Carly Pearce's self-titled sophomore album, featuring the hit single "I Hope You're Happy Now" with Lee Brice, contains 13 new tracks produced by the acclaimed busbee. She is 2018's Radio Disney The Freshest! Country Best New Artist winner and a 2019 ACM Awards New Female Artist of the Year and iHeartRadio Music Awards Best New Country Artist nominee. Carly continues to be a loyal advocate of Country music's legacy and future, celebrating 70+ invitations to perform at the Grand Ole Opry.

Puss N Boots-the charming trio featuring Norah Jones, Sasha Dobson, and Catherine Popper- release their second full-length album, Sister. Sister is a fetching collection of originals written by the band members collectively and individually, mixed with loving covers of songs by Tom Petty ("Angel Dream"), Dolly Parton ("The Grass Is Blue"), Paul Westerberg ("It's a Wonderful Lie"), and Concrete Blonde ("Joey").

And The Neighbors is an acoustic duo inspired by the sounds of Appalachia blended with the sonic grit of the Lower East Side. Debra DeMuth’s voice with an emotive, old-time resonance is featured vocally and Dave Houghton (of indie-rock groups, Fancy Trash and The Reejers), adds a dissonant vocal harmony along with his well-mastered guitar playing which can sway from delicate to furious strumming in an instant. Banjo, mandolin, autoharp, cigar box guitar, piano and organ, as well as chains and cello fill out their alt-country, folk pop sound.

Above the album worked the Rhino '100 Greatest Country The Best Hits from Nashville And Beyond', and his release took place on 2020. The album has got 100 songs with a total duration of more than an hour. A compilation is a compilation of original music.

This long-lost debut of Joe Henry is a mixed bag compared to his later material. Fans of "Trampoline" or "Fuse" may want to take a pass but if you enjoy "Murder of Crows" and "Shuffletown", then this one belongs in your collection. Some songs have that over-produced mid 80's sound (reminds me of the first Bruce Hornsby record)but the more "spare" stuff sounds pretty vital. At it's core, TOH is still Joe Henry with everything you'd expect…sharp lyrics, nice melodies, the cover song (although Mellencamp's cover of "Wild Night" is better), etc. One nice surprise is more singer and piano material then his later work. If your devotion to Joe includes his early stuff, add this to your delight. For those into his last two discs, don't dig back quite so far. Try "Short Man's" or "Shuffeltown" instead.

This thrilling import CD debuts 32 previously UNreleased live performances in Nashville by the great Marty Robbins, an electrifying artist whose country, cowboy, rockabilly, blues and crossover pop hits earned him a string of awards and massive sales. These very rare rare recordings have never been commercially released anywhere until now (and are different versions than on other CDs).Marty was the first country artist to win a Grammy. His voice was absolutely beautiful, agile and spanned a very wide range — from his glowing lower register to the highest notes he would hit with ease. He could sing a tender ballad or an uptempo number. He also wrote some tremendous songs, that were even recorded by artists like Elvis.

Howie Askay has been a staple in the rock music scene for over thirty years. Based out of Portland Oregon, he has been a compass for others to follow his whole career. With over ten albums on his shelf as a recording artist, he is constantly pushing the boundaries of his abilities as a song writer. As much as he loves the process of writing and performing, his passion envelops producing music. He has been a producer for labels and other artists since 1998. He loves to drop in on a session unannounced to put an ear on someone's project. His motto is "An artist can wear many blindfolds, it's up to me to strip them off and offer a new direction for them to travel along."

Country music, also known as country and western (or simply country), and hillbilly music, is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern United States in the early 1920s. It takes its roots from genres such as American folk music (especially Appalachian folk and Western music) and blues.

Approaching listening to a improvisation disc is by definition a "terra incognita". The sound universe of Jean-Baptiste Dupont is so original and personal that it captivates the listener with a spontaneous and apparently unexpected speech. It is undoubtedly with this that one expects to be touched, or in any case hooked, by a world which is alternately effervescent and dreamy.

After your debut album gets nominated for two Grammys, it’s easy to overthink the approach to and implications of your follow-up. Unless you’re throwback/laidback Texas country trio Midland. “It's got to be better than the first,” guitarist Jess Carson tells Apple Music's Brooke Reese. “Otherwise, why are we doing it? What we've been doing for the last two years is playing live. So we tried to translate that into a recording studio. We attempt to write songs that are going to be around for a long time and could fit into a time period from the past as well as they could in the future—just kind of ageless. And I think we accomplished that.” Don't just take his word for it: The 14 freewheeling songs on Let It Roll channel '70s country and SoCal soft rock like the Eagles, but never feel dated or contrived.

Countless country artists have borrowed sounds and production tricks from rock music. Brantley Gilbert takes it further, drawing on heavy metal’s menacing guitar riffs, snarling, low-slung vocal delivery, and theatrical sense of danger to amplify the personal and spiritual stakes of his songs. On his fifth album, Fire & Brimstone, he once again plays the part of a small-town ruffian who chases wild times but wrestles with his conscience and surrenders to his tender side.

David Knopfler founder of Dire Straits. New studio album for 2020 of 14 original recordings

The balance of darkness and light is at the heart of Kingdom In My Mind, The Wood Brothers seventh studio release and their most spontaneous and experimental collection yet. Recorded over a series of freewheeling, improvised sessions, the record is a reckoning with circumstance, mortality, and human nature, one that finds strength in accepting what lies beyond our control. Thoughtfully honing in on the bittersweet beauty that underlies our doubt and pain, the songs grapple with the power of our external surroundings to shape our internal worlds (and vice versa) through vivid character studies and unflinching self-examination.

Iconic and iconoclastic Texan songwriter and visual artist Terry Allen's heartbreaking, hilarious new album, his first set of new songs since 2013's Bottom of the World, features the full Panhandle Mystery Band, including co-producer Charlie Sexton (Dylan, Bowie, Blaze), Shannon McNally, and Jo Harvey Allen; mainstays Bukka Allen, Richard Bowden, and Lloyd Maines; and co-writes with Joe Ely and Dave Alvin.

It's country music but not as we know it which begs the question: have these Bad kids of 21st Century rock 'n' roll finally grown up on their ninth studio album? 'Sing In a World That's Falling Apart' continues to flick the middle finger to one and all. These are, after all, the same Black Lips who rescued the waning garage punk subgenre by not sounding or dressing their musical predecessors. They also dug contemporary hip-hop and punk and actualised themselves.