphorescent, Lucy Dacus, John Moreland, Joshua Ray Walker, Uncle Lucius and others. The album closes with a finale from Foley’s longtime friend Lucinda Williams, singing “If I Could Only Fly.” (edited from Austin Chronicle review)

 

Also new this week…

Margaret Glaspy – I Am Both  (ATO Records)
Robert Henry & the Repeaters – Down The Road  (independent)  +
The Roseline – 86 Gumption  (independent)
Red Shahan – Hard Land  (Make Wake Records)
Silverada – Living Proof (Prairie Rose Records)  +
Slack Key ‘Ohana – The ʻOhana Sessions  (Pacific Records)
The Sons of Rainier – Nothing But Time  (independent)  +
Surrender Hill – Wild Country   (Blue Betty Records)
Charlie Worsham – Once Upon A Second Time Around  (independent)  +

 

Coming out soon…  Elizabeth Cook, Bronwyn, Lindsay Lou, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Mountain Grass Unit, Kimmie Bitter, Keb’ Mo’, Eli Paperboy Reed, Two Runner, Pokey LaFarge, The Jayhawks, Billy Strings, Ruthie Foster, The Kennedys, Dallas Burrow, Admiral Radio, Buddy Miller, Ian Noe, Riley Downing, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Son Volt, Phil Madeira, Mr. Sun, Rhiannon Giddens, Margo Cilker, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Willi Carlisle, Josh Rouse and more!

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Bill Frater

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Americana Music Releases for July 31st

Posted on July 30, 2026 by

 

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for July 31st, 2026. 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.

 

Wyatt Flores
Scared of Heights  (OEG Records)

While his first full-length, 2024’s Welcome to the Plains, came from the perspective of a young man who’d rarely ventured beyond Oklahoma, Flores’ second album, Scared of Heights, arrives as he finds himself in a vastly different spot – a world traveler, returning home to assess how much a man’s life can change in two years, and what that means to the ones he’s left behind. The concept behind the album isn’t so much about being afraid of achieving as a fear of fucking up – is success (a measure of which Flores has definitely met) worth the risk of losing what he already has? Maybe the biggest loss Flores experienced was the end of a relationship, a topic which shows up across the record. Once the relationship wreckage is dispensed with, Flores has time to look at what’s left, as well as what’s ahead. (edited from Americana Highways review)

 

Also new this week…

Buffalo Traffic Jam – Pictures of You  (Arista Records)
GA-20 with Charlie Musselwhite – Blues Now (New West Records)
Ryman – Growing Pains  (Mom + Pop Music)

 

Coming out soon… Silverada, Surrender Hill, Arlen Roth, Slack Key Ohana, Elizabeth Cook, Bronwyn, Pokey LaFarge, Lindsay Lou, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Mountain Grass Unit, Kimmie Bitter, Eli Paperboy Reed, The Jayhawks, Billy Strings, Ruthie Foster, The Kennedys, Dallas Burrow, Admiral Radio, Buddy Miller, Ian Noe, Riley Downing, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Son Volt, Mr. Sun, Rhiannon Giddens, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Willi Carlisle and more!

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Bill Frater

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