Americana Music Releases for Sept. 5th

Posted on September 5, 2025 by

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

 

Robbie Fulks
Now Then  (Compass Records)

Far from being a follower of trends, Robbie Fulks is an unconventional artist who sets out to challenge and surprise his audience. He featured several Michael Jackson hits on his 2010 album Happy, and he’s even collaborated with British post-punk band The Mekons. His new release Now Then opens with a spoken word line – “It’s time to make a change” – and he proceeds to look at life with a mixture of reflection, humour and anger, as he himself describes it. Though still only 62, his perspective is to consider that the time behind is greater than what lies ahead. Now Then is the first album consisting of songs written by Fulks since his move to California. Finding the local musicians to be very receptive, he has enrolled some of the finest names: Duke Levine and Kevin Barry on guitar and lap steel, Wayne Horvitz on keys, Jenny Scheinman on fiddle and Pete Thomas on drums are all featured here. Meanwhile, Fulks himself is no slouch on guitar, banjo and requinto. (edited from AmericanaUK review)

Forrest VanTuyl
Old Trails  (Fossil Records)

Great writers like Cormac McCarthy have built their careers on the myth of the American West, the stories and vernacular of the American cowboy. For songwriter Forrest VanTuyl, McCarthy was his introduction to the poetry of cowboy life. “I read him when I was in my mid twenties,” he says, “and I was like, ‘There we go. That’s what I’m going to do.’” True to his word, Forrest moved to Enterprise, Oregon and took work packing mules and working cattle in this remote outdoor destination. The songs on his new album are inspired by his time over the past ten years on horseback in little known corners of the Pacific Northwest. Forrest currently lives and works in Washington’s interior ranch country with his wife, fellow songwriter Margo Cilker, who co-wrote some of the songs on the album with him. The songs are about hard people that work with land and animals through hard terrain and hard weather. They’re about the emotional and philosophical depth that comes from a deep pride in work and land.  (from press release)

 

Also new this week…

Becky Buller – Songs That Sing Me  (Dark Shadow Recordings)  +
Casual Drifter – Goin’ For Broke  (Wild Game Records)
Hannah Delynn – Trust Fall (Lady Grand Records)
Tyller Gummersall – In The Middle EP  (independent)
Wesley Hanna –  Magnolia  (independent)
Grant-Lee Phillips – In the Hour of Dust  (Yep Roc Records)
Mike Reid & Joe Henry – Life and Time  (Work Songs)  +
Liam St. John – Man Of The North  (Republic Records)
Walter Trout – Sign Of The Times   (Provogue Records)

Coming out soon … Josh Ritter, Dallas Burrow, KP Hawthorn, Jeff Tweedy, Nicholas Jamerson, Otis Gibbs, Dylan Earl, The Onlies, Shawn Camp, The Third Mind, Ramona and the Holy Smokes, Maygen & The Birdwatcher, Alison Brown & Steve Martin, Clover County, Amanda Shires, Ruston Kelly, The Brothers Comatose, Brennen Leigh, Rhett Miller, Bernie Leadon, Todd Snider and more!

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Americana Music Releases for August 29th

Posted on August 28, 2025 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for August 29th, 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.

 

Rodney Crowell
Airline Highway  (New West Records)

The new record reveals Crowell is still the master of diamonds and dirt, as he labeled his seminal 1988 disc. He sees the world through grease-stained glasses that bring out the shine in the quotidian reality. His music has a gritty edge and a poetic sensibility. The album was recorded in Maurice, Louisiana, and several of the tracks concern Crowell’s nostalgic connections to the southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana region where they grew up. As he sings in “Taking Flight”, “We got our education from a backwoods country station / Proof that there’s a world out there came wrapped up in a song.” There’s an edge to the sentimentality based on the poverty, alcoholism, and dangers of the region, but “lower-class” pride is expressed as well. Airline Highway provides evidence of Crowell’s literate craftsmanship as a songwriter. He doesn’t try to sing or play to impress as much as to serve the material. The songs are his master and mistress here.  (edited from Pop Matters review)

 

Margo Price
Hard Headed Woman  (Loma Vista Recordings)

On her last few releases, Margo Price traveled west (Los Angeles, the desert) to find herself, primarily playing in the realm of 70s-tinged pop rock. Now, on her fifth studio album, she successfully returns to her roots, recording her first album in her hometown of Nashville, as Price’s outlaw-accented country sound rings heartfelt and true throughout Hard Headed Woman.  Price realized she just needed a break from everything outside of the bubble of family life and her art. She started spending more time at home, writing songs alone and with her husband, Jeremey Ivey. She started popping up in the dive bars and tiny venues around Nashville where she got her start, sometimes just to play a country cover or two or dance with the crowd. “I’m a songwriter,” Price says. “I’m not somebody who goes out and needs five people to craft a song, and then tack my name on it. That’s never been my style. I have something to say.”  (edited from her bio)

 

Also new this week…

Bonnie & the Mere Mortals – Take Me To The Moon  (First City Artists)
Marshall Crenshaw – From The Hellhole  (Yep Roc Records)
Chandler Dozier – Bakersfield East  (independent)
Max Gomez – Memory Mountain  (Marveltone Records)
The Hens – Hen Sounds (independent)
Tift Merritt – Time And Patience   (One Riot Records)
Caroline Spence – Heart Go Wild  (Tone Tree Music)
Anna Tival – Animal Poem  (Fluff & Gravy Records) 

 

Coming out soon … Josh Ritter, Forrest VanTuyl, Dallas Burrow, Becky Buller, KP Hawthorn, Jeff Tweedy, Nicholas Jamerson, Otis Gibbs, Dylan Earl, The Onlies, Robbie Fulks, The Third Mind, Ramona and the Holy Smokes, Maygen & The Birdwatcher, Alison Brown & Steve Martin, Clover County, Amanda Shires, Ruston Kelly, The Brothers Comatose, Brennen Leigh, Rhett Miller, Bernie Leadon and more!

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Americana Music Releases for August 22nd

Posted on August 21, 2025 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for August 22nd, 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.

 

East Nash Grass
All God’s Children  (Mountain Fever Records)

After winning the 2024 IBMA Award for New Artist of the Year, touring internationally, and even making their co-headline debut at the Ryman Auditorium, All God’s Children feels like a joyful tribute to the many ways life gets good – and to bluegrass’s many salt-of-the-earth styles. With skillful traditional picking and a focus on diversity (both thematically and in the band’s tendency to share the spotlight at center stage), East Nash Grass deliver a truly spirit-satisfying album. Just don’t let its name fool you – this ain’t gospel. “I enjoyed that it’s a little bit of a misnomer,” says guitarist James Kee, with a touch of mischief in his voice. “We are a fairly traditional bluegrass band and we do some gospel music, but … anybody who knows us would know pretty immediately, it’s not a gospel album. I kind of liked that it would make somebody who doesn’t know our music take a second look.” (edited from Bluegrass Situation review)

 

Kathleen Edwards
Billionaire  (Dualtone Music Group)

In 2002, the roots music world was abuzz when singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards released her debut, Failer.  Granted, Edwards spent a decade away from music, but nothing she has released since has measured up to that album. Billionaire has just changed that. Her acute lyrical bent, honesty, and flair for hooks have returned. She is the sole songwriter on eight of these ten and the co-writer on two others. So, the words are all essentially hers. The title may be viewed somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Billionaires are typically scorned these days, but Edwards says we should all want to be accumulators of joy, life’s rich experiences, and great friendships. It’s the idea of being rich in a non-monetary sense. Yet, the themes of these songs do touch on politics, bitter memories, and breakups, subjects often found in singer-songwriter fare. Yet, Edwards is a compelling, oft-witty storyteller and adept painter of characters. We can celebrate that the Kathleen Edwards we fell in love with two decades ago is back, and she sounds even better than we might recall.   (edited from Glide Magazine review)

 

Also new this week…

Asleep At The Wheel – Riding High In Texas  (Bismeaux Records)  +
Danny Burns – Southern Sky  (Bonfire Recording Co.)
Jesse Dayton, Ian Moore & Johnny Moeller – Texas Headhunters  (Hardcharger Records)
Daniel Donato – Horizons  (Retrace Music)  +
Pete Droge – Fade Away Blue   (Puzzle Tree Records)
Kristen Ford – Pinto  (Righteous Babe Records)
Jeremy Garrett – Storm Mountain  (Americana Vibes)
Dean Johnson – I Hope We Can Still Be Friends  (Saddle Creek Records)  +
Will Hoge – Sweet Misery  (independent)
Case Oats – Last Missouri Exit  (Merge Records)
Tommy Prine – Love Circle  (Oh Boy Records)
Jesse Welles – Devil’s Den  (independent)

 

Coming out soon … Rodney Crowell, Margo Price, Anna Tival, Tift Merritt, Josh Ritter, Max Gomez, Forrest VanTuyl, Dallas Burrow, Becky Buller, KP Hawthorn, Jeff Tweedy, Nicholas Jamerson, Otis Gibbs, Dylan Earl, The Onlies, Robbie Fulks, The Third Mind, Maygen & The Birdwatcher, Clover County, Ruston Kelly, The Brothers Comatose, Brennen Leigh, Rhett Miller, Bernie Leadon and more!

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Americana Music Releases for August 15th

Posted on August 14, 2025 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for August 15th, 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.

 

Molly Tuttle
So Long Little Miss Sunshine  (Nonesuch Records)

Recorded in Nashville with producer Jay Joyce, the fifth full album from the singer, songwriter, and virtuoso guitarist marks a sonic departure from her recent work and features twelve new songs—eleven originals and one cover. Tuttle says, “I’ve been wanting to make this record for such a long time. Part of me was scared to do such a big departure, and that went into the album title.” Eventually she decided, “‘You know what? I’m just not going to care what people think. I’m going to do what I want.’” On her new album, a hybrid of pop, country, rock, and flat-picking, plus one murder ballad, Tuttle goes to a whole new place.  (from label’s press release)

 

Also new this week…

John Donovan – Northern Moon   (independent)
Will Payne Harrison – Still Feelin’ the Payne  (independent)
The Pleasures – Enemy Of My Enemy  (independent)
Jubal Lee Young – Squirrels  (independent)

 

Coming out soon … Rodney Crowell, Kathleen Edwards, Margo Price, Anna Tival, Tift Merritt, Josh Ritter, Dallas Burrow, Asleep at the Wheel, Jeff Tweedy, Max Gomez, Forrest VanTuyl, Nicholas Jamerson, The Onlies, Robbie Fulks, The Third Mind, Maygen & The Birdwatcher, Clover County, Ruston Kelly, The Brothers Comatose, Brennen Leigh, Rhett Miller, Bernie Leadon and more!

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Bill Frater

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Americana Music Releases for August 8th

Posted on August 7, 2025 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for August 8th, 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.

 

Hayes Carll
We’re Only Human  (Hwy 87 Records)

Like John Prine and Jerry Jeff Walker before him, Hayes Carll has made a career out of blending mellow, infectious acoustic folk with sharp, often humorous portraits of everyday people. On this, his 10th studio album, one of the first things you’ll notice is that Carll has turned that same wit inward, making himself the subject of his own storytelling. “The record was inspired by a desire to start listening to my inner voice rather than running from it. The songs are my way of solidifying the lessons I’ve learned, not because I have all the answers, but because I need the reminder that we’re all only human.” And he doesn’t go easy on himself, aiming his humorous takes on his own insecurities and failings, but also learning when to be appreciative when he can.  (edited from Glide Magazine review)

 

Patrick Sweany
Baby, It’s Late (Nine Mile Records)

Patrick Sweany has never been a one-lane artist. For over two decades, the Ohio-born, East Nashville–based bluesman has slipped between grooves with the ease of a needle on vinyl, whether it be blues, soul, funk, country, or classic rock. And on Baby, It’s Late, his first self-produced album, he brings all of it home. here’s a certain weathered wisdom running through the songs, a sense of someone who’s stared down the silence of being alone and come out the other side ready to shake the dust off with some magic. This record for those who crave the dusty vinyl warmth of old soul records, the immediacy of barroom blues, or the timeless cool of a good story told right. (edited from New Releases Now review)

 

Also new this week…

Beware Wolves – Beware Wolves, Vol. 9  (Aqualamb Records)
Blockhouse Valley – It’s Alright (independent)
The California Honeydrops – Redwood Highway  (independent)
Charley Crockett – Dollar A Day (Lone Star Rider/Island Records)  +
Kelly’s Lot – Late Bloomer  (independent)
Ashley Monroe – Tennessee Lightning   (Mountainrose Sparrow)  +
Tray Wellington – Spatial Awareness  (independent)

 

Coming out soon … Rodney Crowell, Molly Tuttle, Jubal Lee Young, Kathleen Edwards, Margo Price, Josh Ritter, Dallas Burrow, Asleep at the Wheel, Jeff Tweedy, Forrest VanTuyl, Nicholas Jamerson, The Onlies, Robbie Fulks, The Third Mind, Maygen & The Birdwatcher, Clover County, Brennen Leigh, Rhett Miller and more!

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Americana Music Releases for August 1st

Posted on July 31, 2025 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for August 1st, 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.

 

Sunny Sweeney
Rhinestone Requiem  (Aunt Daddy Records)

Her name might be Sunny, but her music is filled with accounts of broken hearts and broken homes like the best of country music. It’s music for those whose lives didn’t exactly turn out as planned, which basically accounts for most all of us. But at least we’ve got great country music from artists like Sunny Sweeney to get us through. If you’re wondering just what kind of country music you might get from it, Sunny leaves nothing to speculation, this will be a Country record. “This is the first time I’ve made a record when I don’t have relationship problems,” Sweeney says. “I’ve lived some life. Not all of it’s been pretty. But I feel like that’s what makes really good music.” Sweeney didn’t solicit some swanky producer for this one. Instead she co-produced it with her guitar player and right hand man Harley Husbands. Sunny continues. “For me, it’s the stories and hooks … I really wanted this album to be a mixture of all the old styles of country music: Jerry Lee Lewis, Waylon Jennings, Loretta Lynn. I make music for myself and hope other people like it.”  (edited from Saving Country Music review)

 

The Wood Brothers
Puff of Smoke  (Honey Jar Records)

Listening, in its truest sense, is a dying art, but it’s one The Wood Brothers are committed to practicing and upholding as a virtue. In fact, it’s the secret to the mélange of joyful sounds and musical styles on Puff of Smoke, the trio’s ninth album. Indeed, through the near two decades spent together in the studio and on the road, they have honed their interconnected, singular voice to telepathic proportions. On this latest studio effort, a true collaborative effort between its three members, the songs weave a medley of musical ideas — ranging from Latin-inflected acoustic guitar lines, to driving post-jazz rhythms, to infectious sing along choruses — resulting in a cohesive, joyful whole. All with The Wood Brothers’ trademark turns of phrase and lighthearted, but subversively profound wisdom at the core. Puff of Smoke is a reminder that life is both precious and precarious, and The Wood Brothers invite you to enjoy the ride.  (edited from their Bandcamp page bio.

 

Also new this week…

Grain Thief – House of the Dog  (Plow Man Records)
Luke Pelletier – American Cheese  (Soggy Anvil Records)
Rachael & Vilray – West of Broadway  (Concord Jazz)
Travis Roberts – Rebel Rose  (New West Records)
Wild Mountain Mystics – Fire and Honey  (Blackbird Record Label)

 

Coming out soon … Hayes Carll, Charley Crockett, Rodney Crowell, Molly Tuttle, Patrick Sweany, Kathleen Edwards, Margo Price, Josh Ritter, Dallas Burrow, Asleep at the Wheel, Jeff Tweedy, The Third Mind, Clover County and more!

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Bill Frater

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Americana Music Releases for July 25th

Posted on July 24, 2025 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for July 25th, 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.

 

Tyler Childers
Snipe Hunter  (Hickman Holler Records)

Childers once again proves why he’s one of the most vital and unpredictable voices in modern country with this 13-track album is a bold testament to Childers’ evolution as an artist — one who reveres tradition while constantly redrawing its boundaries. Produced by the legendary Rick Rubin alongside Childers himself and Sylvan Esso’s Nick Sanborn, Snipe Hunter is a masterclass in artistic conviction. The sonic landscape is rich and varied, drawing from the Appalachian roots that launched Childers into the spotlight, while weaving in subtle, unexpected textures that reflect his fearless experimentation. He leans into emotional honesty, layered arrangements, and the kind of storytelling that transcends genre lines. Snipe Hunter isn’t just a new album — it’s a statement. A reaffirmation that Tyler Childers is not only here to stay, but here to lead.  (edited from The Sound Cafe review)

 

Patty Griffin
Crown of Roses  (PGM)

On her 10 albums since that debut, Griffin has pinballed between post-grunge rock and graceful folk, between Spanish balladry and sizzling blues, even duetting with Mavis Staples before cutting a country-gospel wonder in Nashville. As she wrote about civil rights and bigotry, adventure and lust, she continued to examine her difficult childhood. Those family tunes culminate on her new album, with the arresting “Way Up to the Sky,” singing about being the youngest of seven children who rarely made their mother feel valued amid a collapsing marriage in a cash-strapped household held together by Catholicism and convenience. Her mother never heard the song, she died in February at 93. Griffin hopes that her mother’s death and Crown of Roses are the capstone of a nearly two-decade period she calls “the come apart.” It began around 2009, her father died, she and Robert Plant broke up, she got breast cancer, and lost her voice. Recognizing how much was out of her control, she started to loosen up, to laugh a little more at the world. She learned to do more with a smaller voice and to write to the sound of it again, as she had done in the ’90s.
(edited from NY Times review)

 

Also new this week…

Folk Bitch Trio – Now Would Be A Good Time  (Jagjaguwar Records)
The Honeydogs – Algebra for Broken Hearts  (Jullian Records)
Grayson Jenkins – Country Parables  (independent)  +
Cody Jinks – In My Blood  (Late August Records)
Minor Gold – Way to the Sun  (independent)  +
Ben Nichols – In the Heart of the Mountain  (Liberty & Lament Records)

 

Coming out soon … Hayes Carll, Sunny Sweeney, Rodney Crowell, Molly Tuttle, Patrick Sweany, Kathleen Edwards, Margo Price, The Wood Brothers, Josh Ritter, Dallas Burrow, Asleep at the Wheel, Jeff Tweedy, Clover County and more!

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Bill Frater

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Americana Music Releases for July 18th

Posted on July 17, 2025 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for July 18th, 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.

 

BettySoo
If You Never Go Away  (independent)

Raised outside Houston by first-generation Korean immigrant parents, BettySoo grew up listening to the Great American songbook and country radio.  Older sisters led her to the world of singer/songwriters, and nights spent at The Cactus Café and Hole In The Wall turned her on to the legacy of Texas song. Affectionately coined as “The Queen of the Bummer Jams,” her ability to marry melancholia with hyper-immediate melodies is a well-documented gift. Austin’s KUTX calls her music, “beautiful, heart-wrenching songwriting that is also edgy and unwavering.” BettySoo cut a unique path through the broad streaming landscape — and as with everything she does, she approached it in a way that invites authentic connection, encourages compassion, and merits listening. With more new music on the horizon, her path is headed in a bright direction.

 

Mose Wilson
That’s Love  (independent)

The 11-track offering That’s Love marks Wilson’s long-awaited follow-up to his self-titled debut, released four years ago. Like much of his music, the album sits at the crossroads of roots, country and Americana, but it also blends in hints of soul, funk and rock and roll—an eclectic sound that reflects his life’s path and wide-ranging influences. Over the years, Wilson’s songwriting has grown to explore everything from love and heartbreak to mortality, family, nightlife and the quiet moments that define a life. On That’s Love, those themes are especially front and center. The album doesn’t paint love as simple or idealized; instead, it leans into its contradictions, and sits with the beauty and the bruises. (edited from Atwood Magazine review)

 

Also new this week…

Jade Bird – Who Wants To Talk About Love  (Glassnote Records)
The Boneshakers – Live To Be This (Gulf Coast Records)
Dylan Gossett – Westward  (Mercury Records)
Ian Kocourek – Right or Wrong  (independent)
Amy Lashley – Flatland Blossoms (independent)  +
The Last Revel – Gone For Good  (Hassle House Records)
Emily Lubitz – Two Black Horses  (independent)
Phil Madeira – Falcon (Mercyland Records)  +
Cole Quest & The City Pickers – Homegrown  (Jalopy Records)  +

 

 

Coming out soon … Tyler Childers, Cody Jinks, Hayes Carll, Sunny Sweeney, Patty Griffin, Rodney Crowell, Molly Tuttle, Patrick Sweany, Kathleen Edwards, Margo Price, The Wood Brothers, Josh Ritter, Dallas Burrow, Asleep at the Wheel, Jeff Tweedy, Clover County and more!

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Bill Frater

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Americana Music Releases for July 11th

Posted on July 10, 2025 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for July 11th, 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.

 

Ketch Secor
Story The Crow Told Me  (Equal Housing Opportunity Records)

Ketch Secor is a merry ringmaster, passionate professor, modern Beat, and unassuming virtuoso. Secor’s debut solo album, described as a “coming-of-age saga” and a personal reflection on his 25 years in Nashville. With help from girlfriend Molly Tuttle plus Marty Stuart, Old Crow alums Critter Fuqua and Willie Watson. and an inevitable Old Crow influence, Story The Crow Told Me is looking to be a wonderful combination of old and new. “I’ve been in the game a long time,” Secor explains, “I do enjoy looking forward, but old-timey music is about simultaneously looking forward and backward at the same time. That’s why it’s a regressive art.”

 

The Wildmans
Longtime Friend (New West Records)

The Wildmans are a brother sister led band. The tale of this duo’s journey starts early when sister and brother Aila and Eli Wildman were at the mere ages of 5 and 7. The siblings were born and raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, a veritable hotbed of old-time, bluegrass and all ilks of mountain music. As they entered their teens, the siblings branched out to form their own band with a host of different bandmates and Eli sharing equal time on the guitar, eventually recording their first self-titled release and performing at festivals throughout the area.  With their latest record, Longtime Friend, The Wildmans are showcasing their musicianship and honoring their craft while expanding and improvising on a base of traditional American roots music. This is the core of The Wildmans set and sound. (from press release)

 

Also new this week…

The Boxmasters – Pepper Tree Hill  (Keentone Records)
Brent Cobb & The Fixins – Ain’t Rocked in a While  (Ol’ Buddy Records)
Rick Faris – Life’s Parade  (Dark Shadow Recording)
Goldpine – Three (independent)
Graves – Gary Owens Jr.: Super Hits Volume 3  (indie)
Murry Hammond – Trail Songs of the Deep  (Fluff and Gravy Records)
Hilary Hawke – Lift Up This Old World  (Adhyâropa Records)
Maria Muldaur – One Hour Mama: The Blues Of Victoria Spivey  (Nola Blue, Inc.)  +
Tami Neilson – Neon Cowgirl  (Outside Music)  +
Benjamin Dakota Rogers – This Ol’ Way  (Good People Records)
Peter Salett – Dance of the Yellow Leaf  (Dusty Shoes Music)
Tanner Usrey – These Days  (Atlantic Records)  +
Eli West – The Shape of a Sway   (independent)  +

 

Coming out soon …  BettySoo, 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!

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Americana Music Releases for July 4th

Posted on July 3, 2025 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for July 4th, 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 Carrick
The Country Side of Paul Carrack, Vol. 1  (Carrack-UK)

Known for his soulful singing on hits such as “How Long” with Ace, “Tempted” by Squeeze, and “The Living Years” & “Over My Shoulder” by Mike and the Mechanics, Paul Carrick now explores his love of country music. “Growing up I was hungry for any kind of music,” says Carrack, “but I would listen to people like Chet Atkins, Hank Williams, the Everly Brothers, and I particularly loved to hear Ray Charles. Of course, he was predominantly known for his soul and jazz stuff, but he was also a great Country singer.” A paean to the greatest era of Country music, The Country Side of Paul Carrack, Vol. 1 focuses on music from the ‘50s to the ‘70s. Paul and producer Steven Wood selected eight classics from Hank Williams, Ray Charles, George Jones, Hank Snow and others, plus two of Paul’s self-penned songs.

 

Also new this week…

John Jenkins – Restless Hearts  (independent)  +
Stillhouse Junkies – The Ballad of Charlie Avalon  (independent)
Jesse Welles – Pilgrim  (independent)  +

 

Coming out soon … Ketch Secor, The Wildmans, Eli West, Jade Bird, Tyler Childers, Hayes Carll, Phil Madeira, Sunny Sweeney, Patty Griffin, Rodney Crowell, Tanner Usrey, Molly Tuttle, Grain Thief, Kathleen Edwards, Charley Crockett, Margo Price, The Wood Brothers, Josh Ritter, Asleep at the Wheel and more!

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Bill Frater

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