Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for August 4th, 2023. 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.
Vince Gill & Paul Franklin
Sweet Memories: The Music Of Ray Price & The Cherokee Cowboys (MCA Records)
A decade after Vince Gill and steel guitar virtuoso Paul Franklin crafted Bakersfield, which paid homage to the central California country sounds made famous by Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, the two musicians have reunited to shine a light on the music of Country Music Hall of Famer Ray Price. Gill and Franklin eschewed recording many of Price’s biggest hits; instead, Sweet Memories largely favors more obscure Price recordings. “I’ve told everybody that in the making of these records, it’s more about the musician in both of us than it is about me as the singer,” Gill says. “We chose the songs we chose because it gave us more freedom to play than maybe we would have had on some of those big ballads.” Franklin and Gill hope Sweet Memories will bring listeners deeper into Price’s works. (edited from Billboard review)
Also new this week…
Blue Mother Tupelo – Take Me With You (JukeTonk Records)
Beth Bombara – It All Goes Up (Black Mesa Records)
Evan Charles – Between Two Worlds (Mr. Pink Records) +
Tom Ciurczak – I Ain’t Ever Growing Up, Vol. I (self-released)
William Matheny – That Grand, Old Feeling (Hickman Holler Records) +
The Pleasures – The Beginning Of The End (self-released)
Shannon Leigh Reynolds – Triple Shot (Good Bygone Records)
Screaming Orphans – Paper Daisies (self-released)
Joshua Ray Walker – What Is It Even? (self-released) +
Coming out soon… Cordovas, Raye Zaragoza, Teddy Thompson, Brooks Dixon, Darrell Scott String Band, The Great Get Gone, Buck Meek, Mipso, Margo Cilker, The Kennedys, Josh Gray, Turnpike Troubadours, Nina De Vitry, Brent Cobb, Willie Nelson, Briscoe, The Two Tracks, The Waymores, Charles Wesley Godwin, Old Crow Medicine Show, Nick Shoulders, Rhiannon Giddens, Steep Canyon Rangers, Tyler Childers, Buddy & Julie Miller, John R. Miller and more!
