Sunday, October 02, 2022

ROUTES-cast OCTOBER 2, 2022

ROUTES & BRANCHES
featuring the very best of americana, alt.country and roots music
October 2, 2022
Scott Foley, purveyor of dust

The leaves have hardly begun to change here in my corner of Our Faire Square State, but I'm told Fall is well underway. September has witnessed some excellent new songs, and by god we're gonna opinionate about them. Every month we'll put our judgy hat on and identify our ten favorite songs from the past thirty days. We call it:


WHAT's SO GREAT ABOUT SEPTEMBER?!!

1. Plains, "Abilene" I Walked With You a Ways  (Anti, Oct 14)
2. Hallelujah the Hills, "God Is So Lonely Tonight" single  (Discrete Pageantry, 22)
3. Tyler Childers, "Angel Band - Jubilee Version" Can I Take My Hounds To Heaven  (Hickman Holler, Sep 30)
4. Rhett Miller, "Heart Attack Days" The Misfit  (ATO, 22)
5. Julianna Riolino, "Queen of Spades" All Blue  (You've Changed, Oct 14)
6. Courtney Marie Andrews, "These Are the Good Old Days" Loose Future  (Fat Possum, Oct 7)
7. Wild Pink, "See You Better Now" ILYSM  (Royal Mt, Oct 14)
8. Bill Callahan, "Coyotes" YTILAER  (Drag City, Oct 14)
9. Melissa Carper, "Ain't a Day Goes By" Ramblin' Soul  (Mae Music, Nov 18)
10. Sarah Lee Langford & Will Stewart, "Robby" Bad Luck & Love  (Cornelius Chapel, Nov 18)

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- War on Drugs, "Slow Ghost" I Don't Live Here Anymore (Deluxe Edition)  (Atlantic, 22)
- Wilco, "I'm the Man Who Loves You - Live in Studio" Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Deluxe Edition)  (Nonesuch, 22)
- Archers of Loaf, "Aimee" Reason in Decline  (Merge, Oct 21)
^ Pony Bradshaw, "Safe in the Arms of Vernacular" North Georgia Rambler  (Soundly, Jan 27) D
- Shannen Moser, "Foul Ball" Sun Still Seems to Move  (Lame-O, 22)
- Tallest Man on Earth, "Fairest of the Seasons" Too Late For Edelweiss  (Anti, 22)
- Erin Rae, "Rich Man" single  (Good Memory, 22)  D
- Bill Callahan, "Natural Information" YTILAER  (Drag City, Oct 14)
- Bonny Light Horseman, "Someone To Weep For Me" Rolling Golden Holy  (37d03d, Oct 7)
- Jeb Loy Nichols, "Big Troubles Come In Through a Small Door" United States of the Broken Hearted  (On-U Sound, Nov 11)  D
- First Aid Kit, "Turning Onto You" Palomino  (Columbia, Nov 4)
- Seth Avett, "Good Morning Coffee" Sings Greg Brown  (Ramseur, Nov 4)  D
- M Lockwood Porter, "I Went Out To Find the Answer" Sisyphus Happy  (Black Mesa, Oct 14)
- Paula Cole, "Ricochet (ft Jason Isbell, John Paul White)" single  (Cole, 22)
- Have Gun Will Travel, "Melancholy Moon (Everything Dies)" Silver Sounds EP  (Burke, 22)
- Tyler Childers, "Purgatory - Hallelujah Version" Can I Take My Hounds To Heaven  (Hickman Holler, 22)
- Ashley McBryde, "Bonfire at Tina's (ft Caylee Hammack, Brandy Clark, Pillbox Patti)" Presents: Lindeville  (Warner, 22)  D
- George Strait, "Willy the Wandering Gypsy and Me" Live Forever: Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver  (New West, Nov 11)
- Hellbound Glory, "Reeling Down" Nobody Knows You  (Black Country Rock, 22)
- Amelia White, "Fighting" Rocket Rearview  (White Wolf, 22)
- David Beck, "Same House' Bloom & Fade  (Parade Ground, 22)
- Cactus Blossoms, "If Not For You" If Not For You (Bob Dylan Songs Vol 1) EP  (Walkie Talkie, 22)
- John Fullbright, "The Liar" The Liar  (Blue Dirt, 22)
- Trampled by Turtles, "A Lifetime To Find" Alpenglow  (Banjodad, Oct 28)
- White Buffalo, "Not Today" Year of the Dark Horse  (Snakefarm, Nov 11)  D
- Brody Price, "It Was You" Win a Trip to Palm Springs  (Niles City, Oct 28)
- Caitlin Rose, "Nobody's Sweetheart" CAZIMI  (Pear Tower, Nov 18)
- Tommy Alexander, "Something Light" Feelings  (Fluff & Gravy, Oct 28)
- Melissa Carper, "Ramblin' Soul" Ramblin' Soul  (Mae Music, Nov 18)
- Lambchop, "Whatever Mortal" The Bible  (Merge, 22)

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