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It’s been a decade since this Vermont singer/songwriter last released a full-length album, though she’s kept herself busy with new motherhood, collaborations like Bonny Light Horseman with Josh Kaufman, and of course Hadestown, her smash Broadway hit that’s won numerous Tony, Grammy, and other awards.

Nashville singer/songwriter Erin Rae incorporates a “swirling organ, ornate strings, and Seventies-inflected West Coast warmth” (Rolling Stone) into this one, thanks largely to acclaimed producer (and Forest City native!) Jonathan Wilson.

“1977 is the year I started playing guitar: the year I started becoming ME”, the Atlanta native states. So she reached back to Laurel Canyon influences like Neil Young and Linda Ronstadt for the touchstone of this one. Fun facts: Michelle has been in a Georgia tourism TV commercial with Elton John, sang backup in the Drivin’ N Cryin’ anthem “Straight To Hell”, and has started a scholarship program for girls, with at least three awarded so far.

Guitarist Chris Eldridge, bassist Paul Kowert, banjoist Noam Pikelny, mandolinist/singer Chris Thile, and fiddler Gabe Witcher are back with some inventive reimaginings of Tony Rice’s album, of songs from the likes of Bill Monroe, Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, and this Norman Blake/Tony Rice classic that is their title track.

The Boston-based road-hardened rocker has a new one coming out Friday the 18th on Blue Corn Music. The title reflects the unfortunate situation this pandemic has put her, other musicians, and well, all of us in these past couple years.

It might be hard to imagine an album of Merle Haggard country classics done in a Memphis soul style. But it’s actually been a dream of Reed’s to do these “radical reworkings”, as he calls them, for some ten years now. And it works! Reed credits the greatness of the songs themselves to be arranged so differently and still work. Take a listen yourself, and perhaps you’ll agree that Eli deserves a bit of that credit, too.

Although it’s an all-instrumental release, this powerful ensemble uses their music to paint a picture of myriad societal woes, while pointing toward solutions and a better world. Heavy cinematic soul, spiritual jazz-funk, and upbeat Afro-funk comprise the grooves on this new one.

Violin, harmonium, drums, tight harmonies, intelligent songwriting….and roots in Asheville and Boone… No wonder they’re one of our favorite bands here! Their new album comes out April 8th, and we predict it will be very well received, not just around here but throughout the music-loving world. Congratulations, Alex, Daniel, Halli & Ryan.

We fell in love with his 2019 album “Between the Country”, with its beautiful imagery and warm sound reminiscent of early John Prine. This new one also centers for the most part around his Eastern Kentucky homelands, and was recorded on reel-to-reel tapes in short spurts over the course of two years, with producer Andrija Tokic (Phosphorescent, Alabama Shakes, Hurray For the Riff Raff.)

Steve Earle, James McMurtry, Hayes Carll, Ringo Starr…. Ray hangs with the best! There also probably some new discoveries for you here, too, for some serious rockers and Ray’s classic wit and wisdom. This is his 2nd in a series of collaborations.