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The Southern blues-rock guitarist has his 20th album, and he shows no signs of slowing down. “He achieves pyrotechnics that rival early Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton.” (Rolling Stone)

Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance are back with a more acoustic-based album, this time with fellow Texan Robert Ellis as producer. Like Taylor Swift and countless other musicians who have protested automated playlists a la Spotify, they envision their album as a collection of songs that should be played all the way through, like reading a book. But forgive us if we tend to spin these many terrific tracks individually amongst our eclectic weekday mix throughout this year.

This is the 16th independent release from this Brevard singer/songwriter/instrumentalist. As always, Dave shares the music and poetry of his heart, in a manner that’s both deeply personal and able to connect us all to our shared human experience.

She calls this her “love letter to the West”, and New Mexico in particular, as she’s recently moved back there. It’s a beautiful combo of originals, and a few covers that fit the theme, including a couple old cowboy tunes adapted to a female perspective. This is the follow-up to her critically acclaimed political album, 2020, which topped the folk radio charts and won Eliza the “Best Song of the Year” award from the Folk International Alliance.

Toy was recorded following David's triumphant Glastonbury 2000 performance. Bowie entered the studio with his band, Mark Plati, Sterling Campbell, Gail Ann Dorsey, Earl Slick, Mike Garson, Holly Palmer, and Emm Gryner, to record new interpretations of songs he’d first recorded from 1964-1971. David planned to record the album “old school” with the band playing live and release it right away. Instead, he had to move on to something new, which began with a handful of new songs from the same sessions and ultimately became the acclaimed album Heathen, released in 2002. Toy will finally be released on January 7th, the day before what would be his 75th birthday.

It’s no big surprise to us that your #1 pick for WNCW’s Top 100 of 2021 was this one from the guitarist phenom Billy Strings. We can’t think of another artist of ours who has had such a meteoric rise in popularity these past few years, and Billy and his band deserve every bit of it! Julian will spin tunes from Renewal throughout the 8 O’clock hour.

The Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist navigates breakup, deaths, and the myriad problems weighing on the world as a whole, from the pandemic to wildfires... but with an air of making peace with it all, and exercising patience. The color blue is in the forefront on this new one – not so much melancholy, but keeping cool, calm, & collected, despite the chaos around us.

We kick of our new release spotlights for 2022 with something surprisingly different: a funk/soul band out of Moscow, Russia! This five-piece band of Muscovites have an all-instrumental album of cinematic, psychedelic, Eastern European grooves we think you’ll dig. Available on January 28th.

This is the former Stray Birds member’s 3rd solo album, one that “opens windows that give us insights into the ambiguities of our lives.” (No Depression) She’s joined by Shelby Means & Joel Timmons, Kristin Andreassen & Chris Eldridge, her partner Ethan Jodziewicz, and her two sisters.

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.