Americana Posts

Band Of Joy
Robert Plant
In which Robert pretends he's in a band

August
Still Lost Bird Music
classic poetry set to bluegrassy music

LP5
John Moreland
gravelly but smooth

VII
Blitzen Trapper
hooking a roadhouse jukebox up to a marshall stack

Leave No Bridge Unburned
Whitehorse
in which bridges are burned

Time Out Of Mind
Bob Dylan
a rootsy interpolation

Out Of Time
REM
transitioning from scenesters to artists

Wary + Strange
Amythyst Kiah
a bluesy shot in the arm

Home Video
Lucy Dacus
stark, intimate, and clever

Country Club
John Doe & The Sadies
faithful takes on old country classics

Dusk
JR Bohannon
gorgeous solo guitar

Dreams Of Flight
Edgar Meyer
An early record from a one-of-a-kind polymath

Strictly A One-Eyed Jack
John Mellencamp
Old Man Logan sings the blues

Muchacho
Phosphorescent
literate, grandiose modern country-rock

Oh Mercy
Bob Dylan
The *first* late-era classic