Country/Americana

Margo Cilker - Valley of Heart's Delight

Released 15th September 2023 Margo Cilker's sophomore album, Valley of Heart’s Delight, refers to...

Released 15th September 2023 Margo Cilker's sophomore album, Valley of Heart’s Delight, refers to a place she can't return: California’s Santa Clara Valley, as it was known before the orchards were paved over and became more famous for Silicon than apricots. In this 11-song follow-up to 2021's critically acclaimed Pohorylle, family and nature intertwine as guiding motifs, at once precious and endangered, beautiful and exhausting. Cilker and Pohorylle producer Sera Cahoone brought most of that...

The Handsome Family - Hollow

Released 8th September 2023 The Handsome Family’s new record began with a scream in the night. “I...

Released 8th September 2023 The Handsome Family’s new record began with a scream in the night. “It was a bleak winter during the middle of the pandemic,” says Brett Sparks. “One night around 4 a.m. Rennie started screaming in her sleep. She screamed, ‘Come into the circle Joseph! There’s no moon tonight.’ Scary as it was, I thought, man, that’s a good chorus!” The Handsome Family (songwriting and marriage partners Brett and Rennie Sparks) have been defining the dark end of americana for over ...

Wilco - Cousin

Released 29th September 2023 Wilco’s thirteenth studio album, Cousin, was recorded in the band’s ...

Released 29th September 2023 Wilco’s thirteenth studio album, Cousin, was recorded in the band’s legendary Chicago studio The Loft over a period of two years. The ten new tracks are written by band leader Jeff Tweedy, and feature musical performances by the long time lineup of Nels Cline, Mikael Jorgensen, Glenn Kotche John Stirratt, Pat Sansone and, of course, Tweedy on lead vocals. After a short detour back into their country influenced roots via last year’s Cruel Country double album, Cous...

Hiss Golden Messenger - Jump For Joy

Released 25th August 2023 It’s spring of 2023 in the North Carolina Piedmont, and songwriter and ...

Released 25th August 2023 It’s spring of 2023 in the North Carolina Piedmont, and songwriter and singer M.C. Taylor leader of the band Hiss Golden Messenger is feeling alive. Joyful. Eternal, he might say. For the Grammy-nominated musician, whose albums have traced an internal path through adulthood, fatherhood, spirituality, and depression for well over a decade, this is something new. “The tunes on Jump for Joy were composed in free moments throughout 2022, a year during which Hiss was on t...

Jess Williamson - Time Ain't Accidental

Released 9th June 2023 After recently releasing the critically-acclaimed Plains album (I Walked W...

Released 9th June 2023 After recently releasing the critically-acclaimed Plains album (I Walked With You A Ways) with Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee, Jess Williamson’s Time Ain’t Accidental is the sound of a woman running into her life and art head-on. With a vocal dynamic kindred to Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris, Williamson blends the emotional immediacy and story-telling of traditional country with the artful, wholly honest transmissions of songwriters like Townes Van Zandt and Terry ...

Rhiannon Giddens - You're The One

Released 18th August 2023. Rhiannon Giddens’ You’re the One is the Grammy- and MacArthur-winning ...

Released 18th August 2023. Rhiannon Giddens’ You’re the One is the Grammy- and MacArthur-winning singer, composer, and instrumentalist’s third solo studio album and her first of all original songs; her last solo album was 2017’s critically acclaimed Freedom Highway.  This collection of 12 songs written over the course of Giddens’ career bursts with life-affirming energy, drawing from the folk music that she knows so deeply, as well as its pop descendants.  The album was produced by Jack Splas...

Rose City Band - Garden Party

Released 21st April 2023 On ‘Garden Party’, Rose City Band’s country psychedelic rock evokes the ...

Released 21st April 2023 On ‘Garden Party’, Rose City Band’s country psychedelic rock evokes the wide open spaces of the American west and free spirits who call it home. Led by acclaimed guitarist and vocalist Ripley Johnson, Rose City Band are some of the best players in contemporary rock: pedal steel guitarist Barry Walker, keyboardist Paul Hasenberg, bassist Dewey Mahood (aka Plankton Wat), drummer Dustin Dybvig, and featuring Sanae Yamada on synthesizer. ‘Garden Party’ is both a celebrati...

Lucinda Williams - Stories from a Rock n Roll H...

Released 20th June 2023 Lucinda Williams’ music has gotten her through her darkest days.  It’s be...

Released 20th June 2023 Lucinda Williams’ music has gotten her through her darkest days.  It’s been that way since growing up amid family chaos in the Deep South, as she recounts in her candid new memoir, Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I told You. Over the past two years, it’s been the force driving her recovery from a debilitating stroke she suffered on November 17, 2020, at age 67. Her masterful, multi-Grammy-winning songwriting has never deserted her. To wit, her stunning, sixteenth studio...