I'll Make The Most Of My Sins - Robert Vincent (27/01/17)
- Artist: Robert Vincent
- Release Date: 27th January, 2017
- Genre: Americana, Singer-Songwriter
- Record Label: At The Helm Records
- Tracks: 11
- Website:
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Heart Of My Homeland- Szlachetka (16/02/18)
- Artist: Szlachetka
- Release Date: 16th February, 2018
- Genre: Country Rock, Americana
- Record Label: Matthew Szlachetka
- Tracks: 11
- Website: https://szlachetkamusic.com/
Halfway Towards A Healing - The Lost Brothers (26/01/18)
- Artist: The Lost Brothers
- Release Date: 26th January, 2018
- Genre: Folk, Americana
- Record Label: Bird Dog Recordings
- Tracks:13
- Website: https://thelostbrothersband.com/
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Revival - Jenn Bostic (04/05/18)
- Artist: Jenn Bostic
- Release date: 4th May, 2018
- Genre: Americana, Gospel, Blues, Rock, Country, Pop
- Record Label: Absolute Marketing
- Tracks: TBA
- Website: http://jennbostic.com
Solo Duo Trio - Luke Jackson (09/02/18)
- Artist: Luke Jackson
- Release Date: 9th February, 2018
- Genre: Americana, Blues, Folk
- Record Label: First Take Records
- Tracks: 15
- Website: http://www.lukepauljackson.com
Luke Jackson organised a show in his hometown of Canterbury and decided he would record the whole thing and release these recordings as a CD. The night included a solo, duo & trio sets showing the different sounds and contrasts of Luke's music and live performances. He took tracks from all his previous albums, breathing new life into old songs, others he has been performing every night for the last few years. It also includes a few tracks, that although may have been performed, never made it onto any records.
Southern Wind - Dean Owens (16/02/18)
- Artist: Dean Owens
- Release Date: 16th February
- Genre: Americana, Celticana, Singer-Songwriter
- Record Label: At The Helm Records
- Tracks: 12
- Website: http://www.deanowens.com/
Southern Wind was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, with the same team responsible for his acclaimed Into the Sea – producer Neilson Hubbard, award winning guitarist (and long time collaborator) Will Kimbrough and some great US musicians.
Dean’s music has been described as Celtic Americana with a rocky pop edge, and draws as much from his Scottish roots, especially his home town of Leith (referenced and loved by the Proclaimers) as from his US heroes. The emotional honesty in his songs shines through as he sings about people and places, love and regrets, drawing favourable comparisons with the likes of Springsteen. A gritty yet lyrical Scottish sensibility, delivered with a searingly soulful voice.
Dean’s solo career has seen him tour far and wide, including in Europe, USA and Australia. Dean is also highly regarded among other musicians and has played shows and toured
with Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Joan As Policewoman, Eddi Reader, John Hiatt and Nanci Griffith, to name but a few.
In his early career Dean was the front-man of the much loved and lauded Americana band
The Felsons. Since launching his solo career he has produced 5 albums, including the highly regarded Whisky Hearts (also recorded in Nashville), New York Hummingbird (recorded in the Big Apple with some exceptional New York-based musicians) and Cash Back (Songs I Learned From Johnny) album, inspired by one of his lifelong idols, Johnny Cash.
Accomplice One - Tommy Emmanuel (19/01/18)
- Artist: Tommy Emmanuel
- Release date: 19th January, 2018
- Genre: Acoustic, Blues, Americana
- Record Label: Mascot Records
- Tracks: 16
- Website: http://tommyemmanuel.com
A wonderful duet album two years in the making from Tommy Emmanuel, one of the best guitar players in the world. Accomplice One sees Tommy join a host of special guests for one of the most innovative and interesting albums so far in 2018.
- 1. Deep River Blues (feat. Jason Isbell)
- 2. Song And Dance Man (feat. Ricky Skaggs)
- 3. Saturday Night Shuffle (feat. Jorma Kaukonen & Pat Bergeson)
- 4. Wheelin' & Dealin (feat. J.D. Simo & Charlie Cushman)
- 5. C-Jam Blues (feat. David Grisman & Bryan Sutton)
- 6. (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay (feat. J.D. Simo)
- 7. Borderline (feat. Amanda Shires)
- 8. You Don't Want To Get You One Of Those (feat. Mark Knopfler)
- 9. Keepin' It Reel (feat. Clive Carroll)
- 10. Looking Forward To The Past (feat. Rodney Crowell)
- 11. Purple Haze (feat. Jerry Douglas)
- 12. Rachel's Lullaby (feat. Jake Shimabukuro)
- 13. Djangology (feat. Frank Vignola & Vinny Raniolo)
- 14. Watson Blues (feat. David Grisman & Bryan Sutton)
- 15. Tittle Tattle (feat. Jack Pearson)
- 16. The Duke's Message (feat. Suzy Bogguss)
A Face Like Mine - Peter Bradley Adams (20/04/17)
- Artist: Peter Bradley Adams
- Release Date: 20th April, 2017
- Genre: Contemporary Folk, Americana, Singer-Songwriter
- Record Label: Peter Bradley Adams / Tone Tree Music
- Tracks: 9
- Website: http://www.peterbradleyadams.com
Ruins - First Aid Kit (19/01/18)
- Artist: First Aid Kit
- Release Date: 19th January, 2018
- Genre: Folk, Americana, Alt-Rock, Pop
- Record Label: Columbia
- Tracks: 10
- Website:
Headlong - John Smith (29/06/17)
- Artist: John Smith
- Release date: 29th June, 2017
- Genre: Folk, Americana, Singer-Songwriter, Acoustic
- Record Label: Barp Ltd
- Tracks: 11
- Website: http://www.johnsmithjohnsmith.com
It’s all for the love of the guitar. John plays a rumbling fingerstyle and sometimes uses a slide, sometimes plays the guitar on his lap, sometimes he detunes mid-song. His guitar work and honey-on-gravel vocals have brought crowds to pin-drop silence and rapturous applause.
Not by chance is it that John’s new record 'Headlong' comes bearing a title implying impulsive, breakneck motion - written as it was, during various touring stints in North America - with a view ahead, to new horizons and new songs, to new opportunities and new audiences. The album also bears the indelible loss of John’s friend and guitar hero John Renbourn, who called John “the future of folk music” and to whose memory 'Headlong' is dedicated.
John currently has five self-released records out; 'The Fox and the Monk' (2006), 'Map Or Direction' (2009), 'Eavesdropping' (2011) 'Great Lakes' (2013), and 'Headlong' (2017).
Lowdown & Lonesome - Kendell Marvel (13/10/17)
- Artist: Kendall Marvel
- Genre: Country, Americana, Rock
- Release Date: 13th October, 2017.
- Record Label: Big Daddy Records
- Tracks: 10
- Website: http://www.kendellmarvel.com/
Burning Bridges EP - The Wandering Hearts (17/11/17)
- Artist: The Wandering Hearts
- Genre: Americana, Country, Acoustic
- Release Date: 17th November, 2017
- Record Label: Decca
- Tracks: 4
- Website: http://www.thewanderinghearts.com/music/
The Wandering Hearts are a group from London that came together almost in defiance of the current zeitgest of rhinestone hats and Fender guitar UK country-rock that has jumped onto the proverbial bandwagon in the last two years. The Wandering Hearts demeanour, work ethic and lyrics echo the struggle of a group of musicians who’ve lived the hard pavements of North London.
They have all jobbed it as musicians and the standard is there to be seen, earned through nights of sweat on string, scraping by but smiling alongside the communal friendship that the life brings. They drink at lunchtime, talk of ex partners and the odd Chris Stapleton lyric, and rather than ring contrived it reflects a sense of authenticity to their beautiful harmony laden Alt-Country infused Folk-Americana.
Seeing them live, and how naturally their voices just ‘fit’ together, one would scarcely believe they met almost by chance through mutual friends in a bar one night less than a year ago, and a love of country music lyric put them together one afternoon in the kitsch empty bar room of the Earl Haig Hall in Crouch End for their first rehearsal.
From A Room: Volume Two - Chris Stapleton (01/12/17)
- Artist: Chris Stapleton
- Genre: Country, Americana, Singer-Songwriter
- Release Date: 1st December, 2017
- Record Label: Mercury Records Nashville
- Tracks: 9
- Website: http://www.chrisstapleton.com/
Chris Stapleton’s From A Room: Volume 2 will be released December 1 on Mercury Records Nashville and is now available to pre-order digitally and with exclusive limited-edition bundles. The multiple Grammy, CMA and ACM Award-winning musician first shared the album news from stage during the first of two sold-out shows at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena this past Friday. Of the special hometown concerts, CMT praises, “…cemented his status as one of music’s greatest talents to emerge from the current decade.” The forthcoming album takes its name from Nashville’s historic RCA Studio A (the capital “A” in “From A Room”) where it was recorded over the last year with Grammy Award-winning producer Dave Cobb. Along with Stapleton on vocals and guitar and Cobb on acoustic guitar, the album features Morgane Stapleton on harmony vocals as well as longtime band-members J.T. Cure on bass and Derek Mixon on drums. In addition to seven songs co-written by Stapleton, the album features versions of Kevin Welch’s “Millionaire” and the Homer Banks/Lester Snell-penned song made famous by Pops Staples, “Friendship”
Track Listings
1. Millionaire
2. Hard Livin'
3. Scarecrow in the Garden
4. Nobody's Lonely Tonight
5. Tryin' to Untangle My Mind
6. A Simple Song
7. Midnight Train to Memphis
8. Drunkard's Prayer
9. Friendship
Fifteen - The Walin' Jennys (27/10/17)
- Band: The Walin' Jennys
- Release Date: 27th October, 2017
- Genre: Indie Folk, Roots, Acoustic
- Record Label:True North Records
- Tracks: 9
- Website:
Now celebrating their fifteenth year together with an album appropriately call 'Fifteen'. The Wailin' Jennys again bring their own arrangements and harmonies to some of their favorite covers.
"We think the album has a live, real, moment-in-time kind of feel to it, and are so happy to be putting it out there for our fans. Some of the covers are songs we've had arranged for a while but haven't had the chance to record. The others were brought to the mix for this record. They are all songs that are close to our heart for one reason or another or that feel appropriate for the times." - The Wailin' Jennys
Elephant Eye - Hannah White (30/11/17)
- Artist: Hannah White
- Release Date: 30th November, 2017
- Genre: Singer-Songwriter, Acoustic, Americana, Folk
- Record Label: Sound Lounge Records
- Tracks: 11
- Website: https://www.hannahwhitemusic.com
Hannah White has battled her way to gaining a loyal following of fans around the UK whilst maintaining a wholly independent approach to her career. Her music is influenced by country, blues, folk, pop and soul but remains distinctly her own.
With a voice that can switch from a sweet Nashville croon to a bluesy holler, her songs draw from a rich well of life experiences and have been heard on the national airwaves of BBC Radio 2, Amazing Radio, Chris Country Radio as well major regional UK radio shows such as; BBC London, BBC Kent, BBC Merseyside, BBC Manchester & BBC Introducing as well as being played on international TV several times on the Phil Mack Country Show.
Hannah has wowed audiences at shows with multi-Grammy Award winning Tim O’Brien, Thea Gilmore, Laurence Fox, Judie Tzuke and Ben Haenow, headlined at a sold-out Union Chapel in London, performed for Whispering Bob Harris, performed at major festivals and picked up press plaudits from R2 Magazine, Country People Magazine, Blues Matters and many more.
Tyminski - Southern Gothic (20/10/17)
Artist: Dan Tyminski
Genre: Americana, Country, Singer-Songwriter
Release Date: 27th October, 2017
Record Label: UMG Nashville
Tracks: 13
Website: http://tyminskimusic.com/
Review By: Gary Smith (LCM)
With a musical career has spanning over three decades it is always very exciting when Dan Tyminski releases new material. Now, the Vermont-born singer-songwriter is releasing his excellent solo 13-track album 'Southern Gothic' through Decca (UMC) under a solitary moniker ‘Tyminski’. Dan is very well know for being part of Alison Krauss' supergroup Union Station, the singing voice of George Clooney in 'Oh Brother' and provided the vocals on EDM artist Avicii's global smash "Hey Brother." He is also a superb singer-songwriter in his own right.
The new album sees Dan mixing his roots music pedigree with a wide range of contemporary influences on 13 songs he co-wrote with some of country's best and brightest talents. Many of the songs were inspired by what Dan describes as his perceptions of "light and dark" and originally written for other artists, though he ultimately decided to record them himself. Co-writers on Southern Gothic include Sarah Buxton, Jesse Frasure, Ashley Monroe, Josh Kear and the late Andrew Dorff.
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Ready The Horses - Jarrod Dickenson (29/09/17)
- Release date: 29th September, 2017
- Genre: Americana, Country, Folk, Blues
- Record Label: Decca
- Tracks: 10
- Website: https://www.jarroddickenson.com/
Storytelling is something of a Texas tradition. Tall hats and even taller tales are woven into the fabric of The Lone Star State, and singer-songwriter, Jarrod Dickenson can spin a yarn with the best of them. Hailing from Waco, now based in Nashville, Jarrod spends most of his time on the road bringing his own particular brand of soulful Americana to a wide variety of music loving audiences around the globe.
Jarrod's critically acclaimed album 'The Lonesome Traveler' and his subsequent EP 'Songs From Willow St' paved the way for him to tour the UK, Ireland and Europe extensively over the last several years. Breakout performances at Glastonbury and Larmer Tree Festival, along with recent tours supporting legendary artists such as Bonnie Raitt, Don McLean, The Waterboys and Jools Holland have earned Jarrod a formidable and loyal fan base across the globe, including BBC radio hosts Dermot O'Leary, Cerys Matthews, Huey Morgan, Janice Long, Robert Elms and Alex Lester.
All tracks on the album were recorded with the core band live onto 2” tape, with Jarrod recalling, “I've found that getting a group of musicians all together in the same room, and playing the songs live allows you to capture the energy and feel of a live performance, because it's just that; a performance. You feed off each other, and create a much more honest and meaningful thing in my opinion. Recording to tape produces that warm sound we all love, but also affords you less room for error. I think it forces you to give each take your all. "
Under Blues Skies - CALICO the band (15/09/17)
- Artist: CALICO the band
- Genre: Country, Americana
- Release Date: 15th September, 2017
- Record Label: California Country Records
- Tracks: 13
- Website: https://www.calicotheband.com/
Calico are a Californian Americana Country group led by the female duo of Manda Mosher and Kirsten Proffit, who are known for their signature intimate and tight harmonies. They are a California band in the deepest, most natural sense of the term, their name is shorthand for California country. Their music echoes what Gram Parsons famously dubbed 'Cosmic American Music'. The sound and feel of 'Under Blue Skies' is inspired by the duo’s shared love of Crosby, Stills & Nash, the Eagles, the Everly Brothers, Fleetwood Mac and of course the Beatles. Their songwriting touchstones also includes Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, The Band and Tom Petty. Manda and Kirsten feel so connected to this classic and timeless music, that they’re able to bring it into the present tense and make it their own.
“Because we’ve spent so much time together, we feel more comfortable expressing vulnerability in the lyrics; there are definitely more love songs. There’s certainly meaning to our debut album 'Rancho California', but it’s more broad strokes; on Under Blue Skies, we were able to dig in and get more personal.” comments Manda.
Kenny Foster - Deep Cuts (17/04/17)
- Artist: Kenny Foster
- Genre: Country, Americana, Roots, Rock
- Release Date: 17th April, 2017
- Record Label: Kenny Foster
- Tracks: 12
- Website: https://kennyfostermusic.com/
While Kenny Foster isn’t exactly ‘new’ to country music, the momentum behind the unmistakable balladeer’s 2017 release ‘Deep Cuts’ has a host of new fans flocking to the raw grit and brutal honesty of Foster’s remarkably mature, thoughtful and unapologetic songwriting. Lush with real instruments, astute observations and the deconstruction of one man’s head and heart, Foster has built a monument to the American experience that seeks to universalize the specific, and embody the very specific ways that we are all very much the same. While the pop-laden sounds of country radio have been trending away from the genre’s organic roots in recent times, Foster makes a case for preserving the foundations of country music while still allowing it the chance to comment on and even pine over the ever-evolving landscape.
Authentic. Accessible. This timeless collection of songs will echo through the annuls of the story that birthed a great American tradition, and gave words to a nation seeking to reflect its own identity. A welcomed ‘new’ voice may just have us longing for our past, and at the same time, looking ahead at how we will preserve what has always been good, and right, and true.
Foster has shared the stage with artists including Maren Morris, Kacey Musgraves, Brothers Osborne, Old Dominion, Lady Antebellum, Marc Broussard, Butch Walker, Buddy Miller and countless others, along with multiple appearances at the ACM and CMA music festivals. He has received press in Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Washington Post and Forbes - who referred to him as a 'country music superstar.' He has been featured in two Super Bowl commercials with Sheryl Crow and Danica Patrick, respectively, and has appeared in numerous episodes of ABC's ‘Nashville’ and had songs placed in ‘Extreme Home Makeover’ and ‘Boston Med’, along with videos featured on national US music channels CMT and GAC.
‘Deep Cuts’ is out now worldwide, and Kenny Foster is on tour in the UK/Ireland later this month.
Hannah Johnson - Shaken (10/07/17)
- Artist: Hannah Johnson
- Genre: Country, Blues
- Release Date: 10th July, 2017
- Record Label: Wood Ville Music
- Tracks: 11
- Website: http://hjbrokenhearts.com/
The album was recorded at The Ameripolitan Studios in Austin, Texas. It features some of Hannah's favourite musicians including Stewart Johnson, Bryce Clarke, Chris Shirley, Beth Chrisman, Joshua Hoag, Emily Gimble, Tom Lewis, Sophia Johnson, Brian Kremer and Devin Jake.
Hannah delves deep into her influences of old country, the blues and honky tonk music. The choice of material is imperative to Hannah, who has spent a long time studying the vocal styles of country greats such as Faron Young, George Jones & Ray Price.
At a time when it is fashionably cool to be “Americana” and dressing “vintage” is de rigueur, it is easy to feel tired of the cliches around the modern country scene. Much of the music coming out of Nashville today seems to be either watered down country pop, or stylistically affected Americana with chanted choruses and stomping bass drums.
However, there is also reaction against these extreme ends of the industry machine and artists like Hannah Johnson are approaching their music with a refreshing honesty and commitment to the core principles of ‘old’ country music, celebrating the heritage and history rather than diluting it. Undoubtedly spending so much time in Austin, Texas has influenced her immensely, as the music she is making falls much more under the bracket of what Dale Watson is doing with his “Ameripolitan” genre than the new country from Nashville. Hannah sings classic country songs about drinking and heart ache straight from a Honky Tonk, her sultry and smokey voice taking on the likes of Patsy Cline, Skeets McDonald and Willie Nelson. But what also cannot be ignored in her voice is the strong influence from the blues, as exemplified on her cover of an old Charlie Patton number and her powerful rendition of ‘Trouble In Mind’.
The stand out tracks however, are her own compositions, ‘Your Girlfriend Hates Me’ could perhaps be seen as a modern, less aggressive take on Loretta’s “fist city”, clearly placing relationships between women at the centre of her experience, and proving not always easy being the only girl in the band. ‘Morning Cocktail’ then takes her in a more soulful and reflective direction, lamenting a highly destructive lost love, the dangerous numbing qualities of alcohol, while demonstrating her vocal prowess. ‘Nowhere Train’ immediately hits an infectious country groove, delivering classic twangy telecaster and providing a strong catchy chorus as the album’s opener.
Hannah's fans include Imelda May, Robert Plant and Ronnie Wood, indeed Hannah and her band provided the entertainment for Ronnie’s recent 70th Birthday party. She is set to spend the summer 2017 gigging and promoting her record in Austin, TX.