Americana Music Releases for Feb. 13th

Posted on February 12, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for February 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.

 

Boy Golden
Best of Our Possible Lives (Six Shooter Records)

Liam Duncan, better known by his stage name Boy Golden, the Winnipeg-based songwriter has been quietly making waves across Canada and Best of Our Possible Lives arrives with both conviction and heart. Duncan continues to blur the lines between folk and alternative country, pairing warm melodies with sharp-eyed observations about the world we’re living in. This album feels well suited to the moment. The world can be a heavy place right now, but there’s comfort in Duncan’s songwriting — a sense that honesty, empathy, and connection still matter. It’s an album that doesn’t shy away from reality, but refuses to give up on the possibility of something better.  (edited from Grateful Web review)

The Infamous Stringdusters
20/20  (Americana Vibes)

Grammy Award-winning jam-grass quintet The Infamous Stringdusters, who got together 20 years ago, releases their new album, 20/20, twenty songs for twenty years. Banjoist Chris Pandolfi shares, “We’ve been around for 20 years, and I feel like we’re putting more into our music — both writing and the live shows — than we ever have. And the reality is, that you do need to step a little harder on the gas to get the same results — it takes real intention.” According to fiddle player Jeremy Garrett, “Bluegrass music brought us together in the first place. And one of the big things that propels us forward is that everyone keeps pushing so hard — it keeps me incredibly motivated.” Pandolfi explains that bluegrass music expresses the energy of rock n roll, but the band members just sort of stand there playing. The Infamous Stringdusters changed that by merging bluegrass instrumentation, vocal harmonies, superb production, and hyperactive stage vitality.  (edited from Americana Highways review)

Also new this week…

Clay Street Unit – Sin & Squalor  (independent) +
Madi Diaz – Enema Of The Garden State  (Anti- Records)
Erik Vincent Huey – Fort Defiance  (Appalachian AF Records)
Jeremy Ivey – It’s Shape Will Reveal Itself  (Soggy Anvil Records)
Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands – O California  (Spruce & Maple Records) +
Keegan McInroe – Neon John  (independent) +
The Sky Chiefs – The Sky Chiefs  (Chimney Bird Records)
The Waymores – The Knot  (independent)

 

Coming out soon… Owen Temple, Duke Robillard and His All-Star Band, The Band of Heathens, Jeffrey Martin, Trey Hensley, Charley Crockett, Luke Winslow-King, The Delines, Johnny Blue Skies, Cat Clyde, Garrett T. Capps, Benjamin Tod and more!

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Americana Music Releases for Feb. 6th

Posted on February 5, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for February 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.

 

Melissa Carper & Theo Lawrence
Havin’ A Talk  (Warner Records)

Melissa Carper and Theo Lawrence barely knew each other when they started singing songs together in the fall of 2023. In the last several years Carper and Lawrence have individually earned their spots as acclaimed recording artists on the Roots Music scene, seamlessly blending old-time Country, Jazz and Soul on their records. A country woman from Arkansas and a city man from Paris with two very different paths and voices, they were brought together by their love and devotion to traditional American music. Two remarkable and unique voices that have bewildered many who came to hear them in all kinds of rooms for about a decade, heard together for the first time, blending like glass in a timeless glint of blushing shadows.

John Craigie
I Swam Here (Zabriskie Point Records)

The new John Craigie album is a gentle and luminous soundtrack to start 2026, bringing warmth and quiet strength in the middle of an icy, polar winter. The Californian whose style he describes as “humorous storytelling, serious folk”—recorded most of the ten songs in New Orleans, with a few completed later in Astoria, Oregon, after he realized they did not yet fully match his original vision. The songs follow one another with both coherence and variety, blending Western ballads in the style of Marty Robbins, political statements, inspired by drives through the Midwest, and an interesting fusion of folk and jazz. I Swam Here is another step forward for Craigie. Rooted in place, shaped by collaboration, and guided by his steady hand as a songwriter and producer. It blends the spirit of New Orleans with the stillness of the Pacific Northwest, and shows the quiet confidence of an artist who is still exploring his limits. (edited from Americana Highways review)

 

Also new this week…

Big Richard – Pet  (Signature Sounds Recordings) 
Jay Buchanan – Weapons of Beauty  (Sacred Tongue Recordings) +
Emanuela Hutter – Goose Bumps  (Hi-Style Records)
Jackson Pines – Wheel  (Sonder House Records)
Queen Esther – Blackbirding  (EL Recordings)  +
Muchacho Sanchez – When I Get This Way  (Alacran Records) +

 

Coming out soon… Boy Golden, Keegan McInroe, The Waymores, Owen Temple, Laurie Lewis, The Infamous Stringdusters, The Band of Heathens, Clay Street Unit, Jeffrey Martin, Trey Hensley, Luke Winslow-King, Cat Clyde, Garrett T. Capps and more!

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Americana Music Releases for Jan. 30th

Posted on January 29, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for January 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.

 

Eric Bibb
One Mississippi  (Repute Records)

Born into a lineage of activism, Eric’s father, the late Leon Bibb, was a key figure in the civil rights movement, marching alongside Dr. Martin Luther King. Immersed in the Village folk scene during his youth, Eric found inspiration in the visits of luminaries like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Pete Seeger. Influenced deeply by the sounds of Odetta, Richie Havens, and Taj Mahal, he synthesized these elements into a style uniquely his own. Beyond conventional genres, Bibb is labeled a bluesman, but he defies categorization, seamlessly sliding between musical realms. Grounded in the folk and blues tradition with contemporary sensibilities, Bibb’s music reflects his thoughts on current world events and his own lived experiences, whilst remaining entertaining, uplifting, inspirational and relevant. It is an album of substance and spirit, shaped by history but unafraid of reinvention. And it reminds us, quietly, powerfully, why Eric Bibb remains one of the most resonant voices in contemporary American music.

 

 

Steve Poltz
JoyRide  (Red House Records)

Veteran troubadour Steve Poltz is the epitome of one who doesn’t take himself too seriously. It’s so refreshing. He describes his approach to making a record as “chaos, caffeine, and accidental poetry – art colliding with microphones and commerce in a glorious mess.” Inevitably, the resulting music makes us laugh, and, oddly, raises a few serious thoughts. Poltz has one of the happiest demeanors of any songwriter. Yet, Poltz is not to be underestimated. His observations on life’s details ring with sarcasm and underlying truth. Poltz is a balm for these times. Laughing serves us well.  (edited from Glide Magazine review)

 

Also new this week…

Cordovas – Back to Life  (Yep Roc Records)
Natalie Del Carmen – Pastures  (Torrez Music Group)
Meels – Across The Raccoon Strait  (Lost Highway Records)
The Naked Sun – Mirror in the Hallway  (independent)
Emily Scott Robinson – Appalachia  (Oh Boy Records)  +
Ye Vagabonds – All Tied Together  (River Lea Recordings)
You, Me, Everybody – Midnight  (Southern Sky Records)

 

Coming out soon… John Craigie, Queen Esther, Boy Golden, Keegan McInroe, Big Richard, The Waymores, Owen Temple, Laurie Lewis, The Infamous Stringdusters, The Band of Heathens, Clay Street Unit, Jeffrey Martin, Trey Hensley, Luke Winslow-King, Cat Clyde, Garrett T. Capps and more!

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Americana Music Releases for Jan. 23rd

Posted on January 22, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for January 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.

 

Della Mae
Magic Accident  (Compass Records)

All-female bluegrass quartet Della Mae’s vocal strength and instrumental skill shine throughout this mostly original album, drawing inspiration from a wide range of roots music, including Americana-influenced songs, hard-driving bluegrass romps, and dreamy indie-folk-inspired tracks. About the new project, Della Mae says, “We are incredibly proud to share this album, produced by our hero Alison Brown. Magic Accident explores the complexity of being human and the drive to seize joy and possibility amid the sheer improbability of being here at all. Each of us contributed songs to this project — making it our most collaborative record to date — and it features co-writes with artists we’ve long admired.” Since forming in Boston in 2010, Della Mae has proved to the roots music world that an all-women band is no novelty.  (from press release)

 

Lucinda Williams
World’s Gone Wrong  (Lucinda Williams Records)

Lucinda Williams long ago earned the right to make any record she damn well pleases. In recent years, that freedom has led her down a gravel road to re-record earlier work, sample other genres, and pay tribute to her heroes as well as add to her own legacy as a great American songwriter. One of the reasons listeners have so readily followed Williams down these different paths is that she has remained an authentic voice with something to say—and on World’s Gone Wrong, boy, does she have a bone to pick. The latest from Williams doesn’t provide a survival guide to hard times, nor does it promise that things will necessarily get better. Instead, she offers a letter to listeners assuring them that they are not alone in their struggles or the fight to regain what America has lost. It’s hard to make a listenable album that focuses song after song on how our country is going to hell in a 10-gallon hat. And that’s the greatest fear of making an album like World’s Gone Wrong: that it’s already too late and will fall upon deaf ears, hardened hearts, and hopeless souls. God, let’s hope not.   (edited from Paste Magazine review)

 

Also new this week…

Appalachian Road Show – Della Jane’s Heart  (Billy Blue Records)
Sammy Brue – The Journals  (Bloodshot Records)  +
Kashus Culpepper – Act I  (Big Loud Records)
Sophie Gault – Unhinged  (Torrez Music Group)
Rusty Gear – Music City Drifters  (Chickahominy Marsh Records)
The Glass Hours – Chapel Glass  (Cornelius Chapel Records)
June Swoon – Big Truck EP  (independent)
The Lowest Pair – Always As Young As We’ll Ever Be  (independent)
Dave Miller – Party in the Pines  (Howlin’ Dog Records)
Wreckless Strangers – Dirty Soul  (independent)

 

Coming out soon… Steve Poltz, Eric Bibb, Emily Scott Robinson, Boy Golden, Keegan McInroe, Natalie Del Carmen, Big Richard, Steve Forbert, Owen Temple, Queen Esther, Cordovas, Laurie Lewis, The Infamous Stringdusters, The Band of Heathens, Clay Street Unit, Jeffrey Martin, Luke Winslow-King, Cat Clyde and more!

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Bill Frater

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Americana Music Releases for Jan. 16th

Posted on January 15, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for January 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.

 

Courtney Marie Andrews
Valentine  (Loose Future Records)

At this point, we should treat singer-songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews’ music as evolving and taking on more polish with each release. Her previous release, 2022’s Loose Future, came with these words in our headline – “Breezier and Poppier.”  Her latest, Valentine, is not anywhere near as uplifting, but some of the vulnerability and fragility that marked her first two albums have returned. However, what attracted me, and likely others, to Andrews initially were her achingly vulnerable, soaring gospel-soul vocals. She had a devastating ability to sing about heartbreak like few others. Andrews admirably wants no two albums to sound the same. Arguably, her songwriter has improved, it’s still very much direct but more succinct and carefully crafted. Her voice remains a gorgeous, acrobatic instrument, albeit less emotive. Yet, although the grit and rawness of earlier efforts are gone, she remains honest to the core while growing more exploratory musically.    (edited from Glide Magazine review)

 

Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz
Circle and Square  (Red Beet Records)

Eric Brace and Thomm Jutz are back with their second record, Circle and Square, ten songs woven together with their familiar acoustic guitars and harmonies, and are about that mysterious artistic process: Creation. In an era of destruction (a mess of tornadoes and hurricanes, the East Wing of the White House, coral reefs, democracy, the list is long…), Eric and Thomm use their most powerful weapon — songwriting — to cast their artists’ eyes on the act of creation itself, the very opposite of destruction. In these ten songs, Eric and Thomm have created a manifesto for imagination over indifference, music over silence, beauty over despair, and creation over destruction. (edited from album bio)

 

Also new this week…

Elles Bailey – Can’t Take My Story Away  (Outlaw Music Limited)
Carsie Blanton – The Red Album Vol II  (independent)
David Huckfelt –  I Was Born But...  (Don Giovanni Records)
James Hunter Six – Off The Fence  (Easy Eye Sound)  +
Langhorne Slim – The Dreamin’ Kind (Dualtone Records)  +
Low Gap – Geneva  (Cloverdale Records)
Mike Mattison & Trash Magic – Turn A Midnight Corner (Landslide Records)
Eric Selby – Five.  (Soul Stew Records)
Charlie Shafter – Safari  (independent)
Wormy – Shark River (Rose Garden Records)

 

Coming out soon… Lucinda Williams, Sammy Brue, Emily Scott Robinson, Boy Golden, Keegan McInroe, Natalie Del Carmen, Steve Forbert, Owen Temple, Eric Bibb, The Lowest Pair, Cordovas, Laurie Lewis, The Infamous Stringdusters, The Band of Heathens, Clay Street Unit, Jeffrey Martin, Luke Winslow-King and more!

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Americana Music Releases for Jan. 9th

Posted on January 9, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for January 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.

 

Eric & The Soo – Phoenix (Eastside Confectionery Records)
Vince Gill – 50 Years From Home: Brown’s Diner Bar   (MCA Records)
Grant Peeples – Code To Live By  (independent)

 

 

Coming out soon… Courtney Marie Andrews, Lucinda Williams, Langhorne Slim, Sammy Brue, Emily Scott Robinson, Boy Golden, Keegan McInroe, Natalie Del Carmen, Steve Poltz, Steve Forbert, Owen Temple, Eric Bibb, The Lowest Pair, David Huckfelt, Laurie Lewis, The Infamous Stringdusters, Clay Street Unit and more!

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Americana Boogie Best Music of 2025

Posted on December 20, 2025 by

Here’s Bill Frater’s picks for the best music releases of 2025. As is frequently the case, my Top 10 ends up being more of a Top 20! Please send me your picks for best music and I’ll post some here. Happy holidays and here’s to a very happy new year!

Best of 2025

Hayes Carll – We’re Only Human  (Hwy 87 Records)
Margo Price – Hard Headed Woman  (Loma Vista Recordings)
Brennen Leigh – Don’t You Ever Give Up On Love  (Signature Sounds Recordings)
Jason Isbell – Foxes in the Snow  (Southeastern Records)
Tyler Childers – Snipe Hunter  (Hickman Holler Records)
James McMurtry – The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy  (New West Records)
Rodney Crowell – Airline Highway  (New West Records)
Jesse Welles – Devil’s Den  (independent)
The Wood Brothers – Puff of Smoke  (Honey Jar Records)
Leftover Salmon – Let’s Party About It  (Compass Records)

also greats…

Alison Brown & Steve Martin – Safe, Sensible, & Sane  (Compass Records)
Suzy Thompson – Suzy Sings Siebel  (independent)
Willi Carlisle – Winged Victory  (Signature Sounds)
Ken Pomeroy – Cruel Joke  (Rounder Records)
Turnpike Troubadours – Price of Admission (Bossier City Records)
Paul Burch – Cry Love  (Glider Records Ltd.)
Seth Walker – Why The Worry  (Royal Potato Records)
Otis Gibbs – The Trust of Crows  (Wanamaker Recording Company)
The Shootouts – Switchback  (Transoceanic Records)
Robbie Fulks – Now Then  (Compass Records)

 

Coming out early next year… Courtney Marie Andrews, Lucinda Williams, Sammy Brue, Emily Scott Robinson, Boy Golden, Keegan McInroe, Eric Brace & Thomm Jutz, Natalie Del Carmen, Steve Forbert, Owen Temple, Keb’ Mo’, The Lowest Pair, David Huckfelt, Laurie Lewis, The Infamous Stringdusters, Clay Street Unit and more!

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Americana Music Releases for Dec. 5th

Posted on December 4, 2025 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for December 5th, 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.

 

The Doohickeys – Merry Happy Whatever  (Forty Below Records)
Solid Air – The West is on Fire  (independent)
Tommy Womack – Live A Little  (Schoolkids Records)

 

Coming out early next year… Courtney Marie Andrews, Lucinda Williams, Sammy Brue, Emily Scott Robinson, Boy Golden, Keegan McInroe, Natalie Del Carmen, Steve Forbert, Owen Temple, Keb’ Mo’, The Lowest Pair, David Huckfelt, Laurie Lewis, The Infamous Stringdusters, Clay Street Unit and more!

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Americana Music Releases for Nov. 28th

Posted on November 27, 2025 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for November 28th, 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.

 

Melissa Carper
A Very Carper Christmas  (Mae Music)

Putting together a Christmas album (a good one), particularly with new material, is a difficult needle to thread. Ideally, it needs to be original without being too divergent, sentimental but not sappy, and emotive but not treacly. And, even though she was initially hesitant to take on the project, Melissa Carper has somehow managed all of that. Her perfectly titled A Very Carper Christmas captures all of her personal quirky humor and warmth while also inviting musical friends to share in the festivities. Fair warning – if you have vivid memories of holidays past (good or not-so), Carper will manage to tweak a tear duct or two somewhere across these 15 tracks. (edited from Americana Highways review)

 

Also new this week…
 
Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter – Forever, I’ve Been Being Born  (Southern Lord Records)
Afton Wolfe – Ophiuchus  (Grandiflora Records)

 

Coming out soon … Tommy Womack, Miss Emily, The Infamous Stringdusters …
And due next year… Courtney Marie Andrews, Lucinda Williams, Sammy Brue, Emily Scott Robinson, Boy Golden, Keegan McInroe, Natalie Del Carmen, Steve Forbert, Della Mae, Owen Temple, David Huckfelt, Laurie Lewis, The Infamous Stringdusters, Clay Street Unit, John Craigie and more!

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Americana Music Releases for Nov. 21st

Posted on November 20, 2025 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for November 21st, 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.

 

Old Crow Medicine Show
OCMS XMAS  (Hartland Records)

Old Crow Medicine Show is starting the holiday season off with their first Christmas album featuring two covers and 11 original songs, strung together in multicolored lights and evoking a timeless sense of string-band stomp. Speaking about the lead single, John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas (War Is Over),” and significance of its arrival, Ketch Sector says, “Of all the Christmas songs the radio stations drench us with as soon as the Thanksgiving feast turns to leftovers, there is only one I never tire of hearing.” “We’re in the joy business,” Secor continues, “From the very start, a lot of the virtues of Christmas—the r – evelry, the sing-alongs, the happiness—have been present in our show.”  (edited from Relix review)

 

Also new this week…

Ward Richmond – Big Addict Energy  (Idol Records)
Lance Roark – Bad Reputation  (Tenkiller Records)  +
Amy Speace – The Blue Rock Session  (Windbone Records)  +
Uncle Lucius – Live In ‘25  (Boo Clap Records)
Vickie Vaughn – Travel On  (Mountain Home Music Company)

 

Coming out soon …  Melissa Carper, Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter, Afton Wolfe, Steve Forbert, Keegan McInroe…
And due next year… Lucinda Williams, Sammy Brue, Emily Scott Robinson, Natalie Del Carmen, Owen Temple, Laurie Lewis, The Infamous Stringdusters, David Huckfelt, Clay Street Unit and more!

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Bill Frater

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