Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for June 13th, 2025. 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.
Wayne Scott
Wayne’s Pain (Here Records)
Lifted from the sessions that yielded Wayne’s 2005 debut album,This Weary Way, and featuring the same musicians – his son Darrell Scott, guitarist Dan Dugmore, fiddler Casey Driessen and others. This posthumous collection spotlights some of the darkest, most unsettling songs from those recordings, songs every bit as desolate as their titles (“I Know What It’s Like To Be Alone,” “I’m Here Alone,” “If The Bottle Don’t Kill Me”). Here is a whole other side of Wayne Scott. “Dad’s honest, deep, unflinching, real-life songs kept shining through the years, inspiring me to keep moving forward; his writing and his singing lit the way,” Darrell said. “All five of his sons: Denny, Dale, Darrell, Don, David and my son, Abraham, also worked on this recording – three generations of Scotts. Homemade songs truly made for home.” (edited from That Eric Alper review)
Also new this week…
Jack Barksdale – Voices (independent)
Terry Hanck – Grease to Gravy (independent)
Van Morrison – Remembering Now (Exile Productions Ltd)
Joshua Ray Walker – Tropicana (East Dallas Records) +
Neil Young And The Chrome Hearts – Talkin’ To The Trees (Reprise Records)
Coming out soon … Lukas Nelson, Kelsey Waldon, S.G. Goodman, James McMurtry, Ketch Secor, Willi Carlisle, The Wildmans, Tyler Childers, Hayes Carll, Jade Bird, Phil Madeira, Sunny Sweeney, Patty Griffin, Rodney Crowell, Molly Tuttle, Kathleen Edwards, Margo Price, The Wood Brothers, Josh Ritter, Asleep at the Wheel and more!
