Coming out early in 2025 …  Ringo Starr, Drew and Ellie Holcomb, Paul Thorn, Nefesh Mountain, Patterson Hood, The Devil Makes Three, The War and Treaty and more! for best music and I’ll post some here. Happy holidays and here’s to a very happy new year! Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Caleb Klauder & Reeb Wilms – Hayes & the Heathens – Kelly Wills, Brennen Leigh, Melissa Carper – Can’t Steal My Fire: The Songs of David Olney ..read more

Coming out soon … Lucinda Williams, Nick Gusman & The Coyotes, Ringo Starr, Drew and Ellie Holcomb, Paul Thorn, Patterson Hood, The Devil Makes Three and more! Jagged Valance: Winter Songs by Other People ..read more

Coming out soon …  Ringo Starr, Drew and Ellie Holcomb, Paul Thorn, Nefesh Mountain, Patterson Hood, The Devil Makes Three, The War and Treaty and more! Lucinda Williams Sings The Beatles From Abbey Road that would focus on the songs of the Beatles. In early 2024, she and her band traveled to England to record the album at Abbey Road studios, becoming the first artist ever to go into the studios to record Beatles’ songs. Williams covers a wide range of the Fab Four’s storied catalog spanning from early hits like “Can’t Buy Me Love” to later gems like “Let It Be.” The album opens with a st ..read more

Coming out soon … The Milk Carton Kids, Lucinda Williams, Ringo Starr and more! Your Pal Slim: Songs of James Hand Ramona and the Holy Smokes – Letitia VanSant & David McKindley-Ward ..read more

Coming out soon … Caleb Klauder & Reeb Wilms, Dwight Yoakam, Dolly Parton continues to provide ample amounts of their mountain-ready bluegrass, while also pushing deeper lyrically, serving the song as well as the jam ..read more

Coming out soon …  Evie Ladin, Lucinda Williams, Ringo Starr and more! includes 11 originals and three artfully made covers. It’s a showcase of his unique rock-country style and his songwriting ability. Written over the course of the last three years and self-produced, it’s a great showcase for everything that’s made him beloved. Yoakam has hung his hat on the L.A. cowpunk style of music for a long time, and he continues in that vein here. Rather than attempt to keep up with the ever-changing nature of popular country music, Dwight Yoakam does what makes him happy on  . The record fe ..read more

Coming out soon … Jeremie Albino, Paul Kelly, Yonder Mountain Stringband, Caleb Klauder & Reeb Wilms, Willie Nelson, Jamey Johnson, Dwight Yoakam, Lucinda Williams and more! , and I wore those records out. “Columbus Stockade Blues” was one of the first songs I learned to play on the guitar. As the album title  suggests, I have always gravitated toward dark songs, and probably the darkest one on this album is “Saint James Hospital,” but no matter how forlorn it is, it somehow makes me feel good to sing it. (from ..read more

Coming out soon … Yonder Mountain Stringband, Caleb Klauder & Reeb Wilms, Jamey Johnson, Dwight Yoakam, Dolly Parton . It was produced by his 34-year-old son Micah, an L.A.-based, all-disciplines artist whose musical works, created under the guise of Particle Kid, are built on traditional instruments but also feature found sounds, reversed guitar recordings, and laptop blips and bleeps. They get classified as “experimental future-folk,” as apt a description as any for the ethereal, atmospheric  , which is a clear sonic outlier in his dad’s catalog.   (Temple Of Leaves R ..read more

Coming out soon … Yonder Mountain Stringband, Caleb Klauder & Reeb Wilms, Willie Nelson, Jamey Johnson, Amythyst Kiah, Dwight Yoakam, Lucinda Williams and more! offers only sparing references to bluegrass’ archival origins. On the other hand, it points the way to possible future potential, breaking the barriers while bringing other audiences into the fold. And if that’s what it takes to spread the word, it can certainly prove to be positive.  (edited from Can’t Steal My Fire: The Songs of David Olney Andrew Bird & Madison Cunningham –  Tonight I’ll Go Down Swingin’: A Tribute ..read more

Coming out soon … Twisted Pine, Amy Speace, Eric Bibb, Wyatt Flores, Benjamin Tod, Yonder Mountain Stringband, Caleb Klauder & Reeb Wilms, Willie Nelson, Jamey Johnson, Amythyst Kiah, Dwight Yoakam, and more! Charles Latham and the Borrowed Band – Charles Latham and the Borrowed Band II Teddy And The Rough Riders ..read more