Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for August 12th, 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.
Kelsey Waldon
No Regular Dog (Oh Boy Records)
The pride of Monkey’s Eyebrow, Kentucky (really) gets back in the post-pandemic musical saddle for more pure, subtle country with elegantly conceived lyrics. Kelsey Waldon already had two impressive albums and an EP to her name when John Prine signed her to his Oh Boy label in 2018. he decamped to LA, recording outside of Nashville and her home state for the first time, and enlisting Shooter Jennings as producer for album four. As in the past, Waldon uses her road band anchoring these often personal stories. Most critically though, her clear, sweet, somewhat melancholy country vocals ride atop rootsy country/folk melodies that never feel like blueprints or repeats of what she has already recorded. The album’s name summarizes Kelsey Waldon’s superb talents and determined approach to her profession. In a music world filled with uncertainties she …”ain’t no regular dog/More like a wolf on the kill.” (edited from American Songwriter review)
Also new this week…
Mariel Buckley – Everywhere I Used to Be (Birthday Cake Records) +
Sam Burchfield – Scoundrel (EatMusic Records) +
Dead Horses – Brady Street (Vos & Wolff Records)
The Empty Pockets – Outside Spectrum (self-released)
Cahalan Morrison – Wealth of Sorrow (Fluff & Gravy Records) +
Peter Mulvey with SistaStrings – Love Is the Only Thing (Righteous Babe Records) +
Walter Trout – Ride (Provogue Records)
Vandoliers – The Vandoliers (Amerikinda Records)
Coming out in the next few weeks… Shemekia Copeland, Early James, Loudon Wainwright III, Will Hoge, Watkins Family Hour, Bill Scorzari, Tommy McLain, Jim Lauderdale, Dan Navarro, Charley Crockett, Sunny Sweeney and more …
