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We’ve loved the Georgia singer/songwriter’s previous albums of original material, and he’s teamed up with terrific producer (and cousin) Dave Cobb yet again for this album of Gospel songs, inspired in part by a near-death experience he suffered recently with his one-year-old son.

The Soulive and Lettuce guitarist and singer has a new solo release that finds him defining himself not just as an artist, but as a husband and father, too. He’s got Otis McDonald on bass, Wil Blades on keys, Curtis Kelly on drums, and James VIII on guitar and vocals.

You may have seen or heard of this Grammy-nominated bluegrass band from our “Goin’ Across the Mountain Live” concert last summer here in Spindale. They take on some of their favorites from the Stanley Brothers, Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard, George Jones and more on Never Slow Down. And they have a new member on this one, fiddler and singer Laura Orshaw.

The East Texas native had a tough, poverty-stricken childhood, but overcame adversity and forged a powerful career, first as a singer in the Mannish Boys, and now as a great bandleader with his own records. On this new one, “Suga” once again combines classic soul melodies with funky R&B grooves and raw blues power. The album takes on issues, such as PTSD, civil rights and social justice, but while the subject matter might be hard, he leaves you feeling joyous and inspired.

It’s been an indescribably challenging time for most independent musicians to record, produce, and release new albums during this pandemic, for a variety of reasons. But Chuck has the drive, and the Kickstarter supporters, to make it happen! This is his 13th album, and he’ll return to Studio B on May 11th, in advance of his May 14th show at Isis Music Hall in Asheville.

Josh Tillman has been performing lately with symphonies like the Los Angeles Philharmonic and New York Pops. You might hear some of that influence on this new lushly produced album, which Paste Magazine describes as “novellas set to instrumentation that spans FJM’s many styles, widescreen baroque pop that folds in both Old Hollywood and Americana.”

This has been one of our most highly anticipated new releases this year, not only for this great new band she’s got backing her up, but guests like Old Crow Medicine Show, Billy Strings, and Gillian Welch. Beautiful songs here, too.

Folk, blues, and alt-country from this Ontario singer/songwriter on his third album, in which he addresses love, music, and politics. “When I write a song, I want it to work on many different levels for different people and I try to get to the core of an emotion that a lot of people have experienced, so they feel less alone. I want to make somebody feel like they are connected and not isolated.”

Fans of Harry Nilsson, Todd Rundgren, Dr. John, and Leon Russell among others are poised to dig this great sophomore release from keyboardist/singer/rocker Neal Francis. The songs came to life over the course of a tumultuous year spent living in a (possibly) haunted church in Chicago. The result: a portrait of profound upheaval and weary resilience.

Check out these inventive jazz reinterpretations of various classics you may – or may not – recognize.