Country

Co-Produced by Grammy Award Winners Sturgill Simpson & David Ferguson!

Like many great Southern storytellers, singer-songwriter Tyler Childers has fallen in love with a place. The people, landmarks and legendary moments from his childhood home of Lawrence County, Kentucky populate the ten songs on his formidable debut, Purgatory, an album that's simultaneously modern and as ancient as the Appalachian Mountains in which events unfold. The album, co-produced by Grammy Award winners Sturgill Simpson and David Ferguson, is a semi-autobiographical sketch of Childers' growth from wayward youth to happily married man, told in the tradition of a Southern gothic novel with a classic noir antihero who may just be irredeemable. Purgatory is a chiaroscuro painting with darkness framing light in high relief. There's catharsis and redemption. Sin and temptation. Murder and deceit. Demons and angels. Moonshine and cocaine. So much moonshine and cocaine. All played out on the large, colorful canvas of Eastern Kentucky.

Childers had been searching for a certain sound for his debut album for years as he honed his craft, and was finding it elusive when his friend, drummer Miles Miller, introduced him to Simpson, the Grammy Award-winning musician and fellow Kentuckian. Childers sent Simpson a group of his songs, then went to visit him in Nashville. "And he said, ‘There's this sound. I know what you're trying to get at, the mountain sound,'" Childers recalled. "'So I asked, ‘What are you doing?'" Intrigued, Simpson enlisted the aid of Ferguson, the Grammy Award winning sound engineer. They assembled a band that included multi-instrumentalists Stuart Duncan, Michael J. Henderson and Russ Pahl, bassist Michael Bub and Miller on drums, of course, and helped Childers make a debut album of consequence that announces an authentic new voice.

"I was writing an album about being in the mountains," Childers said. "I wanted it to have that gritty mountain sound. But at the same time, I wanted a more modern version of it that a younger generation can listen to – the people I grew up with, something I'd want to listen to."

1. I Swear (to God)
2. Feathered Indians
3. Tattoos
4. Born Again
5. Whitehouse Road
6. Banded Clovis
7. Purgatory
8. Honky Tonk Flame
9. Universal Sound
10. Lady May

Vinyl LP pressing. Tyler Childers is the finest songwriter to emerge from the Bluegrass State since Chris Knight and should be mentioned in the same breath as Fifth on the Floor, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapelton, and others who are currently leading the most notable renaissance of Kentucky music since Keith Whitley and Ricky Skaggs took Music City by storm 30 years ago. Previously released as two separate EPs, Live on Red Barn Radio I & II is now available on a single LP for the first time. Volume I was recorded live on May 29, 2013 and Volume II was recorded live on November 7, 2013, both at Kentucky's legendary Red Barn Radio show in Lexington, KY. Live on Red Barn Radio I & II features six original songs (including "Whitehouse Road" as heard on Tyler's latest full length, Purgatory) and two covers.

• 1 Shake the Frost
• 2 Deadman's Curve
• 3 Charleston Girl
• 4 Whitehouse Road
• 5 Rock Salt and Nails
• 6 Coming Down
• 7 Follow You to Virgie
• 8 Bottles and Bibles

Limited double vinyl LP pressing in gatefold sleeve. Platinum edition of the pop/country star's sophomore album featuring six new songs not found on the original release. Taylor is the only country female artist to have five Top 10 singles from a debut album and the only country female vocalist this decade to reach the Top 5 on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart. Fearless was released on November 11, 2008, by Big Machine Records. As with her debut, Swift wrote or co-wrote all 13 original tracks on Fearless. Most of the songs were written as the singer promoted her debut album as opening act for numerous country artists. Due to the unavailability of collaborators on the road, eight songs were self-penned by Swift. Other songs were co-written with Liz Rose, Hillary Lindsey, Colbie Caillat, and John Rich. Swift also made her debut as a record producer, co-producing all songs on the album with Nathan Chapman.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Jump Then Fall
• 2 Untouchable
• 3 Forever & Always (Piano Version)
• 4 Come in with the Rain
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Superstar
• 2 The Other Side of the Door
• 3 Fearless
• 4 Fifteen
• 5 Love Story
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Hey Stephen
• 2 White Horse
• 3 You Belong with Me
• 4 Breathe
• 5 Tell Me Why
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 You're Not Sorry
• 2 The Way I Loved You
• 3 Forever & Always
• 4 The Best Day
• 5 Change

Vinyl LP Reissue of Long Out of Print 1974 Dolly Parton Masterwork Jolene!

The Bob Ferguson-produced Jolene, recorded in 1972 and '73 in Nashville with the musical mecca's finest sessions musicians, is filled not only with richly tuneful songs, but a pair of numbers - "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You" - that topped the Country charts and remain Dolly Parton signatures to this very day. The oft covered title track tells the tale of a housewife confronting her husband's seductress while "I Will Always Love You" covers the professional breakup of Parton and her longtime duet partner Potter Wagoner (who contributed the aching "Lonely Comin' Down" here). In 1992 Whitney Houston made the latter an international pop smash. Jolene had more than a little to do with elevating Dolly Parton to the next level of solo stardom, now the most-decorated female country music performer of all time.

1. Jolene
2. When Someone Wants to Leave
3. River of Happiness
4. Early Morning Breeze
5. Highlight of My Life
6. I Will Always Love You
7. Randy
8. Living On Memories of You
9. Lonely Comin' Down
10. It Must Be You

Limit one per customer.  Double vinyl LP pressing. 2012 release, the fourth album from the internationally successful singer/songwriter. Swift co-wrote the album with people 'from all different places in music'. Collaborators include Dan Wilson, Butch Walker, Max Martin, Lori McKenna, Ed Sheeran and Mark Foster of Foster the People. Rolling Stone has described the album as 'Swift's most eclectic set ever, ranging from 'State of Grace', a howling, U2-style epic with reverb-drenched guitars, to a sweet acoustic duet with U.K. singer Ed Sheeran. Another key track even features a Dubstep-inspired bass breakdown. The album's lead single, 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together', became Swift's first number one single on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, recording the highest ever one-week sales figures for a female artist.

• 1 State of Grace
• 2 Red
• 3 Treacherous
• 4 I Knew You Were Trouble
• 5 All Too Well
• 6 22
• 7 I Almost Do
• 8 We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
• 9 Stay Stay Stay
• 10 The Last Time (Featuring Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol)
• 11 Holy Ground
• 12 Sad Beautiful Tragic
• 13 The Lucky One
• 14 Everything Has Changed (Featuring Ed Sheeran)
• 15 Starlight
• 16 Begin Again

4x 2019 Grammy Award Winner for Album of the Year, Best Country Album, Best County Solo Performance ("Butterflies") & Best Country Song ("Space Cowboy")!

Co-produced and co-written by Kacey Musgraves with Ian Fitchuk and Daniel Tashian, the 4x Grammy Award-winning Golden Hour is the country/pop singer-songwriter's most intimate to date, featuring the genre transcendent hit singles "Butterflies," "Space Cowboy" and "High Horse." Recorded at Sheryl Crow's Nashville, TN studio, Musgraves told EW that the critically acclaimed LP has a "trippy twist" and cited "the Bee Gees, Sade, and Neil Young as influences" as well as her recent marriage to fellow musician Ruston Kelly.

"I was thinking about how there are different masks that we wear that represent different sides of us," she says of the album's theme. "None of the masks are solely us, but they're all us. On this record, there's the lonely girl, the blissful girl, the new wife, the girl that's missing her mom, the angry girl, the sarcastic girl, the ‘60s-sequined Cruella de Vil with the beehive, the shy girl, the life of the party, the winner, the loser – they're all characters on this record. None of them alone are me, but the golden hour is when they all come together and you see me as a whole."

Golden Hour was the big winner at the 2019 Grammy Awards taking home hardware for Album of the Year, Best Country Album, Best County Solo Performance ("Butterflies") and Best Country Song ("Space Cowboy"). The last time a country album won Album Of The Year was Fearless by Taylor Swift ten years prior in 2009.

1. Slow Burn
2. Lonely Weekend
3. Butterflies
4. Oh, What A World
5. Mother
6. Love Is A Wild Thing
7. Space Cowboy
8. Happy & Sad
9. Velvet Elvis
10. Wonder Woman
11. High Horse
12. Golden Hour
13. Rainbow

Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing. 2020 release from the acclaimed country music singer/songwriter. The album has 14 new tracks and is Chris's first studio album of new material since 2017. Features the single "Starting Over". Chris has received five Grammy Awards, seven ACM Awards, ten CMA Awards, and five Billboard Music Awards to date and with his first three album he has sold over eight million albums to date, including his debut album Traveller which has sold over four million copies.

Tracks

LP1

1. Starting Over
2. Devil Always Made Me Think Twice
3. Cold
4. When I'm With You
5. Arkansas
6. Joy Of My Life
7. Hillbilly Blood

LP2

1. Maggie's Song
2. Whiskey Sunrise
3. Worry B Gone
4. Old Friends
5. Watch You Burn
6. You Should Probably Leave
7. Nashville, TN

Vinyl LP pressing. "Hello... I'm Johnny Cash." With those four words, The Man in Black solidified his legend as outlaw country pioneer with his spirited live show as performed for 2,000 prisoners and armed guards in one of California's most notorious penitentiaries. Recorded and released in 1968-a year marked by some of the fiercest political unrest of the 20th century-At Folsom Prison established Johnny Cash as one of popular music's most distinctive voices.

Tracks

LP1

1. Folsom Prison Blues
2. Dark As A Dungeon
3. I Still Miss Someone
4. Cocaine Blues
5. 25 Minutes To Go
6. Orange Blossom Special
7. The Long Black Veil

LP2

1. Send A Picture Of Mother
2. The Wall
3. Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog
4. Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart
5. Jackson
6. Give My Love to Rose
7. I Got Stripes
8. Green, Green Grass of Home
9. Greystone Chapel

Triple vinyl LP pressing. Highly anticipated sophomore album. The vast 30-track project was written largely by Wallen throughout the last three years, while he was becoming "the fastest rising young star in country" (Variety). Further establishing his signature sound, it includes a strong arsenal of writers and features "More Than My Hometown", a countrified version of 3X Platinum Diplo collab, "Heartless" and more.

• 1 Sand in My Boots
• 2 Wasted on You
• 3 Somebody's Problem
• 4 More Surprised Than Me
• 5 865
• 6 Warning
• 7 Neon Eyes
• 8 Outlaw
• 9 Whiskey'd My Way
• 10 Wonderin' Bout the Wind
• 11 Your Bartender
• 12 Only Thing That's Gone
• 13 Cover Me Up
• 14 7 Summers
• 15 More Than My Hometown
• 16 Still Goin Down
• 17 Rednecks, Red Letters, Red Dirt
• 18 Dangerous
• 19 Beer Don't
• 20 Blame It on Me
• 21 Somethin' Country
• 22 This Bar
• 23 Country A$$ Shit
• 24 Whatcha Think of Country Now
• 25 Me on Whiskey
• 26 Need a Boat
• 27 Silverado for Sale
• 28 Heartless
• 29 Livin' the Dream
• 30 Quittin' Time

The Nashville Sound is the first official Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit album since 2011's Here We Rest. The 400 Unit features Derry Deborja (keyboards), Chad Gamble (drums), Jimbo Hart (bass), Amanda Shires (fiddle) and Sadler Vaden (guitar). The Nashville Sound was recorded at Nashville's legendary RCA Studio A and produced by Grammy Award-winner Dave Cobb, who also helmed Isbell's Grammy-winning 2015 album Something More Than Free and his 2013 breakthrough Southeastern. "Lyrics and melody are still the driving force behind what we're doing, but this time around, there's more of a rock ‘n' roll influence," Isbell says. "You might shed some tears, but for once, there's a chance you might also dance a little."

Tracks

1. Last of My Kind
2. Cumberland Gap
3. Tupelo
4. White Man's World
5. If We Were Vampires
6. Anxiety
7. Molotov
8. Chaos And Clothes
9. Hope The High Road
10. Something To Love

Limited colored vinyl LP pressing. Among the English language's premier phrase-turners with music relevant to any age, the late great John Prine delivered songs that are both literate and personal. The skilled and compassionate storyteller enjoyed widespread critical acclaim in the wake of his groundbreaking eponymous debut and continued to write and perform songs that became central to our American musical heritage for nearly five decades. Dedicated to his mother Verna Prine, the intimate and playful John Prine Live was largely recorded during a three-day stint at The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, California and released in 1988 on the singer/songwriter's own label Oh Boy Records. As he explained to David Fricke in 1993: "We didn't have another artist to put out. The idea was to have me and my guitar, telling stories and doing songs - and buying me some time until I could get into the studio again."

Tracks

1. Come Back to Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard
2. Six O'Clock News
3. The Oldest Baby in the World
4. Angel from Montgomery
5. Grandpa Was a Carpenter
6. Blue Umbrella
7. Fish and Whistle
8. Sabu Visits the Twin Cities Alone
9. Living in the Future
10. Illegal Smile
11. Mexican Home
12. Speed of the Sound of Loneliness
13. The Accident (Things Could Be Worse)
14. Sam Stone
15. Souvenirs
16. Aw Heck
17. Donald and Lydia
18. That's the Way That the World Goes Round
19. Hello in There

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Billy Strings has been hailed as the future of bluegrass, transcending tradition and genre with his high velocity, flat-picking guitar technique, and intense, confessional songwriting. He won a Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album for his 2019 release, Home. The Michigan-born, Nashville-based artist returns with, Renewal, his latest album on Rounder Records.

• 1 Know It All
• 2 Secrets
• 3 Love and Regret
• 4 Heartbeat of America
• 5 In the Morning Light
• 6 This Old World
• 7 Show Me the Door
• 8 Hellbender
• 9 Red Daisy
• 10 The Fire on My Tongue
• 11 Nothing's Working
• 12 Hide and Seek
• 13 Ice Bridges
• 14 Fire Line
• 15 Running the Route
• 16 Leaders

RCA Records - Imaginary Appalachia - Colter Wall - Red Vinyl Reissue of Imaginary Appalachia.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Sleeping on the Blacktop
• 2 Johnny Boy's Bones (Feat. the Dead South)
• 3 Caroline (Feat. Belle Plaine)
• 4 Living on the Sand
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Ballad of a Law Abiding Sophisticate
• 2 Nothin'
• 3 The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie

2022 release, the sophomore album from the Country Music singer/songwriter.

• 1 Hillbilly Hippie
• 2 Road Runner
• 3 Watermelon Moonshine
• 4 Grease
• 5 Weak-End
• 6 Me, You, and Jesus
• 7 Hold My Halo
• 8 Heart Like a Truck
• 9 Atta Girl
• 10 This One's Gonna Cost Me
• 11 Those Boots (Deddy's Song)
• 12 Live Off
• 13 Wildflowers and Wild Horses
• 14 What's Up (What's Going on)

Chris Stapleton will follow up his Grammy Award-winning, double platinum 2015 debut Traveller with not one but two albums in 2017. From A Room: Volume 1 will be issued in May while second installment From A Room: Volume 2 will appear later in the year. The album takes its name from Nashville's historic RCA Studio A, where it was recorded during the winter of 2016-2017.

Once again produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Dave Cobb, Volume 1 features eight original songs as well as a rendition of "Last Thing I Needed, First Thing This Morning" written by Gary P. Nunn and Donna Sioux Farar and made famous by Willie Nelson. Other highlights include "Second One To Know" which Stapleton recently premiered at the 52nd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards as well as the album's first single, "Either Way."

In addition to Stapleton on vocals and guitar and Cobb on acoustic guitar, the album features Morgane Stapleton on harmony vocals as well as longtime band-members J.T. Cure on bass and Derek Mixon on drums and musicians Mickey Raphael on harmonica, Robby Turner on pedal steel and Mike Webb on keys.

"I'm real proud of this record," Stapleton exclaimed at a record release party at RCA Studio A in Nashville, TN. "We made it right here in (RCA Studio A) like the last one. We camped out in here...and had a lot of fun recording things."

1. Broken Halos
2. Last Thing I Needed, First Thing This Morning
3. Second One To Know
4. Up To No Good Livin'
5. Either Way
6. I Was Wrong
7. Without Your Love
8. Them Stems
9. Death Row

Vinyl LP pressing. Recorded over two days and released in August of 2019, Zach Bryan's debut album DeAnn, named in remembrance of his late mother, tells the story of his struggles and finding hope throughout the years.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Flying or Crying
• 2 Hope Again
• 3 God Speed
• 4 Don't Give Up on Me
• 5 Doing Fine
• 6 Letting Someone Go
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Shivers Down Spines
• 2 Snow
• 3 Man That's Never Known You
• 4 Moon in Oklahoma
• 5 Condemned
• 6 Sweet Deann

Vinyl LP pressing. 2022 EP from the country music singer / songwriter. Summertime Blues was the follow-up to his #1 album American Heartbreak, which had been released just two months before the EP.

• 1 Quittin' Time
• 2 Motorcycle Drive By
• 3 Summertime Blues
• 4 Oklahoma Smokeshow
• 5 Jamie
• 6 Twenty So
• 7 Us Then
• 8 Matt and Audie
• 9 All the Time

BILLY STRINGS (Green/Clear Color-in-Color 2LP) Highway Prayers Modern bluegrass superstar Billy Strings has announced Highway Prayers, his first studio release since his 2022 father-son team-up LP Me/And/Dad and his first solo studio collection since 2021's Renewal. The 20-track LP, co-produced by Billy Strings and Jon Brion, is due out on September 2024.(Green/Clear Color-in-Color 2LP)

• 1 Leaning on a Travelin' Song
• 2 In the Clear
• 3 Escanaba
• 4 Gild the Lily
• 5 Seven Weeks in County
• 6 Stratosphere Blues / I Believe in You
• 7 Cabin Song
• 8 Don't Be Calling Me (At 4Am)
• 9 Malfunction Junction
• 10 Catch and Release
• 11 Be Your Man
• 12 Gone a Long Time
• 13 It Ain't Before
• 14 My Alice
• 15 Seney Stretch
• 16 Morbud4Me
• 17 Leadfoot
• 18 Happy Hollow
• 19 The Beginning of the End
• 20 Richard Petty

Double vinyl LP pressing. 2024 release, the sixth album from Post Malone and first-ever full-length country album this year. Paving the way was the first single "I Had Some Help" with Morgan Wallen. Post also released "Pour Me A Drink" featuring Blake Shelton, the two recently connected at CMA Fest where they debuted the track to the sold-out Nissan Stadium crowd

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Wrong Ones (Feat. Tim McGraw)
• 2 Finer Things (Feat. Hank Williams, Jr.)
• 3 I Had Some Help (Feat. Morgan Wallen)
• 4 Pour Me a Drink (Feat. Blake Shelton)
• 5 Have the Heart (Feat. Dolly Parton)
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 What Don't Belong to Me
• 2 Goes Without Saying (Feat. Brad Paisley)
• 3 Guy for That (Feat. Luke Combs)
• 4 Nosedive (Feat. Lainey Wilson)
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Losers (Feat. Jelly Roll)
• 2 Devil I've Been (Feat. Ernest)
• 3 Never Love You Again (Feat. Sierra Ferrell)
• 4 Missin' You Like This (Feat. Luke Combs)
• 5 California Sober (Feat. Chris Stapleton)
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Hide My Gun (Feat. Hardy)
• 2 Right About You
• 3 M-E-X-I-C-O (Feat. Billy Strings)
• 4 Yours

Grammy-Winning Singer/Songwriter's Fourth Album with the 400 Unit Produced by Dave Cobb (The Highwomen, Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson, Brandi Carlile, John Prine) and Recorded at Nashville's Historic RCA Studio A

Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and musician Jason Isbell and his band the 400 Unit return with the highly anticipated new album, Reunions. Produced by Grammy Award-winning producer Dave Cobb and recorded at Nashville's historic RCA Studio A, the album features 10 new songs written by Isbell including the jangly call to action single, "Be Afraid."

Reunions is Isbell's seventh full-length studio album and the fourth released with his band, the 400 Unit: Derry deBorja (piano, keyboard, organ, omnichord), Chad Gamble (drums, tambourine), Jimbo Hart (bass), Amanda Shires (fiddle) and Sadler Vaden (acoustic guitar, electric guitar). The record also includes background vocals from special guests David Crosby (Crosby, Stills & Nash, the Byrds) and Jay Buchanan (Rival Sons).

Of the release, Isbell shares, "There are a lot of ghosts on this album. Sometimes the songs are about the ghosts of people who aren't around anymore, but they're also about who I used to be, the ghost of myself. I found myself writing songs that I wanted to write fifteen years ago, but in those days, I hadn't written enough songs to know how to do it yet. Just now have I been able to pull it off to my own satisfaction. In that sense it's a reunion with the me I was back then."

1. What've I Done to Help
2. Dreamsicle
3. Only Children
4. Overseas
5. Running with Our Eyes Closed
6. River
7. Be Afraid
8. St. Peter's Autograph
9. It Gets Easier
10. Letting You Go

Vinyl LP pressing. 2019 release from the Grammy Award winning artist. Produced by Simpson, Sound & Fury, was recorded primarily at the McGuire Motor Inn in Waterford, Michigan, with his bandmates Bobby Emmett, Chuck Bartels, Miles Miller, who all serve as co-producers along with Grammy nominee John Hill (Cage The Elephant, Portugal. The Man, Bleachers). The album - which Simpson describes as "a sleazy, steamy rock n roll record" - is a marked departure from 2016's acclaimed A Sailor's Guide To Earth, which won Best Country Album and was nominated for Album of the Year at the 59th Grammy Awards.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Ronin
• 2 Remember to Breathe
• 3 Sing Along
• 4 A Good Look
• 5 Make Art Not Friends
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Best Clockmaker on Mars
• 2 All Said and Done
• 3 Last Man Standing
• 4 Mercury in Retrograde
• 5 Fastest Horse in Town