Country/Americana

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James McMurtry - The Horses and the Hounds

Released 20th August 2021. SK says: 'Master songwriter James McMurtry at long last follows up the...

Released 20th August 2021. SK says: 'Master songwriter James McMurtry at long last follows up the quite brilliant 'Complicated Game', an album of stunning vignettes, with his first new music in six years.' In James McMurtry’s new effort, The Horses and the Hounds, the acclaimed songwriter backs personal narratives with effortless elegance (“Canola Fields”) and endless energy (“If It Don’t Bleed”). This first collection in seven years spotlights a seasoned tunesmith in peak form as he turns to...

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Mega Bog - Life, And Another

Released 23rd July 2021. Vinyl Expected 27th August. The magical Mega Bog returns with another fa...

Released 23rd July 2021. Vinyl Expected 27th August. The magical Mega Bog returns with another fantastical off-world transmission, the most sophisticated, exploratory, and accessible statement yet from surrealist songwriter and avant-pop prospector Erin Birgy. Featuring James Krivchenia (Big Thief), who co-produced, and Zach Burba (iji) among its cast of vibrant players, Life, and Another bristles with painterly technicolor surface textures while plumbing fathomless depths of feeling. Cohabit...

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Johnny Cash - Classic Cash (Early Mixes)

RSD 2020.

RSD 2020.

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Rosali - No Medium

Released 7th May 2021. While the collection of songs on Philadelphia/Michigan musician Rosali’s e...

Released 7th May 2021. While the collection of songs on Philadelphia/Michigan musician Rosali’s electrifying third LP, No Medium, explores the often dark territory of loss, death, sexuality, self-sabotage, and addiction, there is a surprising lightness to its sonic being. Backed by members of the David Nance Group, Rosali (Long Hots, Wandering Shade, Monocot) wades through the emotional mire with infectious, earworm melodies led by her luminous voice. With their rich, raw instrumentation, the...

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Los Lobos - Native Sons

Released 30th July 2021. Los Angeles based band, Los Lobos, have always been inspired by their su...

Released 30th July 2021. Los Angeles based band, Los Lobos, have always been inspired by their surroundings and the place they call home. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tex-Mex, country, zydeco, folk, R&B, blues, brown-eyed soul, and traditional music such as cumbia, boleros and norteños. With Native Sons the band set out to showcase all of these influences with their own take on the songs of Los Angeles from some of the cities greatest songwriters. Native Sons features 13-so...

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Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin' Grass - Vol. 1 (The ...

Released 11th December 2020. Since breaking through in 2014 with his Grammy nominated Metamodern ...

Released 11th December 2020. Since breaking through in 2014 with his Grammy nominated Metamodern Sounds in Country Music album, Sturgill Simpson has established himself as one of the most daring and most acclaimed artists of our time. His music stretches across genres and styles, from the psychedelic soul of 2016's A Sailor's Guide To Earth (Grammy nominated for Album of the Year and winner for Best Country Album) to the fuzzed-out rock attack of Sound & Fury in 2019. Now Simpson returns ...

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Luke Schneider - Altar Of Harmony

Released 26th June 2020. Sam's Albums of the Year 2020: 'Schneider conjures extraordinary walls o...

Released 26th June 2020. Sam's Albums of the Year 2020: 'Schneider conjures extraordinary walls of sound from his vintage pedal steel. His transformative approach to the instrument recalls William Tyler's work, while his Lynchian soundscapes evoke the cosmic Amerciana of Kentucky Route Zero.' This recording, which can justifiably be described as "new age" in the most essential sense, represents a radical new approach to the versatile and cosmic instrument of the steel guitar. This is somethi...

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Chris Eckman - Where The Spirit Rests

Released 11th June 2021. The fifth solo album from Chris Eckman (The Walkabouts, Dirtmusic, Dista...

Released 11th June 2021. The fifth solo album from Chris Eckman (The Walkabouts, Dirtmusic, Distance, Light & Sky) is a deep dive into the vagaries of these extraordinary times. Eckman's luminous song-writing navigates loss, disorientation, redemption and the search for home. Recorded raw and direct with a small ensemble, the record is framed by expansive sonic textures: treated strings, analogue synth drones and ambient guitars. Where the Spirit Rests was co-produced with British electro...

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Yola - Stand for Myself

Released 30th July 2021. Stand for Myself is the anthemic new album from Yola. Produced by Dan Au...

Released 30th July 2021. Stand for Myself is the anthemic new album from Yola. Produced by Dan Auerbach, the record is a timeless masterpiece marking an idiosyncratic sonic shift, which will defy all expectation. A sophisticated and diverse sonic mix of symphonic soul and classic pop, tracing an expansive musical thread to Yola’s most eclectic musical inspirations. Yola’s inimitable vocals share nuanced stories of allyship, black feminine strength through vulnerability, collective awakening a...

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Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - All The Good T...

Released 5th March 2021. The first Gillian Welch & David Rawlings collaboration to feature bo...

Released 5th March 2021. The first Gillian Welch & David Rawlings collaboration to feature both of their names, All The Good Times, a collection of 10 acoustic covers recorded at home, received a 2021 Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album. After a devastating tornado ravaged Nashville in the Spring of 2020 making their studio unusable, immediately followed by a global pandemic shutting down their community and touring livelihood, Welch and Rawlings were able to find the inspiration to set...

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Danny & The Champions of the World - Los Campeo...

Released 16th April 2021. 'Los Campeones en Vivo' finds Danny and The Champions of the World high...

Released 16th April 2021. 'Los Campeones en Vivo' finds Danny and The Champions of the World high in the mountains of Asturias in Spain. A document of a magical night in 2018, a ragged, sweaty and emotional performance captured on tape and now available on a double CD through Loose Records. It encapsulates and celebrates the band's ongoing mutual love affair with Spainwhich has seen the band play to thousands at the famous Azkena Festival and to packed venues across the country. "The people a...

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Tony Joe White - Smoke From The Chimney

Released 7th May 2021. Vinyl expected 28th May. Tony Joe White’s posthumous album, ‘Smoke From T...

Released 7th May 2021. Vinyl expected 28th May. Tony Joe White’s posthumous album, ‘Smoke From The Chimney’, brings to life previously unknown recordings by the legendary songwriter and musician. Produced by Dan Auerbach from nine unreleased vocal/guitar demos and performed by an ensemble “who capture the DNA of Tony Joe White’s songs with beauty, warmth, and reverence.” (NPR’s Bruce Warren). Starting with the album’s genesis as an unforeseen trove of demos in the hands of producer Dan Auerb...

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