Johnson, Nelson, Barber, Langley out with new music
The ever prodigious Willie Nelson puts out his second disc in six months, "Last Leaf on the Tree." His 76th solo studio album and 153rd album overall, the album was produced by his son, Micah (aka The Particle Kid), and finds Nelson covering songs by rock legends, singer songwriters, alt-rockers and indie folk artists, as well as a new recording of Willie's 1967 song, "The Ghost," and a new composition by Willie and Micah Nelson.
Sam Barber dropped his expansive album debut, "Restless Mind" on Lockeland Springs/Atlantic Records. The 28-track project highlights a rootsy, roughhewn country sound from the 21-year-old native of southern Missouri. Included in the release are Barber's PLATINUM-certified "Straight and Narrow," the track which introduced him in 2023. The album also features collaborations with Avery Anna and Lily Fitts.
Following suit on the deluxe front is Ella Langley with "Still Hungover." She only released her debut CD, "hungover," in August. Four new songs are on the deluxe version - "made it out of mexico (acoustic)" and "weren't for the wind," "20-20" and "girl you're taking home." The Alabama native has enjoyed a hit with "you look like you love me" with Riley Green.
Zach Top released an exclusive Apple Music Nashville Sessions EP, featuring Billy Strings. The three-song project finds the pair performing reimagined versions of Top's original tracks "Bad Luck" and "Things To Do," along with a cover of Ricky Skaggs' "Don't Cheat In Our Home Town. The pair first met this past summer at Montana's Under The Big Sky Festival, where Strings invited Top on stage to share a few songs during his set. Top started off as a bluegrass musician.
Canadian country singer Corb Lund's "El Viejo (Deluxe)" is out today via New West Records. The deluxe edition includes three previously unreleased tracks from the original sessions: a duet version of "Was Fort Worth Worth It?" featuring Jaida Dreyer, "Police State" and "My Girlfriend's a Lawyer."
More news
- 12/09/24: Barber returns to the road
- 10/25/24: Nelson's Beck cover is no "Lost Cause"
- 10/16/24: Johnson brings the "Leather" Down Under
- 10/11/24: Barber has a "Restless Mind"
- 10/01/24: Johnson announces Leather tour
- 10/01/24: Langley is "still hungover"
- 09/27/24: Johnson goes deluxe route with "Leather"
- 09/20/24: Top sells out
CD reviews
Willie Nelson has released more than 150 albums in his career, including four in the past two years. All this while approaching and surpassing the age of 90. Of all his many solo recordings, "The Border" ranks as one of his best. The songs are fresh, sincere, and full of energy and have many of the elements that fans expect from Ol' Willie - his unmistakable vocals, the trademark lead guitar work on his iconic axe, Trigger, and harmonica support from his 50-plus year bandmate, Mickey Raphael. ...
On the opening track "Sounds Like The Radio," Zach Top gives away the game – he's a throwback to '90s country like George Strait and Alan Jackson, with the same reverence for classic honky-tonk that set those artists apart from their peers and a tendency toward classic songcraft in lieu of gimmicks and tired lyrical tropes. Following that with the title track, Top and his band swing and swagger with Dwight Yoakam-like authority, revealing the potential to deliver these ...
Award-winning Canadian rootsicana artist Corb Lund returns with his 11th album of original material, following the success of his 2022 covers album, "Songs My Friends Wrote." "El Viejo" has an intimate, 'living room' feel and for good reason: an acoustic album recorded in Lund's Lethbridge, Alberta home, it finds Lund and his Hurtin' Albertans in excellent form.
As with each Lund album, it is a challenge to identify where reality and fiction intersect. ...
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