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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Bill Frater

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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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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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