Jefferson Hyll Inside Our Houses Hailing from Owensboro Kentucky, Jefferson Hyll has a new album Inside Our Houses that showcases his songwriting and sunny heartland rock style. In this album, there are regrets and hope for things to work out, wrapped in bursts of optimism all in assessing losses and dreams. The songs ranges from […]
Carly King Loving You is Easy Nashville singer songwriter Carly King’s new album Loving You is Easy is a welcome addition to the Americana library this year. An elegant, lovely debut, this album explores human relationships and the experiences that craft a person into who they are, with hushed guitar and mandolin supporting Carly’s gentle and […]
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Annie and Rod Capps Never Done Annie and Rod Capps have a new folk album Never Done that lays a new step on the long traditional folk music path. “Folk” can mean a lot of different things nowadays, including essentially pop music, and as long as it’s not full electronica and autotune it seems like […]
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Melody Guy Train to Dreamland Melody Guy has a newly released album this year of 15 piercing songs with a whole cast of talent in her backing band in Train to Dreamland. This record is a resolute pursuit of honesty and self-scrutiny in undertaking to clear the path to the ultimate “dreamland.” Along the way […]
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TJ Mayes Take the Moon Shawnee, Oklahoma singer songwriter TJ Mayes has a new album Take the Moon, that’s country with a little bit of western dark side energy all played at once together, lightly and fluidly. TJ is generally known for his rockabilly and roots rock music, but on this album he takes just […]
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The Weary Ramblers Driftwood The Weary Ramblers are an Iowa-based folk music duo Kathryn Severing Fox and Chad Elliott, who together craft old timey sweet folk songs that are rich with close, simple and delightful harmonies. Their new album Driftwood is twelve songs to showcase their talents. Kathryn is a virtuoso fiddle player who has […]
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June Star Equally Wild Baltimore mainstay Americana band fronted by Andrew Grimm, June Star, has a new album just out, Equally Wild. This album was produced by J Robbins (Andy Bopp), mixed by J Robbins and Andrew Grimm, and mastered by Dan Coutant at Sunroom Audio. The album was recorded at Magpie Cage Studios. Grimm […]
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The Romans Dandelion The Romans are a folksy, old-timey bluegrass pop-ish band from Croatia and Slovenia – two countries at the Easternmost top of the “boot” of Italy if you’re looking on a map, with shoreline on the Mediterranean Sea. They’ve crafted a blend of luegrass styles with folk and a bit of pop Central […]
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Adam Faucett New Variations of the Reaper Arkansas musician songwriter Adam Faucett has a new album, New Variations of the Reaper. This album pays homage to Arkansas throughout, with a darkness and a slow electric guitar energy in songs that were written during Adam’s arduous road to recovery from throat surgery. The resulting album is […]
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Jeremy Nail Fleeting Things Austin area musician songwriter Jeremy Nail has just quietly released a beautiful, raw EP of songs that speak to your very soul, Fleeting Things. Hushed with subtle touches of atmospheric amplification of its signature introspective energy, this EP harnesses slightly more modern “indie folk” atmosphere, somehow managing to focus the sound […]
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