featuring the very best of americana, alt.country and roots music
May 4, 2025
Scott Foley, purveyor of dust
A Routes & Branches Guide To Feeding Your Monster is our patented new release calendar, our assiduously updated account of what's on the horizon for our kind of music. This week, f'rinstance, we added new albums from Billy Allen + the Pollies, Cody Jinks, Vandoliers, Hayes Carll, Whiskey Myers, and so many more.
Long as we're fiddling around with the stuff, let's identify five (5) records we're most looking forward to in the months to come: Greg Freeman, Burnover; SG Goodman, Planting By the Signs; Scott Hirsch, Lost Padres; Alan Sparhawk & Trampled By Turtles, s/t; Ken Pomeroy, Cruel Joke.
And, as we do every Sunday, generally without fail, we present our weekly ROUTES-cast, thirty (30) songs that didn't exist last week. There's an abbreviated preview following the playlist, and you'll want to follow us over to our Spotify page where you can listen to the entire playlist over and over (and over) again, as well as ROUTES-casts from the past several months.
ROUTES-cast May 4, 2025
^ Samantha Crain, "Trap Door" Gumshoe (Real Kind, 25)
- Trevor Sensor, "The Farm" A Few Tears Of Eros (High Black Desert, Aug 8) D
- Kassi Valazza, "Market Street Savior" From Newman Street (Fluff & Gravy, 25)
- Yoshika Colwell, "Fighting On the Wing" On the Wing (PIAS, Jul 25)
- Erin Durant, "Greening" Firetrail (Ruination, May 16) D
- Geckos, "Dance Of the Gecko" single (Org, 25) D
- Sam Blasucci, "Ice Blue" single (Amateur Circus, 25) D
- Lucius, "Final Days" Lucius (Fantasy, 25)
- Emily Hines, "My Own Way" These Days (Keeled Scales, Aug 1) D
- Jessica Lea Mayfield, "Something Good (ft Rhett Miller)" Choose Myself EP (JLM, 25)
- Esther Rose, "Scars (ft Dean Johnson)" Want (New West, 25)
- Bones Of JR Jones, "Car Crash" Radio Waves (Bones, Jun 20)
- Cody Jinks, "Found" In My Blood (Late August, Jul 25) D
- Hailey Whitters, "I Don't Want You (ft Charles Wesley Godwin)" Corn Queen (Pigasus, Jun 6)
- Sterling Drake, "Calusa" Shape I'm In (Calusa, 25)
- Kacey Musgraves, "Lost Highway" single (Lost Highway, 25) D
- Murry Hammond, "Take This Heart and Lock It Up" Trail Songs Of the Deep (Fluff & Gravy, Jul 11) D
- Angela Autumn, "Faeries" I'm Not Around EP (Autumn, 25) D
- Ruston Kelly, "Half Past Three" single (Rounder, 25) D
- Molly Parden, "Another Friend" single (Parden, 25) D
- Benjamin Dakota Rogers, "Virginia's Daughter" This Ol' Way (Good People, Jul 11) D
- Roadside Graves, "People Are Talkin'" Interlude (Aquarium Drunkard Lagniappe Sessions) EP (Our Days Are Numbered, 25) D
- Colin Miller, "Little Devil" Losin' (Mtn Laurel, 25)
- Sweet Megg, "Canberra (Baby Blue)" Never Been Home (Sweet Megg, May 16)
- Marc Ribot, "Daddy's Trip To Brazil" Map Of a Blue City (New West, May 23)
- Drew Kennedy, "I Can't See Your Face" Drew Kennedy (BMG, May 16)
- Adrianne Lenker, "No Limit" Live At Revolution Hall (4AD, 25)
- Sally Anne Morgan, "I Saw a Heron" Second Circle the Horizon (Thrill Jockey, Jun 20) D
- Pine Hill Haints, "Loser" Shattered Pieces Of the True Cross (Single Lock, May 30)
- Attention Bird Utopia, "Cary" Best Of Kings (here here, Jun 6)
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To enjoy any Spotify ROUTES-cast, just open Spotify and search for "routesandbranches" to access this most recent playlist, as well as many others from past months. Or click here for a preview: