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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.

   
Feb. 21st  
   
CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS Leaving Eden
   
   
Feb. 14th  
   
KEVIN GORDON Gloryland (self released)
DAVE McGRAW & MANDY FER Seed Of A Pine (self released)
DREW NELSON Tilt-A-Whirl (Red House)
THE PUNCH BROTHERS Who's Feeling Young Now? (Nonesuch)
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)
JOE LOUIS WALKER Hellfire (Alligator)
MARTIN ZELLAR & THE HARDWAYS Rooster's Crow (Owen Lee)
   

Jan. 31st  
   
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)
   

Nov. 1st  
   
THE DECEMBERISTS Long Live The King (Capitol)
MIRANDA LAMBERT Four The Record (Sony/Nashville)
RED MOLLY Light in the Sky
GRAM PARSONS Gram Parsons: The Early Years [Box set] (Sierra)
   

Oct. 25th  
   
THE DAMN QUAILS Down The Hatch (598 Recordings)
THE DEVIL MAKES THREE Stomp & Smash (Milan) (live)
VINCE GILL Guitar Slinger (MCA Nashville)
HONEYHONEY

Billy Jack (Lost Highway)

PAUL KELLY Greatest Hits: Songs of The South Vol. 1 (Gawdaggie Music)
YO-YO MA, STUART DUNCAN, EDGAR MEYER & CHRIS THILE The Goat Rodeo Sessions (Sony Masterworks)
WILLIE NILE The Innocent Ones (River House)
NOAM PIKELNY Beat The Devil and Carry A Rail (Compass)
JOHN PRINE The Singing Mailman Delivers (Oh Boy)
SHE & HIM A Very She & Him Christmas (Merge)
ANDY STATMAN Old Brooklyn (Shefa)
Various Artists The Bridge School Concerts 25th Anniversary Edition (Reprise) (2 CD's)
TOM WAITS Bad As Me (Anti-)
   

Oct. 18th  
   
CHRIS ISAAK Beyond The Sun (Vanguard)
KENTUCKY HEADHUNTERS

Dixie Lullabies (Red Dirt)

LAURIE LEWIS Skippin' and Flyin' (Spruce and Maple Music)
SHELBY LYNNE Revelation Road (Everso)
MARY KAY PLACE Almost Grown (Wounded Bird)
CHIP TAYLOR & THE GRANDKIDS Golden Kids Rule (Smithsonian/Folkways)
Various Artists T Bone Burnett Presents The Speaking Clock Revue - Live From The Beacon Theatre (Shout Factory!)
WHITEHORSE Whitehorse (Six Shooter)
   

Oct. 11th  
   
RYAN ADAMS Ashes & Fire (PAX-AM/Capitol)
SCOTT H. BIRAM Bad Ingrediants (Bloodshot)
JOHNNY CASH Bootleg Volume 3: Live Around the World (Sony Legecy) (2 discs)
MARY FLOWER Misery Loves Company (Yellow Dog)
PAUL GEREMIA Love My Stuff (Red House)
JOHN WESLEY HARDING The Sound Of His Own Voice (Yep Roc)
JOE HENRY Reverie (Anti-)
McCAMY'S MELODY SHEIKS There's More Pretty Girls Than One (Arhoolie) (with R.Crumb)
DALE WATSON The Sun Sessions (Red House)
NEIL YOUNG Live On Air: Lost Tapes Vol. 2 (IMV Blueline)
   

Oct 4th  
   
JASON BOLAND & THE STRAGGERS Rancho Alto (Apex Music)
CROOKED STILL Friends Of Fall (Signature Sounds)
MERLE HAGGARD Working in Tennessee (Vanguard)
INDIGO GIRLS Beauty Queen Sister (Vanguard)
Various Artists The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams (Columbia)
CAROLYN WONDERLAND Peace Meal (Bismeaux)
   

Sept. 27th  
   
KASEY ANDERSON AND THE HONKIES Heart Of A Dog (Red Parlor)
PIETA BROWN Mercury (Red House)
KATE CAMPBELL Two Nights in Texas (Large River Music)
jACKIE DeSHANNON When You Walk in the Room (Rockbeat)
WILL HOGE Number Seven (Rykodisc)
DAISY McCRACKIN God Willing (
MEKONS Ancient & Modern (Bloodshot)
MARIA MULDAUR Steady Love (Stony Plain)
SARAH SISKIND Novel (Red Request)
SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS Zombified (Kudzu)
WILCO The Whole Love (dBpm/ANTI)
   

Sept. 20th  
   
THE GREEN PAJAMAS
Green Pajama Country! (Green Monkey)
HALLEYANNA The Country (Cheatham Street)
THE JAYHAWKS Mockingbird Time (Rounder)
RICHMOND FONTAINE The High Country (El Cortez)
DUKE ROBILLARD Low Down And Tore Up (Stony Plain)
   

Sept. 13th  
   
BLITZEN TRAPPER American Goldwing (Sub Pop)
THE GOURDS Old Mad Joy (Vanguard)
JJ GREY & MOFRO Brighter Days (Alligator) (2-CD live set)
JOY KILLS SORROW This Unknown Science (Signature Sounds)
RITA HOSKING Burn (RH)
LYDIA LOVELESS Indestructible Machine (Bloodshot)
NICK LOWE The Old Magic (Yep Roc)
RECKLESS KELLY Good Luck & True Love (No Big Deal)
KENNY VAUGHAN V (Sugar Hill)
   

Sept. 6th  
   
SLAID CLEAVES Sorrow & Smoke: Live at The Horseshoe Lounge (Music Road)
HANK3 Ghost To a Ghost/Gutter TownHank3's Attention Deficit Domination, Cattle Callin (Red General/Megaforce)
TOM RUSSELL Mesabi (Shout Factory!)
   

Aug. 30th  
   
RAY BONNEVILLE Bad Man's Blood (Red House)
DALE ANN BRADLEY Somewhere South Of Crazy (Compass)
GLEN CAMPBELL Ghost On The Canvas (Surfdog)
RY COODER Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down (Nonesuch)
CATIE CURTIS Stretch Limosine On Fire (Compass)
BRIGITTE DeMEYER Rose Of Jericho (BDM)
JOHN DOE The Keeper (Yep Roc)
ROBERT EARL KEEN Ready for Confetti (Lost Highway)
   

Aug. 23rd  
   
ANA EGGE Bad Blood (Ammal)
ROCKPILE Live at Montreux 1980 (Eagle Rock)
CONNIE SMITH Long Line of Heartaches (Sugar Hill)
SUNNY SWEENEY Concrete (Universal Republic)
Various Artists O Brother Where Art Thou (10th anniversary 2 CD Deluxe Edition) (Lost Highway)
   

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

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