November, 2021—New Music Spotlight 
Pop & Rock
Chuck Berry: The Definitive Collection
Chuck Berry cooked up the basic recipe for rock n' roll. With his guitar style, Berry would have many hit songs, including Johnny B. Goode and Maybellene, which are just two of the hits included in this collection.
 
 
Donald Fagen's The Nightfly Live
A companion album to Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live, Donald Fagen's The Nightfly
Live
captures a 2019 performance of the 1982 album by Steely Dan.
- Allmusic
 
 
Low: Hey What
Layers of distorted
sound accrete with each new verse - building, breaking, colossal then restrained, a solemn
vow only whispered. - Bandcamp
 
 
 
 
 
Carter Tutti: Carter Tutti Plays Chris & Cosey
Founding members of industrial behemoths Throbbing Gristle—are still enamored with dousing raw electronics
in a seedy, heavily sexualized tone.
 
 
Jazz
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Love For Sale
Spanning some of Porter’s best-known classics, the tracklist also includes Frank Sinatra’s Porter-penned signature songs I’ve Got You Under My Skin and I Get a Kick Out of You. - NME
 
 
 

Blues & Country
Eric Bibb: 
Dear America

Dear America
 has
carved an actual ode
to America’s history, passing through the glory, pain, fighting,
and bitter moments.
- Blues Rock Review
 
 
 
Folk
Sierra Ferrell: 
Long Time Coming

With her spellbinding voice and time-bending sensibilities, Sierra Ferrell makes music that's as fantastically vagabond
as the artist herself.
 
 
World & Electronic
Stephen Micus: 
Winter's End
Stephan Micus is a one-man universe of sound. He collects and studies instruments from around the world and creates his own musical journeys with them. 
 
 
Brandi Carlile: In These Silent Days
A triumphant patchwork of Americana, folk-rock, pop and soul anchored
by yet another show-stopping centerpiece
in “Right on Time,” the album’s towering lead single. - Spin
 
 
 
The Felice Brothers: 
From Dreams To Dust
The record ranges over
a variety of topics and themes, including isolation, the world of dreams and delusions, environmental collapse, and the inward and outward chaos of
modern life.
 
 
The Metallica Blacklist
Metallica asked a diverse mix of artists to choose
a song from the band's iconic Black Album and make it their own. This
is the result: 53 very different takes on the
12 original songs. 
 
 
 
Faye Webster: I Know I'm Funny Haha
Webster's sound draws as much from the lap-steel singer-songwriter pop of the 1970s and teardrop country tunes as it does from the audacious personalities of her city's rap and R&B community.
 
 
 
 
 
James Francies: 
Purest Form

An eclectic new album that taps into the essence of his artistry across 14 tracks that conjure a world of
sounds & textures, interpreting love, grief, frailty, & fortitude.
 
 
 
 
Kacey Musgraves:
Star-crossed
A bold, empowering, and personal series of songs that displays the six-time Grammy Award winner's continued growth as one of the finest singer-songwriters of our time.


 
 
 
 
Home In This World: Woody Guthrie's Dustbowl Ballads
A reimagined version of American folk icon Woody Guthrie's groundbreaking 1940 album, Dust Bowl Ballads.
 
 
 

 
Katherine Priddy:
Eternal Rocks Beneath
Much-anticipated debut album from Richard Thompson-endorsed British singer-songwriter.
 
 
 
Daughtry: 
Dearly Beloved

The songs drip with highly infectious melodies and glorious pop hooks. But then we should expect nothing else, as even in his hardest rocking days, Daughtry has always been as much about melody as he has about thundering guitars.
- Metal Planet Music
  
The Killers: 
Pressure Machine

A character study of some of the 5,300 people who inhabit Flowers’ home town of Nephi, Utah, a place of endless wheat fields, unlocked front doors and the Mormon church.
- Guitar.com

 
 
John Prine: Crooked Piece of Time: The Atlantic & Asylum Albums (1971-1980)
A 7-CD boxed set that includes: John Prine,
Diamonds In The Rough, Sweet Revenge, Common Sense, Bruised Orange, Pink Cadillac and Storm Windows.
 
Neil Young: 
Carnegie Hall 1970

On December 4, 1970, Neil Young played two legendary solo acoustic shows at New York's Carnegie Hall. This is the early show which has never been bootlegged or circulated, and is the first release in Neil's new Official Bootleg Series.
 
  
Steve Tibbets: 
Northern Song
There is nothing in this music to hang any defining label on. It has overtones of classical, jazz, rock and Martian style but mostly it is just an extreme pleasure for the senses. Approach with an open mind.
- Oakland Review
 
Lucinda Williams: Lu's Jukebox Vol. 4: Funny How Time Slips Away- A Night Of 60's Country Classics
This thirteen-track set centres around country music classics from the Sixties, with Williams
and a full backing band rattling through stirring renditions of tracks like Apartment #9, Together Again and I’m Movin’ On. - Norman Records 
 
Nefesh Mountain: 
Songs For The
Sparrows
Nefesh Mountain is among the first to truly give voice and openly represent Jewish American culture, tradition, values and spirituality in the world
of American roots music. 
 
 
Pauline Anna Strom:
Angel Tears In
Sunlight 
An assemblage of music that refracts the expansiveness, and minutiae, of imagined realms while embracing the kaleidoscopic echoes of our distant epochs.
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