The year 2017 sounds like more of a threat than a promise….but we’re not going to let that assuage us. We still look at the promise of new sounds and the greater good to carry us across this new threshold. There’s a lot of really (really) good new music coming out this month and next and we’ve got a sampling for you, including Hiss Golden Messenger, Chuck Prophet, Rhiannon Giddens, and local favorite David Luning. We’ll open things up this episode with a tip-of-the-hat to the great Jack Clement, renaissance man and a songwriter whose mark has been stamped indelibly on the Americana songbook. Looking forward to your presence!
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rodney Crowell | Ballad of A Teenage Queen | Texas Fed, Texas Bred: Redefining Country Music, Vol. 1 |  |
| 2 | Cowboy Jack Clement w/ Pam Tillis | Let's All Help The Cowboys (Sing The Blues) | Lonesome, On'ry and Mean: A Tribute To Waylon Jennings \n(complete track list) | |
| 3 | Jack Clement | The Spell Of The Freight Train | For Once And For All | |
| 4 | Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers | I Guess Things Happen That Way | At The Ryman [Live] | |
| 5 | Cowboy Jack Clement | Beautiful Dreamer | Divided & United: The Songs of the Civil War | |
| 6 | Ray Charles | A Girl I Used To Know | Complete Country & Western Recordings: 1959-1986 [Disc 2] | |
| 7 | Hiss Golden Messenger | Biloxi | Heart Like a Levee (Deluxe Edition) | |
| 8 | David Luning | Driftin' | Restless | |
| 9 | The Band Of Heathens | Keys to the Kingdom | Duende | |
| 10 | Courtney Marie Andrews | How Quickly Your Heart Mends | Honest Life | |
| 11 | Chuck Prophet | Bad Year for Rock and Roll | Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins | |
| 12 | John Prine/Kacey Musgraves | Mental Cruelty | For Better, Or Worse | |
| 13 | The Time Jumpers | Sweet Rowena | Kid Sister | |
| 14 | Delbert McClinton & Self-Made Men | Like Lovin' Used to Be | Prick of the Litter | |
| 15 | Ryan Adams | To Be Without You | Prisoner | |
| 16 | Brigitte DeMeyer & Will Kimbrough | Everything | Mockingbird Soul | |
| 17 | Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby | Across The Rocky Mountains | Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby | |
| 18 | Rhiannon Giddens | Freedom Highway | Freedom Highway | |
| 19 | Leon Russell | I Love The Way You Love Me | Snapshot | |
| 20 | Southern Culture On The Skids | I Ain't Gonna Hang Around | The Electric Pinecones | |
| 21 | Kentucky Headhunters | Jukebox Full of Blues | On Safari | |
| 22 | Carey Ott | Speed Of Love | Nocona | |
| 23 | Jim Lauderdale | Drive | This Changes Everything | |
| 24 | The Dustbowl Revival | Only One | Busted – Single | |
| 25 | Nikki Lane | Highway Queen | Highway Queen | |
| 26 | Gillian Welch | Orphan Girl [Alternate Version] | Boots No. 1: The Official Revival Bootleg [Disc 1] | |
| 27 | Trinity River Band | Steel and Blood | Better Than Blue | |
| 28 | Dave Keller | Slow Train | Right Back Atcha | |
| 29 | Robert Earl Keen | Feelin' Good Again (Live) | Live Dinner Reunion | |
| 30 | J Shogren Shanghai'd | Swampland | Why So Blue Bird? | |