Americana Music Releases for Nov. 13th

Posted on November 12, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for November 13th, 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.

Waylon Jennings
Diamonds (Son of Jessi Records)

Oh hell yeah. Waylon Jennings continues to regale us with music from beyond the grave. And it continues to be just as good as the music he released in the heyday of his legendary career, and so much better than most of what is being released today. Diamonds is the second in a series of albums featuring unknown recordings by Waylon Jennings that his son Shooter Jennings recently unearthed. Compared to Songbird, it’s a higher energy album, a “younger man’s” album, where the tracks all share stories about the rollercoaster of relationships and unrequited love. Recorded originally in 1978 during the height of Waylon’s powers, the title track is made extra special by also including some killer guitar by another long gone country Music Hall of Famer, Glen Campbell. (edited from Saving Country Music review)

Schaefer Llana
Full Circle  (Strolling Bones Records)

A voice as coolly effortless as Schaefer Llana’s didn’t come from nowhere. It was practiced and nurtured in church as a child, in college as a music student and as a backup singer for other artists. A voice like Llana’s was never meant to just be in the background, and she proves it again and again on Full Circle not just in her singing, but in her songwriting, capturing memories in vivid color and emotions as fresh as the day she felt them. Full Circle is a fully realized set of songs by an artist so in command of her instrument, her voice shifting from one silken tone to another. It places Llana in the spotlight that has long been waiting for her to claim it. (edited from No Depression review)

Also new this week…

Jake Bugg – Alamo  (Lovebugg Recordings)
Murphy Campbell – Revenant  (self-release)  +
Frances De Vargas – Graduation  (Nudie Records)
James Felice – Homeworld Blue (Million Stars Records)

Coming out soon…  Arlo McKinley, Jim Kweskin, Adeem The Artist, Brandy Clark, Dom Flemons and more!

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Americana Music Releases for Nov. 6th

Posted on November 5, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for November 6th, 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.

 

Various Artists
Where the Soul Never Dies: Celebrating 80 Years of The Stanley Brothers  (Compass Records)

More than eighty years ago in the hills of southwestern Virginia, Carter and Ralph Stanley (The Stanley Brothers) began forging a sound that has endured among fans and shaped generations of roots musicians. What they created is a cornerstone of bluegrass and old-time music, so elemental that it’s hard to imagine the genre without them. Producers Alison Brown and Garry West assembled an eclectic cast from bluegrass and Americana, pairing bluegrass’s next generation with roots voices who grew up on these songs, allowing new listeners to discover the Stanleys through the music itself at a moment when bluegrass is experiencing a genuine resurgence. Artists include Billy Strings, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Sierra Ferrell, Jamey Johnson, Rhiannon Giddens, Steve Martin with Ed Helms and more.

 

Grayson Capps
The Weight of the World (Royal Potato Family/RPF Records)

This is Capps’ first full-length album of original material in nine years. He returns to form with nine songs encompassing the barefoot, country boy philosophizing and earthy musical minimalism that have come to define his singular voice on the American roots music landscape. “Songwriting is my way of navigating the world. It makes me feel free and fulfilled. So when I make a record, it’s at my own pace and my own terms,” says Capps. “I feel like I’m returning to the frenetic pace of my earlier work. I’m singing better than ever, and creatively finding the emotion and texture in the music that feels resonate and alive.”


Willi Carlisle
The Universal Bubba  (Signature Sounds)

The Universal Bubba marks a half dozen releases for folksinger Willi Carlisle and with the added accelerant of first time producer Tyler Childers. In an all-time DIY effort, Childers and his band convened to a makeshift home studio nestled in New Orleans for two weeks to cut 17 tracks that capture the off-kilter characters living in his songs. “I think this one goes to outer space,” says Carlisle. “I think this is the widest range of influences that I’ve ever had. It touches on funk, it touches on Americana, Cajun, oldtime, and experimental music.” Carlisle embraced the freedom to wander across genres both familiar and new, testing out instrumentation and toying with the surreality of traditions being turned on their head. “I want to make a universal folk music. Songs for all kinds of weirdos,” says Carlisle. “With the idea that there is nobody that doesn’t have folk songs and everyone deserves folk songs. I want to write songs that prove the old weird America didn’t go anywhere, that we are living and dying for it everyday. I believe there’s noble work to do in that context.”  (from press release)

 

Also new this week…

Jessi Alexander – Southern  (Lost Creek Music)
Jack Blocker – Big Jefe  (Elbow Grease Records)  +
Eliot Bronson – Arrive (New Pain Records)  +
Janky Bungag – Hangin’ Out & Hangin’ On (Royal Mountain Records)
Johnny Delaware – On God’s Time  (Normaltown Records)
Cara Luft – My Heart Will Always Be (Blue Case Tunes)
Joe Ray McDonald – Harvester  (self-release)  +
Jenny Scheinman – One Hundred Years Today  (RPF Records)
Various Artists – Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young, Vol. 2 – Out of the Blue  (Killphonic Records)
Various Artists – The Long Memory: 20 Years of Free Dirt Records  (Free Dirt Records)
The Weary Boys – Darkhorse  (Weary Records)

 

Coming out soon… Jake Bugg, Murphy Campbell, Arlo McKinley, Jim Kweskin, Waylon Jennings, Adeem The Artist and more!

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Americana Music Releases for Oct. 30th

Posted on October 29, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for October 30th, 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.

 

 

Ben Vaughn
Magnetic East: The Deer Tick Sessions  (Yep Roc Records)

Ben Vaughn is no stranger to a musical experiment. Some of his most notable work is born from an off-the-wall idea, there’s Rambler 65, the album he recorded entirely in his vintage car. His new album with Rhode Island rockers Deer Tick, brings the same spirit of curiosity through experimentation. This time, the gimmick seemed simple: Ben would just sing, and the band would handle the rest. For an artist known for his many talents in songwriting, musicianship, composing, producing, and broadcasting, “just” was a fresh concept. “I wanted an opportunity to hear my songs come out of the speakers in a way that didn’t sound like anything I would come up with myself,” Ben said. Magnetic East marks a new high point in Ben Vaughn’s career. The mutual respect and obsession with music that Ben and Deer Tick share shines on this thoughtfully crafted collaboration.  (edited from press release)

 

Also new this week…

Sam Burton – Fairweather Friend  (Captured Tracks)
Kaitlin Butts – Hello, Honky Tonk  (Republic Records)  +
The Creekers – Follow The Sound  (Warner Records)
High Fidelity – Never Say Goodbye  (Rebel Records)
Hunter Flynn – Roots  (Appalachian Soul Music)  +
Caleb Lee Hutchinson – Long Line of Losers  (independent)
Lydia Loveless – Accolades  (Bloodshot Records) (EP)
Fanny Lumsden – Traditions  (Red Dirt Road Records)
Abby Posner – Rest & Rise  (Golden Poppy Music)
Foy Vance – If: We  (Rounder Records)  (EP)

 

Coming out soon… Eliot Bronson, Grayson Capps, Willi Carlisle, Sam Burton, Murphy Campbell, Jim Kweskin, Waylon Jennings and more!

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Americana Music Releases for Oct. 23rd

Posted on October 22, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for October 23rd, 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.

 

Grey DeLisle
Don’t Turn Around  (Hummin’Bird Records)

While a lot of artists at the moment are pulling on the 70’s for inspiration, Grey Delisle harks right back to the 50’s and Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn territory, with a dash of Lefty Frizzell in the arrangements. The songs are mostly end of relationship songs but she has her way of describing the event without saying it’s over. Delisle has some amazing musicians with her including Stephen McCarthy, Deke Dickerson, Greg Leisz, Chris Scruggs, Tammy Rogers, Murray Hammond, Mandy Barnett and Micky Raphael, all bona fide and authentic 50’s and country aficionados. The whole album has a real warmth to it, like all good authentic country albums should have, and with this being her sixth album in four years I have got some catching up to do, and I hope you will have too. (edited from Get Ready To Rock review)

 

JP Harris
Shaving A Dead Man  (Bloodshot Records)

On JP Harris’s latest release, fans won’t encounter the tough-as-nails twang of albums past. The shadowy country songsmith recently cracked open a time-bound tome of traditional Appalachian music, revisiting a range of old-time tunes that sparked a love within him years ago and informed his artistic baseline from then on. What Harris came away with was a sixth studio album and a brand-new chapter for a centuries-old songbook of more than mere classics: Shaving A Dead Man contains heirlooms, road maps, and reminders for the present day. The repertoire is heirloom, but newcomers to the old-time genre will hear a hypnotic snap & sway in the silvery plunk of JP’s banjo, a spectral, bluesy emotion in McCoy’s fiddle, & songs with lyrics that conjure something mythical, mysterious, and sometimes murderous.  (edited from No Depression review)

 

Also new this week…

Peter Autio – Country, Soul, and Rock N’ Roll  (Autiomusic)
Rayland Baxter – True Violet  (ATO Records)  +
Muireann Bradley – Blackwood Pew  (independent)
Dasher The Band – Grandpa Clocks And Gravestones  (self-release)
Mark Freeman – Mes Amis (self-release)
The Fretliners – When The Kettle Sings  (Hook Set Records)
Gary Heffern and Ed Pettersen – Midnight Sons  (independent)
Colby T. Helms – One For The Losers  (Photo Finish Records)
Pug Johnson – From a Beaumont Bar  (Break Maiden Records)  +
Caroline Rose – Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall  (Suck Records)
Josh Rouse – Museums and Women  (New West Records)  +
Owen Temple – Closer, Says Love  (El Paisano Records)  +
Gordie Tentrees – Dandelion Blue  (self-release)  +

 

Coming out soon… Ben Vaughn, Kaitlin Butts, Grayson Capps, Lydia Loveless, Foy Vance, Willi Carlisle, Sam Burton, Jim Kweskin, Waylon Jennings and more!

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Americana Music Releases for Oct. 16th

Posted on October 15, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for October 16th, 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.


Bruce Cockburn
The Blood Of Others  (Sunset Blvd Records)

Blood of Others is almost exclusively just Cockburn on acoustic guitars, which he plays beautifully in service to the songs, which cover gospel, blues, ballads, folk, and jazz genres. This is Cockburn’s 39th album, and his first album of covers, songs that have influenced or inspired him over his musical life, which largely started at the esteemed Berklee School of Music in Boston in the mid-60s when he was 20 years old. Cockburn has explained that certain songs have been drifting around in his mind for many years, and some have been chosen as they work very well as exercises in his fingerstyle. Cockburn has probably flown under most people’s radar, but just put this album on, retire under some decent headphones and wallow for an hour in this brilliant album, an outlier in Cockburn’s huge catalogue, and come out mesmerized by his interpretive ability and his guitar mastery.  (edited from Americana UK review)

 

Charlie Parr
Roaming House   (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)

It’s hard to believe that Minneapolis-based blues-roots artist Charlie Parr has now released 20 albums. First hailed for his blues-roots fingerpicking guitar, Parr has long since become a fully fledged troubadour with a world-weary voice, a champion of the downtrodden, perhaps best realized on this new folk opera, Rooming House. In our current time of inflation and the affordability crisis, Parr takes the economic crisis to the extreme, setting his album in a boarding house where the desperate characters find ways to survive while building a community. Parr is essentially conveying two themes. His story symbolizes a larger meditation on America’s worsening economic insecurity.  Secondly, a sense of community becomes all that people under duress can hang on to. We witnessed this during last winter in Minneapolis. A rooming house is just a microscopic view of the same.  (edited from Glide Magazine review)

 

Also new this week…

Dave Alvin – Blackjack David (Deluxe Reissue)  (Craft/Concord Records)
Mary Bragg – Secrets to Strangers  (Single Lock Records)  +
Spencer Burton – Spencer Burton  (self-release)
Jesse Daniel – Looks Like Rain  (Lightning Rod Records)  +
Madeline Edwards – low hanging fruit  (Mississippi Rain Records)
Béla Fleck – Live Heart: My Bluegrass Heart At The Ryman   (Béla Fleck Productions)
Vince Gill – 50 Years From Home: Marty And Me  (UMG Recordings)  +
Jonny Gold – Peach Trees  (self-release)
Victor Krummenacher and Casey Neill – Victor Krummenacher and Casey Neill  (Veritas Recordings)
Mynd Reader – Sunday Drive  (self-release)
The Southern Tiers – Cookin’ Up Trouble  (self-release)
Lyal Strickland – Shooter of Truth  (Shedding Dog Music)
Dave Sutherland – Just Like A Black and White Film  (self-release)
Richard Thompson – Hippies, Thugs, & Heroes  (New West Records)  +

 

Coming out soon… Grey DeLisle, JP Harris, Willi Carlisle, Kaitlin Butts, Lydia Loveless, Josh Rouse, Sam Burton, Jim Kweskin and more!

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Americana Music Releases for Oct. 9th

Posted on October 8, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for October 9th, 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.

 

Margo Cilker
Little White Cross  (Fossil Records)

“You could definitely call it a concept record, if that concept is that I got really sad and went to Texas.” That’s Margo Cilker’s elevator pitch for her latest album, Little White Cross. The exact source of the sadness that led Cilker to record this particular mix of covers and originals is left unspecified by the singer, but look around – can you really wonder why a sensitive soul might be more than a little bothered by end-stage America? But even on a record full of car wrecks, mass shooters and plain ol’ struggling folks, Cilker and co-producer Bruce Robison have managed to craft one of the most beautiful albums. of the year.  (edited from Americana Highways review)

 

Shinyribs
Real Alligator  (Spaceflight Records)

Shinyribs’ 10th full-length record continues the musical journey leader Kevin Russell began on 2025’s Leaving Time, incorporating soulful Country and folk into their trademark Swamp Pop sound. The album includes a number of songs Russell penned as solo compositions, giving the record a more personal, introspective vibe than previous Shinyribs outings. The band, in kind, has transformed into a smaller, more versatile unit, able to interpret these intimate compositions as well as the bolder, more raucous material, like the first single “Arkansas Mud.” Real Alligator is also the first Shinyribs record on Austin’s innovative non-profit label Spaceflight Records, adding an important new rootsy contribution to their growing catalog. (from press release)

 

Todd Snider
My Second Rodeo  (Aimless Records)

Todd Snider happened to leave behind a posthumous album recorded in the period right before his death in the fall of 2025. Called My Second Rodeo, it’s said to be an imagining of “the sound of country music 10 years from now” from Snider. The songs came together as Snider worked dismantle and reconstruct his favorite country music tropes, and then weave them into swampy grooves, backed by New Orleans-style horns. This is not a posthumous release of B-sides and outtakes. Snider approached this album intentionally, and in what collaborators say was a burst of creative energy. “This album is a glimpse into the creative outpouring from Todd in September and October of 2025,” says Joe Bisiri. “He was so sure of this sound, feel, and his studio band’s pliability that he insisted on recording his vocal and guitar first, with no accompaniment or click track.” Bisiri and Robbie Crowell worked off of notes that Snider left via emails and voice memos to finish the album at Snider’s Purple Building in Nashville. In emails, Todd Snider told them, “….i honestly think we’re doing something important that is going to affect this town for a longtime,” and “I’ve never been more excited about art i was working on.”

 

Also new this week…

Chick Blundy & the Tryin’ Times – Blame It on the Borealis  (self-release)
Domenic Cicala – Duet Again  (Tortured Artist Records)
Laura Cortese – Lucky Water  (Compass Records)
Sheryl Crow – Pick You Up  (Old Green Barn Productions)
Mat Kearney – Hanging by a Heartstring  (Middle Kid Records)
Libby Koch & Michael O’Connor – Gulf Coast Duets (Coastal Bend Records)  +
Jordie Lane – Habitual  (Blood Thinner Records)  +
Gurf Morlix – Ain’t No Perfect World  (Rootball Records)  +
John Prine – Found Dogs  (Oh Boy Records)  +
Joe Rian – Think Yer In Luv (Rian Records)  +
Becky Shaw – Cast Off The Lines  (self-release)
The Talking Hearts – Memory Lane  (self-release)
The Texas Headhunters – Rise and Shine  (Hardcharger Records)
Jess Williamson – A Mile South of Heaven  (New West Records)  +

 

Coming out soon… Bruce Cockburn, Richard Thompson, The Southern Tiers, Charlie Parr, Willi Carlisle, Kaitlin Butts, Lydia Loveless, Josh Rouse, Sam Burton, Jim Kweskin and more!

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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 is 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…

Cody Bolden – Menace To Myself  (Chili Bean Records)
Allison de Groot and Rich Ruth – Allison de Groot and Rich Ruth  (self-release)
Sally Jaye – You’ll Be Okay, Baby  (Mule Kick Records)  +
Red McAdam – Comic Western Gothic   (self-release)
David Miner – West Texas Stars  (Edgewater Music Group)  +
The Pinkerton Raid – If You Love Somebody, Tell Them  (self-release)
Rising Appalachia – Trade My Troubles  (self-release)
The Suitcase Junket – To Go On  (self-release)
Various Artists – A Century of Strings, Stories, and Songs: a Tribute to the Delmore Brothers  (Billy Blue Records)  +
Wild Horses – The In Between  (Outlaw Foundry Records)  +

 

Coming out soon…  Gurf Morlix, 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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