Americana Music Releases for August 28th

Posted on August 27, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for August 28th, 2026. 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 Jayhawks
Sanctuary Park  (SHAM Records)

While you could describe the Jayhawks’ music in simple terms — pop, Americana,  country rock and folk have all applied at one time or another — the truth is that the band’s music is a singular blend of all these styles, and probably others, too. Sanctuary Park is another effective distillation of these styles, and a welcome continuation of the Jayhawks legacy. As the band celebrate their 40th anniversary, Sanctuary Park is notably less adventurous than previous efforts. it’s just as successful, doubling down on the band’s tried-and-true formula of recent years. Lyrics covering a broad range of emotions or concepts, usually supported by  music with a comfortable, melodious exuberance, now carry the day. The band covers love, breaking away, putting one foot in front of the other and helping one another do the same.  (edited from Riff Magazine review)

 

Mountain Grass Unit
Appalachian Smoke  (Dualtone Music Group)

Over the last couple of years, Alabama-based up-and-coming bluegrass band Mountain Grass Unit has really been lighting the bluegrass world on fire, impressing audiences at big festivals, enjoying bigger and bigger opportunities, and generally presenting themselves the future of the genre. However, one thing they’ve been lacking is new music to match their recent evolution and growth, and represent what they do to folks who haven’t seen them on stage. Though Mountain Grass Unit is certainly influenced by jamgrass and psychedelic textures as well, similar to Billy Strings, they also remain steadfastly bluegrass.

 

Billy Strings
So Much For Goodbyes  (Reprise Records)

This is the fifth studio album from Billy Strings, and it’s dedicated to his mother Debra Apostol, who died suddenly in 2025 of a methamphetamine overdose. Produced by T-Bone Burnett, the record is, as you’d expect given the context, a more somber effort than Strings’ sprawling, ambitiously open-hearted 2024 masterpiece Highway Prayers. Where Prayers blew bluegrass up to swallow rock, country, and the rest of the world, So Much for Goodbyes feels like a return to the verities — faith, mother, high lonesomeness. Strings’ restlessness and inventiveness haven’t disappeared; they’ve just been compressed and channeled. His other was a visual artist, and she and Strings had long talked about the possibility of her creating an album cover for him. Strings decided to use one of her pieces as the artwork for So Much for Goodbyes. The image shows a kind of cabinet divided into a three-by-three grid. Collaged images of dishes, statues, flowers, a burger, a hand dangling a pendulum fill most of the niches. In the middle, though, there’s a picture of Strings playing guitar in the woods.  (edited from No Depression review)

 

Also new this week…

Alicia Blue – Country Desire  (Soundly Music) +
Sera Cahoone – I’ve Missed You All These Years  (Sub Pop Records)
Laurelyn Dossett – How Many Moons  (independent)  +
Riley Downing – Landfill Poetry  (Oh Boy Records)
Ruthie Foster – Just Say Yes  (Sun Label Group)
Fruition – Something More  (Bloodshot Records)
Mama’s Broke – Reunion  (Free Dirt Records)  +
Richard Peter Morris – Gratuitous Grace (independent)
Son Volt – Sound Signal Serenades  (Transmit Sound)  +
Tiny Habits – Keepers (Mom+Pop Records)
Brittany Ann Tranbaugh – Lucky Broke Girl (independent)
Two Runner – Porchlight  (Gar Hole Records)  +
Leslie Waugh – Night Bloom  (Smallz Records)
Chasen Wayne & The Honky Tonk Machine – The Diamond Saloon (independent)
The Wilder Blue – Cinco  (Hill Country Music)

 

Coming out soon… Eli Paperboy Reed, Dallas Burrow, Buddy Miller, Pokey LaFarge, Katie Pruitt, AJ Lee & Blue Summit,  Phil Madeira, Pure Grain, Shinyribs, Mr. Sun, Rhiannon Giddens, Margo Cilker, Ian Noe, Laura Cortese, Todd Snider, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Charlie Parr, Willi Carlisle, Kaitlin Butts, Josh Rouse, Mary Gauthier and more!

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Americana Music Releases for August 21st

Posted on August 20, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for August 21st, 2026. 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.

 

Ray Wylie Hubbard
Reel 2 Reel 4 Real  (WylieWorld Music)

One of the most intriguing features of being an 80 year-old singer/songwriter still composing songs is the acquisition of a lifetime of experience for material. He has cranked out over 20 albums of gruff, no-frills, music racking up an impressive list of high-profile fans including Ringo, Willie Nelson, Larkin Poe and more. Hubbard’s approach can be loosely described as a mix of garage, blues, country, and roots rock with nods to the Stones, Neil Young and Bob Seger. Primarily recorded in Austin (with three songs captured the old-school way, on the tape implied by the disc’s title), the two closing selections find the band in Mike Campbell’s LA studio. If this turn out to be his final curtain call, he’s going out in his own honest, grungy, unflinchingly raw style.  (edited from Rock & Blues Muse)


Keb’ Mo’
The Breakdown (Concord Records)

Keb’ Mo’ has been consistently releasing beautiful, well produced records for 30 years.  The Breakdown finds him in a new, more intimate space. This record narrows the spotlight on Keb’ and his) songwriting skills. The artist arrives now with a stripped-down, intimate set of songs with contributions from the Soweto Gospel Choir & the sextet Take 6. The rest is Keb’ Mo’ voice & guitar. This set comes in the wake of Keb Mo’s profound personal challenges. The songs reflect stark & deeply honest themes, but his voice has no scars. Showcasing him as true troubadour.  (edited from Americana Highways review)

 

Also new this week…

Kimmie Bitter – Bittersweet (independent)  +
Cory Branan – You’ll Live  (Blue Elan Records)
Pieta Brown – Dreamin’ Of  (Righteous Babe Records)
Adam Chaffins – Trailer Trash: Doublewide  (Spirit Nashville Recordings)  +
Clay Street Unit – Live from the Road – Vol. 1  (independent)
The Clover Valley Boys – The Clover Valley Boys  (independent)  +
Brandon Flowers – Thrasher  (Island Records)
Ghost Hounds – Justified  (Maple House Records)
Anna Graves – America’s Greatest Burnout  (Rounder Records)
The Kennedys – Smoketree (independent)
Jeff Mamett – Fortunate Son  (independent)
Chris Pierce – Songs Of The Heavy Hearted  (Missing Piece Records)  +
The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys – Welcome to the Club  (Turnberry Records)
Grace Potter – Trespasser  (Mother Road Records)
Stephanie Sammons – Head Noise  (independent)
Christian Parker, Patrick Cleary, Earl Poole Ball – American Cosmic Revival Vol. 2: Miles From Nowhere  (Edgewater Music Group)  +

 

Coming out soon… The Jayhawks, Billy Strings, Ruthie Foster, Mountain Grass Unit, Eli Paperboy Reed, Two Runner, Pokey LaFarge, Dallas Burrow, Admiral Radio, Buddy Miller, Ian Noe, Riley Downing, Katie Pruitt, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Son Volt, Phil Madeira, Pure Grain, Shinyribs, Mr. Sun, Rhiannon Giddens, Margo Cilker, Laura Cortese, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Charlie Parr, Willi Carlisle, Kaitlin Butts, Josh Rouse, Mary Gauthier and more!

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Americana Music Releases for August 14th

Posted on August 13, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for August 14th, 2026. 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.

Elizabeth Cook
Great Television  (Agent Love Records)

Produced by Shooter Jennings and recorded with Cook’s live band, Great Television mines both her personal experiences and a cast of colorful characters to create an album that is both introspective and a reflection of society. While Cook takes her most expansive approach yet to storytelling on this record, cobbling together disparate tales from people of all walks of life with a novelist’s attention to detail, she’s not afraid to draw from her own life for inspiration. “Razorwire Wall,” one of the more rock-infused track, tells the story of dropping a lover off at jail to serve a short stint for moonshining, a scenario that clearly borrows from the experiences of her own father, who served time for running moonshine. Cook proves once again that few songwriters can match her ability to find grace, humor, and humanity in the people history often overlooks. It’s an album filled with unforgettable characters and richly detailed stories, but it’s also her most emotionally resonant work in years, a reminder that she’s one of Nashville’s most distinctive and underrated voices.  (edited from Glide Magazine review)

 

Lindsay Lou
Bluegrass Women  (Work of Bart Records)

Bluegrass Women is an album of Bluegrass classics that were penned by women over the course of the genre’s history. The project honors women in a predominantly male fronted genre while featuring bands made up entirely of some of the best women and pickers in the scene today. Led by Lou, the album features the likes of Molly Tuttle, Sierra Hull, Aoife O’Donovan and Sarah Jarosz (of I’m With Her), Laurie Lewis, and many more. “Some of these songs I sang for many years before realizing they were penned by a wife/mother/female artist,” says Lou. “As a woman, it’s easy to feel like an outsider, or like you don’t belong, in a genre where there is a noticeable lack of representation of women among the forebears. To know that women’s voices made it into the traditional songs feels like a quiet win, and I want to draw more attention to it.”

 

Also new this week..

Admiral Radio – Love Is Alchemy/Kind To Myself  EP  (Too Fine Records)
Pony Bradshaw – Ode to Humidity  (Dogs of the South Records)  +
Bronwyn – Rattlin’ Bones  (independent) +
Kenny Feinstein – Lonesome L.A. Cowboy  (Sound Biscuit Records)
Jordan Robert Kirk – My Father’s Son (Fight in the Dog Music)
Kate MacLeod’s Mind the Gap – Home-Brewed (independent)
Peter Parcek – Most of the Time  (Lightnin Records)
Tyler Richton & The High Bank Boys – ‘Til the Wheels Fall Off  (independent)
Maggie Rose – Half Moon  (One Riot Records)
Monte Warden and The Wagoneers – Doghouse Flowers (EP) (Break A Leg Records)
Clayton Nile Young – Eddy (Cloverdale Records)  +

 

Coming out soon… Ray Wylie Hubbard, The Jayhawks, Billy Strings, Ruthie Foster, The Kennedys, Mountain Grass Unit, Kimmie Bitter, Keb’ Mo’, Eli Paperboy Reed, Two Runner, Pokey LaFarge, Dallas Burrow, Admiral Radio, Buddy Miller, Ian Noe, Riley Downing, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Son Volt, Phil Madeira, Pure Grain, Shinyribs, Mr. Sun, Rhiannon Giddens, Margo Cilker, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Willi Carlisle, Josh Rouse, Mary Gauthier and more!

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Americana Music Releases for August 7th

Posted on August 6, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for August 7th, 2026. 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.

Arlen Roth
Blues Grass  (MoMojo Records)

Arlen, the “Master of the Telecaster,” began his long music career at the tender age of nine. In 1970, his band performed at the 1st Annual Woodstock Reunion Concert, and soon after he moved to the town of Woodstock. Since those early days, he has traveled the world, performing and recording with countless acts such as Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, John Prine, and The Bee Gees, just to name a few. Releasing numerous guitar-centric albums over many years. On Blues Grass Arlen is joined by a young bluegrass group, The Rank & File Band. They run through a bunch of bluegrass standards, frequently stretching out the solos sometimes with added drums. All in all, it’s a nice collection that guitar fans should enjoy.


Various Artists
Sittin’ With Blaze: A Tribute To Blaze Foley  (Lost Art Records)

The Arkansas-born songsmith made his way to Austin in the late Seventies, befriending Townes Van Zandt and becoming a rowdy fixture at bar stages before he was shot in 1989. A decade later, Lost Art Records released Live at the Austin Outhouse and several posthumous albums since. In the intervening years, label co-founder Craig McDonald has heard Foley’s peers acknowledge his impact and watched his songs reach a new generation of ears. “Recognition and legacy has been growing among contemporary artists too, people covering songs, talking about Blaze,” McDonald says. He began “herding cool cats,” as McDonald puts it, including Phosphorescent, Lucy Dacus, John Moreland, Joshua Ray Walker, Uncle Lucius and others. The album closes with a finale from Foley’s longtime friend Lucinda Williams, singing “If I Could Only Fly.” (edited from Austin Chronicle review)

 

Also new this week…

Margaret Glaspy – I Am Both  (ATO Records)
Robert Henry & the Repeaters – Down The Road  (independent)  +
The Roseline – 86 Gumption  (independent)
Red Shahan – Hard Land  (Make Wake Records)
Silverada – Living Proof (Prairie Rose Records)  +
Slack Key ‘Ohana – The ʻOhana Sessions  (Pacific Records)
The Sons of Rainier – Nothing But Time  (independent)  +
Surrender Hill – Wild Country   (Blue Betty Records)
Charlie Worsham – Once Upon A Second Time Around  (independent)  +

 

Coming out soon…  Elizabeth Cook, Bronwyn, Lindsay Lou, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Mountain Grass Unit, Kimmie Bitter, Keb’ Mo’, Eli Paperboy Reed, Two Runner, Pokey LaFarge, The Jayhawks, Billy Strings, Ruthie Foster, The Kennedys, Dallas Burrow, Admiral Radio, Buddy Miller, Ian Noe, Riley Downing, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Son Volt, Phil Madeira, Mr. Sun, Rhiannon Giddens, Margo Cilker, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Willi Carlisle, Josh Rouse and more!

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Americana Music Releases for July 31st

Posted on July 30, 2026 by

 

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for July 31st, 2026. 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.

 

Wyatt Flores
Scared of Heights  (OEG Records)

While his first full-length, 2024’s Welcome to the Plains, came from the perspective of a young man who’d rarely ventured beyond Oklahoma, Flores’ second album, Scared of Heights, arrives as he finds himself in a vastly different spot – a world traveler, returning home to assess how much a man’s life can change in two years, and what that means to the ones he’s left behind. The concept behind the album isn’t so much about being afraid of achieving as a fear of fucking up – is success (a measure of which Flores has definitely met) worth the risk of losing what he already has? Maybe the biggest loss Flores experienced was the end of a relationship, a topic which shows up across the record. Once the relationship wreckage is dispensed with, Flores has time to look at what’s left, as well as what’s ahead. (edited from Americana Highways review)

 

Also new this week…

Buffalo Traffic Jam – Pictures of You  (Arista Records)
GA-20 with Charlie Musselwhite – Blues Now (New West Records)
Ryman – Growing Pains  (Mom + Pop Music)

 

Coming out soon… Silverada, Surrender Hill, Arlen Roth, Slack Key Ohana, Elizabeth Cook, Bronwyn, Pokey LaFarge, Lindsay Lou, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Mountain Grass Unit, Kimmie Bitter, Eli Paperboy Reed, The Jayhawks, Billy Strings, Ruthie Foster, The Kennedys, Dallas Burrow, Admiral Radio, Buddy Miller, Ian Noe, Riley Downing, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Son Volt, Mr. Sun, Rhiannon Giddens, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Willi Carlisle and more!

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Americana Music Releases for July 24th

Posted on July 23, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for July 24th, 2026. 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.

 

Maya de Vitry
All My Faith  (Mad Maker Studio)

It doesn’t seem that long ago that singer-songwriter Maya de Vitry’s former group, The Stray Birds, was charming audiences. Yet that ended in 2018, and de Vitry has been prolific since, issuing her fifth solo album, All My Faith. She originally hails from Lancaster, PA, but has resided in Nashville for nearly a decade. Her crystalline voice is the essence of beauty, while her songwriting continues to grow in personal expression and imagery. The album embraces folk music, folk-rock, and alt-country influences. Simply put, she’s leaning more toward country here than on her previous releases. The project, recorded in three days, with an emphasis on interaction and spontaneity. She gathered her closest collaborators including Spencer Cullum (pedal steel) and Ethan Ballinger (guitar), both members of Miranda Lambert’s touring band. Joining them are Jo Schornikow on keys and de Vitry’s own band members: bassist Ethan Jodziewicz, drummer Dominic Billet, and harmony vocalists Shelby Means and Joel Timmons. All My Faith is Maya de Vitry’s crowning achievement. She’s adeptly crafted a marriage of vivid imagery and emotional honesty. (edited from Glide Magazine review)

Punch Brothers
The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers  (Nonesuch Records)

Led by mandolinist Chris Thile with guitarist Chris Eldridge, bassist Paul Kowert, banjoist Noam Pikelny, and violinist Brittany Haas— cast off and set sail boldly in search of new musical territories on their seventh album. Tacking and jibing through tumultuous and tranquil waves of sound, Punch Brothers follows the siren songs of classical, bluegrass, and jazz as they wend their way through wide channels of innovation. The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers nods not only to the yet-to-be-told sonic journeys of Punch Brothers on this album but also to the eleven instrumental tracks (“unsung”) on the album through which those journeys unfold. We are fortunate to have yet another superb album from these five supremely gifted musicians, and it’s clearly one of the best albums of the year so far.  (Edited from Folk Alley review)

 

Also new this week…

Brand New Heartache – A New Alchemy  (Mule Kick Records)
Lance Cowan – The Air That You Breathe (Patio Records)
Fabrizio – Recovery (Santa Anna Records) +
Charles Wesley Godwin – Christian Name  (Big Loud Records)  +
Lynn Hollyfield – Diving In  (independent)
Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves – Bury Deep My Heart  (Carrier Records) +
Corb Lund – Dark Horses  (New West Records)
Clark Paterson – Are You Lonely Like Me?  (independent)
The Revivalists – Get It Honest  (Concord Records)
Paul Totten – Brightland Shines  (independent)

 

Coming out soon… Elizabeth Cook, Silverada, Pokey LaFarge, Lindsay Lou, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Mountain Grass Unit, The Jayhawks, Billy Strings, Clay Street Unit, Ruthie Foster, The Kennedys, Admiral Radio, Buddy Miller, Riley Downing, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Mr. Sun, Rhiannon Giddens, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Willi Carlisle, Josh Rouse and more!

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Americana Music Releases for July 17th

Posted on July 16, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for July 17th, 2026. 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.

 

Gary Stewart
One Track Mind  (Delmore Recording Society)

Gary Stewart upended the Nashville scene in the mid-‘70s with a string of fierce honky-tonk singles powered by his wild abandon. Hits like “Drinkin’ Thing,” “Your Place or Mine,” and “She’s Actin’ Single (I’m Drinkin’ Doubles)” carry the same electric charge on the first hearing or the hundredth, thanks to his untamed voice, which yelped, wobbled, and soared with no clear logic, indicating a man on the verge of a total meltdown. Stewart’s golden era didn’t last long, but was glorious while it did. Consisting primarily of songwriting demos, One Track Mind is a fascinating survey of Stewart’s late-‘60s efforts, showing how he began transforming from a competent composer, often collaborating with Bill Eldridge, to an astounding singer.  (edited from No Depression review)

 

Aaron Lee Tasjan
Get Over It, Underdog  (Blue Elan Records)

Aaron Lee Tasjan makes horny, queer cosmic American music that treats The Beatles as a core roots band. His most upbeat songs — like “Lost & Alone” on his new release, hit with the soaring sheen of a smarter, more jaded Full Moon Fever-era Tom Petty. Tasjan’s wit — which can sound delightfully glib until leaning in and getting cut on the edge — comes in part from his mentor and friend, the inimitable Todd Snider.In that context, Tasjan’s album functions as an alternately celebratory and mournful coda to the life of a great artist who never stopped being an underdog. Tasjan is there to sing them weirdly infectious sad songs, either way.  (edited from No Depression review)

 

Also new this week…

The Binoculars – Double Whammy (Jalopy Records) 
CR & the White Lights – My Old Self (Magic Door Records)
John R. Miller – The Great Unknowing  (Rounder Records)  +
Neon Moons – Day Late And A Dollar Short  (Basement Floods Records)
Waylon Payne – Wayward (Big Loud Texas)  +
Cinder Well – A Blooming Body  (Hen House Records)

 

Coming out soon… Maya de Vitry, Punch Brothers, Corb Lund, Elizabeth Cook, Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves, Silverada, Pokey LaFarge, Lindsay Lou, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Mountain Grass Unit, The Jayhawks, Billy Strings, Ruthie Foster, Admiral Radio, Riley Downing, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Mr. Sun, Rhiannon Giddens, Buddy Miller, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Willi Carlisle and more!

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Americana Music Releases for July 10th

Posted on July 9, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for July 10th, 2026. 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.

 

Allison Russell
In The Hour of Chaos  (Black Wonder/Fantasy Records)

Allison Russell’s new album testifies to the power of resilience and unity in the face of the political, social, economic, and personal chaos we face daily in these times. Inviting 28 other artists — including Norah Jones, Brittney Spencer, Joy Oladokun, Kyshona, and Devon Gilfillian, among others — to join her on various songs on the album, Russell creates an ebullient community of song. In the Hour of Chaos celebrates the enduring joys and hopes fostered by our being in community, loving one another, and working for the common good.  (edited from No Depression review)

 

Also new this week…

Eli Adams – Songs That Get Me By  (independent)
Andrew Farriss – The Prospector  (Rockingham Holdings)
Houndmouth – Lordy  (Dualtone Music Group)
Trever M. Keith – We Drank From a Poisoned Well  (Antagonist Records)
Ken & Brad Kolodner – Hand’s Cove  (independent)
Frank Migliorelli and the Dirt Nappers – Abnormal Conditions (independent)
Songs From the Road Band – Just Hanging On  (independent)  +
Tipps And Obermiller – Little-Kid Heart  (independent)
Sophie Wellington – Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still  (Adhyâropa Records)
Tray Wellington – Heart On The Table  (independent)  +

 

Coming out soon… Aaron Lee Tasjan, Maya de Vitry, Corb Lund, Elizabeth Cook, Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves, Silverada, Pokey LaFarge, Lindsay Lou, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Mountain Grass Unit, The Jayhawks, Billy Strings, Ruthie Foster, Riley Downing, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Rhiannon Giddens and more!

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Americana Music Releases for July 3rd

Posted on July 4, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for July 3rd, 2026. 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.

Charley Crockett
Clovis  ($10 Cowboy/Atlantic Outpost Records)

Crockett originally released Clovis on April 28th, explaining that he was basically dropping the record to get back at Island Records who he’d just released his third and final album from, Age of the Ram. However, due to contract stipulations likely restricting Crockett from releasing new music so soon after his contract expired—or perhaps that Island would get first dibs on any music recorded while Crockett was under contract with them—the album was pulled on May 6th. Charley wrote to his fans, “Happy 4th of July week y’all. Sometimes you need to fight. Goliath vs Goliath. On this 250th birthday for America, I’m reminded that freedom is something you continue to fight for. A war that never ends. Today, we win one battle. Clovis is out now on Atlantic Outpost. Let’s ride.” He recorded Clovis in the New Mexico town of the same name at the historic Norman Petty studios with Shooter Jennings as producer.

 

Margo Price
Days of Unrest  (Loma Vista Recordings)

Tracing a lineage of protest music through some of its most powerful voices, the surprise drop comprises nine tracks that embody the issues Price has championed both on and off the stage, from prison reform and marijuana legalization to the rights of farmers and immigrants, and the struggles of working people around the world.

 

Just a few new ones because of American holiday…

Hannah Juanita – The Magnolia Sessions  (Anti-Corp Records)
Poor Life Choices – June Bug in July  (Sasssquatch Records)

 

Coming out soon… Maya de Vitry, Corb Lund, Elizabeth Cook, Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves, Silverada, Pokey LaFarge, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Mountain Grass Unit, The Jayhawks, Billy Strings, Ruthie Foster, Riley Downing, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Rhiannon Giddens and more!

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Americana Music Releases for June 26th

Posted on June 24, 2026 by

Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for June 26th, 2026. 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
Then Again (New West Records)

A lost album from Rodney Crowell recorded in 2005 and featuring Guy Clark, Lyle Lovett, Benmont Tench, as well as Emmylou Harris and Lera Lynn? Count us in. “I’d forgotten about it completely,” Crowell recalls. “I’m glad I put it on the shelf, because now is the time for it. It may not be the time for it for the rest of the world, but it’s time for it for me.” After Rodney Crowell released his trilogy of albums—The Houston Kid, Fate’s Right Hand, and The Outsider, it helped launched the “Americana” movement in earnest, with Crowell as one of its kings. But when he recorded Then Again in 2005 in Nashville with the same basic band as the previous three, Crowell got cold feet that he was treading the same ground. So he shelved the project, until now. (from Saving Country Music review)

 

Sad Daddy
Ozark Shine  (Free Dirt Records)

If you want an authentic taste of true Ozark mountain music, you’d be hard pressed to find a better outfit to fulfill that purpose than the long-running semi-super roots group/collective Sad Daddy. Made up of notable solo performers and musicians Melissa Carper (bass), Rebecca Patek (fiddle), Brian Martin (guitar), and Joe Sundell (banjo), they’ve been making elemental string band music together with a distinct Ozark dialect since 2010. Recorded at the Bomb Shelter in Nashville, their new album Ozark Shine features singing and songwriting contributions from all of the members, with egos placed aside, and a sincere love for the music busting out with every note played or sung. They’re like The Natural State’s version of Old Crow Medicine Show, without the put-ons. This is music from Arkansas, and by Arkansas. (from Saving Country Music review)

 

River Shook
River Shook  (Blackberry River Records)

This might be River Shook’s first official record as a solo artist after officially leaving the Sarah Shook and The Disarmers name behind. But don’t expect this to mean a dramatic sea change in the overall approach. River Shook still brings uncommonly tight melodies to melancholic songwriting, while blending country tones and influences with a dark rock attitude. Shook co-produced the album with guitar player Blake Tallent. “My songwriting, my music, they’re country to the bone, but it’s that rock n’ roll element that makes the whole thing lift off,” says Shook. “If you want to give fans an unforgettable show every night, you need that reckless energy and purity of spirit.” Throughout the album, Shook gently delves into uncomfortable themes that we tend to mentally avoid, reminding us we’re braver than we think, we can handle hard truths about our lives, and we can change course the moment we’re ready.

 

Also new this week…

American Aquarium – New Ways to Lose  (Losing Side Records)  +
Willow Avalon – Pink Pocket Pistol  (Assemble Sound)
Cast Iron Shoes – When I Leave This World  (independent)
Dominique & the Diamonds – Honky Tonk Queen  (independent)
Danny Golden – The Big Blue  (Thousand Faces Music)
Colten Jesse – Waking  (White Skull Records)  +
Tift Merritt – Sugar (One Riot Records)  +
Danni Nicholls – Making Moves  (Astrorama Records)
Andrew Sa – American Rough  (Bloodshot Records)
David G Smith – Hero Street  (independent)
  

 

Coming out soon…  Margo Price, Maya de Vitry, Corb Lund, Elizabeth Cook, Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves, Silverada, Pokey LaFarge, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Mountain Grass Unit, The Jayhawks, Billy Strings, Ruthie Foster, Riley Downing, AJ Lee & Blue Summit, Rhiannon Giddens and more!

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Bill Frater

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