Country & Folk
Boy Named Banjo
Circles EP [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Whiskey Smoke Vinyl]
ON SALE $19.98 Vinyl: $16.61 PREORDER
In a time when the popular choice is to chase the double yellow line down the road to country radio, Boy Named Banjo thrives on its fringes. The Nashville-raised five-piece is a fusion of contemporary country, Americana and folk-rock stacked on a foundation of bluegrass. The band, which has been together in some iteration since members were in high school, includes Barton Davies (banjo), Ford Garrard (bass/standing bass), Sam McCullough (drums) Willard Logan (mandolin, acoustic/electric guitar) and William Reames (acoustic guitar/harmonica). Reames and Logan played in a middle school garage rock band together, but it wasn't until Reames met Davies in high school that Boy Named Banjo started taking shape. Garrard and McCullough joined later and together the five guys comprise the band Boy Named Banjo that we know today. Boy Named Banjo has crafted a sound that incorporates an energetic blend of country, bluegrass, alt-rock, and folk-pop telling their stories through an honest, emotional, roots-driven perspective. In April 2020, Boy Named Banjo signed a record deal with Mercury Records Nashville and released their debut EP, Circles, the following year. Boy Named Banjo spent 2022 on the road playing some of country musics largest festivals including Dierks Bentleys Seven Peaks and Country Jam, Kip Moores Fire on Wheels Tour, they made their CMA Fest debut playing at the Ascend Amphitheatre Nighttime Concert, and played a sold-out hometown show at Nashvilles Brooklyn Bowl. The band most recently released the tracks Heart In Motion and Heart Attack, and is currently prepping its next project to be released in spring of this year.
Gold Dust: Live At The Royalty, featuring highlights from Sandy Dennys final concert, is making its debut on vinyl. Recorded just months before her untimely death in 1978, this special release attempts to present the record that Sandy might have released had she lived. The concert features a career-spanning set that includes songs taken from her band Fotheringay, Sandys solo albums (The North Star Grassman and the Ravens, Sandy, and Rendezvous), as well as her work with Fairport Convention on the albums Unhalfbricking and Rising for the Moon. This final performance perfectly captures the folk-rock sound with a stellar group of musicians including Trevor Lucas, Jerry Donahue, Pat Donaldson, Dave Mattacks, among others. It showcases the quality of Sandys songwriting throughout her career and includes her signature composition, Who Knows Where the Time Goes? which was the first song she ever wrote and No More Sad Refrains which closed her final album. Remastered from the restored tapes, this release features Sandys spoken introductions to each song, comprehensive sleeve notes, and brand-new artwork designed specifically for this release.
Side A:
1. I Wish I Was A Fool For You (For Shame For Doing Wrong) - Live
2. Gold Dust - Live
3. The North Star Grassman - Live
4. Nothing More - Live
5. Tomorrow Is A Long Time Live
6. The Lady - Live
Side B:
7. Stranger To Himself - Live
8. It'll Take A Long Time - LIve
9. John The Gun - Live
10. Who Knows Where The Time Goes - Live
11. No More Sad Refrains - Live
A seven-track blue vinyl EP, exclusively for Record Store Day 2022, including Struck By Lightning, featuring Cavetown.
Side A
1. Struck By Lightning (feat. Cavetown)
2. Remember That Night?
3. Traffic Lights
4. Backseat Rider
Side B
1. Freeze
2. Future Kids
3. Picture OF You
Comprising a new studio record, a book of photography, lyrics, and essays, Western Skies is an immersive journey through a world both real and imagined, inspired by the west Texas landscape.
Isik Kural
In February [Indie Exclusive] (Thistle Pink Vinyl) [Colored Vinyl]
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Jeremy Ivey
Invisible Pictures [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Coke Bottle Clear LP]
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Sturgill Simpson
High Top Mountain: 10 Year Anniversary Edition [Translucent Black LP]
Vinyl: $25.98 PREORDER
10 Year Anniversary Edition of Sturgill Simpson's debut albumHigh Top Mountain.The anniversary edition includes an "Old King Coal" blacked out album cover with a glossy embossedjacket, and is pressed on translucent black vinyl.Sturgill Simpson's authenticity stands out like an island of hope in a sea of tacky. Pure and uncompromising, devoid of gloss and fakery. High Top Mountains dozen instant classics evoke the sound of timeless country in its many guises and brings back the lyrical forthrightness and depth that permeated the music Simpson absorbed during his Kentucky childhood. Bonafide mountain hillbilly soul, as pure as you are going to find anywhere.
Andy Irvine / Brady,Paul
Andy Irvine / Paul Brady (Special Ed.) (Purple)
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In the nearly 9 years since their origins in early 2012, Midnight North has established itself as a mainstay on stages in both the Bay Area roots music scene and on the nationwide touring circuit. They have opened for acts like Phil Lesh, the Infamous Stringdusters, Twiddle, & Jackie Greene, played festival stages across the country. Rolling Stone also hailed Midnight North as the "Best New Act" in its review of 2018's Peach Music Festival. Gatefold Jacket.
With its latest album, Get Yourself Outside, Colorado-based quintet Yonder Mountain String Band once again echoes out into the universe its place as not only a pioneering jam-grass act, but also one of the most innovative, intricate groups in the live music scene something the groundbreaking ensemble has proudly held high for the better part of a quarter-century.
The whole thing has always been about the energy and the connection with all of us onstage and everyone out in the audience, says guitarist Adam Aijala. And with this third iteration of Yonder Mountain, were really tapping into that onstage connection once again.
This third chapter of YMSB is one of my facets. Aside from the obvious nature of the new album, its a complete restart for the live music industry. Internally, its also a fresh start for the group in welcoming its newest member, mandolinist Nick Piccininni.
Recorded during the shutdown at Cinder Sound Studio (Gunbarrel, Colorado) with producer John McVey, Get Yourself Outside (Frog Pad Records) is a musical odyssey of string instruments and sonic textures.
Theres the usual foot-stomping jingles and sorrowful ballads that reside at the core of the Yonder Mountain signature tone. But, theres also a deep, honest sense of renewal and rejuvenation running through the heart of the record.
And, by being back on the road, Yonder Mountain has been taking note of its long, bountiful journey from its foundation in 1998 to the here and now with its 25th anniversary just around the corner.
Its also a testament to the life and legacy of Yonder Mountain that three of the founding members Aijala, Kaufmann and banjoist Dave Johnston remain at the helm of this American musical institution, something complemented and accelerated in recent years by the fiery fiddle work of Allie Kral, who joined the group in 2015.
Looking back on those early days, the members of Yonder Mountain cant help but shake their heads in awe of where it all originated from, and what the live music landscape looked like at that time.
From selling out Red Rocks Amphitheatre at a time when that was unheard of for a string act, to standing at the microphone in front of tens of thousands at festivals like Bonnaroo, Yonder Mountain was the initial spark in an acoustic inferno decades ago that endures headlong into the 21st century one burning brightly in an ongoing tidal wave movement that now includes marquee names like Billy Strings, Greensky Bluegrass, and The Infamous Stringdusters.
Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives
Altitude [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Transluscent Blue LP]
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Holy Hive
Holy Hive [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Translucent Pink / Blue Splatter LP]
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Seth Lakeman
Freedom Fields: Anniversary Edition [Colored Vinyl] (Org)
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Singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Parker McCollum is following up his breakout major label debut,Gold Chain Cowboy, with his forthcoming studio album, Never Enough, out May 12 (MCA Nashville). McCollum earned his first-ever No. 1 hit with his double-platinum certified premiere single, Pretty Heart, and his follow-up gold certified single, To Be Loved by You, also hit No. 1 on the charts.
Gerycz / Powers / Rolin
Lamplighter (Blue) [Clear Vinyl] [Indie Exclusive]
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Over 3 decades ago, Peter One was a STAR. A country music star, in West Africa. With his singing partner Jess Sah Bi, Peter played to sold out arenas. In 1985, Our Garden Needs Its Flowers, launched the two Ivory Coast musicians into regional stardom across greater West Africa. Now solo, Peter One ultimately decided to emigrate to the US to further his music career. Come Back to Me features songs in English, French and his native African language.
Sacramento songwriter Tr Burts sophomore album, You, Yeah, You, is a narrated collection of songs featuring a cast of invented characters; heroes, villains, those destitute of salvation and those seeking it. This is Burts second release on Oh Boy Records, the label founded by the late John Prine who signed the songwriter in the fall of 2019. On You, Yeah, You, Burt teamed up with Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee, Nathaniel Rateliff) to create the album that reads like twelve rounds in a ring, summoning the will to fight the unknown rather than surrender to fear and fatigue. You, Yeah, You is a cohesive body of work that clearly illustrates the ever expanding space in which Tr Burts voice belongs.
Kacey Musgraves
Same Trailer Different Park: 10th Anniversary Edition [Limited Edition Picture Disc- Zoetrope LP]
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Kacey Musgraves will be releasing a limited edition Zoetrope Picture Disc Vinyl in celebrating the 10th Anniversary of her debut Platinum and Grammy winning album- Same Trailer Different Park. The album went to #1 on the Country Album Charts when it was released in 2013. Kacey co-wrote all 12 tracks and co-produced the album with Luke Laird and Shane McAnally. Album won the Grammy award for the Best Country Album at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. The album featured the break-out singles- Merry Go Round, Blowin Smoke, and Follow Your Arrow.
Ji-Yoon Young
Road Home (White Vinyl) [Colored Vinyl] (Gate) [180 Gram] [Remastered]
Vinyl: $41.29 Buy
Michael Hurley's first newstudio record in 12 years features eleven songs recorded in Astoria, Oregon during the brief time of year when the foxgloves bloom. Hurley had been workshopping the set at home for the past few years. Friends and collaborators came into town and contributed from afar. The songs are lifted by violin, organ, upright bass, banjo, percussion - but at the center, of course, is the enigmatic Snock, whose songs have grown only more unique and recognizable 57 years after his debut album (First Songs- Folkways, 1964). It could only be Snock. Heartbreaking, heartfelt, easy and carefree. The glorious opener Are You Here For The Festival punctuated by a pair of violins came to him while working in the garden. Little Blue River floats by on a cloud. The haunting Jacobs Ladder sounds beamed in from another era. Or dimension.Foxglovesis as comforting and wonderful as any Hurley record that has come before it.