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Leftover Salmon co-founder Vince Herman has his first solo release! He recorded it at the late Cowboy Jack Clement’s famous studio in Nashville, and anyone familiar with both of those unique fellows knows this was a fitting match. The studio band included Darrell Scott, guitarist Pat McLaughlin, bassist Dave Roe, drummer Pete Abbott, keyboardist Mike Rojas, fiddlers Jason Carter and Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, …plus a few harmony vocals from Tim O’Brien who stopped by during the sessions. By the way, Vince and Leftover Salmon will be in Asheville for a couple New Year’s Eve shows at the Salvage Station.

This Dublin, Ireland band has endeared us over the past few years with their terrific, original adaptation of Appalachian music. Louise Holden (vocals), her brother Dave Holden (guitar), Konrad Liddy (upright bass), Colin Derham (banjo), and Adrian Hart (fiddle) are perhaps charting a bit of a new direction with this new self-titled release, with the addition of a wider range of influences, including sixties pop, cinematic soundscapes and New Orleans jazz.

This is the 8th solo album from the cofounder and lead singer of The Old 97’s, out on ATO Records. You’ll hear those influences too, but also such diverse ones as Lou Reed, Belle & Sebastian, William Bell, and, to quote a favorite Todd Snider song of ours, “piles and piles and piles of Tom Petty”.

Asheville singer/songwriter Julia Sanders has been exploring numerous corners of America these past few years, but we are oh so lucky that she calls Asheville home. Check out this intriguing collection of songs, largely inspired by the her new experience of motherhood. John James Tourville (The Deslondes), another Asheville music figure, features prominently here with production, recording, and nearly a dozen or so instruments. Other locals include Megan Drollinger (Life Like Water), Lyndsay Pruett (Jon Stickley Trio), Erika Lewis (Tuba Skinny), and Melissa Hyman (The Moon & You). Julia has an album release show at The Grey Eagle on December 5th.

Color Red Records has sent us this new release featuring the Colorado band’s signature “modern funk with vintage soul” grooves, including a heavy influence from a big trip recently to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (home of pop star/hero Papa Wemba.)

This is the 2nd album from this group featuring Atlanta frontman William Fussell, keyboardist Alana Pagnutti, bassist Mick Mayer, pianist John Carroll Kirby (Solange, Steve Lacy), Spoon keyboardist Alex Fischel, guitarist Jackson MacIntosh (Drugdealer, Jessica Pratt), pedal-steel player Connor Gallaher (Black Lips, Calexico), and TOPS drummer Riley Fleck. Influences range from George Jones to the Bee Gees, Greek mythology to sci-fi futurism, so they refer to this as “country music for everyone”, or “This ain’t your daddy’s country, it’s yours.”

Introducing a Transatlantic Folk couple with a warm, welcoming collection of songs out of Travelers Rest, SC. Mandolinist David Benedict is from there, but his wife Tabitha Agnew Benedict is a banjo player from Northern Ireland. Their new collaboration has already attracted fans like John Doyle, Brittany Haas, and Sierra Hull. Doyle and Haas perform on this album, and while Hull doesn’t show up in the credits, you can hear why their sound “landed a huge smile on (her) face and for a moment allowed escape from all the negative noise in the world.”

If you’re a fan of Southern gothic writers like William Faulkner or Eudora Welty, the lyrics of Alabama native James Mullis, a.k.a. Early James, might resonate with you. He incorporates these influences into his original forsaken blues and contemplative folk songs, brooding murder ballads and lovestruck piano tunes. Dan Auerbach of Easy Eye Sound was recruited a 2nd time for this new one. He’s got Sierra Ferrell joining him on one of these songs.

Neil’s back! This 11-song collection is a cautiously optimistic meditation on the past, present, and future of our shared planet and what it means to live on it. With songs like “Love Earth”, “This Old Planet”, and “The World”, you get the theme here. It was produced by Young and Rick Rubin, and as you might expect, it was meticulously recorded – live -- and mixed to analog tape.

The 86-year-old living legend of Chicago blues sounds just as strong as ever in these powerful performances.