There's a new tribute record to Tom Waits in the works titled Where The Willow And The Dogwood Grow. The album is credited to Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, with performances by Bruce Springsteen,
Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Marianne Faithfull, Lucinda Williams, and more, and due out May 29 via Ace Records. This iconic version of Springsteen covering "Jersey Girl" will be included:
Fruit Bats announced a new full-band album titled The Landfill, due out on June 12 via Merge Records. The LP comes in quick succession after last September's all-acoustic Baby Man. The hilarious video for the title track is below.
Singer-songwriter Tift Merritt announced her first album of original songs in nearly a decade, Sugar, due out June 26 via One Riot. ICYMI, check out this In The Deep End feature with her from last summer, around the deluxe reissue of her breakthrough, Grammy-nominated LP, Tambourine. The new album features collaborators including guitarist Audley Freed (Alison Krauss, Sheryl Crow), multi-instrumentalist Robert Ellis (PJ Harvey, Faye Webster), Dr. Dog’s Eric Slick, Midlake’s McKenzie Smith, and Memphis-based arranger Art Edmaiston. Lead single "Finest Feelings" is out now.
Brennan Wedl and Waxahatchee have shared a cover of “Six O’Clock News” from Kathleen Edwards’ 2002 debut Failer.
Willy Vlautin, singer, songwriter, member of The Delines, and author, has a new novel coming out on April 14 titled The Left and the Lucky. He shared copies of the hardback edition on Facebook. Read more about new music from The Delines in this week's edition of Founders Keepers by ND co-founder Peter Blackstock and dig deeper into roots musicians who are also authors in this journal excerpt from the Summer 2021 "Voices" issue.
RIP to beloved bluegrass musician and three-time IBMA Male Vocalist of the Year winner Ronnie Bowman, who passed away on Sunday after a motorcycle accident. He was 64 years old. Read more at Bluegrass Today and check out tributes across the roots music community below.
Finally, best wishes to Gretchen Peters who is canceling her tour dates for the spring and summer due to health reasons. Check out this letter she wrote to Mickey Newbury and shared with ND in 2020 when she released an entire album of his songs.
WHAT WE'RE LISTENING TO
The Twilight Sad - IT’S THE LONG GOODBYE
The Del McCoury Band - "Long Way Around"
Joe Troop & The Truth Machine - "Billionaires"
Ellen Jewell - "Deportee"
Paisley Fields - "Hands Off The Hat" (from his forthcoming album Are U Mad At Me, due out May 1 via Don Giovanni)
NEW RELEASES - 3/27/26
Calder Allen - Fault Lines
Big Harp - Runs to Blue
Selwyn Birchwood - Electric Swamp Funkin Blues
Charlotte Cornfield - Hurt Like Hell
Drayton Farley - A Heavy Duty Heart
Flatland Cavalry - Work of Heart
Robert Francis - Phantasmagoria
Jose Gonzales - Against the Dying of the Light
Jim Lauderdale - Country Super Hits Volume 2
Melanie Martinez - Hades
Andy Thomas - Highway Junkie
Anthony Vaccero/Helicopter Leaves - Sabrina Nickles
The Westerner - Andy Hedges
Luke Winslow-King - Coast of Light
Yonder Mountain String Band - Good As True
COMING SOON - 4/3/26
Charley Crockett - Age of the Ram
Jessye DeSilva - Glitter Up The Dark
Elizabeth & The Catapult - Responsible Friend
Mark Erilli - Spring Green
Johnny Fritz - Debbie Downers: Woodwinds
David Aaron Greenberg - Trap Poems
Bruce Hornsby - Indigo Park
Thomm Jutz - Ringa Belling
Kronos Quartet - Glorious Mahalia
Joe Pernice - Sunny, I Was Wrong
Maria Taylor - Story's End
Joe Troop - The Truth Machine [EP]
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