Americana Music Releases for Nov. 14th

Posted on November 13, 2025 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for November 14th, 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.

 

Colter Wall
Memories and Empties  (LaHonda Records)

On this new album though, Colter Wall is said to be “carrying the torch of traditional country music’s legacy beyond Nashville’s commercial influence” and is releasing a “collection of drinking songs and blue collar stories is tailor-made for the honky tonks, barrooms, porches, and pickups it will soon be inhabiting—all deeply inspired by that 1970s era of country music that still permeates early breakfasts at the diner before work and late Saturday nights that bleed into Sunday mornings.”  Well that all sounds like music to our ears. The reason Colter Wall has become so wildly successful with Western music is because he doesn’t just play the music, he champions it. With so many wanting to make “country” albums these days, Colter Wall is one interloper the country music community will be more than happy to take in.  (edited from Saving Country Music review)

 

Also new this week…

Casper Allen – Casper Allen & The Naturals  (Cecil Park Records)
The Bros. Landreth – Dog Ear  (Birthday Cake Records)
Kaitlin Butts – The Yeehaw Sessions  (Republic Records)
Ethan Daniel Davidson – Lear  (Blue Arrow Records)
Muscadine Bloodline – Longleaf Lo-Fi  (Stancaster Music)
Old Man Luedecke – She Told Me Where to Go  (Outside Music)
Orville Peck – Appaloosa  (Warner Records)  +
Shoebox Letters – Two Fingers of Whiskey (independent)
Austin B. Sweeney – Wagon (independent)
Johnny Wigwag & The Truthseekers – Heart Full of Soul (independent)

 

Coming out soon …  Lance Roark, Miss Emily, Melissa Carper, Afton Wolfe, Steve Forbert, Vickie Vaughn, The Infamous Stringdusters, Natalie Del Carmen, Keegan McInroe, Lucinda Williams, Sammy Brue, Emily Scott Robinson, Natalie Del Carmen and more!

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Americana Music Releases for Nov. 7th

Posted on November 6, 2025 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for November 7th, 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.

 

Luke Bell
The King Is Back  (All Blue Recordings)

Wyoming native Luke Bell was an enigma in life, became a cult legend upon his death, and despite his scant output, has become an influential artist as his legend has only grown in the music world he left behind. Shortly after releasing his landmark self-titled album in 2016, the question on the minds of many Luke Bell fans was “Where Ya Been?” Once one of the most promising prospects in country music, but virtually disappeared from the touring circuit, and never released a followup album. In truth, Luke Bell was struggling with severe bipolar disorder in the aftermath of his father’s death. It became hard enough for him to deal with life, let alone continue to pursue a music career. Ever since the death of Luke Bell, folks have been asking about the possibility of new or unreleased music he might have left behind. The collection of songs was assembled with the guidance of Luke’s mother Carol Bell, his sister Jane Bell, and his manager. Along with getting such a treasure trove of Luke Bell music, it’s going to a good cause. All proceeds from the album release will support The Luke Bell Memorial Affordable Counseling Program, a non-profit organization founded by Carol and Jane Bell that supports Big Horn Basin residents  (edited from Saving Country Music review)

 

Willie Nelson
Workin’ Man: Willie Sings Merle  (Sony Legecy)

Willie Nelson pays tribute to his longtime friend Merle Haggard on his latest album Workin’ Man: Willie Sings Merle featuring Willie’s new interpretations of 11 classics penned by Merle Haggard. is the latest in Nelson’s storied history of focusing entire albums on a single songwriter’s or artist’s work. In the last decade alone, he has released albums focusing on songwriters Harlan Howard, Ray Price, George Gershwin and Rodney Crowell, and released two volumes of songs associated with Frank Sinatra. The album announcement comes on the heels of the premiere of Highway 99: A Double Album, the career-spanning documentary on the life and career of Merle Haggard directed by Ethan Hawke which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival last weekend and featured Nelson as a prominent interview subject.  (edited from Music Row review)

 

Also new this week…

Tyler Austin Baker – Better Parts EP  (independent)
Steve Howell & Fats Kaplin – Know You From Old  (Out of the Past Music)
Terry Klein – Hill County Folk Music  (independent)  +
The Lucky Losers – Arrival  (MoMojo Records)
Mavis Staples – Sad and Beautiful World  (Anti- Records)  +
Miss Emily – The Medicine  (Gypsy Soul Records)

Coming out soon …  Colter Wall, Orville Peck, Afton Wolfe, Vickie Vaughn, The Infamous Stringdusters, Natalie Del Carmen, Keegan McInroe, Lucinda Williams, Sammy Brue, Emily Scott Robinson and more!

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Americana Music Releases for Oct. 31st

Posted on October 30, 2025 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for October 31st, 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.

 

Greensky Bluegrass
XXV  (Big Blue Zoo Records)

The members of what would eventually become Greensky Bluegrass played their first show together. In the quarter century since, the quintet has become internationally known for their musically intricate shows, including 20 appearances at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. To celebrate their anniversary, the band assembled a baker’s dozen of their favorite songs, along with 10 of their best musical pals, all appearing on XXV, a career retrospective that shares the spotlight with some of the best pickers alive. Guests on the album include Sam Bush, Lindsay Lou, Billy Strings, Holly Bowling, Nathaniel Rateliff, Jennifer Hartswick, Natalie Cressman, Jason Hann, Aoife O’Donovan and Ivan Neville.  (edited from Americana Highways review)

Jeremy Pinnell
Decades  (SofaBurn Records)

Merle Haggard. Concrete Blonde. Tom Petty. AC/DC. Those artists were on repeat, mixing with the gospel hymns he sang in church, influencing the ever-evolving songwriting that would eventually take him far beyond Kentucky. Four albums later, Pinnell digs deep into those hook-heavy beginnings with Decades. It’s the most melodic album of his acclaimed career, produced by Shooter Jennings and influenced by the radio-friendly choruses he heard as a teenager. “I love hooks,” Pinnell says unapologetically. “I love big, melodic songs that talk about serious things. That’s what I wanted to do with Decades: share intimate observations about myself and others in a hooky, positive way. I wanted it to be personal, but I also wanted it to be fun.”  (from Bandcamp bio)

 

Also new this week…

Eric Bolander – Old Tattoo (independent)
Julien Foster – Ghosts of Honkytonks Past  (independent)  +
The Mammals – Touch Grass Vol. 1 & Vol. 2   (Humble Abode Music)  +
Cory Morrow – The Letting Go  (Write On Records)
Alexa Rose – Atmosphere  (independent)
Secret Emchy Society – Queen of Assholes  (Yay! Agenda Records)
Nick Shoulders – Refugia Blues  (independent)
Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives – Space Junk  (Snakefarm Music Group)  +
Kurt Lee Wheeler – Lathemtown  (Lathemtown Poets Society Records & Tapes)
Vi Wickam – The Thanksgiving Album  (independent)

 

 

Coming out soon … Willie Nelson, Terry Klein, Luke Bell, Colter Wall, Miss Emily, The Lucky Losers, Orville Peck, Afton Wolfe, The Infamous Stringdusters, Keegan McInroe, Lucinda Williams and more!

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Americana Music Releases for Oct. 24th

Posted on October 23, 2025 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for October 24th, 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.

 

Brandi Carlile
Returning to Myself  (Lost Highway/Interscope Records)

There are times on Brandi Carlile’s new album, Returning to Myself, where she is comfortably easing into the material, and other times where one can almost sense the challenges of new sounds and the influence of three different producers. Unlike previous Carlile albums, keyboards, synths, and effects are present. Carlile has long been inspired by Emmylou Harris’s Wrecking Ball, a strong singer prevailing against an entirely new musical backdrop. The theme of the album, as suggested by the title, is fighting transitions. The well-decorated singer-songwriter is well past the point of trying to prove anything. Yet, it’s refreshing to see Carlile embracing new approaches. And, of course, it’s beautifully and articulately rendered.  (edited from Glide Magazine review)

Joshua Hedley
No Hat  (New West Records)

This album is my pièce de resistance,” says Joshua Hedley of All Hat, his lively new collection of Western Swing tunes. “It’s all been building up to this moment. I feel like I’m making music I love more than any other style.” Produced by Ray Benson of Asleep at the Wheel—Hedley’s hero since childhood—the album brims with excitement, wit, and verve, as Hedley expertly navigates the tricky dance rhythms of this jazzy style of twang. It’s a sharp left turn in a career defined by sharp left turns. All Hat doesn’t try to update the style, because Hedley understands that it doesn’t need any kind of modernizing. It can sound as immediate and urgent and just plain fun now as it ever did. And he hopes folks will get up and dance. (from press release)

 

Also new this week…

Don Arbor – Hope Is Hard To Kill  (independent)
Sam Burchfield – Nature Speaks  (Cloverdale Records) 
Damn Tall Buildings – The Universe Is Hungry  (independent)
Ed Dupas – Codename California  (independent)
Jonny Fritz – Debbie Downers  (Gar Hole Records)
Dave Keyes – Two Trains  (MoMojo Records)
Joelton Mayfield – Crowd Pleaser  (Bloodshot Records)
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Night After Night EP  (NGDB Records)
Jason Sinay – The Mountain  (Next Revolution Records)

 

Coming out soon … Willie Nelson, Terry Klein, Miss Emily, The Lucky Losers, Melissa Carper and more!

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Americana Music Releases for Oct. 17th

Posted on October 16, 2025 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for October 17th, 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.

Alison Brown & Steve Martin
Safe, Sensible, & Sane  (Compass Records)

The debut collaborative album from Alison Brown and Steve Martin, Safe, Sensible and Sane, is a collection inspired by a shared fascination with the unique beauty of the banjo. After achieving a No. 1 hit with the first tune they ever wrote together (“Foggy Morning Breaking,” from Brown’s 2023 LP On Banjo), the two  musicians started dreaming up a batch of banjo-centered songs built on Brown’s daringly innovative melodies and Martin’s quirky yet profoundly tender lyrics. They are joined on the project by numerous musical luminaries, including Jackson Browne, Jason Mraz, Indigo Girls, Aoife O’Donovan, Vince Gill, Tim O’Brien, Della Mae, and others.

Todd Snider
High, Lonesome and Then Some.  (Aimless Records)

At 57, Snider is still chasing something, though maybe not the same things he used to. In recent years, spinal stenosis has sidelined him, forcing him off the road and into an uneasy truce with pain. He’s spoken frankly about the condition—how it “doesn’t get better, just worse,” how he’s learning to walk again, how doctors and chiropractors keep him moving. High Lonesome and Then Some is the sound of a man who’s been to the brink, looked around, and decided to laugh rather than moan. It’s also the sound of a survivor who knows how easily the line between holding on and letting go can disappear. Throughout the record, Snider’s writing remains sharp, his phrasing elastic, his humor essential. He’s still the same guy who once called himself “a stoner with a notebook,” but the notebook’s heavier now. “Recently,” Snider says, “I heard someone say, ‘If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.’ So I tried it, and so far so good.” Maybe so—but what he’s really paying attention to here is life itself: the absurd, the tender, the fleeting. (edited from Americana Highway review)

 

Also new this week…

Blaine Bailey – Indian Country   (independent)
Mike Hollon – Irving Park  (Mo’s Records)
Jim Keller – End of the World  (Continental Record Services)  +
AJ Lee & Blue Summit – Cover to Cover V1  (Signature Sounds Recordings)
Rosy Nolan – Main Attraction (independent)
William Prince – Further From the Country  (Six Shooter Records)  +
Ruen Brothers – Awooo  (Yep Roc Records)
Bill Scorzari – Sidereal Days (Day 1)  (independent)  +
Joshua Ray Walker – Stuff  (East Dallas Records)

 

Coming out soon … Ed Dupas, Joshua Hedley,  Brandi Carlile, Bernie Leadon, Willie Nelson, Miss Emily, and more!

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Bill Frater

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Americana Music Releases for Oct. 10th

Posted on October 8, 2025 by

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!

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Americana Music Releases for Oct. 3rd

Posted on October 2, 2025 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for October 3rd, 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.

 

Waylon Jennings
Songbird  (Son of Jessi Records)

The first of three previously unheard albums by the legendary star, Songbird features recordings produced between 1973 and 1984 in various studios by Waylon and his longtime drummer Richie Albright, featuring members of his indelible backing band, The Waylors, including renowned pedal steel guitarist Ralph Mooney and more. Waylon’s son, producer Shooter Jennings, began sorting through hundreds of his father’s personal studio recordings and soon realized there was more than enough gold in his father’s vast musical archive to create not just one, but three new albums more than two decades after his untimely passing in 2002. “This is the first of three gifts from me to you: the fans that have kept my father’s voice, songs and legacy alive all these years. The next few years are going to be full of some of the most exciting musical moments that the world never knew they were going to hear, Shooter says, I hope that these records bring the kind of joy to you that they have brought me. This project has given me an entirely new chapter in my relationship with my father and working on this music has brought a whole new understanding about how, when and why my dad made music.”  (edited from Music Row review)

 

Brennen Leigh
Don’t You Ever Give Up On Love  (Signature Sounds Recordings)

Brennen Leigh is one of the most preeminent country and Western singers of our era, a spectacular songwriter, and a skilled guitar player to boot, even if our era has been slow to awaken to these unequivocal truths. Those that have arisen from the stupor of mainstream country radio though, they know all the superlatives placed Brennen Leigh’s feet aren’t slipping into hyperbole. Produced by steel guitar extraordinaire Kevin Skrla, this to be a sincere, honest, and pure expression of classic country, uncorrupted by commercial interests or trend chasing. “I recorded a country and Western album. I know that’s shocking,” Brennen says. “But if you are into things like heavy steel guitar, good stories, some crying and sadness and heartache, I think this might be the kind of record for you. I made it down in Texas at Wolf Island Recording Company, and I got the best people I could to play on it. I think if you’re into C&W, that’s your jam, I have a feeling you might like it.” Leigh embodies classic country that speaks to the heart. (edited from Saving Country Music review)

 

Also new this week…

Colby Acuff – Enjoy The Ride  (independent) +
Nicki Bluhm – Rancho Deluxe  (Little Sur Records)  +
Sam Burchfield – I Wanna Be Close  (Cloverdale Records)
Caitlin Canty – Night Owl Envies the Mourning Dove  (Tone Tree Music)
John Gorka – unentitled  (Red House Records) +
Joselyn & Don – Lost & Found Highway  (independent)
Ole 60 – Smokestack Town  (Three Twenty Four Records)

 

Coming out soon … Paul Burch, Maygen & The Birdwatcher, Rhett Miller, Alison Brown & Steve Martin, Ed Dupas, Joshua Hedley, Jim Keller, Todd Snider, William Prince, Joshua Ray Walker, Brandi Carlile, Bernie Leadon, Willie Nelson, Miss Emily, and more!

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Americana Music Releases for Sept. 26th

Posted on September 25, 2025 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for September 26th, 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.

 

Clover County
Finer Things  (Undercover Lover Records)

This artist’s debut album is a folk-Americana record blending country twang with modern observations on love and heartbreak, creating a “bootgaze” sound described as a coming-of-age soundtrack. The album, produced by Carrie K, aims to honor the artist’s own experiences of girlhood and features tongue-in-cheek humor alongside serious reflections. The album is a coming-of-age record focusing on experiences of girlhood, modern love, and the ephemera of past relationships, like a “shoebox full of old love letters”. 

 

Roșie Flores & the Talismen
Impossible Frontiers  (Mule Kick Records)

Rosie Flores, triple-threat Texas musician, has never allowed the challenge of navigating the male-centric worlds of rock and country music slow her down. In fact, she often drew upon those challenges as source material in sharply observed songs she not only wrote and sang with authority and passion, but also brought to life musically as a widely respected lead guitarist in a string of notable bands. With a voice lit up like neon and a guitar slinging style that bridges rockabilly, country, and cosmic Americana, Rosie’s new record delivers a fresh, vibrant sound while honoring the vintage soul of the music that made you fall in love with her in the first place.  (from press release)

 

Amanda Shires
Nobody’s Girl  (ATO Records)

The last twenty or so months haven’t been easy for Amanda Shires. The Nashville singer, songwriter filed for divorce from her husband of ten years, Jason Isbell, in December 2023 and finalized it this March. During that period, she lost her grandfather and then, in May of this year, her father passed away. All of that emotional trauma became fuel for the honest, sexy, and restorative songwriting that engulfs Shires’ new record. In thirteen chapters, Shires’ account of her marriage’s disintegration is swept up by fits of anger, self-doubt, defiance, and, eventually, rebirth. The material is sensitive but naked and unwavering, pulled from some thirty songs written during the last two years. Nobody’s Girl is not only her’ greatest effort to date, but it’s one of the year’s most emotional releases. (edited from Paste Magazine review)

 

Also new this week…

Dallas Burrow – The Way The West Was Won  (Forty Below Records)  +
Meghan Clarisse – Shadows of a Ghost Town  (Howlin’ Dog Records)
The Far West – Everything We Thought We Wanted  (Blackbird Record Label)
Ramona and the Holy Smokes – Ramona and the Holy Smokes  (independent)
Jeff Tweedy – Twilight Override  (dBpm Records)
Adam Wright – Nature Of Necessity  Carnival Recording Company)

 

 

Coming out soon … Maygen & The Birdwatcher, Alison Brown & Steve Martin, Ed Dupas, Joshua Hedley, Brennen Leigh, Rhett Miller, Jim Keller, Todd Snider, William Prince, Joshua Ray Walker, Brandi Carlile, Bernie Leadon, Willie Nelson, Miss Emily, Todd Snider and more!

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Americana Music Releases for Sept. 19th

Posted on September 18, 2025 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for September 19th, 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.

Otis Gibbs
The Trust of Crows  (Wanamaker Recording Company)

Otis Gibbs is a songwriter, storyteller, painter, photographer, and planter of 7,176 trees. He once wrestled a bear and lost. He’s been called “the best unknown songwriter in music today,” but if you ask him, he’ll just say he’s a folksinger. This deeply personal project reflects Otis’ reverence for history, lived experience, and the characters who shaped American roots music from the ground up. He continues to shine a light on the forgotten people, places, and the unvarnished beauty of everyday life. “Gibbs’ songwriting is deeply personal and profound. It’s plain to see Otis Gibbs is a man you should give a damn about.”  (from Rolling Stone)

 

Also new this week…

Briscoe – Heat Of July (ATO Records)
Cole Chaney – In the Shadow of the Mountain  (Ridgeline Records )  +
Elexa Dawson – Stay Put  (Moon Flower Songs)
Dylan Earl – Level-Headed Even Smile  (Gar Hole Records)
Lost Post – All We Leave Is Dust  (Missing Mail Records)
Jon Nolan & Good Co. – Slow Cooker  (Strolling Bones Records)
The Onlies – You Climb The Mountain  (independent)
Bones Owens – Best Western  (Black Ranch Records) +
The Pink Stones – Thank the Lord… it’s The Pink Stones  (Normaltown Records) +
The Third Mind – Right Now!  (Yep Roc Records) +
Kristina Train – County Line  (Blue Elan Records)
Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia – Help Yourself  (Gulf Coast Records)

 

Coming out soon … Dallas Burrow, Jeff Tweedy, Ramona and the Holy Smokes, Maygen & The Birdwatcher, Alison Brown & Steve Martin, Clover County, Amanda Shires, Ed Dupas, Brennen Leigh, Rhett Miller, Joshua Ray Walker, Bernie Leadon, Todd Snider and more!

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Americana Music Releases for Sept. 12th

Posted on September 12, 2025 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for September 12th, 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 Brothers Comatose
Golden Grass  (Swamp Jam Records)

The Brothers Comatose didn’t set out to coin a new genre. To be honest, it was a bit of an accident. “My brother, Alex, and I have a lot of respect for bluegrass,” explains guitarist/singer Ben Morrison, “but it was never in our blood. We were raised on California rock and folk and country music, so when we got our hands on some traditional acoustic instruments growing up, that’s just the energy and the attitude we naturally channeled. A fan started calling our sound Golden Grass, and the phrase just felt right.”  “The Golden Grass sound is a little more laidback than high and lonesome,” Morrison explains. “It’s more relaxed than it is refined. It’s got all sorts of natural imagery, from the desert to the ocean to the redwood forests, but at its heart, it’s a campfire jam on the beach where anyone can strum a few chords and join in. The more the merrier. Music has always been rooted in friendship and community for us,” Morrison reflects. “Growing up, our parents used to host parties where all these local musicians would sit around the living room singing and playing together. Somebody left their banjo behind one night, and that’s how Alex and I got started. The rest is history.”

 

Shawn Camp
The Ghost of Sis Draper (Truly Handmade Records)

Shawn Camp’s latest release was largely co-written with the late, great Guy Clark, is a remarkable work of story and song. Even without the link to Clark, the songs weave together a fascinating narrative of Sis Draper, a legendary Arkansas fiddler from Camp’s childhood. The album is a narrative-driven concept piece, with songs that are tied together by recurring characters, themes, and elements of old-time fiddle tunes. The songs are tied together by recurring characters and themes, immersing the listener in a world where a fiddle-wielding woman named Sis is both hero and mystery. After a long career of songwriting and performing, the album is a crowning achievement for Camp, delivering on the promise of his songwriting talent and deep roots in traditional country and bluegrass.

 

Also new this week…

Jack Blocker – The Land On Most High  (Elbow Grease Records)
Danny Burns – Southern Sky  (Bonfire Recording Co.) +
Paul Cebar – Paul Cebar  (StorySound Records)
Evan Charles – Echoes At Dawn  (Mr Pink Records) +
KP Hawthorn – Til The Glitter End  (Mule Kick Records)
Nicholas Jamerson – The Narrow Way  (Cloverdale Records) +
Ruston Kelly – Pale, Through the Window  (Rounder Records)
Meredith Moon – From Here To The Sea  (Compass Records)  +
Petunia And The Vipers – Callin’ Me Back  (independent)
Josh Ritter – I Believe in You, My Honeydew  (Pytheas Recordings) +
West Texas Exiles – 8000 Days  (Floating Mesa Records) +
Dar Williams – Hummingbird Highway  (Righteous Babe Records)

 

Coming out soon … Dallas Burrow, Jeff Tweedy, Otis Gibbs, Dylan Earl, The Onlies, The Third Mind, Ramona and the Holy Smokes, Maygen & The Birdwatcher, Alison Brown & Steve Martin, Clover County, Amanda Shires, Brennen Leigh, Rhett Miller, Bernie Leadon, Todd Snider and more!

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Bill Frater

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