ROUTES-cast May 25, 2025

ROUTES & BRANCHES

featuring the very best of americana, alt.country and roots music

May 25, 2025

Scott Foley, purveyor of dust

IF YOU ONLY LiSTEN to ONE RECORD THiS WEEK

It's been demonstrated time and time again that an act can't stay loose and ramshackle forever. At some point, that amateurish naivete gives way to professionalism and experience. Time will tell if the same fate awaits Francie Medosch and Florry, whose Sounds Like ... (Dear Life) is a big lovely mess. What took (very) rough shape with 2023's Holey Bible begins to congeal on Medosch's new set, now more purposeful and (dare we use the word) mature. Produced by Colin Miller at the same No.Carolina studios that birthed similar alt.country gems by Fust, MJ Lenderman, and Wednesday, Sounds Like ... still sounds like a broken and scratched CD discovered in a roadside ditch, but Francie Medosch demonstrates a self-awareness as a writer that makes these more than drunken reveries. She exercises more control of that slurring, yowling delivery, while Florry's instrumentalists teeter knowingly atop the porch railing. Where Fust might be more literate and Lenderman is prettier, Florry is currently atop the swagger game in this insular community. 

ROUTES-cast May 25, 2025

^ Florry, "Truck Flipped Over '19" Sounds Like ...  (Dear Life, 25)

- Wednesday, "Elderberry Wine" single  (Dead Oceans, 25)  D

- Grace Rogers, "Divine Safety in God"  Mad Dogs  (Sophomore Lounge, 25)

- Wood Brothers, "Pray God Listens" Puff of Smoke  (Honey Jar, Aug 1)

- Patrick Sweany, "My Time Ain't Long" Baby It's Late  (Nine Mile, Aug 1)  D

- Johnny Irion & US Elevator, "Knew Any Better" single  (Irion, 25)  D

- Hallelujah the Hills, "It's Undeniable" DECK  (Discrete Pageantry, Jun 13)

- Silverada, "Wake Me Up" Texas 42  (Prairie Rose, 25)

- Great Lake Swimmers, "One More Dance Around the Sun" single  (Harbour Songs, 25)  D

- Floating Action, "Diamond Store" single  (Airloom, 25)  D

- Ben Chapman, "Humming In My Head" single  (Hippie Shack, 25) D

- Eli West, "Rock and Trees" Shape of a Sway  (Tender and Mild, Jul 11)  D

- Kevin Gordon, "Buddy Montgomery" single  (Little Rain, 25)  D

- James McMurtry, "Sailing Away" Black Dog and the Wandering Boy  (New West, Jun 20)

- Ryan Bingham, "Song for the Stone" single  (Bingham, 25)  D

- Grayson Jenkins, "Hard Heart to Hold" Country Parables  (Jenkins, Jul 25)  D

- Ken Pomeroy, "Wolf in Sheep's Clothes" Cruel Joke  (Rounder, 25)

- Brothers Comatose, "Golden Grass" Golden Grass  (Swamp Jam, Sep 12)  D

- Caitlin Canty, "Hotter Than Hell" single  (Canty, 25)  D

- Amble, "Treehouse Wings" Reverie  (Warner, 25)  D

- Marc Ribot, "Death of a Narcissist" Map of a Blue City  (New West, 25)

- Sally Anne Morgan, "Eye is the First" Second Circle the Horizon  (Thrill Jockey, Jun 20)

- Grant-Lee Phillips, "Closer Tonight" In the Hour of Dust  (Yep Roc, Sep 5)  D

- Caroline Spence, "Effortless" Heart Go Wild  (Spence, Aug 29)  D

- Laura Stevenson, "Honey" Late Great  (Really, Jun 27)  D

- Natalie Bergman, "Dance" My Home Is Not In This World  (Third Man, Jul 18)

- Shilpa Ray, "I'm a Ghost" single  (Northern Spy, 25)  D

- Sister., "Two Birds" single  (Mtn Laurel, 25)  D

- Kieran Hebden & William Tyler, "If I Had a Boat" 41 Longfield Street Lat 80s  (Temporary Residence, Sep 19)  D

- Kyle Morgan & Tamar Korn, "Life's Railway to Heaven" Darkening Green  (Jalopy, Aug 15)  D

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ROUTES-cast May 18, 2025

ROUTES & BRANCHES

featuring the very best of americana, alt.country and roots music

May 18, 2025

Scott Foley, purveyor of dust

This week's Spotify ROUTES-cast features another generous batch of singles, several of them really excellent (see, f'rinstance, SG Goodman, Alan Sparhawk, Grace Rogers, Ada Lea). But perhaps you're more the album type, hoping to meet our challenge to commit to regular new music discovery. In that case: 

IF YOU ONLY LiSTEN to ONE RECORD THiS WEEK

Ken Pomeroy / Cruel Joke (Rounder)

Ken Pomeroy first landed on our busy radar when they were touring in support of John Moreland - this is also how we discovered SG Goodman, incidentally. Some people just know good people. Following a cycle of satisfying singles, Native American singer-songwriter from Oklahoma has released her debut, Cruel Joke on Rounder. Co-produced with Gary Paczosa, Colton Jean and Dakota McDaniel, the project features understated contributions from Chris Scruggs, Muskrat Jones and Jedd Hughes, and a beautiful duet vocal from Moreland himself. Pedal steel and strings ping across wide-open arrangements, with Pomeroy's lyrics often as brittle and overcast as Gillian Welch's. Cruel Joke's grand gestures are measured, dealt out sparingly in an especially expressive vocal here or a fiery electric solo there. The songwriter begins "Stranger": The wind keeps on hitting me like my mother used to. It a collection that's remarkable in its quiet, but the dozen songs will resonate deeper than a record that makes three times the noise. 

ROUTES-cast May 18, 2025

^ Ken Pomeroy, "Grey Skies" Cruel Joke  (Rounder, 25)

- Alan Sparhawk & Trampled by Turtles, "Not Broken" Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles  (Sub Pop, May 30)

- Ada Lea, "Baby Blue Frigidaire Mini Fridge" When I Paint My Masterpiece  (Saddle Creek, Aug 8)  D

- Folk Bitch Trio, "Cathode Ray" Now Would Be a Good Time  (Jagjaguwar, Jul 25)  D

- Kissing Other ppl, "Where'd All the Time Go" Kissing Other ppl  (Peacedale, Aug 8)  D

- Lemonheads, "Sad Cinderella (ft Erin Rae)" single  (Fire, 25)  D

- Cash Langdon, "Warbird" Dogs  (Well Kept Secret, 25)

- Grace Rogers, "Mad Dogs" Mad Dogs  (Sophomore Lounge, 25)  D

- Good Looks, "I Don't Want To Die" Lived Here For a While (Deluxe)  (Keeled Scales, 25)  D

- Jazmine Mary, "My Brilliance" I Want To Rock and Roll  (Flying Nun, Jun 13)  D

- Vandoliers, "Your Picture" Life Behind Bars  (Break Maiden, Jun 27)

- Mariel Buckley, "Vending Machines" single  (Birthday Cake, 25)  D

- SG Goodman, "Snapping Turtle" Planting By the Signs  (Slough Water, Jun 20)

- Sweet Megg, "New York Love Song" Never Been Home  (Sweet Megg, 25)

- Ben de la Cour, "Devil Went Down to Silverlake (ft Elizabeth Cook)" New Roses  (Jullian, Jun 6)

- Briscoe, "Hold On" single  (ATO, 25)  D

- Murder by Death, "Lose You" Egg & Dart  (MbD, Jun 13)

- Joe Kaplow, "Alligator Woodslide" single  (Sonder House, 25)  D

- Willi Carlisle, "Beeswing" Winged Victory  (Signature Sounds, Jun 27)

- Kelsey Waldon, "Falling Down" Every Ghost  (Oh Boy, Jun 20)

- Drayton Farley, "Carving of a Dove" single  (Hargrove, 25)  D

- Jason Eady, "Things I Keep Telling Myself" single  (Old Guitar, 25)  D

- Milk Carton Kids, "Ribbon" single  (Far Cry, 25)  D

- David Newbould, "Straight Shot To Bakersfield" single  (Blackbird, 25)  D

- Brent Cobb, "Even If It's Broke" Ain't Rocked in a While  (Ol' Buddy, Jul 11)

- Little Mazarn, "Dark Pleasure of Endless Doing" Mustang Island  (Dear Life, Jun 20)

- Yoshika Colwell, "Poem About Walking" On the Wing  (PIAS, Jul 25)

- Billie Marten, "Swing" Dog Eared  (Fiction, Jul 18)

- Scott Hirsch, "Hey Perdido" Lost Padres  (Echo Magic, 25)

- Joseph Allred, "Ditch Lily Suite" Old Time Fantasias  (Scissor Tail, Jun 13)  D

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ROUTES-cast May 11, 2025

ROUTES & BRANCHES

featuring the very best of americana, alt.country and roots music

May 11, 2025

Scott Foley, purveyor of dust

IF YOU ONLY LiSTEN to ONE RECORD THiS WEEK

Not a gob of new albums added to our digital shelves this week, but that's no excuse for not treating your ears to something new. We've been awaiting a breakout record from Kristina Murray since her 2013 Unravelin'. While '18's Southern Ambrosia was a terrific collection, this week's Little Blue will usher her to the upper echelons of our kind of music. The East Nashville songwriter fits snugly in the country corner of the americana pocket ("After Midnight Special", "Watchin' the World Pass Me By"), songs like "Has Been" and "Get Down To It" with Logan Ledger add enough extraneous edge to keep the collection original. 

Week-in and week-out you'll catch us adding stuff to A Routes & Branches Guide To Feeding Your Monster, our habitually updated new release calendar. Since our last report, we've added announcements from artists like Micky & the Motorcars, Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band, Dougie Poole, Cory Hanson, Chris Staples, and several more. In our handsome playlist below, debuts are noted with a "D". 

ROUTES-cast May 11, 2025

- Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band, "New Threats From the Soul" New Threats From the Soul  (Sophomore Lounge, Jul 5)  D

- Chris Staples, "Two Carat Diamond" Don't Worry  (Hot Tub, Aug 5)  D

- Cash Langdon, "Lilac Whiskey Nose" Dogs  (Well Kept Secret, 25)  D

- Janet Simpson, "Violet" single  (Cornelius Chapel, 25)  D

- Mike Polizze, "Everybody I Know" Around Sound  (Paradise of Bachelors, Jul 11)  D

- Daniel Romano, "Even If It's Obscure" single  (You've Changed, 25)  D

- Jack Van Cleaf, "Shouldn't Have Gone To LA" JVC  (Dualtone, 25)

- Florry, "Pretty Eyes Lorraine" Sounds Like ...  (Dear Life, May 23)

- Cory Hanson, "Bird On a Swing" I Love People  (Drag City, Jul 25)  D

- Drunken Prayer, "Long Ago Far Away" Thy Burdens  (Dial Back Sound, Jun 6)

- Gasoline Lollipops, "Holy Rebel" Kill the Architect  (ALP, Jun 13)

- Marcus King Band, "Honky Tonk Hell" single  (American, 25)  D

- Jr Thomas & Eraserhood Sound, "I Can't Leave You Alone" Jr Thomas in the Eraserhood  (Deep Matter, Sep 26)  D

- Lucy Rose, "Pink" single  (Rose, 25)  D

- Allo Darlin', "My Love Will Bring You Home" Bright Nights  (Slumberland, Jul 11)

- Caamp, "Mistakes" Copper Changes Color  (Mom + Pop, Jun 6)

- Matthew Doc Dunn, "Forbidden Life" single  (Cosmic Range, 25)  D

- Gold Dust, "Germs Burn" In the Shade of the Living Light  (Gold Dust, May 16)

- Jesse Daniel, "Mountain Home" Son of the San Lorenzo  (Lightning Rod, Jun 6)

- West Texas Exiles, "Division (ft Kelly Willis)" 8000 Days  (Floating Mesa, Sep 12)  D

- Ole 60, "Nancy Avenue" single  (Three Twenty Four, 25)  D

^ Kristina Murray, "Get Down To It (ft Logan Ledger)" Little Blue  (Normaltown, 25)

- Dougie Poole, "Heaven Sent An Angel and We Got Stoned" At Tubby's  (Wharf Cat, Jul 18)  D

- Michaela Anne, "Is This What Mama Meant" single  (Georgia June, 25)  D

- Drew Kennedy, "Nerves" Drew Kennedy  (BMG, May 16)  

- Civil Wars, "If I Didn't Know Better" single  (Sensibility, 25)  D

- I'm With Her, "Wild and Clear and Blue" Wild and Clear and Blue  (Rounder, 25)

- AJ Lee & Blue Summit, "Tear My Stillhouse Down (ft Lindsay Lou)" single  (Signature Sounds, 25)  D

- Hayden Pedigo, "I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away" I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away  (Mexican Summer, Jun 6) 

- Racing Mount Pleasant, "Racing Mount Pleasant" single  (R&R, 25)  D

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ROUTES-cast May 4, 2025

ROUTES & BRANCHES

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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ROUTES-cast April 27, 2025

ROUTES & BRANCHES

featuring the very best of americana, alt.country and roots music

April 27, 2025

Scott Foley, purveyor of dust

We're approaching the one-third point for 2025, so maybe it's time for a list. Following are our thirty (30) favorite albums for the year-to-date, listed in order of appearance. We call it:

IF YOU ONLY LiSTEN to THiRTY RECORDS THiS YEAR

Weather Station, Humanhood  (Fat Possum, Jan 17)

Luther Russell, Happiness For Beginners  (Curation, Jan 17)

Pigeon Pit, Crazy Arms  (Ernest Jenning, Jan 17)

Benjamin Booker, Lower  (Fire Next Time, Jan 24)

Jim White & Trey Blake, Precious Bane  (Fluff & Gravy, Jan 31)

Massy Ferguson, You Can't Tell Me I'm Not What I Used To Be  (North and Left, Feb 4)

Horsebath, Another Farewell  (Strolling Bones, Feb 7)

Gary Louris, Dark Country  (SHAM, Feb 14)

James Felice, Little Ones  (Million Stars, Feb 14)

Sunny War, Armageddon In a Summer Dress  (New West, Feb 21)

Patterson Hood, Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams  (ATO, Feb 21)

Jesse Wells, Middle  (Wells, Feb 21)

Will Stewart, Moon Winx  (Earth Libraries, Feb 28)

Fust, Big Ugly  (Dear Life, Mar 7)

Tobacco City, Horses  (Scissor Tail, Mar 7)

Jason Isbell, Foxes In the Snow  (Southeastern, Mar 7)

Jason Boland & the Stragglers, Last Kings Of Babylon  (Proud Souls, Mar 14)

Charley Crockett, Lonesome Drifter  (Island, Mar 14)

David Ramirez, All the Not So Gentle Reminders  (Blue Corn, Mar 21)

Lola Kirke, Trailblazer  (One Riot, Mar 21)

Palmyra, Restless  (Oh Boy, Mar 28)

Free Range, Lost & Found  (Mick, Mar 28)

Rachel Brooke, Sings Sad Songs  (MAL, Mar 28)

Brown Horse, All the Right Weaknesses  (Loose, Apr 4)

Will Johnson, Diamond City  (Keeled Scales, Apr 4)

Bon Iver, SABLE, fABLE  (Jagjaguwar, Apr 4)

Turnpike Troubadours, Price Of Admission  (Bossier City, Apr 4)

Julien Baker & Torres, Send a Prayer My Way  (Matador, Apr 18)

Jerry David DeCicca, Cardiac Country  (JDC, Apr 25)

Colin Miller, Losin'  (Mtn Lauren, Apr 25)

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ROUTES-cast April 27, 2025

^ Greg Freeman, "Point and Shoot" Burnover  (Transgressive, Aug 22)  D

- Colin Miller, "Lost Again" Losin'  (Mtn Laurel, 25)

- Joe Kaplow, "Part Of My Heart" single  (Sonder House, 25)  D

- Jerry David DeCicca, "Frozen Hearts" Cardiac Country  (JDC, Apr 25)

- Foxwarren, "Yvonne" 2  (Anti, May 30)

- Minus 5, "Let the Rope Hold Cassie Lee" Oar On Penelope  (Yep Roc, May 30)

- Hallelujah the Hills, "Crush All Night (ft Sad13)"  DECK  (Discrete Pageantry, Jun 13)

- Adrianne Lenker, "Two Reverse (live)" Live At Revolution Hall  (4AD, 25)

- Natalie Bergman, "Gunslinger" My Home Is Not In This World  (Third Man, Jul 18)  D

- Durand Jones & the Indications, "Flower Moon" Flowers  (Dead Oceans, Jun 27)

- Curtis Harding, "There She Goes" single  (Anti, 25)  D

- Billy Allen + the Pollies, "If You Want Me To Stay" Black Noise  (Single Lock, Jun 20)  D

- Sweet Megg, "Bridge and Tunnel (Dance With Me)" Never Been Home  (Sweet Megg, May 16)  D

- Jessica Lea Mayfield, "Groomed (ft Scott Avett)" Choose Myself EP  (JLM, 25)  D

- Hayes Carll, "Progress Of Man (Bitcoin & Cattle)" We're Only Human  (Hwy 87, Aug 8)  D

- Mike Frazier, "Oregon Stars" April Days  (Geneva, 25)

- Lukas Nelson, "Pretty Much" American Romance  (Ace, Jun 20)

- Lowtimers, "Charlotte" Cracks  (Alabama Sound Co, May 16)  

- Turnpike Troubadours, "Searching For a Light" Price Of Admission  (Bossier City, 25)

- Whiskey Myers, "Time Bomb" Whomp Whack Thunder (Wiggy Thump, Sep 26)  D

- SG Goodman, "Satellite" Planting By the Signs  (Slough Water, Jun 20)

- Steve Earle, "Long May You Run" Heart Of Gold: Songs Of Neil Young Vol 1  (Cinema, 25)

- Kelsey Waldon, "Tiger Lillies" Every Ghost  (Oh Boy, Jun 20)

- Drayton Farley, "Everything Goes South" single  (Hargrove, 25)  D

- Jobi Riccio, "Wildfire Season" single  (Yep Roc, 25)  D

- Shinyribs, "Salt On My Tail" Leaving Time  (Nine Mile, 25)

- Nicole Lawrence, "When I Get Home" Time In Love  (Durango, May 13(

- Wood Brothers, "Witness" Puff Of Smoke  (Honey Jar, Aug 1)  D

- Muireann Bradley, "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" single  (Verve, 25)  D

- Amanda Fields, "Redbird (ft Megan McCormick, Odessa)" single  (Are and Be, 25)  D

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ROUTES-cast April 20, 2025

ROUTES & BRANCHES

featuring the very best of americana, alt.country and roots music

April 20, 2025

Scott Foley, purveyor of dust

Of course, our intentions are pure, even if we struggle (re: fail) to publish a review every week. Will this spotty record improve going forward? No, likely not. Nevertheless, we'll continue to float our weekly Spotify ROUTES-cast every Sunday, populated with precisely thirty (30) new tracks. We also forge ahead with A Routes & Branches Guide To Feeding Your Monster, our prudently updated  new release calendar. Just recently we've added new stuff from artists like Foxwarren, Pine Hill Haints, Murder By Death, Gasoline Lollipops, James McMurtry, Vandoliers, Willi Carlisle, Brent Cobb and so many more. 

ROUTES-cast April 20, 2025

^ Julien Baker & Torres, "Bottom Of a Bottle" Send a Prayer For Me  (Matador, 25)

- Adrienne Lenker, "Happiness (live)" Live At Revolution Hall (4AD, Apr 24)  D

- Little Mazarn, "The Gate" Mustang Island  (Dear Life, Jun 20)  D

- Bonnie Dobson & Hanging Stars, "Baby's Got the Blues" Dreams  (Loose, Jul 11)  D

- Yoshika Colwell, "There's Got To Be a Loser Babe" On the Wing  (PIAS, Jul 25)  D

- Billie Marten, "Leap Year" Dog Eared  (Fiction, Jul 18)  D

- Elijah Johnston, "Ideas" Stupid Soul  (Strolling Bones, Jun 20)  D

- Ruen Brothers, "Mama Don't" single  (Yep Roc, 25)  D

- Buffalo Nichols, "In the Name Of God" single (AFB, 25)  D

- Brittany Howard, "Pale Pale Moon" Sinners Soundtrack  (Sony, 25)  D

- Dead South, "Joey" single  (Six Shooter, 25)  D

- Kristina Murray, "After Midnight Special" Little Blue  (Normaltown, May 9)

- Drew Kennedy, "Halo" Drew Kennedy  (BMG, May 16)  D

- Ken Pomeroy, "Flannel Cowboy" Cruel Joke  (Rounder, May 16)

- Jesse Daniel, "Time Well Spent For a Man (ft Charles Wesley Godwin)" Son Of the San Lorenzo  (Lightning Rod, Jun 6)

- I'm With Her, "Standing On the Fault Line" Wild and Clear and Blue  (Rounder, May 9)

- Mike Frazier, "Pyramids In the Sky" April Days  (Geneva, Apr 25)

- James McMurtry, "Black Dog & the Wandering Boy" Black Dog & the Wandering Boy  (New West, Jun 20)  D

- Turnpike Troubadours, "Heaven Passing Through" Price Of Admission  (Bossier City, 25)

- Gold Dust, "Whatever's Left" In the Shade Of the Living Light  (Gold Dust, May 16)

- Vandoliers, "Life Behind Bars" Life Behind Bars  (Break Maiden, Jun 27)  D

- Lillie Mae, "Hardest Part" Let's Go Dancing: Songs Of Kevn Kinney  (Tasty Goody, 25)

- Brent Cobb & the Fixins, "Ain't Rocked In a While" Ain't Rocked In a While  (Ol Buddy, Jul 11)  D

- Young Gun Silver Fox, "Late Night Fast Train" Pleasure  (Blue Elan, May 2)  D

- Pearl Charles, "Just What It Is" Desert Queen  (Taurus Rising, Apr)

- Angela Perley, "LA Cowgirl" single  (Perley, 25)  D

- Nicole Lawrence, "Way It Is" Time In Love  (Durango, May 16)  D

- Louisa Stancioff, "Strange Currencies" single  (Yep Roc, 25)  D

- Folk Bitch Trio, "The Actor" single  (Jagjaguwar, 25)  D

- Beirut, "Villa Sacchetti" Study Of Losses  (Pompeii, 25)

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ROUTES-cast April 13, 2025

ROUTES & BRANCHES

featuring the very best of americana, alt.country and roots music

April 13, 2025

Scott Foley, purveyor of pollen

ROUTES-cast April 13, 2025

- Bon Iver, "There's a Rhythm" SABLE, fABLE  (Jagjaguwar, 25)

- Ben Kweller, "Killer Bee (ft Flaming Lips)" Cover the Mirrors  (Noise, May 30)

- Esther Rose, "The Clown" Want  (New West, May 2)

- David Newbould, "Coin Flip" single  (Blackbird, 25)  D

- Joe Kaplow, "Favorite Song" single  (Sonder House, 25)  D

- Glass Hours, "Adaline" single  (Cornelius Chapel, 25)  D

- Mike Delevante, "Don't Count Me Out" September Days  (Truly Handmade, 25)

- Clarence Tilton, "Fred's Colt (ft Marty Stuart)" Queen Of the Brawl  (Tilton, 25)  D

^ Turnpike Troubadours, "A Lie Agreed Upon" Price Of Admission  (Bossier City, 25)  D

- Muscadine Bloodline, "Hittin' My Stride (ft Ben Chapman)" And What Was Left Behind  (Stancaster, 25)

- Brown Horse, "Far Off Places" All the Right Weaknesses  (Loose, 25)

- Florry, "First It Was a Movie Then It Was a Book" Sounds Like ...  (Dear Life, May 23)

- Matt Woods, "Children Of the Children" single  (Lonely Ones, 25)  D

- Eli Winter, "For a Fallen Rocket" Trick Of the Light  (Three Lobed, May 2)

- Will Johnson, "Unfamiliar Ghost" Diamond City  (Keeled Scales, 25)

- Caroline Spence, "Soft Animal" single  (Spence, 25)  D

- Dean Johnson, "Lake Charles" single  (Sub Pop, 25)  D

- Murder By Death, "Wandering" Egg & Dart  (MBD, Jun 13)  D

- Caamp, "Drive" Copper Changes Color  (Mom + Pop, Jun 6)  D

- Kassi Valazza, "Shadow Of Lately" From Newman Street  (Fluff & Gravy, May 2)

- Cold Specks, "Cold Goodbye" Light For the Midnight  (Mute, 25)

- Anderson East, "I'd Do Anything" Worthy  (Rounder, May 30)

- Valerie June, "Inside Me" Owls Omens & Oracles  (Concord, 25)

- Gasoline Lollipops, "Humanity" Kill the Architect  (ALP, Jun 13)  D

- Hayden Pedigo, "Long Pond Lilly" I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away  (Mexican Summer, Jun 6)  D

- Paco Cathcart, "Invasive Species" Down On Them  (Wharf Cat, May 2)

- Liam St John, "Greyhound Bus Blues (ft Molly Tuttle)" single  (Mercury, 25)  D

- Drunken Prayer, "Selfishness Of Man" Thy Burdens  (Dial Back Sound, Jun 6)

- Willi Carlisle, "Work Is Work" Winged Victory  (Signature Sounds, Jun 27)  D

- Scott Hirsch, "Future King" Lost Padres  (Echo Magic, 25)  

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