Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for October 10th, 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.
Paul Burch
Cry Love (Glider Records Ltd.)
Paul Burch’s thoroughly modern yet instantly classic songs have attracted fans from Rock to Bluegrass. His new LP Cry Love, produced with Dennis Crouch and Fats Kaplin features Burch’s longtime band The WPA Ballclub including Richard Bennett, Jen Gunderman and George Bradfute. The album was inspired by the WPABs pop-up residencies in small clubs around their home in Nashville where they perform without a setlist welcoming guests like Kevin Gordon, William Tyler and Eddie Angel. Burch also has a debut novel “Meridian Rising”, which chronicles the life and travels of music legend Jimmie Rodgers, whose meteoric career in the 1930s inspired artists from Howling Wolf and Robert Johnson to Dolly Parton and Bob Dylan.
Various Artists
It’s All Her Fault: A Tribute To Cindy Walker (Hummin’Bird Records)
Cindy Walker was one of the most important and prolific songwriters in country music history, penning some 500 recorded songs, and some 400 of them charting in the Top 40, and often with the same song being recorded by different stars and in different decades. An effort to save Walker’s childhood home has been underway for multiple years, and inspired by the preservation effort, country artist and famous voice actor Grey DeLisle has taken it upon herself to record a tribute to Cindy Walker, with streaming proceeds going to the Cindy Walker Foundation. The album features a great lineup of artists who are directly inspired by the Cindy Walker catalog, including Summer Dean, Kimmi Bitter, Rosie Flores, Amythyst Kiah, Brennen Leigh, Melissa Carper, Jolie Holland, and more. You also have some top musicians in traditional country appearing on the album, including pedal/lap steel player Chris Scruggs, Deke Dickerson, and drummer Lisa Pankratz.
Also new this week…
Al Basile – Blues In Hand (Kenoza Music)
Megan Bee – Fiction (independent)
Burnett Sisters Band – Easy Come, Easy Go (Pinecastle Records)
John Carter Cash – Pineapple John (Avondale Records)
Alice DiMicele – Reverse The Flow (independent)
Tommy Emmanuel – Living in the Light (independent)
Robert Finley – Hallelujah! Don’t Let The Devil Fool Ya (Easy Eye Sound)
Josh Fortenbery – Tidy Memorial (Muskeg Collective)
The Grahams – The Bridge (3Sirens Records)
Bernie Leadon – Too Late To Be Cool ( Straight Wire Records)
Leon Majcen – Making A Livin’ (Not A Killin’) (Cloverdale Records)
Maygen & The Birdwatcher – The Americana Dream (Missing Piece Records) +
Rhett Miller – A Lifetime of Riding by Night (ATO Records) +
Gurf Morlix – Bristlecone (independent) +
Katie Pruitt – The Pleasantville Sessions (Rounder Records) +
Roomful of Blues – Steppin’ Out (Alligator Records)
Coming out soon … Alison Brown & Steve Martin, Ed Dupas, Joshua Hedley, Jim Keller, Todd Snider, William Prince, Joshua Ray Walker, Brandi Carlile, Willie Nelson, Miss Emily, and more!
