Country

Triple gold vinyl LP pressing. Includes six previously unreleased tracks. "Fearless was an album full of magic and curiosity, the bliss and devastation of youth. It was the diary of the adventures and explorations of a teenage girl who was learning tiny lessons with every new crack in the facade of the fairytale ending she'd been shown in the movies. I'm thrilled to tell you that my new version of Fearless is done and will be with you soon. It's called Fearless (Taylor's Version) and it includes 26 songs." - Taylor Swift.

• 1 Fearless (Taylor's Version)
• 2 Fifteen (Taylor's Version)
• 3 Love Story (Taylor's Version)
• 4 Hey Stephen (Taylor's Version)
• 5 White Horse (Taylor's Version)
• 6 You Belong with Me (Taylor's Version)
• 7 Breathe (Taylor's Version)
• 8 Tell Me Why (Taylor's Version)
• 9 You're Not Sorry (Taylor's Version)
• 10 The Way I Loved You (Taylor's Version)
• 11 Forever & Always (Taylor's Version)
• 12 The Best Day (Taylor's Version)
• 13 Change (Taylor's Version)
• 14 Jump Then Fall (Taylor's Version)
• 15 Untouchable (Taylor's Version)
• 16 Forever & Always (Piano Version) (Taylor's Version)
• 17 Come in with the Rain (Taylor's Version)
• 18 Superstar (Taylor's Version)
• 19 The Other Side of the Door (Taylor's Version)
• 20 Today Was a Fairytale (Taylor's Version)
• 21 You All Over Me (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault)
• 22 Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault)
• 23 We Were Happy (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault)
• 24 That's When (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault)
• 25 Don't You (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault)
• 26 Bye Bye Baby (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault)
• 27 Love Story (Taylor's Version) [Elvira Remix]

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 vinyl LP pressing. Features 17 songs including all five tracks from The Prequel EP and new song "1, 2 Many" featuring Brooks & Dunn. 2019 album from the country music artist. What You See Is What You Get is the second studio album by Luke Combs. Luke is the first artist in history to simultaneously top all five Billboard country charts for multiple weeks: Top Country Albums, Hot Country Songs, Country Airplay, Country Streaming Songs and Country Digital Song Sale.

Tracks

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Beer Never Broke My Heart
• 2 Refrigerator Door
• 3 Even Though I'm Leaving
• 4 Lovin' on You
• 5 Moon Over Mexico
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 1,2 Many
• 2 Blue Collar Boys
• 3 New Every Day
• 4 Reasons
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Every Little Bit Helps
• 2 Dear Today
• 3 What You See Is What You Get
• 4 Does to Me
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Angels Workin' Overtime
• 2 All Over Again
• 3 Nothing Like You
• 4 Better Together

Second Installment features Another Helping of Sturgill Simpson Songs Reimagined in Bluegrass Form including Two Previously Unreleased Tracks!

Just a few weeks after the surprise release of the Cuttin' Grass (Vol. 1): Butcher Shoppe Sessions album – which Uproxx called "the most sublime and delightful music he's yet made on record" – Sturgill Simpson returns with the next installment of his bluegrass series, Cuttin' Grass (Vol. 2): The Cowboy Arms Sessions.

The genre-defying singer/songwriter reconvened an A-Team of acoustic players (now dubbed "The Hillbilly Avengers") for another round of reinterpretations of his catalogue, this time largely focusing on 2016's A Sailor's Guide to Earth, which won the Grammy for Country Album of the Year and was nominated for Album of the Year. This volume also includes "Jesus Boogie," originally performed by Simpson's first band, Sunday Valley, and two previously unreleased songs, "Tennessee" and "Hobo Cartoon," the latter of which was co-written with the incomparable Merle Haggard – who once said that Simpson was "about the only thing I've heard that was worth listening to in a long time."

"On Volume 2, we recorded everything I was too afraid to do on Volume 1," Simpson said. "It's hard to deny that this is a much more personal record. I was thinking about my kids, my grandfather, my wife." Vol. 2 was produced by David Ferguson and features Sierra Hall (mandolin, vocals), Mike Bub (bass), Stuart Duncan (fiddle, vocals), Scott Vestal (banjo, vocals), Tim O'Brien (guitar, vocals), Mark Howard (guitar, vocals), and Miles Miller (percussion, vocals).

1. Call to Arms
2. Brace for Impact (Live a Little)
3. Oh Sarah
4. Sea Stories
5. Hero
6. Welcome to Earth (Pollywog)
7. Jesus Boogie
8. Keep It Between the Lines
9. You Can Have the Crown
10. Tennessee
11. Some Days
12. Hobo Cartoon

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

Helmed by Grammy Award-Winning Producer Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell)

Husky voiced 21-year old Canadian singer-songwriter Colter Wall releases his self-titled debut album on Young Mary's Record Co. via Thirty Tigers. Helmed by Grammy Award-winning producer Dave Cobb, the 11-track album was recorded at Nashville's historic RCA Studio A. In addition to Wall on vocals and acoustic guitar and Cobb on acoustic guitar, the album features Chris Powell (Brent Cobb, Jamey Johnson) on drums, Robbie Turner (Waylon Jennings, Chris Stapleton) on pedal steel and Mike Webb (Southern Family) on piano.

Of the album, Wall comments, "I certainly feel like this record is far more mature than the EP in the content of the songs, stories and general sound. This record is a little more personal and most all the stories are true tales of my life." He continues, "Dave's a remarkable producer and equally impressive as a musician. Having both Dave the producer and Dave the player on this record felt like winning the lottery. I feel that way about everyone who played on this record. Kind of surreal really."

A native of Swift Current, Saskatchewan Canada, Wall's sound is comprised of resonate and raw baritone vocals, folk and bluegrass style guitar and banjo picking, steady kick-drum stomping, and visually provoking, story telling lyrics. Since debuting in 2015 with the release of his EP, Imaginary Appalachia, Wall has received overwhelming acclaim – Steve Earle declares, "Colter Wall is bar-none the best young singer-songwriter I've seen in twenty years," while Rick Rubin, who recently signed Wall to his American Songs publishing company, proclaims, "Colter sings and writes songs in ways seemingly lost in time. There is an agelessness about him so unusual in someone so young."

Selected by Rolling Stone as one of "10 New Country Artists You Need To Know," the album comes preceded by the buzzed about tracks "Thirteen Silver Dollars" and "Motorcycle" which pull the listener right in. Moreover, Wall's song, "Sleeping On The Backtop," was recently featured on the soundtrack of the Oscar-nominated film, Hell or High Water. 

Tracks

1. Thirteen Silver Dollars
2. Codeine Dream
3. Me and Big Dave
4. Motorcycle
5. Kate McCannon
6. W.B.'s Talkin
7. Snake Mountain Blues
8. You Look to Yours
9. Transcendent Ramblin' Railroad Blues
10. Fraulein
11. Bald Butte

Vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Country superstar Luke Combs' highly anticipated new album, Growin' Up, is available now. Produced by Combs, Chip Matthews and Jonathan Singleton, Growin' Up is Combs' third studio album following 2019's 3x Platinum What You See is What You Get and his 4x Platinum debut, This One's For You, and consists of twelve songs including his new single, "The Kind of Love We Make."

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Doin' This
• 2 Any Given Friday Night
• 3 The Kind of Love We Make
• 4 On the Other Line
• 5 Outrunnin' Your Memory - Luke Combs & Miranda Lambert
• 6 Used to Wish I Was
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Better Back When
• 2 Tomorrow Me
• 3 Ain't Far from It
• 4 Call Me
• 5 Middle of Somewhere
• 6 Going, Going, Gone

Chris Stapleton's From A Room: Volume 2 takes its name from Nashville's historic RCA Studio A (the capital "A" in From A Room) where it was recorded with Grammy Award-winning producer Dave Cobb. Along with 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. In addition to seven songs co-written by Stapleton, the album features versions of Kevin Welch's "Millionaire" and the Homer Banks/Lester Snell-penned song made famous by Pops Staples, "Friendship." Volume 2 follows the release of From A Room: Volume 1, which debuted earlier this year at #1 on the Billboard Country Albums chart, #2 on the Billboard Top 200 chart and, with its RIAA Gold certification, remains the #1 best-selling country album of 2017. Stapleton's 2015 double platinum, Grammy-winning solo debut, Traveller, is currently the #2 best-selling country album of the year.

1. Millionaire
2. Hard Livin'
3. Scarecrow In The Garden
4. Nobody's Lonely Tonight
5. Tryin' To Untangle My Mind
6. A Simple Song
7. Midnight Train To Memphis
8. Drunkard's Prayer
9. Friendship

Rising singer/songwriter Tyler Childers returns with Country Squire, his second official full-length effort and first release in partnership with RCA Records. Produced by Sturgill Simpson and David Ferguson, the album was recorded at The Butcher Shoppe in Nashville and consists of nine new originals. In addition to Childers (vocals, acoustic guitar), the long player features a number of world-renowned musicians including Stuart Duncan (fiddle, mandolin, banjo), Miles Miller (drums, background vocals) and Russ Pahl (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, pedal steel, Jaw harp, baritone). Of the mission behind the album, Childers notes, "I hope that people in the area that I grew up in find something they can relate to. I hope that I'm doing my people justice and I hope that maybe someone from somewhere else can get a glimpse of the life of a Kentucky boy." Ushered in by the yearning bluegrass-tinged tale, "House Fire," Country Squire continues a series of breakout years for the promising artist, whose acclaimed debut, Purgatory - also produced by Simpson and Ferguson – landed on multiple "Best of 2017" lists.

1. Country Squire
2. Bus Route
3. Creeker
4. Gemini
5. House Fire
6. Ever Lovin' Hand
7. Peace of Mind
8. All Your'n
9. Matthew

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

180g Vinyl 2LP Reissue Remastered from the Original Mercury Master Tapes by Kevin Reeves at UMG Studios Nashville!

Johnny Cash is one of music's true legends and a titan in the music pantheon. While his recordings for Sun, Columbia and American have been well serviced over the years, his Mercury Records catalogue has been conspicuous in its absence in the reissue market. With the new compilation Easy Rider: The Best of the Mercury Recordings and the box set The Complete Mercury Albums 1986-1991 plus stand alone 180g vinyl LP releases of Class of 55: Memphis Rock and Roll Homecoming (1986), Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town (1987), Classic Cash: Hall of Fame Series (1988), Water from the Wells of Home (1988), Boom Chicka Boom (1990), and The Mystery of Life (1991) on offer in 2020, the project is expected to deliver some richly deserved profile to an important but under-served slice of The Man In Black's repertoire. 

This deep dive into a lesser-discussed period of Cash's career provides an important link to the celebrated resurgence he enjoyed under the production of Rick Rubin with the American Recordings series, from 1994. Respected music journalist Scott Schinder notes that the recordings "stand as a notable transitional body of work, and an illuminating prelude to the full-blown creative resurgence that Cash would experience in the 1990s." This prolific period for the Man In Black, after the end of his 30-year association with Columbia Records, encompassed six albums in five years, at a time when he was also still touring extensively.

1988's Classic Cash: Hall of Fame Series consists entirely of re-recordings of songs already associated with Cash from his Sun and Columbia days. The album used modern production techniques, including synthesizers, to update and modernize Cash's earlier songs. It finds Cash revisiting such signature songs from the '50s and '60s as "I Walk the Line," "Ring of Fire," "Folsom Prison Blues," "Get Rhythm," "I Still Miss Someone" and "Sunday Morning Coming Down."

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

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)

Inspired by such classic concept albums as Willie Nelson's Red-Headed Stranger, Sturgill Simpson's The Ballad of Dood & Juanita is the Grammy-winning singer/songwriter's third album in twelve months, and his most ambitious project to date. Written and recorded in less than a week, and featuring the same ace musicians who played on 2020's Cuttin' Grass albums, the record tells a classic American story of a Civil War-era couple torn apart by violence and reunited by love – what Sturgill calls "a simple tale of either redemption or revenge." The Ballad of Dood & Juanita is Simpson's first album of all new original music since the release of 2019's Grammy-nominated Sound & Fury. This new collection of songs was produced by Sturgill and David Ferguson and was recorded in Nashville at the Cowboy Arms Hotel and Recording Spa. Special guest Willie Nelson is the featured lead guitarist on the track "Juanita."

Tracks

1. Prologue
2. Ol' Dood (Part I)
3. One in the Saddle, One on the Ground
4. Shamrock
5. Played Out
6. Sam
7. Juanita (feat. Willie Nelson)
8. Go in Peace
9. Epilogue
10. Ol' Dood (Part II)

Triple white colored vinyl LP pressing. Morgan Wallen's 3rd studio album, One Thing At A Time, was released in March 2023 via Big Loud/Mercury/Republic. Wallen's 36-song, deeply personal album combines his musical influences: country, alternative and hip hop. With so much new music, the stage is set for his 63-date/30-stadium One Night At A Time World Tour. This album follows the success of 4x platinum, Dangerous: The Double Album, which notched historical chart status as Billboard's longest running Top 10 album for a solo artist.

• 1 Born with a Beer in My Hand
• 2 Last Night
• 3 Everything I Love
• 4 Man Made a Bar (Feat. Eric Church)
• 5 Devil Don't Know
• 6 One Thing at a Time
• 7 '98 Braves
• 8 Ain't That Some
• 9 I Wrote That Book
• 10 Tennessee Numbers
• 11 Hope That's True
• 12 Whiskey Friends
• 13 Sunrise
• 14 Keith Whitley
• 15 In the Bible (Feat. Hardy)
• 16 You Proof
• 17 Thought You Should Know
• 18 F150-50
• 1 Neon Star (Country Boy Lullaby)
• 2 I Deserve a Drink
• 3 Wine Into Water
• 4 Me + All Your Reasons
• 5 Tennessee Fan
• 6 Money on Me
• 7 Thinkin' Bout Me
• 8 Single Than She Was
• 9 Days That End in Why
• 10 Last Drive Down Main
• 11 Me to Me
• 12 Don't Think Jesus
• 13 180 (Lifestyle)
• 14 Had It
• 15 Cowgirls (Feat. Ernest)
• 16 Good Girl Gone Missin'
• 17 Outlook
• 18 Dying Man

"My first introduction to Kentucky roots music came from the Smithsonian Folkways recordings of folklorists like John Cohen, Mike Seeger and Art Rosenbaum. During my time in college, the seminal 7-CD box set Kentucky Mountain Music was released on Yazoo Records and I was able to get a copy from my public library. This eventually led me to learn more about the musical styles of Roscoe Holcomb, Pete Steele, Burnett and Rutherford, Buell Kazee and a host of other early Kentucky songsters. I have always found Kentucky music to be intriguing because I found so many of the melodies to be what are known in old-time circles as "crooked" tunes, meaning that they add and subtract beats from standard musical notation. While this is a problem on staff paper, when playing old-time music for square dancing, this aesthetic actually enhances the musical experience for the dancers and the players.

"One of the most amazing aspects of learning traditional southern string band music is that in the most ideal situation it is not written down, it is played until it is correct. Like a massive mountainous landscape carved over generations by a strong and consistent river current, string band music isn't particularly a style that is discussed in terms of ‘right' and ‘wrong'. Once the fiddler sets the melody into place, the banjo finds a counterpoint and then the guitar picks out the mid-range bass notes or just strums the rhythm. This leaves a lot of room for a musician to find their place in the song so that their own style can develop naturally without any outside influences. In the same way that singers from a church background gain a strong knowledge of tone, pitch, and rhythm from singing in choirs, the musician who learns their instrument in a rich string band tradition can advance to a competent and even expert level in a relatively short period of time.

"By the early 20th century, large events around the equestrian trade such as the Kentucky Derby featured black string bands, jug bands and jazz musicians playing in the stands. This interchange between the musical influences of the north, south, east and west of Kentucky brought on a rich influx that influenced its fiddle music tradition. Not only did players have access to the long standing Indigenous, African, and European-American fiddle traditions, access to the Mississippi River brought a new wave of popular music coming from New Orleans, Mississippi, Memphis, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis and Iowa. The ragtime, jazz, and blues melded together with the existing string band music to become a new type of American music, both rooted in the past and forged by the present.

"For this epic recording session in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, Tyler Childers and his bandmate Jesse Wells meticulously curated a modern string band known as "The Pickin' Crew". This group of stellar Americana artists included myself, 5-string Kentucky banjo specialist John Haywood, mandolinist Andrew Marlin, guitarist Josh Oliver, upright bassist John R. Miller, fiddler Chloe Edmonstone and cellist Cecelia Wright. Although Tyler has been playing the fiddle for under a year, his style and technique as learned under the tutelage of Jesse Wells proves that Kentucky string band music is in his blood. The tunes presented in this album Long Violent History showcase the variety of fiddle styles that are profoundly represented in the American music lexicon.

"Double fiddles can give even the scrappiest of string bands a sound of sophistication that is in line with a classical chamber orchestra. Whether the two fiddlers are of the same skill set is irrelevant, if locked into a strong harmony or unison style, two fiddlers can make some powerful music. Even a smooth fiddler and a scratchy fiddler playing off each other creates a texture that is so pleasing to many fans of old-time music. When one begins to explore the possibilities of a bigger string band sound beyond the standard fiddle/banjo/guitar set up, one can explore it simply by adding other instruments of the traditional string orchestra family. A few examples include the Italian-derived mandolin which in the string band setting serves to punctuate the melodic leads, drive the fiddle harder and play expressive counterpoint parts like a New Orleans clarinetist in a jazz band. While not as common in the string band, the cello, famously known as the ‘church house bass' in many traditional circles, provides a richness in tone that allows for yet another means to drive the tune. The upright bass, though a later addition to the string band sound compared to the other instruments, holds together the bottom end, and gives a bounce that keeps the dancers and the band all in one place.

"In Kentucky, the stone mason bourbon "jug" has for years served a dual function as being both a vessel for the transportation of spirits and a homegrown musical instrument capable of mimicking the sounds of the brass band: the tuba, the trombone and the trumpet. The rhythm bones, originally made from animal rib bones, add a percussive urgency to the music when locked into the fiddle and banjo's rhythm. The esoteric quills, also known as the panpipes, are known throughout the world but have been championed by only a few modern practitioners in its American form. Its pentatonic scale adds a high-pitched lilt to any tune its sound touches. The German Mouth Organ, also known as the French Harp and the harmonica, played in natural or first position, can easily slide between melody and rhythm providing both melodic reinforcement and beautiful blue notes that create rich textures around the fiddle's melody. Finally, as a special treat I brought my good friend Big Head Joe, the Giant Six String Banjo to the recording session. This one of a kind handmade instrument is an oversized Guitar-Banjo made by an African American luthier named Robert H. McGinnis who built the instrument to be a part of the Clef Club Orchestra led by pioneer ragtime composer James Reese Europe. I had a feeling that Big Head Joe's throaty tone would sound great in the context of a bigger string band and it proved to be so much so that you can hear him picking out the first notes of the album.

"The century old songs presented on this record represent a time capsule and a musical artifact. Tyler's tintype photograph on the cover transcends the modern era and harkens back to the birth of American Popular music of the 1920's when songsters and Tin Pan Alley songwriters created hits for Broadway. His presentation of Kentucky music and his debut as a fiddler are a reminder that roots music is still a thriving community. Listen to the music, meditate with it, flow along with the melodies, and let the rhythm seep into your mind. These songs are meant to last another hundred years, yet it is supposed to tell a new story about the struggles that lie within our generation. Tyler Childers, placing his fiddle on the wall chose to premiere only one original song where he sings: Long Violent History, a final powerful and poignant statement. Backed by the Pickin' Crew, the nine tracks invite us into Tyler's world deep within the mountains of eastern Kentucky where the blue grass, the high weeds, and the kudzu grow. This environment created the perfect inspiration for the record, and it's been an honor to add some extra magic to the sessions." - Dom Flemons, The American Songster

1. Send in the Clowns
2. Zollie's Retreat
3. Squirrel Hunter
4. Sludge River Stomp
5. Midnight on the Water
6. Camp Chase
7. Jenny Lynn
8. Bonaparte's Retreat
9. Long Violent History

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

10th Anniversary Expanded Deluxe Edition Vinyl featuring Two Rare Bonus Tracks, Previously Only Available on the iTunes Exclusive Version of the Album!

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Doin' My Thing, Luke Bryan is releasing an expanded deluxe edition vinyl featuring 13 tracks, including two rare bonus songs, "Ya'll Can Have This Town" and "Favorite Flowers," previously only available on the iTunes exclusive version of the album. Doin' My Thing was pivotal to Bryan's climb towards becoming a two-time winner of the Entertainer of the Year at both the CMA and ACM Awards. It followed the release of 2007's I'll Stay Me, which contained three top 40 country singles and reached No. 2 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart. Doin' My Thing went platinum, also hit No. 2 country and No. 6 on the Billboard 200. The sophomore set contained three major hits: Bryan's first No. 1 "Rain Is A Good Thing," the No. 2 ballad "Do I" and another chart-topper, "Someone Else Calling You Baby," all of them co-written by Bryab. Doin' My Thing also featured his version of the OneRepublic hit written by Ryan Tedder, "Apologize."

1. Rain Is A Good Thing
2. Doin’ My Thing
3. Do I
4. What Country Is
5. Someone Else Calling You Baby
6. Welcome To The Farm
7. Apologize
8. Every Time I See You
9. Chuggin’ Along
10. I Did It Again
11. Drinkin’ Beer And Wastin’ Bullets
12. Ya’ll Can Have This Town (Bonus Track)
13. Favorite Flowers (Bonus Track)