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New & Upcoming CD Releases

Here's what has been released recently and what's coming 'round the bend...




Also, There is now a Freight Train Boogie New Releases Blog with more detailed release comments.

   
may 15th  
   
BILL EVANS In Good Company (Native and Fine)  
MATT HARLAN Bow and Be Simple  (Berkalin) 
THE HOBART BROTHERS WITH LIL' SIS HOBART At Least We Have Each Other (Freedom)
WILLIE NELSON Heroes (Sony Legacy)
NRBQ We Travel The Spaceways  (Clang!) 
LISA MARIE PRESLEY Storm & Grace (Universal Republic)  
ANDRE WILLIAMS & THE SADIES Night & Day (Yep Roc)  
   

May 8th  
   
LUTHER DICKINSON Hambone's Meditations (Songs of the South)
JOHN FULLBRIGHT From the Ground Up (12th Street)
GLENN FREY After Hours (Universal Music)
O'BRIEN PARTY OF SEVEN Reincarnation: The Songs Of Roger Miller (Howdy Skies)
PAUL THORN What the Hell Is Goin On? (Perpetual Obscurity)
TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS Goodbye Normal Street (Bossier City)
THE WANDERING Go On Now, You Can't Stay Here (Songs Of The South)
SARA WATKINS Sun Midnight Sun (Nonesuch)
THE WOOD BROTHERS Live Volume 1: Sky High (Southern Ground Artists)
   

May 1st  
   
DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND Twenty Dozen (Savoy Jazz)
THE GREAT RECESSION ORCHESTRA Double Shot (New Tex)
NORAH JONES Little Broken Hearts (Blue Note)
ANDERS OSBORNE Black Eye Galaxy (Alligator)
CHELLE ROSE Ghost of Browder Holler (Lil' Damsel)
TODD SNIDER Time As We Know It: Songs of Jerry Jeff Walker (Aimless)  
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Out Of The Game (Decca)
   

April 24th  
   
RANI ARBO & DAISY MAYHEM Some Bright Morning (Signature Sounds)
ETTA BRITT Out of the Shadows (Wrinkled)
CARRIE HASSLER The Distance (Rural Rhythm)
WARREN HAYNES Live At The Moody Theater (Stax)
EVIE LADIN BAND Evie Ladin Band (Evil Diane)
GORDON LIGHTFOOT All Live (Rhino)
JOE PUG Great Despiser (Lightning Rod)  
MARTY STUART Nashville 1: Tear the Woodpile Down (Sugar Hill)   
Various Artists Mercyland: Hymns for the Rest of Us (Mercyland/Tone Tree)
THE WACO BROTHERS & PAUL BURCH  Great Chicago Fire (Bloodshot)
JACK WHITE Blunderbuss ( Third Man/Columbia)
   

April 17th  
   
DAVE ALVIN Eleven Eleven Expanded (Yep Roc)
BILLY BRAGG & WILCO Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions (Nonesuch)
JON CLEARY Occapella! (FHQ)
MARVIN ETZIONI Marvin Country! (Nine Mile)
SUE FOLEY & PETER KARP Beyond The Crossroads (Blind Pig)
DOUG PAISLEY Golden Embers (No Quarter)
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III Older Than My Old Man Now (2nd Story Sound)
DAR WILLIAMS In the Time of Gods (Razor & Tie)
HANK WILLIAMS III Long Gone Daddy (Curb)
   

April 10th  
   
ALABAMA SHAKES Boys & Girls (ATO)
NEAL CASAL Sweeten the Distance (The Royal Potato Family)
COUNTING CROWS Underwater Sunshine (or what we did on our summer vacation) (Collective Sounds)
JOHN DOE & EXENE CERVENKA Singing & Playing (Moonlight)
JASON EADY AM Country Heaven (Underground Sound)
NANCI GRIFFITH Intersection (Hello No)
HOOTS & HELLMOUTH Salt (sonaBLAST!)
THE MASTERSONS Birds Fly South (New West)
THE McEUEN SESSIONS For All the Good (Mesa/Bluemoon)
LUKAS NELSON & PROMISE OF THE REAL Wasted (Tone Tide)
BONNIE RAITT Slipstream (Redwing/Warners)
CURTIS SALGADO Soul Shot (Alligator)
STEEP CANYON RANGERS Nobody Knows You (Rounder)
TRAMPLED BY TURTLES Stars and Satellites (Banjodad/Thirty Tigers)
   

April 3rd  
   
KATE CAMPBELL 1000 Pound Machine (Large River Music)
TIM CARROLL Look Out! (Gulcher)
JOHNNY CASH Bootleg Vol. IV: The Soul of Truth  (Sony Legacy)
DR. JOHN Locked Down (Nonesuch)
MATT HARLAN & THE SENTIMENTALS Bow and Be Simple  (Berkalin)
THE LUMINEERS The Lumineers  (Dualtone Music)
THE VESPERS The Fourth Wall (Black Suit)
BOB WOODRUFF The Lost Kerosene Tapes, 1999 (Sound Asleep)
   

March 27th  
   
THE ATOMIC DUO Broadsides (self released)
ERIC BIBB Deeper In The Well (Stony Plain)
BRAND NEW STRINGS Stay Tuned (Rural Rhythm)
SOLOMON BURKE The Last Great Concert (Rockbeat) (double CD, recorded in Switzerland in 2008)
COWBOY JUNKIES The Wilderness: Nomad Series, Vol. 4 (Latent/Razor & Tie)
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE

Nothing's Going to Change The Way You Feel About Me Now (Bloodshot)

RAY WYLIE HUBBARD The Grifter's Hymnal (Bordello)
CHUCK LEAVELL Back To The Woods: A Tribute to Pioneers of Blues Piano (Evergreen Arts)
MADISON VIOLET Good in Goodbye (True North)
PETER MULVEY Good Stuff (Signature Sounds)
JOAN OSBORNE Bring It On Home (Saguaro Road)
SPECIAL CONSENSUS Scratch Gravel Road (Compass)
SONS OF BILL Sirens (Spunk/Thirty Tigers)
ANDRA SUCHY Little Heart (Red House)
   

March 20th  
   
THE BAND OF HEATHENS Double Down: Live In Denver, Vols. 1 & 2 (BOH)
MICHAEL BREWER Dancing With My Shadow (self released) (of Brewer & Shipley)
NATHAN JAMES & THE RHYTHM SCRATCHERS What You Make Of It (Delta Groove)
JERRY JOSEPH & THE JACKMORMANS Happy Book (Response)
DAVID OLNEY The Stone (Deadbeet)
Various Artists The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond (Republic) (with new songs from The Civil Wars, The Decemberists, Arcade Fire, Taylor Swift, produced by T Bone Burnett)
YARN Almost Home (self released)
   

March 13th  
   
THE DECEMBERISTS We All Raise Our Voices To The Air (Live Songs 04.11-08.11) (Capitol) (2-CD or 3-LP live set)
DELTA SPIRIT Delta Spirit (Concord)
SHOOTER JENNINGS

Family Man (Black Country Rock/Entertainment One)

SAM LEWIS Sam Lewis (self released)
LUCERO Woman & Work (ATO)
JANIVA MAGNESS Stronger For It (Alligator)
   

March 6th  
   
ANDREW BIRD

Break It Yourself (Mom & Pop Music)

DEMOLITION STRING BAND Gracious Days (Varese Sarabande)
THE HOBART BROTHERS WITH LIL' SIS HOBART At Least We Have Each Other (Freedom) (Freedy Johnston, Jon De Graham and Susan Cowsill)
EMMA-LEE Backseat Heroine (Special Agent)
THE HONEYDOGS What Comes After (Grain Belt)
JERRY JOSEPH & THE JACKMORMANS

Badlandia (Response)

JULIE LEE & THE BABY-DADDIES Julie Lee & The Baby-Daddies (Still House Road)
NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE 17 Pine Avenue (Woodstock)
TODD SNIDER Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables (Aimless)
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Wrecking Ball (Columbia)
   

Feb. 28th  
   
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS Leaving Eden (Nonesuch)
ROSE COUSINS We Have Made A Spark (Old Farm Pony)
CUFF THE DUKE Morning Comes (Paper Bag)
ELLIOTT BROOD Days Into Years (Paper Bag)
JAY FARRAR, WILL JOHNSON, ANDERS PARKER, YIM YANES New Multitudes (Rounder)
I SEE HAWKS IN L.A. A New Kind of Lonely (Western Seeds)
LYLE LOVETT Release Me (Lost Highway)
BETH McKEE Next To Nowhere (Swampgirl Music)
CHUCK MEAD Back At The Quonset Hut (Ramseur)
ANAIS MITCHELL Young Man In America (Wilderland)
AMY RAY

Lung of Love (Daemon)

CHIP TAYLOR F**k All the Perfect People (Trainwreck)
THE WHITE BUFFALO

Once Upon a Time in the West (Unison)

ANDRE WILLIAMS Hoods & Shades (Bloodshot)
   

Feb. 21st  
   
ERIK BRANDT The Long Winter (House of Mercy)
THE CHIEFTAINS Voice Of Ages (Hear/Concord)
MOOT DAVIS Man About Town (Highway Kind)
THE IVEYS Days & Nights (self released)
KEVN KINNEY & GOLDEN PALOMINOS A Good Country Mile (Redeye)
LAMPCHOP Mr. M (Merge)
MAD BUFFALO Red And Blue (Mad Buffalo)
MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY Campfire on the Road (Western Jubilee)
JIM WHITE Where It Hits You (Yep Roc)
TOMMY WOMACK Now What! (Ceder Creek)
   

Feb. 14th  
   
MARY BLACK Stories From the Steeples (Blix Street)
DAVE CARTER & TRACY GRAMMER Little Blue Egg (Red House) 
THE DUNWELLS Blind Sighted Faith (Playing in Traffic)
ANGELA EASTERLING Mon secret (De l'Est)
KEVIN GORDON Gloryland (self released)
MATT KEATING Wrong Way Home (Sojourn)
ALBERT LEE & HOGAN'S HEROES On the Town Tonight (Heroic)
AMOS LEE As The Crow Flies (EMI)
DAVE McGRAW & MANDY FER Seed Of A Pine (self released)
DREW NELSON Tilt-A-Whirl (Red House)
PUNCH BROTHERS Who's Feeling Young Now? (Nonesuch)
OTIS TAYLOR Contraband (Telarc/Concord)
WINTERPILLS

All My Lovely Goners (Signature Sounds)

   

Feb. 7th  
   
ANNA COOGAN The Wasted Ocean (self released)
DR. DOG Be The Void (Anti-)
BEN KWELLER Go Fly A Kite  (The Noise Company)
CHUCK PROPHET Temple Beautiful (Yep Roc)
FARMER JASON RINGENBERG & BUDDIES Nature Jams (My Kazoo/Hip-O)
Various Artists Hearts Across Texas (Thirty Tigers)
Various Artists Sixties Transition (Floating World)
JOE LOUIS WALKER Hellfire (Alligator)
MARTIN ZELLAR & THE HARDWAYS Rooster's Crow (Owen Lee)
   

Jan. 31st  
   
BUXTON Nothing Here Seems Strange (New West)
LEONARD COHEN Old Ideas (Columbia)
JOE FLETCHER & THE WRONG REASONS White Lighter (Wrong Reasons)
RUTHIE FOSTER Let It Burn (Blue Corn)
MATT FLINNER TRIO Winter Harvest (Compass)
SUSAN GREENBAUM This Life (GreenTree/Compass)
ORBO AND THE LONGSHOTS

Prairie Sun (Blue Mood)

THE LONGEST DAY OF THE YEAR Turn Into The Ground (Mulewax Music)
GRETCHEN PETERS Hello Cruel World (Scarlet Letter)
THE PINES

Dark So Gold (Red House)

TONY RICE The Bill Monroe Collection (Rounder)
DARRELL SCOTT Long Ride Home (Full Light/Thirty Tigers)
JOE LOUIS WALKER Hellfire (Alligator)
   

Jan. 24th  
   
FRED EAGLESMITH 6 Volts (Bluewater)
RILEY ETHERIDGE JR. Better Days (Rock Ridge Music) (digital EP)
LAURA GIBSON La Grande (Barsuk)
MARTIN SEXTON Fall Like Rain (Kitchen Table)
RICHARD SHINDELL

Thirteen Songs You May or May Not Have Heard Before (Signature Sounds)

RANDY THOMPSON Collected (Jackpot)
Various Artists Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan (Amnesty International)
   

Jan. 17th  
   
CAROLANN AMES Laurel Canyon Road (self released)
ROGER CREAGER Surrender (Fun All Wrong/Thirty Tigers)
ANI DIFRANCO Which Side Are You On (Righteous Babe)
KATHLEEN EDWARDS Voyageur (Zoe/Rounder)
HUMMING HOUSE Humming House (self released)
THE REFUGEES Three (Wabuho)
BUCK SATAN & THE 666 SHOOTERS Bikers Welcome Ladies Drink Free (AFM)
   

Jan. 10th  
   
JEFF BLACK Plow Through The Mystic (Lotos Nile)
THE GREAT UNKNOWNS Homefront (self released)
THE LITTLE WILLIES For the Good Times (Milking Bull/EMI)
JEAN SYNODINOS Girls, Good & Otherwise (Fortunate)
BROCK ZEMAN Me Then You (Busted Flat)
   

Dec. 6th  
   
ELVIS COSTELLO The Return of the Spectacular Spinning Songbook (Hip-O)
NILS LOFGREN Old School (Vision)
Various Artists This One's For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark (Icehouse)
Various Artists Warren Haynes Presents The Benefit Concert, Vol 4 (Evil Teen) (2 CD set with Robert Randolph, John Hiatt, Bob Weir, Gov't Mule)
   

Nov. 29th  
   
JOHN McCUTCHEON This Land: Woody Guthrie's America (self released)
TODD NOVAK with THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN BOYS Raspberry Moonshine (Tres Payasos)
   

Nov. 22nd  
   
CALEXICO Selections From Road Atlas 1998-2011 (Quarter Stick)
FOLK UKE Reincarnation (Folk Uke)
WILLIE NELSON Remember Me Vol. 1 (R&J)
NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE Best of 1971-1975 Instant Armadillo Blues (Raven Australia)
WILLIE NILE The Innocent Ones (River House)
BILL WYMAN'S RHYTHM KINGS Collector's Edition Box Set (Proper)
   

Nov. 15th  
   
CROSS CANADIAN RAGWEED Box of Weed (Show Dog/Universal Music) (5-CD, 1-DVD box set)
PALADINO Paladino (self released)
tHE PUPPINI SISTERS Hollywood (Verve Forecast)
R.E.M. Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982 - 2011 (Warners)
PEGI YOUNG & THE SURVIVORS Bracing For Impact (Vapor)
   

Nov. 8th  
   
DANNY BARNES Rocket (ATO)
BOOKA AND THE FLAMING GECKOS The Not So Meaningful Songs In The Life of Jeremy Fink (Loudhouse)
THE KENNETH BRIAN BAND Welcome To Alabama (Southern Shift)
CHRIS CANTERBURY Poets, Prophets, And All Things Forgotten
JUDY COLLINS Bohemian (Wildflower)
LISA MILLS Tempered In Fire (Mills Bluz)
LAURA VIERS Tumble Bee (Raven Marching Band) (songs for children)
   

   

(Big thanks to Amazon and Village Records for upcoming release info)

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