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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