Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for May 10th, 2024. 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.
Kelsey Waldon
There’s Always a Song (Oh Boy Records)
“I have been inspired by all kinds of music spanning many genres, but there is something about old time songs & bluegrass music that resonates so deeply within me. It’s like, I kind of was able to find my voice through these voices, you know?” Waldon says. “A part of me doing this album is expressing so much gratitude for the music that I love, for music that has meant a lot to me and helped me.” Across four albums full of both “heavy twang and spitfire pedal steel” and “coffeehouse confessionals” (Rolling Stone), she’s brought listeners into her world and shared her own experiences and perspectives. Her new project, There’s Always a Song, however, is about the “singular voices” that shaped her into the artist she is today. “These songs are deep. They were here long before me, and they will be here long after I’m gone, after any of us are here. They will survive the test of time,” Waldon says. “It’s like they live in some kind of universe that just survives forever. These songs know the secrets to life.” Guests include Margo Price, Amanda Shires, S.G. Goodman and more. (from label’s press release)
Also new this week…
Anya Hinkle – Oceana (Red Parlor Records)
Pokey LaFarge – Rhumba Country (New West Records)
Grant Langston – aLAbama (independent)
MorningBird – Echoes In The Meadow (MorningBird Records)
John Shipe – Water This Dark (Involushun Records)
Coming out soon … Little Feat, Tim Easton, Curtis McMurtry, Ruth Moody, David Myles, Anna Tivel, Kaia Kater, Richard Thompson, Kim Richey, Jim Keller, Willie Nelson, Ana Egge, Swamp Dogg, Yarn, Jesse Dayton, Silverada, The Mavericks, Jesse Daniel, Mellissa Carper and more!