Sarah Jarosz, Build Me Up From Bones, 2013 on Sugar Hill Records My copy is a 2021 reissue by Craft Recordings and it sounds beautiful. Wonderful cover of…
Jack Cooper, Sandgrown, 2017 on Trouble in Mind Jack Cooper solo debut – song cycle about Blackpool and the Fylde Coast Bit reminiscent for me of Courtney Barnett…
Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys, Come Black Magic, 2016 self-released. Boston area cabaret/goth/dada ensemble (SteamCrunk?) Army of Toys – beautiful labels and a killer cover…
Sturgill Simpson, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, 2014 on High Top Mountain Records Vinyl Me, Please reissue. You can’t fool me, it’s turtles all the way down Produced…
Darkside, Psychic, 2013 on Other People / Matador Records My copy is a Vinyl Me, Please reissue from 2021 Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harringtone downtempo electronic masterpiece from…
Shakey Graves, Roll the Bones, 2011 self-released. My copy is the 10th anniversary edition on Dualtone Records with a 2nd LP of Odds and Ends from Shakey Graves…
John Grant, Love Is Magic, 2018 on Bella Union. Deluxe 2 LP clear vinyl edition with a 12 page booklet Maybe my favorite 21st century artist (though I…
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell, The Traveling Kind, 2015 on Nonesuch Second duets album for Harris and Crowell, following after Old Yellow Moon in 2013. This time 6…
Foxygen, Hang, 2017 on Jagjaguwar Foxygen bring the best of early Bowie, some Leon Russell, Captain Beefheart, psychedelic rock, prog, jazz- all a very interesting mish-mash: drama that…
Willie Nelson, For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price, 2016 on Legacy Great tribute album – I think @willienelsonofficial sounds fantastic in all he’s released in…
John Hiatt, The Eclipse Sessions, 2018 on New West Signed copy via Barnes & Noble in Manchester NH Recorded around the time of the 2017 solar eclipse –…
A.J.J., A.J.J.’s Ugly Spiral: Lost Works 2012-2016, on Side One Dummy Records Some unreleased studio cuts, Live takes, and alternate versions. John Congleton sessions and a Final Cut…
Adam’s House Cat, Town Burned Down, 2018 on ATO Records Originally recorded back in 1990, but not released – new vocals were cut in 2018 for this release….
M. Ward, What a Wonderful Industry, 2018 on M. Ward Records. M. Ward a few albums back, before Migration Stories and the Billy Holiday cover album Think Of…
Dawes, Passwords, 2018 on HUB Records 2xLP Dawes album – one of my favorite working bands today – always consistent quality. Production by Jonathan Wilson Beautiful pressing by…
Generationals, State Dogs: Singles 2017-2018, released in 2018 on Polyvinyl. Generationals is a duo out of Louisiana often described as “New Wave” despite recording now, not in the…