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This Boston band, led by Ken Casey, has been pulling no punches with its fiery Irish punk rock since 1996. Casey has always felt a kinship with the words of Woody Guthrie, and thanks to Woody’s daughter Nora Guthrie, they were able to mine the seemingly infinite Woody Guthrie archives to find more poems that can finally be set to music. Nora helped find lyrics that, in her words, “seemed to be needed to be said – or screamed – today.” Guests here include Woody himself, his grandson Cole Quest, Nikki Lane, and Dom Flemons.

Patuxent Music record label is known around WNCW for their great taste in both traditional and progressive stringband mountain music, and among their latest gems is this one from Shane. After a couple albums with the band Serene Green, he’s got a debut solo album, though he’s joined by Chris Luquette, Ellery Marshall, Brett Kretzer, Alex Hargreaves, and Jack Devereux among others. His love for the first generation of bluegrass pioneers is evident here, but these are almost all new, original tunes (plus an Elvis Costello cover!)

The phenomenal fiddler for the Del McCoury Band and the Travelin’ McCourys has his first solo album in 25 years! It’s a wide open pool of songwriters he draws from, including Bruce Hornsby (“King of the Hill”), Garcia/Hunter (“Bird Song”), and Vassar Clements (“Kissimmee Kid”, the one instrumental here.) Instrumentalists joining him include Marty Stuart, David Grier, Danny Barnes, and Jerry Douglas. His guest vocalists here are Dierks Bently, Billy Strings, Vince Gill, Tim O’Brien, Aoife O’Donovan, Sarah Jarosz, Joe Mullins… oh and his boss Del.

Blues fans! We present the first-time live recording from veteran bluesman and road warrior Damon Fowler, recorded at the Palladium Theater in St Petersburg, FL. A masterful singer, guitar player, and songwriter, Fowler combines first-rate musicianship and lots of full-blown jamming, with his venerable working band: Chuck Riley (bass) and Justin Headley (drums) along with special guests Jason Ricci (harmonica), Dan Signor (keyboards) and Eddie Wright (guitar). 'Live At The Palladium' marks Fowler's 9th solo release.

Tyler has a 3-part project out of 8 songs, produced by himself and The Food Stamps. The Hallelujah version captures Tyler and the core band playing live in a single room over the course of two days, while the Jubilee version builds on it with the addition of strings, horns, background vocals and an array of worldly instruments such as dulcimer, mbira and sitar. The final version, Joyful Noise, consists of remixes created with DJ Charlie Brown Superstar (Brett Fuller) and includes samples from eclectic sources such as “The Andy Griffith Show,” theologist Thomas Merton, and comedian Jerry Clower.

There’s a lot going on in this sixteen-song collection from New Jersey’s Juniper Shelley, that moves from a bossa nova take on a Kiss song, to a modern take on girl-group sounds to pop and bubble gum/punk. It’s her 2nd album, and she’s still a teenager! Especially of interest to fans of Jill Sobule, Amy Rigby, and mid-‘60s Texas band The Ron-Dels (four of the songs are covers of theirs, written by a young Delbert McClinton!)

She’s back with this terrific one produced by Joshua Homme in Burbank, CA. The band here includes Homme, as well as his Queens of the Stone Age collaborators Alain Johannes on guitar, Dean Fertita on organ & Michael Shuman on bass. Additionally, the album features drummers Matt Helders of Arctic Monkeys, Carla Azar of the acclaimed post-punk band Autolux (and frequent Jack White collaborator), and Lane’s pedal steel player Matthew Pynn (Dwight Yoakum, Miley Cyrus).

Tyler has a 3-part project out of 8 songs, produced by himself and The Food Stamps. The Hallelujah version captures Tyler and the core band playing live in a single room over the course of two days, while the Jubilee version builds on it with the addition of strings, horns, background vocals and an array of worldly instruments such as dulcimer, mbira and sitar. The final version, Joyful Noise, consists of remixes created with DJ Charlie Brown Superstar (Brett Fuller) and includes samples from eclectic sources such as “The Andy Griffith Show,” theologist Thomas Merton, and comedian Jerry Clower.

Welcome to the 10th album from this Minnesota band! 10 of the 11 tracks on Alpenglow were written by lead singer Dave Simonett, with one written by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, who produced this. Bassist Tim Saxhaug, banjo player Dave Carroll, mandolinist Erik Berry, fiddler Ryan Young, and cellist Eamonn McLain round out the group.

Singer/songwriter/Autoharp player Grey DeLisle has a wonderfully unique voice, which lends itself well to a variety of recognizable songs on this collection of covers. It’s a roster as eclectic as WNCW’s playlist: Pink Floyd, Ray Charles, T-Rex, Emmylou Harris/Julie Miller, even 19th Century songwriter Stephen Foster. As fate would have it, some of her renditions and choices lend themselves well to our day-and-night-long Halloween playlist, too!