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How would you define The Wild Feathers? Some may immediately check a box for Americana - and they wouldn't be wrong. Others may lean on a version of rock: Country-rock, folk-rock, heartland rock.... more

The Deslondes are a five-piece group of dudes from New Orleans. The band splits up songwriting and lead vocal duties among it's five members, continuing it's democratic ethos and musical versatility.... more

2024 release. Russell County, Virginia-based 49 Winchester is following up their 2022 breakthrough hit, Fortune Favors The Bold with their latest album, Leavin' This Holler. Since their last release... more

Emily Nenni has written a follow-up to 2022's critically acclaimed record, On The Ranch. Her debut album garnered her much success and introduced her to a devoted audience of music fans who celebrate... more

2024 release. "I've been wanting to make a record like this for a long time. The band, Franny and I produced it ourselves in my living room with no adults present. It's all acoustic, not an electric... more

"I'm still learning how to experience joy, how to be free, how to be comfortable in my own skin," says Jaime Wyatt. "A lot of us grow up feeling like we have to hide who we are just to be accepted,... more

After forty years of marriage, Buddy and Julie Miller have learned to welcome a song however it arrives, questioning only where the song is taking them rather than where it originated. There's no... more

2023 release. Says Rodney Crowell: "It's just me and the band in a room together, loose and live and having fun." Produced by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, The Chicago Sessions is indeed a throwback to... more

Billy Joe Shaver's songs were stories of his life; they were real, and they were raw. Many artists have covered Billy Joe songs over the years. From Willie to Waylon to Elvis and Cash. Billy Joe's... more

Lines in the Levee - Town Mountain - Hailing from Asheville, North Carolina, Town Mountain is the sum of all it's vast and intricate influences - this bastion of alt-country rebellion and honky-tonk... more

Denim & Diamonds - Nikki Lane - From the first bass note within the driving drum beat you can tell something is different about the new record from Nikki Lane. The backbeat feels like a gutsy strut... more

Recorded live on September 15, 1981, Live At Gilley's captures Kris Kristofferson at a time in his career where he and his band were firing on all cylinders. Kristofferson was with a full band out of... more

2022 release. Steve Earle has been creating intimate and personal music for well over four decades now. His songwriting has wound itself along a path from Texas to Tennessee and his education came in... more

Songs My Friends Wrote - Corb Lund - Songs My Friends Wrote is an album I've been threatening to make for years. It's a bunch of tracks that are my versions of a bunch of'songs my friends wrote. I'm... more

With their latest album, Fortune Favors The Bold, Russell County, Virginia-based 49 Winchester is ready and roaring to break onto the national scene with its unique brand of tear-in-your-beer... more

JOSHUA HEDLEY / NEON BLUE - Joshua Hedley is 'a singing professor of country & western,' he declares on his raucous and witty new album, Neon Blue. It might sound like a punchline, but it's not. An... more

On August 20, 2020 the world lost an amazing light with the passing of Justin Townes Earle. Justin was a vibrant songwriter who could play the blues, country, and rock n roll all in the same song. In... more

2020 release. Corb Lund embraces his rich and rustic western heritage with a style that's unique, honest and resolute, while touching on a range of cowboy themes ' from rough-and-tumble tales of... more

2020 release. If there's one lesson to be gleaned from Jamie Wyatt's album, Neon Cross, it's that life goes on. And through it all, good times and bad, dreaming and desperation, there is truth. When... more

Inspired by the West Virginia coal-mine explosion that killed 29 men in 2010, Earle's new album explores life and daily work in rural communities, and feelings of unity, pride and patriotism that... more

2020 release. "Lamentations is a 10-song rumination on the current state of the world around me. I was raised in the faith and the book of Lamentations was always one that caught my attention. A... more

Rock Bottom Rhapsody - Pokey LaFarge - 'The man singing these songs isn't exactly the same man who wrote them,' says Pokey LaFarge of Rock Bottom Rhapsody. In early 2018, LaFarge relocated from his... more

This new EP expands on Corb Lund's Western heritage even as he covers AC/DC and Billy Joel along with Lee Hazlewood and Marty Robbins. Ian Tyson and Hayes Carll guest as Lund delivers dramatically... more

Here's the first album in 10 years featuring production by Buddy (who has produced Robert Plant, Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle and more) and songs by Julia (who's been covered by Emmylou, Solomon... more

2019 release. The Saint Of Lost Causes is the eighth album from American roots troubadour, Justin Townes Earle. Earle's album finds a songwriter and artist who is unflinching and unequivocal in his... more