STEVE MARTIN & THE STEEP CANYON RANGERS WITH EDIE BRICKELL – Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers featuring Edie Brickell Live (Rounder) Recorded at the historic Fox Performing Arts Center in Riverside California last fall. The live performance was […]
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS English Oceans (ATO) The band’s 12th release, is a balanced and deeply engaged new effort that finds the group refreshed and firing on all cylinders. ‘It can go from this chainsaw rock ‘n’ roll to this very delicate, […]
SUZY BOGGUSS Lucky (Loyal Dutchess) Suzy Bogguss didn’t set out to craft a Merle Haggard tribute record. Some might call that serendipity; she just calls it Lucky. Bogguss and her husband/co-producer Doug Crider were combing through songs to consider for […]
LAKE STREET DIVE Bad Self Portraits (Signature Sounds) Lake Street Dive has been performing for nearly a decade after meeting as fellow students at the New England Conservatory in Boston. It took a casually made video featuring the band gathered […]
LES CLAYPOOL’S DUO DE TWANG Four Foot Shack (ATO) How “deconstructed” can a group get? How about just one vocal, one bass, one guitar, and a basic beat supplied by stomping on a mini-tambourine-doohickey? That’s exactly what everyone’s favorite storyteller/narrator, […]
THE FAREWELL DRIFTERS Tomorrow Forever (Compass) Produced by pop-roots specialist Neilson Hubbard and showcases the Drifters’ Brian Wilson-esque Pop sensibility, crystalline harmonies and Folk foundations alongside gutsy electric guitar and orchestral-style drums. The tracks all support the album’s over-arching theme […]
RAY BENSON A Little Piece (Bismeaux) For his first solo album in more than a decade, Asleep At The Wheel main man Ray Benson went into the project with a simple mission: To break out from his band, and to […]
BLACKIE & THE RODEO KINGS South (File Under Music) South represents a fresh creative step for Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, while embodying the qualities of rootsy musical uplift and quirky lyrical depth that have long distinguished the ensembles varied […]
Here’s the only Americana and roots-type music releases for the week of December 10th, 2013. This is going to be the last Americana Boogie new releases date of the year. SHELBY LYNNE Thanks (Everso) Thanks is an EP that features five […]
BILLY JOE ARMSTRONG & NORAH JONES Foreverly (Reprise) Interesting collaboration between Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones. Foreverly is a collection inspired by Songs Our Daddy Taught Us, an album of traditional folk and country songs reinterpreted, […]
