Melissa Carper’s new album, Ramblin’ Soul, is a breath of fresh mountain air and will put you right there in a country honkytonk back porch, smelling the breeze while listening to music perfect for that setting. Produced by Andrea Tokic and Dennis Crouch, this one has smooth mountaintop country strings to match Carper’s twangy vocals […]
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Bern Kelly has a new album of all original, deep and introspective songs, Garden City. The title track is rich, clear acoustic guitar and Kelly’s nostalgic ruminations. Skipping stones, and she didn’t want to be a cliché, working double shifts til sunlight. It’s all working toward the American dream. But, “I liked our campsite but […]
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Bob Davoli has a new album out, Still Sitting Backstage (Gutbrain Records). Still Sitting Backstage was produced by Bob Davoli, and engineered and mixed by Eric Kilburn of Wellspring Sound. It was mastered by Toby Mountain of Northeastern Digital. Still Sitting Backstage has a personal narrative feel; it’s Davoli on the perspectives and hopes of love and dreams as […]
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Jerry Joseph has just released a new album, Tick, with the Drive-By Truckers as his band, newly available via Dial Back Sound. Tick was produced by Matt Patton; engineered by Bronson Tew, Stephen Drizos and David Barbe; mixed and mastered by Bronson Tew. This album is a companion piece to Jerry’s 2020 release A Beautiful Madness, […]
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Matt O’Ree has a new album, Hand in Glove, due to be released on November 4. The album was produced by Matt O’Ree Band; recorded at: Shorefire Studios in Long Branch, New Jersey with recording engineer Joe DeMaio. It was mixed and mastered at Sound Spa Studios with mixing engineer Steve D’Acutis. Electric guitar leads […]
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Tommy Alexander has just released a new album, Feelings, which was produced and engineered by Andrija Tokic at the Bomb Shelter in Nashville, and released on Fluff and Gravy. Gather around the campfire for the first anthemic song “If I Only Knew.” With lines like “you’d stop tearing yourself apart,” it’s confessional and steeped in the […]
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M. Lockwood Porter is releasing his latest album Sisyphus Happy, co-produced with John Moreland. The album will be available October 14. Sisyphus Happy draws out the contradictions of the general resignation that so many of us are actually living behind the façade. How often do you just say “I’m fine” with a smile when you’re screaming […]
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Lisa Bouchelle has been making music for a good while, and is currently on tour with Glen Tilbrook of the band Squeeze. Her latest deluxe album, as Lisa Bouchelle and the Bleu, Jump In! is a reissue of the popular 2021 album but this time with three bonus tracks. Americana Highways sat down with Lisa […]
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Rory Block has a new release: Ain’t Nobody Worried: Celebrating Great Women of Song. It’s the third in her series “Powerhouse Women of the Blues.” Ain’t Nobody Worried was produced by Rory and Rob Davis for Aurora Productions. The concept for the album is to cover songs by women on the blues edge of things — songs […]
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Up and coming Austin-area musician JB Elwood has music and several videos newly released. We sat down to chat with JB about all his projects and the way one riff can stick with you for years. AH: What was the recording session like for “Something In The Water”? Any stories in particular about recording this […]
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