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Girl (Opaque Lemon Yellow)
Regular price $28.00 Save $-28.00Girl is Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Maren Morris' sophomore major-label release for Columbia Records Nashville. Morris' life from 2016 to 2019, at the very least, can be identified as exciting. The excitement of budding career, falling in love, becoming engaged and then married, all the highs and lows in and around every moment – for Girl that's what Morris chose to write about. If the past three years of her life were contained inside a single room with four walls, floor and ceiling, then Morris chose to utilize every square inch of that room to create Girl. Morris once again tapped Grammy Award-winning songwriter/producer busbee, who co-produced Morris' 2016 debut, the RIAA Gold-certified Hero, to co-produce 11 of the 14 songs on the album with her, while also adding Grammy Award-winning songwriter/producer Greg Kurstin to co-produce three songs. The album is introduced by the rousing title track written by Morris and Sarah Aarons ("The Middle," Zedd/Maren Morris/Grey), along with Kurstin and "Common" featuring fellow Grammy winner Brandi Carlile.
1. GIRL
2. The Feels
3. All My Favorite People (feat. Brothers Osborne)
4. A Song for Everything
5. Common (feat. Brandi Carlile)
6. Flavor
7. Make Out With Me
8. Gold Love
9. Great Ones
10. RSVP
11. To Hell & Back
12. The Bones
13. Good Woman
14. Shade
Doin' My Thing (Deluxe)
Regular price $24.00 Save $-24.00In 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)
Growin Up
Regular price $28.00 Save $-28.00Vinyl 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."
Long Violent History
Regular price $19.00 Save $-19.00"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
The Essential Johnny Cash
Regular price $32.00 Save $-32.00Double vinyl LP pressing. Collection from the late country great. Johnny Cash was widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century and one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 90 million records worldwide. Although primarily remembered as a country music icon, his genre-spanning songs and sound embraced rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal won Cash the rare honor of multiple inductions in the Country Music, Rock and Roll and Gospel Music Halls of Fame. Cash was known for his deep, calm bass-baritone voice, a rebelliousness coupled with an increasingly somber and humble demeanor, and a trademark look, which earned him the nickname "The Man in Black".
Same Trailer Different Park
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Renewal (2 LP)
Regular price $36.00 Save $-36.00Limited 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.
Me/ and/ Dad (Indie Exclusive, Limited Edition, Clear Smoke Vinyl)
Regular price $26.00 Save $-26.00Billy Strings - "Me/and/Dad" - "As long as I can remember, I wanted to make a record with my dad," Billy Strings says. The dream to make a proper studio album is finally realized. Me/and/Dad is a collection of 14 classics that Billy and his dad, Terry Barber, know like the back of their hands. It's the music that made Billy the musician and human he is today. The album represents a lifelong goal finally achieved and a way for the GRAMMY-winning musician to honor the man who taught him how to play guitar. 180-gram LP
Me/ and/ Dad (Indie Exclusive, Limited Edition, Yellow)
Regular price $26.00 Save $-26.00Billy Strings - "Me/and/Dad" - "As long as I can remember, I wanted to make a record with my dad," Billy Strings says. The dream to make a proper studio album is finally realized. Me/and/Dad is a collection of 14 classics that Billy and his dad, Terry Barber, know like the back of their hands. It's the music that made Billy the musician and human he is today. The album represents a lifelong goal finally achieved and a way for the GRAMMY-winning musician to honor the man who taught him how to play guitar. 180-gram LP
NASHVILLE SOUND (NATURAL W/ BLACK SMOKE VINYL) (RSD ESSENTIAL)
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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."
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star-crossed (Surprise Color 1 of 3)
Regular price $28.00 Sale price $25.00 Save $3.00Kacey Musgraves' highly anticipated new album Star-Crossed is a bold, empowering, and personal series of songs that displays the 6x Grammy Award winner's continued growth as one of the finest singer-songwriters of her generation. Recorded earlier in 2021 in just under three weeks, the album is a modern-day tragedy in three acts which tells an extremely personal journey of heartache and healing.
Musgraves tapped into the sorrow and trauma of her divorce and found the process of writing about it cathartic. "The word tragedy just popped into my mind. And I was like, ‘Whoa, what if the album was formulated like a modern Shakespearean or Greek tragedy?'", she said in a profile with Elle Magazine. "At the time, I didn't quite understand it. It's still pretty heady, the ‘old English' and all that. But it's themes that we're still familiar with today. They're just wrapped up in a different way. Those things will carry on forever, as long as humans are living, breathing, crying, loving, dying, fighting, all of that." Musgraves, despite the thematic heaviness, will once again be showcasing her ability to blend humor, wit, and clever lyrics with a relatability tied to catchy hooks and strong melodies. She told Elle that while recording the new album, artists that influenced the project include Bill Withers, Daft Punk, Sade, The Eagles, and Weezer.
Musgraves produced the album-opening title track with Daniel Tashian and Ian Fitchuk, the writing/production team on her 2018 Grammy Award Album of the Year-winner Golden Hour.
Pageant Material (Pink/White)
Regular price $29.00 Save $-29.00Limited vinyl LP pressing. 2015 release, the highly-anticipated sophomore album by the singer/songwriter. The follow-up to 2013's Same Trailer Different Park. Pageant Material is a 13-song tour-de-force. Musgraves co-wrote all of the album's tracks with an impressive roster of songwriters that includes longtime collaborators Shane McAnally and Brandy Clark, the duo who famously co-penned CMA Song of the Year 'Follow Your Arrow' with Musgraves for her debut. Includes 'Dime Store Cowgirl,' 'Late To The Party,' 'Good Ol Boys Club,' 'Somebody To Love' and many more. The Grammy-winning artist self-released three albums before appearing on the fifth season of the USA Network's singing competition Nashville Star in 2007, where she placed seventh.
Palomino
Regular price $33.00 Save $-33.00Hot on the heels of her recent 2022 Academy of Country Music Awards win for Entertainer of the Year, Miranda Lambert is set to release "Palomino," her ninth solo album, on April 29, 2022.
A line from the first song written for the album perhaps sums up the project as a whole best: “there’s always been a stranger in my soul / who loves a good goodbye and a good hello,” she sings in “Tourist.” On Palomino, her inner stranger travels lyrically from Fort Worth to the Mojave Desert; Battambang, Cambodia to Maine; the Crystal Palace in Bakersfield to the Rocky Mountains and beyond. In each destination and with every character met along the way, Lambert’s freewheeling trek is a work of unbridled freedom and self-discovery without painful introspection.
“The making of this record has been one of the most fun and creative experiences of my career,” reflects the woman who holds the title of most-awarded artist in ACM history. “Luke Dick, Natalie Hemby, and I went out to my farm in Tennessee in 2020 and started writing songs. We figured while we have time let’s get out to the country and see what happens. The first one we wrote was ‘Tourist’ and that set us on a path to create something with a bit of a theme. Since we couldn’t travel at the time, we decided to go on a journey through songs. I hope y’all are ready to travel with us wandering spirits and meet some cool characters with great stories.”
Lambert -- who is now the most-awarded artist in ACM history -- has already released the Jesse Frasure co-written single "If I Was A Cowboy" and the just-premiered, low-key, 70s rock-tinged "Strange" (featuring Dick and Hemby as writers) from the new project. "Palomino"'s other reported influences include acts like Little Feat, Bruce Hornsby, the Range and Emmylou Harris.
The album includes a cover of Mick Jagger's 1993 solo album title single "Wandering Spirit," plus an album track entitled "Music City Queen," which features backing vocals from pop icons the B-52s.
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Carolina (Clear Vinyl)
Regular price $29.00 Save $-29.00Eric Church's Platinum-certified sophomore album, Carolina (2009) followed-up his breakout debut Sinners Like Me (2006) and delivered the first of his many Top 10 hits with "Love Your Love the Most." Comparing the two albums, Church saw Carolina as a much more diverse project, more musical and a little brighter in content. Sticking with producer Jay Joyce (The Wallflowers, Emmylou Harris, Cage the Elephant) Church's paean to his home state features all-original songs, strong Southern rock grooves and enough outlaw attitude to pique interest in those who might otherwise have passed modern country music by. The authentic twang of "Love Your Love the Most" and the hooky "Hell on the Heart" have a sincerity that confounds the critics, Eric attains a universality in his nod to Willie Nelson on "Smoke a Little Smoke" and his vocals are outstanding on the plaintive "Those I've Loved."
Sound & Fury
Regular price $23.00 Save $-23.00Vinyl 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.
In These Silent Days (Deluxe Edition) In The Canyon Haze
Regular price $42.00 Save $-42.00Brandi Carlile delivers a Deluxe Edition vinyl 2LP reissue of her Grammy-nominated 2021 album In These Silent Days entitled In The Canyon Haze. The expanded collection features the original album and new reimagined Laurel Canyon-inspired versions of each song (co-produced by Carlile with trusty collaborators Phil and Tim Hanseroth) plus a special rendition of David Bowie's "Space Oddity." "We have re-imagined In These Silent Days, and we are putting out a deluxe album called In The Canyon Haze, which is a lush, harmony-rich, Laurel Canyon re-imaging of our album," the singer/songwriter shares. "It was a joy to make and it's a joy to bring to you. I knew I wanted to offer our fans more than just the usual ‘bonus track' that always feels like a creative way to ask fans to buy your album twice," adding that she had "conjured up imagery from the infamous music scene in Laurel Canyon."
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Walkin' After Midnight-The Essentials (Pink/Gold)
Regular price $40.00 Save $-40.00Chief
Regular price $24.00 Save $-24.00Limited 180gm blue colored vinyl LP pressing. Eric Church's platinum certified album, which was released in July 2011. Includes #1 hits "Drink In My Hand" and "Springsteen", and Top 10 hits "Like Jesus Does" and "Creepin'". The album went to #1 on the Billboard Country Albums Charts and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Country Album. Eric co-wrote 11 of the 12 tracks on the album.
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Diamonds & Rhinestones: The Greatest Hits Collection
Regular price $40.00 Save $-40.00A career-spanning, cross-label anthology featuring 23 essential recordings from 1971-2020 for the first time on one album. Diamonds & Rhinestones: The Greatest Hits Collection includes liner notes penned by Robert K. Oermann, who collaborated with Dolly on her 2020 autobiography, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics.
Gems on Diamonds & Rhinestones include Dolly's performances with Kenny Rogers ("Islands in the Stream" and "Real Love"), Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette ("Silver Threads and Golden Needles" from Honky Tonk Angels) and "Faith," her delightfully surprising 2020 collaboration with the Swedish electropop dance duo Galantis (featuring Mr. Probz).
A Very Kacey Christmas
Regular price $29.00 Save $-29.00Kacey Musgraves presents her very first holiday album with A Very Kacey Christmas featuring guest appearances by Leon Bridges, Willie Nelson and The Quebe Sisters. Produced by Musgraves, Misa Arriaga and Kyle Ryan, the album features four festive original tracks, co-written by Musgraves, as well as covers of eight holiday favorites.
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