Here’s some the best Americana and roots-type music releases for November 1st, 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.
Loose Cattle
Someone’s Monster (Single Lock Records)
Once New Orleans seeps inside you, it never seems to let go. While Loose Cattle may not seem like your typical New Orleans band, every song seems distilled in the Crescent City vibe, making Someone’s Monster a tear-stained tribute to the land of les bon temps roulette. Over the years, bandleaders Kimberly Kaye and Michael Ceveris followed different paths to Louisiana. Instead of second lines, cajun spices or zydeco swamps, Loose Cattle deliver a blend of rock that benefits from the southeastern roots of Ceveris and the college encounters of Kaye in New Jersey. Rather than rootless, the rock of Loose Cattle merges so many influences that it is perhaps the perfect roux for what ails you, with just enough Louisiana spice to give Someone’s Monster the heat that makes an undeniable classic. (edited from KLOF Mag review)
Willie Nelson
Last Leaf On The Tree (Sony Music Entertainment)
Willie’s new album, Last Leaf on the Tree. 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 Last Leaf, which is a clear sonic outlier in his dad’s catalog. Last Leaf is largely a collection of covers of unexpected artists—including Beck, Tom Waits, the Flaming Lips, Warren Zevon and Nina Simone—and Willie doesn’t so much interpret their songs as experience them. Micah chose most of the cuts, but he didn’t provide his dad with any of the original recordings. Instead he put together the backing tracks, playing most of the instruments himself. (edited from Texas Monthly review)
Also new this week…
Jeremie Albino – Our Time In The Sun (Easy Eye Sound) +
Joachim Cooder – Dreamer’s Motel (Temple Of Leaves Records) +
John Cowan – Fiction (True Lonesome Records) +
Warren Haynes – Million Voices Whisper (Fantasy Records)
Paul Kelly – Fever Longing Still (Cooking Vinyl)
Zachary Lucky – The Wind (Wroxton Recordings)
Forest Sun – No Finish Line (Painted Sun Records)
West of Texas – Hot Motel Nights (Pleasant Valley Ranch Records) +
Coming out soon … Yonder Mountain Stringband, Caleb Klauder & Reeb Wilms, Jamey Johnson, Dwight Yoakam, Dolly Parton, Lucinda Williams and more!
