featuring the very best of americana, alt.country and roots music
November 23, 2025
Scott Foley, purveyor of dust
Next week in this time and place we'll be starting our end-of-year Episodes:
Nov 30: Favorite Covers
Dec 7: State of Americana
Dec 14: Favorite Songs
Dec 21: Christmas Christmas
Dec 28: Favorite Albums
Even with a seasonally typical limited line-up of new releases, this week brings some excellent choices, from Haley Heynderickx & Max Garcia Conover's unadorned indie-folk to American Aquarium's unexpected live set from Red Rocks. See also last week's lovely full-length from England's Red River Dialect.
IF YOU ONLY LiSTEN to ONE RECORD THiS WEEK
Laney Jones & the Spirits performed a handful of the songs off their self-titled record for an OurVinyl session earlier this year, filmed appropriately in a poorly lit boxing ring. The quartet's songs are visceral, even combative, defined by Jones' drawled delivery and Carson Lystad's bratty electric guitar. Largely an acoustic singer-songwriter since her 2012 debut, Laney Jones was reportedly driven to a more electric approach after being invited to open for some dates with Blitzen Trapper. Produced by Andria Tokic, the new sessions sacrifice none of that live urgency, an in-your-face mix at the intersection of Sarah/River Shook and Joan Jett. While she was presenting herself as an increasingly original songwriter on her self-titled 2016 release and on '22's Stories Up High, Laney Jones is reborn as a dynamic frontperson for her new band.
ROUTES-cast November 23, 2025
^ Laney Jones & the Spirits, "Waiting on You" Laney Jones & the Spirits (AHPO, 25)
- One Wheel Fireworks Show, "Woody" Jason Eternal (OWFS, Jan 28) D
- Dash Rip Rock, "Pain Pills Never Expire" A Song in Everyone (Davis, Jan 30) D
- Crooked Fingers, "Cold Waves" Swet Deth (Merge, Feb 27) D
- Langkamer, "Easterly" No (Breakfast, Jan 22)
- Drugdealer, "News" single (Mexican Summer, 25) D
- Lindsey Troy, "I've Seen the Willow Trees" single (Troy, 25) D
- Spencer Radcliffe, "Daily Driver" Ohio Vision (Orindal, 25) D
- Damien Jurado, "Take Your Time" single (Maraqopa, 25) D
- Mia Wilson, "Time is an Arrow" Mia Wilson (Royal Oakie, 25)
- Esther Rose, "Heather" single (New West, 25) D
- Tim Heidecker, "Valedictorian (ft Molly Martin)" single (Bloodshot, 25) D
- Natalie Del Carmen, "June You're On My Mind" Pastures (Torrez, Jan 30) D
- Band of Heathens, "High On Our Own Supply" Country Sides (BoH, Feb 20) D
- Uncle Lucius, "Say There Sunshine (Live at Gruene Hall)" Live in '25 (Boo Clap, 25)
- Haylie Davis, "Country Boy" single (Fire, 25) D
- Olivia Wolf, "Just Travelers" single (Wolf, 25) D
- Orville Peck, "Dreaded Sundown" Appaloosa EP (Warner, 25)
- Ole 60, "Can't Take It With You" single (Three Twenty Four, 25) D
- Rose's Pawn Shop, "Where the Horizon Has a Light" American Seams (Blue Elan, Feb 27)
- Pieta Brown, "Out of the Dark (ft Bo Ramsey)" single (Righteous Babe, 25) D
- Ben Danaher, 'Love Looks Different" single (DH, 25) D
- Pearla, "You Didn't Do Anything Wrong" single (First City, 25) D
- Lowest Pair, "Uncertain Seas" Always As Young As We'll Ever Be (Delicata, Jan 23)
- Red River Dialect, "Burn the Clutch" Basic Country Mustard (Hinterground, 25)
- Babehoven & Squirrel Flower, "My Life in Art" single (Polyvinyl, 25) D
- Son of the Velvet Rat & Ghost and the Machine, "Out in the Blue" single (Rat Music, 25)
- Haley Heynderickx & Max Garcia Conover, "This Morning I Am Born Again" What of Our Nature (Fat Possum, 25)
- Jeb Loy Nichols, "Weary Traveller" Music Maker (Be With, 25) D
- American Aquarium, "St Mary's (live)" Live At Red Rocks (Losing Side, 25) D
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