ROUTES-cast March 2, 2025

ROUTES & BRANCHES

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

March 2, 2025

Scott Foley, purveyor of dust

A couple weeks ago, we reverted to the weekly subscription model here at R&B HQ, after committing to an ambitious five posts per week over the previous year. We hope you noticed. While this has given us more time to focus on more lucrative pursuits, it's also left us feeling sorta hollow, with nobody with whom to share exciting news and unsolicited opinions. As we fumble around to establish a new balance, it's our hope and expectation to include additional content here in our weekly missive. We just need a sec to decide what will work, how to commit ourselves in a meaningful way without sinking back into the swamp gas. In other words, continue to watch this space. 

This week's frenetic activity on A Routes & Branches Guide To Feeding Your Monster (our frenetically updated new release calendar) includes new album announcements from David Lowery, Shinyribs, Colin Miller, Chaparelle, Rachel Brooke, and a ton more. Please follow the link above to see everything that's due in the months to come. 

ROUTES-cast March 2, 2025

^ Nathaniel Rateliff & Gregory Alan Isakov, "Flowers" single  (Stax, 25)  D

- David Ramirez, "Nobody Meant To Slow You Down" All the Not So Gentle Reminders  (Blue Corn, Mar 21)

- Shinyribs, "Leavin' Louisiana Blues" Leaving Time  (Nine Mile, Apr 25)  D

- Will Stewart, "Regulars" Moon Winx  (Earth Libraries, 25)

- Angela Autumn, "Just Like My Lover" single  (Autumn, 25)  D

- JD Clayton, "Madelene" Blue Sky Sundays  (Rounder, 25)

- Lola Kirke, "241s" Trailblazer  (One Riot, Mar 21)

- Mike Frazier, "World Without Empires" April Days  (Geneva, Apr 25)

- Cactus Lee, "Rabbit" Cactus Lee  (Western Vinyl, Mar 28)

- Chaparelle, "Inside the Lines" Western Pleasure  (Mom + Pop, Apr 18)  D

- Dani Rose & Brent Cobb, "I Ain't Livin'" single  (Rose, 25)  D

- Them Coulee Boys, "I Need a Friend" No Fun In the Chrysalis  (Some Fun, 25)

- Paradise Motel Lounge, "True Roses (fall like tears)" Welcome To the ...  (Halloween On Raspberry Hill, 25)  D

- Droptines, "Snowed In" single  (Droptines, 25)  D

- Devil Makes Three, "Dark Gets the Best Of You" Spirits  (New West, 25)

- Lowtimers, "Flesh and Bone" Cracks  (Alabama Sound Co, May 16)  D

- Alison Krauss & Union Station, "Granite Mills" Arcadia  (Down the Road, Mar 28)

- Sean McConnell, "Southside Of Forever" Skin  (Silent Desert, 25)

- Ramsey Thornton, "Rope Dancer" single  (La Honda, 25)  D

- Charles Wesley Godwin, "Lonely Mountain Town" Lonely Mountain EP  (Big Loud, 25)

- Free Range, "Storm" Lost & Found  (Mick, Mar 28)

- Colin Miller, "Cadillac" Losin'  (Mtn Laurel, Apr 25)  D

- Samantha Crain, "Gumshoe" Gumshoe  (Real Kind, May 2)  

- Echolalia, "Twisted Hemlock" Echolalia  (Full Time Hobby, 25)

- Edith Frost, "Little Sign" In Space  (Drag City,, 25)

- Judy Blank, "Fading Star" Lil' Mood EP  (Rounder, Mar 14)  D

- Craig Finn, "Bethany" Always Been  (Tamarac, Apr 4)

- Julien Baker & TORRES, "Tuesday" Send a Prayer My Way  (Matador, Apr 18)

- Joshua Burnside, "Good Life" Teeth Of Time  (Nettwerk, 25)  D

- Eli Winter, "Cracking the Jaw" A Trick Of the Light  (Three Lobed, May 2)  D

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