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Our favorite Travelers Rest/Northern Ireland duo is back with their 2nd album, this time as new parents. It’s another warm, rich blend of bluegrass, Celtic, and songwriting roots, with longtime bandmates Julian Pinelli on fiddle, and Nate Sabat on bass. “Hearing The Foreign Landers for the first time immediately landed a huge smile on my face and for a moment allowed escape from all the negative noise in the world. Tabitha and David simply sound like two people who are meant to make music together. The playing, singing, and arrangements are all so wonderful—I’m a fan!” –Sierra Hull

Harrisonburg, Virginia’s Steel Wheels are constantly redefining their acoustic sensibilities over an ever-changing folk/rock landscape, as heard on this new one. The release date for this self-titled album is Friday the 16th, the same day they play the Neighborhood Theatre in Charlotte! The group — Trent Wagler (vocals, banjo, guitar), Eric Brubaker (fiddle), Jay Lapp (mandolin, guitar), Kevin Garcia (drums, percussion), and Jeremy Darrow (bass )— celebrates their 20th anniversary this year.

“B” is for…Bluegrass? We’ve got some great new singles coming in, including these three. Saluda’s Aaron Burdett has one about Boone clog dancing legend Arthur Grimes, who’s been a big inspiration to Aaron and many others. Asheville native Bryan Sutton conceived this wild new interpretation of Charlie Daniels’ classic hit, which tells the tale of a guitarist from Deep Gap named Arthel, and how he came to be called Doc… And the Brothers Comatose are a bluegrass/Americana band that formed in 2008 in San Francisco, but now feature a new singer named Addie Levy from southwest Virginia.

This Colorado band has made a name for themselves with their fresh blend of funk, soul, rock, jazz, and hip-hop. Perhaps you’ve caught a live set of theirs in our area the past few years, including a live set from Sierra Nevada Brewing’s amphitheatre last year that added a fun finale to our latest Crowd Around the Mic compilation. In addition to cooking up their music since forming in Boston in 1992, the band has recently launched a Berklee College of Music scholarship, two new wine lines called Red Crush and Orange Crush, and a cooking series titled Lettuce Cook. They’ve got aprons for sale, too…

This is the duo’s second collaboration, following a trio work with the late Peter Cooper (a Spartanburg native), who passed away in 2022. The theme of this album centers around creativity: As they roam the world strumming and singing, the two always make time for art, and seeing Diego Rivera’s murals in Detroit sparked a song, as did Max Beckmann’s powerful paintings in a museum in The Hague. American painter Thomas Hart Benton’s final work, “The Origins of Country Music,” gets a close look in a song Thomm wrote with the great Shawn Camp. The album will be released on Red Beet Records on Friday, the 16th.

Having been friends and occasional touring partners for well over a decade, Asheville-based singer-songwriter-guitarist Tyler Ramsey and My Morning Jacket guitarist Carl Broemel have now made their full-length recorded debut with Celestun. It is predominantly filled with lush, mostly acoustic instrumentals, though they each sing a song or two here, too.

The frontman of the Grammy-nominated rock group Rival Sons has made this debut solo album. Written in the solitude of an underground bunker deep in the Mojave Desert, Weapons of Beauty is the result of months of reflection and experimentation—an unfiltered 10-song collection that captures Buchanan’s raw vocals and lived-in storytelling.

Have you heard of this country-soul singer yet? Elton John says he sounds like “if Bill Withers made country music.” Some of his primary influences include Hank Williams, Leadbelly, Etta James, Chris Stapleton, and Otis Redding. Country-soul, indeed! He packed his debut album with 18 songs.

Ed Jurdi and Gordy Quist began making music 20 years ago. Their great blend of rock, country, and blues as Band of Heathens has attracted a loyal following since then, and this new album is another feather in their cap.

We kick off another week of Black History Month with this fine blend of blues, soul, and funk. A powerhouse vocalist and harmonica player with a commanding stage presence, Coleman is one of today's leading voices in modern Chicago blues with his performances of the past 15 years. Igor Prado is widely regarded as one of the most exciting contemporary blues guitarists on the international scene today.