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New & Upcoming CD Releases

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

September Releases



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

   
March 2nd  
   
SHOOTER JENNINGS Black Ribbons (Red Distribution)
MARLEY'S GHOST Ghost Town (SAGE ARTS) (produced by Cowboy Jack Clement)
   
Feb. 23th  
   
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS Genuine Negro Jig (Nonesuch)
JOHNNY CASH American VI: Ain't No Grave (American /Lost Highway)
CLEM SNIDE The Meat of Life (429)
DEADSTRING BROTHERS Sao Paolo (Bloodshot)
GEORGE JONES The Great Lost Hits (Time-Life)
WILL KIMBROUGH Wings (Daphne)
MORELAND & ARBUCKLE Flood (Telarc)
   

Feb. 16th  
   
KASEY ANDERSON Nowhere Nights (Red River) (produced by Eric “Roscoe” Ambel)
BACKYARD TIRE FIRE Good To Me (Kelsey Street) (produced by Steve Berlin)
JOHNNY GIMBLE Celebrating With Friends (CMH) (with Dale Watson, Merle Haggard, Vince Gill, Jesse Dayton, Willie Nelson and producer Ray Benson)
LAURIE LEWIS Blossoms (Spruce And Maple)
JOE PUG Messenger (Lightning Rod)
SOLAS The Turning Tide (Compass)
   

Feb. 9th  
   
MEG HUTCHINSON The Living Side (Red House)
k.d.lang Recollection Boxset (Nonesuch) (3 CD's & DVD)
THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND Way Out West: Live In San Francisco 1973 (Shout Factory)
ALLISON MOORER Crows (Rykodisc)
MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY Buckaroo Blue Grass II - Riding Song (Rural Rhythm)
THE NIGHTHAWKS Last Train to Bluesville (Rip Bang)
RECKLESS KELLY Somewhere in Time (Yep Roc)
   

Feb. 2nd  
   
ELEVEN HUNDRED SPRINGS This Crazy Life (Smith Entertainment)
JOHN JORGENSON QUINTET One Stolen Night (Pharaoh)
GARY STEWART Cactus And A Rose/Collector's Choice (Wounded Bird)
TEXAS RUBY Teardrops In My Heart [IMPORT] (101 DISTRIBUTION)
   

Jan. 26th  
   
ERIC BIBB Booker's Guitar (Telarc)
BLUE RODEO The Things We Left Behind (Telesoul)
GRADA Natural Angle (Compass) (produced by TIM O'BRIEN)
PATTY GRIFFIN Downtown Church (Credential)
I SEE HAWKS IN L.A. Shoulda Been Gold : 2001-2009 (American Beat)
OVERMOUNTAIN MEN Glorious Day (Ramseur)
KARA SUZANNE Parlor Walls (self released)
   

Jan. 19th  
   
THE TERRY ADAMS ROCK & ROLL QUARTET Crazy 8's (Clang!)
BLUE HIGHWAY Some Day: 15th Anniversary Collection (Rounder)
BARTON CARROLL Together You and I (Skybucket)
THE COAL PORTERS Durango (April 17-April 30) (Prima)
MATT THE ELECTRICIAN Animal Boy (self released)
MAURA KENNEDY Parade of Echoes (Planned Effervescence)
MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY Lone Cowboy:Live & Solo (Western Jubilee)
SOUTH MEMPHIS STRING BAND Home Sweet Home (Memphis Int'l) (Luther Dickinson, Alvin Youngblood Hart and Jimbo Mathus)
Various Artists
Crazy Heart: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (New West) (with RYAN BINGHAM, JEFF BRIDGES and more, produced by T BONE BURNETT)
WYLIE & THE WILD WEST Unwired: Western Jubilee Warehouse Live (Western Jubilee)
   

Jan. 12th  
   
RAY WYLIE HUBBARD A: Enlightenment B: Endarkenment (Hint: There Is No C) (Bordello/Thirty Tigers)
FREEDY JOHNSTON Rain on the City (Bar None)
RANDY KOHRS Quicksand (Rural Rhythm)
ELLIS PAUL The Day After Everything Changed (Black Wolf)
SUZI RAGSDALE Best Regards & Less of the Same (Clyde)
SHARON SHANNON Saints & Scoundrels (Compass)
PERCY SLEDGE My Old Friend the Blues (Blues Boulevard)
   

Jan. 5th  
   
STEVE EARLE Copperhead Road: Rarities Edition (Geffen) (single disc release that contains all the bonus tracks featured on the second disc of the Deluxe Edition release of this album, which originally came out in 1988)
LOUISE MOSRIE Home (self)
   

Dec. 8th  
   
JIMMY BUFFETT Buffet Hotel (Mailboat)
SHANNON McNALLY AND HOT SAUCE Coldwater (self released)
NEIL YOUNG Dreamin' Man Live '92 (WEA)
   

Nov. 23rd  
   
BLUE RODEO The Things We Left Behind (Phantom Sound & Vision) (This is a 2-CD Canadian import, hopfully they'll release a US version)
KASEY CHAMBERS Kasey Chambers, Poppa Bill And The Little Hillbillies (2CD's + Book)
HEAD, HANDS AND FEET Tracks (Import) (Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1971 album from the British band led by Albert Lee)
THE TENNESSEE BOLTSMOKERS Vintage All American Dream (Madjack)
Various Artists Dim Lights, Thick Smoke & Hillbilly Music: Country & Western Hit Parade 1951 (Bear Family) (this is one of 5 single disc releases on the famous and pricey German label)
TOM WAITS Glitter and Doom Live (Anti-)
   

Nov. 17th  
   
NORAH JONES The Fall (Blue Note)
BETH McKEE I'm That Way: A Salute to Bobby Charles (Burnside)
THE OLD 97'S Wreck Your Life ...And Then Some: The Complete Bloodshot Recordings (Bloodshot) (vinyl limited edition)
DAVID RAWLINGS MACHINE A Friend of a Friend (Acony)
DAN ZANES AND FRIENDS 76 Trombones (Festival Five) (another children's album from the master)
   

Nov. 10th  
   
PIETA BROWN Shimmer (Red House)
BILL CHAMBERS Drifting South (Reckless)
LUTHER DICKINSON Onward and Upward (Memphis International)
CAROLINE HERRING Golden Apples of the Sun (Signature Sounds)
ANNE HILLS Points Of View (Appleseed)
RICKIE LEE JONES Balm in Gilead (Fantasy)
SHELLEY KING Welcome Home (Lemonade) (with the subdudes)
MADISON VIOLET No Fool for Trying (True North)
HEATHER MASSE Bird Song (Red House)
MICKY & THE MOTORCARS Live At Billy Bob's Texas (Smith Music Group)
CARRIE RODRIGUEZ Live In Louisville (Luz Music)
EARL SCRUGGS & TOM T. HALL The Storyteller & the Banjo Man (Wounded Bird) (reissue of a 1982 little-known classic)
WYNN STEWERT Greatest Country Hits (Micro Werks)
Various Artists Things About Comin' My Way: A Tribute to Music Of the Mississippi Sheiks (Black Hen Music)
   

Nov. 3rd  
   
THE DIXIE BEE-LINERS Susanville (Pinecastle)
THE EAGLES Long Road Out Of Eden (Eagles Recording Company)
THE STARLINE RHYTHM BOYS Masquerade For Heartbreak (Cow Island)
Various Artists The Village- A Celebration of the Music of Greenwich Village (Roc-A-Fella)
HANK WILLIAMS SR. Hank Williams:Revealed (Time Life)
   

Oct. 27th  
   
THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA

Enlightenment (Great American Music)

ROSIE FLORES Girl of the Century (Bloodshot)
SARAH LEE GUTHRIE & FAMILY Go Waggaloo (Smithsonian Folkways) (A children's album with guests Johnny Irion, Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Tao Rodriguez Seeger)
DANNY KALB I'm Gonna Live the Life I Sing About (Sojourn)
THE DEL McCOURY BAND Family Circle (McCoury Music)
THE MOTHER HIPS Pacific Dust (Camera)
DOLLY PARTON Dolly (Sony Legacy) (4-cd Box Set)
CHUCK PROPHET Let Freedom Ring (Yep Roc)
STEPHEN STILLS Live at Shepherd's Bush (Rhino) (CD/DVD)
CHIP TAYLOR Yonkers, NY (Trainwreck)
   


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