ROUTES-cast November 7, 2021

ROUTES & BRANCHES

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

November 7, 2021

Scott Foley, purveyor of dust

 

We're staring down the end of the year, a time for reckoning and assessment. We're looking at December 5 and December 12 for presenting our favorite songs and records of 2021 (respectively), and are pleased to admit that our first pass through A Routes & Branches Guide To Feeding Your Monster has resulted in targeting 53 albums for consideration and 54 songs. We'll do our due diligence to narrow both lists down to our traditional 30, then share them right here. 

At this point we're looking at around two dozen records between here and the year's end. Most of what we're adding to A Routes & Branches Guide To Feeding Your Monster is slotted for release in the dawning days of 2022. Lately, that's included Set Sail, the next volley from the North Mississippi Allstars. That will set sail January 28 under the power of the New West label. We've also added the long awaited Sarah Shook & the Disarmers to the calendar. Expect Nightroamer February 18 via Abeyance. 

- Dope Lemon, "Rose Pink Cadillac" Rose Pink Cadillac  (Stone, Nov 12)  D

- Nathaniel Rateliff & Night Sweats, "Future" The Future  (Stax, 21)

- Margo Cilker, "Brother Taxman Preacher" Pohorylle  (Fluff & Gravy, 21)

- Andy Shauf, "Spanish on the Beach" Wilds  (Anti, 21)  D

- Virgil Shaw, "Black Helicopters" At the Time I Didn't Care  (Rocks in Your Head, 21)

- Jenny Lewis, "Puppy and a Truck" single  (Loves Way, 21)  D

- Grady Spencer & Work, "Therapy's Good" Wait  (Spencer, Jan 21)  D

- Massy Ferguson, "Miles Away" Joe's Meat and Grocery  (North and Left, Feb 22)  D

- Houndmouth, "Miracle Mile" Good For You  (Dualtone, 21)

- Kiely Connell, "Nobody's Business But Mine" Calumet Queen  (Connell, Nov 12)  D

- Mike Coykendall, "Hi-Ho Hotel" Dirt and the Dust  (Coykendall, Nov 11)

- M Ward, "Birthday" single  (Anti, 21)  D

- Cat Power, "Pa Pa Power" Covers  (Domino, Jan 14)  

- John Murry, "Bad As They Seem (Hayden)" single  (Submarine Cat, 21)  D

- Brandy Zdan, "Everyone Wants" Falcon  (Lucky Rose, 21)

- Golden and Rust, "Ruby" Golden and Rust  (Golden and Rust, 21)  D

- Steve Gunn, "Dust Filled Room" Still Some Light Pt 1 (Reissue)  (Dead Oceans, Jan 14)  D

- Megan Siebe, "Easy Street" Swaying Steady  (Shrimper, 21)  D

- Penny & Sparrow, "Adeline" Olly Olly  (I Love You, Jan 21)

- Robert Plant & Allison Krauss, "It Don't Bother Me" Raise the Roof  (Rounder, Nov 19)

- Charles Wesley Godwin, "Over Yonder" How the Mighty Fall  (Godwin, 21)

^ Duquette Johnston, "Year to Run" Social Animals  (Single Lock, Feb 25)  D

- Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, "Talkin' to Myself" Nightroamer  (Abeyance, Feb 18)  D

- Jesse Dayton, "Story of My Life" Beaumonster  (Blue Elan, 21)

- Eleanor Buckland, "Call Me Up" You Don't Have To Know  (Soundly, 21)

- North Mississippi Allstars, "Set Sail Pt 1" Set Sail  (New West, Jan 28)  D

- Courtney Hartman, "Moontalk" Glade  (Recknoner, 21)

- Erin Enderlin, "Barroom Mirrors" Barroom Mirrors EP  (Black Crow, 21)

- Jason Isbell & 400 Unit, "I've Been Loving You Too Long" Georgia Blue  (Southeastern, 21)

- Curtis Harding, "Can't Hide It" If Words Were Flowers  (Anti, 21)

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