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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.

Singer Erika Wennerstrom has fronted this rock band for six albums now, and this one includes session players from My Morning Jacket, Midlake, and Okkervil River. Her songs on “A Beautiful Life” are yet another much needed first aid kit for dealing with the trials and tribulations of today’s world; themes of self-love and awareness, mental health, the environment, and consumerism thread it together, with tasteful forays into blues, psychedelia, and singer/songwriter.

This isn’t exactly Norah’s first Holiday album: she and her trio of friends Puss N’ Boots released “Dear Santa” in 2019. This new one was produced by Leon Michels, and features Brian Blade on drums, Tony Scherr and Nick Movshon on bass, and Russ Pahl on pedal steel guitar among others.

The Texas-raised fiddler/singer/songwriter/rocker, and member of Jason Isbell’s 400 Unit (as well as the frontman’s wife), has her first Holiday album out. And while there’s flying reindeer and fallen tinsel and such, there are also the other experiences that tend to come around this time of year: family drama, forced cheer, and fantasies of escaping off to some far-away tropical island.

Bob Weir, Marcus King, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Tedeschi/Trucks, and many others cover the songs of the revered jamband and Americana guitarist of Circles Around the Sun, Hard Working Americans, and much more. It’s high time his own songs received more attention, and this 3-CD set of terrific covers helps to do that.