Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for March 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.
Cat Clyde
Mud Blood Bone (Concord Records)
The themes that weave through Mud Blood Bone, the fourth record from Canada’s Cat Clyde, tackle large, universal ideas. Yet, it’s her gift for writing deeply personal lyrics that gives the album both depth and a striking sense of intimacy. Mud Blood Bone finds Clyde at her most confident lyrically, while the music moves effortlessly between folk, Americana, and blues. The album’s real strength lies in the honesty at its core. It’s a record that lingers long after the final notes fade and is destined to be listened to again and again. (edited from Glide magazine review)
Johnny Blue Skies & the Dark Clouds (Sturgill Simpson)
Mutiny After Midnight (High Top Mountain Records)
Leave it to Sturgill Simpson to do the most Sturgill Simpson things possible when releasing his latest album Mutiny After Midnight, only be available on physical media–CD, vinyl, and cassette, and in limited quantities no less. As Sturgill promised, the album is a hedonistic disco album overall, though with some other textures in there too. There’s not a lot of complexity to praise on this record, where the genre medium and his monster band could have lent to some more strong compositional moments like they do at live shows. But a fair, cool-minded judgement can come to the conclusion that Sturgill Simpson accomplished exactly what he wanted to with Mutiny After Midnight, which was to make a fun dance record. It’s also fair to conclude that this goal, and the result still presents a slightly inferior version of the Johnny Blues Skies experience. (edited from Saving Country Music review)
Also new this week…
Sam Bergquist – Devils & Doves (independent)
Colton Bowlin – Grandpa’s Mill (State Line Records) +
Garrett T. Capps – I Still Love San Antone (independent)
Tony Trischka – Earl Jam 2 (Down The Road Records)
Coming out soon… Charley Crockett, Leah Blevins, The Montvales, Benjamin Tod, The Milk Carton Kids, Josiah and the Bonnevilles, Yarn, Jobi Riccio, Ringo Starr, The Deslondes, Dale Watson, Paul Cauthen, Bill Kirchen, Joshua Ray Walker, Whitehorse, Caleb Caudle, Florence Dore, Charlie Marie and more!
William Clark Green
Trey Hensley
The Band of Heathens
Boy Golden
The Infamous Stringdusters
Melissa Carper & Theo Lawrence
John Craigie
Eric Bibb
Steve Poltz
Della Mae
Lucinda Williams
Courtney Marie Andrews
Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz






