Americana Boogie new releases for the week of Sept. 10th… Drive-By Truckers, Ry Cooder, The White Buffalo, Peter Cooper & more…

RY COODER & CORRIDOS FAMOSOS
Live in San Francisco (Nonesuch)

Recorded in 2011 at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall, his first live record in more than 35 years, Show Time was recorded at the same hall. The Corridos Famosos band includes Joachim Cooder on drums; Robert Francis on bass; vocalists Terry Evans, Arnold McCuller, and Juliette Commagere; Flaco Jimenez on accordion; and the ten-piece Mexican brass band La Banda Juvenil. Live in San Francisco includes Cooder classics like “Boomer’s Story” and “Dark End of the Street” and more recent originals such as “Lord Tell Me Why” and “El Corrido de Jesse James, ” with a detour for Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs’ “Wooly Bully” and Lead Belly’s “Goodnight Irene. “

PETER COOPER
Opening Day (Red Beet)

Coming fast on the heels of his recent duo release with Eric Brace (The Comeback Album) this new record will be Peter’s sixth in five years (three duo, three solo), an extraordinary output for a fellow who is also senior music writer at Nashville’s Tennessean newspaper; a professor of country music history at Vanderbilt University, a guest DJ on WSM and on Sirius/XM’s “Outlaw Country”; and more. This is a warmhearted, lyrical, passionate, thoughtful work, with Peter augmenting his singing and guitar playing with some of the best musical accompanists in Nashville: Lloyd Green, Richard Bennett, Jen Gunderman and others. In songs like “Much Better Now” and “Part Time,” he adds to his growing list of autobiographical songs that are bravely honest and deeply personal, while effortlessly doing that thing that great art does: taking the intimate and making it universal. The boy in the bleachers on the cover is indeed Peter, but he’s all of us, rooting for an underdog, hoping things will get better, vainly trying to push back time and hold on to the moment for just a moment longer. With Opening Day, we can do just that. (from press release)

THE WHITE BUFFALO
Shadows, Greys & Evil Ways (Unison Music)

This is the story of Joe and Jolene, a pair of young outsiders thrust together by chance, forging a deep, emotionally charged relationship that would at once haunt and sustain them throughout their lives. The musical and literary narrative of this album follows our broken hero, Joseph White, through his many trials and tribulations from young adulthood to death. His ballad is a tale of love, war, murder, the search for redemption, and a lifelong experiment of good and evil, asking many of the questions of human existence along the way. It is ultimately a story of hope and the power of love. Enjoy Shadows, Greys & Evil Ways. (Jake Smith AKA The White Buffalo)

Also new this week…

SHERYL CROW – Feels Like Home (Warner Bros.)
GUY DAVIS – Juba Dance (M.C.)
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS – Alabama Ass Whuppin’ (Caroline/Universal)
LORRAINE JORDAN & CAROLINA ROAD – Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road (Pinecastle)
MARK KNOPFLER – Privateering (Universal)
STEEP CANYON RANGERS – Tell The Ones I Love (Rounder)
JIMMY WEBB – Still Within the Sound of My Voice (Entertainment One)
WILD PONIES – Things That Used To Shine (Ditch Dog)

Coming out soon… RICK SHEA, TIM O’BRIEN & DARRELL SCOTT, TONY JOE WHITE, BAND OF HEATHENS, AUDREY AULD, GARLAND JEFFRIES, PATTY LARKIN, DEL McCOURY BAND, THE SADIES, ZACHARY LUCKY, ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ROOTS, PATTY LARKIN, NOAM PIKELNY, DAVID BROMBERG, TOMMY KEENE, THE WOOD BROTHERS, THOSE DARLINS … more new releases. Here’s a link to this week’s Americana Music Association Americana Airplay Chart

Bill Frater
Freight Train Boogie