Album Releases by Genre
Junky Star
by Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses
August 31, 2010
Songwriter Ryan Bingham has grown tremendously on this third full-length. Barely 30 years old, his previous work showed promise but carried the excess expected of a novice. Bingham won both a Golden Globe and an Oscar for "The Weary Kind," the theme song from the film Crazy Heart. The song was produced by T-Bone Burnett, creating a partnership extended on Junky Star. Bingham and his Dead Horses--drummer Matthew Smith, bassist Elijah Ford, and guitarist Corby Schaub, prove the song was no fluke. The sound is pure Americana; these 12 lyrically sophisticated yet direct songs, reflect a host of tense, lost, desperate, individuals dreaming the same dark dream, one that suggests that we are all growing tenser with the times. Bingham has trimmed his songwriting to the bone, while learing to use metaphor and metonomy like a veteran. A former rodeo rider, he wears his influences proudly: Guthrie, Dylan, Van Zandt, Ely, Earle, Clark, and Hubbard. He begins with a sandblasted vision of America in "the Poet." Amid acoustic guitars, a lonesome harmonica ,restrained electric and bass drum, Bingham's whiskey-smoked vocal offers a lyric theme the entire album turns on: "As I keep walking, people keep talking/About things they've never seen or done/Homeless sleep in the park, lovers kiss in the dark/Me, I keep moving on through time." Time is suspended as Bingham's protagonists tell stories from the road (some of them bone-chilling), from America's past and present, physically and psychologically. Rootlessness as peace of mind is portrayed via country rock in "The Wandering," but the feeling in "Strange Feeling In The Air," the title track, a deeply moving acoustic murder ballad (they are strewn throughout the album), and the angry uptempo "Depression," reflect a contradiction: constant movement is the key to survival, not necessarily peace. "Hallelujah" is another murder ballad with a disturbing twist. "Lay My Head On The Rail," is pure folk poetry illustrated by a lone acoustic guitar. The blues in "Hard Worn Trail," are rooted in poverty worry, strained, broken relationships resulting in the search for comfort. It doesn't come anywehre on Junky Star. "All Choked Up Again," set to Waylon Jennings' brand of outlaw country closes it out by mining the existential darkness deeper. Bingham is unflinching, but his songs hold out for a glimmer of something else. The only real consolation Junky Star offers is that no one need feel alone in her or his desperation-this is a true accomplishment. Bingham has delivered a set of songs that mirrors our uncertain times in a musical language that doesn't unduly distort or romanticise them. ~ Thom Jurek |
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Southside
by Sam Hunt
April 3, 2020
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Angeleno
by Sam Outlaw
June 9, 2015
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Tenderheart
by Sam Outlaw
April 14, 2017
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Stronger
by Sara Evans
March 8, 2011
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Slow Me Down
by Sara Evans
March 11, 2014
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Sun Midnight Sun
by Sara Watkins
May 8, 2012
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Young in All the Wrong Ways
by Sara Watkins
July 1, 2016
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Under the Pepper Tree
by Sara Watkins
March 26, 2021
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Follow Me Down
by Sarah Jarosz
May 17, 2011
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Build Me Up from Bones
by Sarah Jarosz
September 24, 2013
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Years
by Sarah Shook & the Disarmers
April 6, 2018
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Nightroamer
by Sarah Shook & the Disarmers
February 18, 2022
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Revelations
by Sarah Shook & the Disarmers
March 29, 2024
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The Bad Testament
by Scott H. Biram
February 24, 2017
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Clear as Day
by Scotty McCreery
October 4, 2011
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See You Tonight
by Scotty McCreery
October 15, 2013
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The Secret Sisters
by Secret Sisters
October 12, 2010
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From Where I Started
by Sera Cahoone
March 24, 2017
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Up!
by Shania Twain
November 19, 2002
Not wanting to offend any potential listeners, the country superstar finally follows up the hit 'Come On Over' with two versions of her new album (both included in this two-CD set): a red disc of pop versions of her 19 new songs, and a green disc of those same 19 songs performed in a country music style. (A third, blue, disc of those songs performed in a world music style is targeted at international consumers.) |
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Now
by Shania Twain
September 29, 2017
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Queen of Me
by Shania Twain
February 3, 2023
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I Am Shelby Lynne
by Shelby Lynne
January 25, 2000
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Love, Shelby
by Shelby Lynne
November 13, 2001
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Suit Yourself
by Shelby Lynne
May 24, 2005
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Just A Little Lovin'
by Shelby Lynne
January 29, 2008
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Tears, Lies, And Alibis
by Shelby Lynne
April 20, 2010
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Revelation Road
by Shelby Lynne
October 18, 2011
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I Can't Imagine
by Shelby Lynne
May 4, 2015
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Feels Like Home
by Sheryl Crow
September 10, 2013
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Family Man
by Shooter Jennings
March 13, 2012
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The Other Life
by Shooter Jennings
March 12, 2013
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Shooter
by Shooter Jennings
August 10, 2018
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Daybreak
by Sierra Hull
March 8, 2011
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Weighted Mind
by Sierra Hull
January 29, 2016
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Strangers
by Simone Felice
March 25, 2014
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Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
by Slaid Cleaves
April 21, 2009
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Nashville
by Solomon Burke
September 26, 2006
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American Central Dust
by Son Volt
July 7, 2009
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Honky Tonk
by Son Volt
March 5, 2013
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Notes of Blue
by Son Volt
February 17, 2017
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Steel Magnolia
by Steel Magnolia
January 11, 2011
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Reckless
by Steeldrivers
September 7, 2010
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Hammer Down
by Steeldrivers
February 5, 2013
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Transcendental Blues
by Steve Earle
June 6, 2000
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Jerusalem
by Steve Earle
September 24, 2002
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Washington Square Serenade
by Steve Earle
September 25, 2007
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Townes
by Steve Earle
May 12, 2009
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I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
by Steve Earle
April 26, 2011
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The Warner Bros. Years [Box Set]
by Steve Earle
June 25, 2013
The box set for the Grammy-winning folk singer-songwriter contains 1995's Grammy-nominated Train a Comin', 1996's I Feel Alright, and 1997's El Corazon, as well as the unreleased Live at the Polk Theater concert album from 1995 and To Hell and Back, a DVD of a concert at Tennessee's Cold Creek Correctional Facility in 1996. |
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Terraplane
by Steve Earle & the Dukes
February 17, 2015
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So You Wannabe an Outlaw
by Steve Earle & the Dukes
June 16, 2017
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Guy
by Steve Earle & the Dukes
March 29, 2019
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Ghosts of West Virginia
by Steve Earle & the Dukes
May 22, 2020
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J.T.
by Steve Earle & the Dukes
January 4, 2021
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The Low Highway
by Steve Earle & the Dukes (& Duchesses)
April 16, 2013
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Over with You
by Steve Forbert
September 11, 2012
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Rare Bird Alert
by Steve Martin
March 15, 2011
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Love Has Come for You
by Steve Martin
April 23, 2013
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So Familiar
by Steve Martin
October 30, 2015
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The Long-Awaited Album
by Steve Martin
September 22, 2017
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We're All Somebody from Somewhere
by Steven Tyler
July 15, 2016
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Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
by Sturgill Simpson
May 13, 2014
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A Sailor's Guide to Earth
by Sturgill Simpson
April 15, 2016
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Sound & Fury
by Sturgill Simpson
September 27, 2019
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Cuttin' Grass, Vol. 1: The Butcher Shoppe Sessions
by Sturgill Simpson
October 16, 2020
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The Ballad of Dood & Juanita
by Sturgill Simpson
August 20, 2021
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Love On The Inside
by Sugarland
July 22, 2008
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The Incredible Machine
by Sugarland
October 19, 2010
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Concrete
by Sunny Sweeney
August 23, 2011
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Holdin' the Bag
by Supersuckers
October 16, 2015
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Lucky
by Suzy Bogguss
February 4, 2014
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Sorry You Couldn't Make It
by Swamp Dogg
March 6, 2020
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Sylvie
by Sylvie Simmons
October 28, 2014
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Blue on Blue
by Sylvie Simmons
August 14, 2020
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While I'm Livin'
by Tanya Tucker
August 23, 2019
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Fearless
by Taylor Swift
November 11, 2008
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Speak Now
by Taylor Swift
October 25, 2010
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Red
by Taylor Swift
October 22, 2012
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Little Windows
by Teddy Thompson/Kelly Jones
April 1, 2016
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Lemonade Stand
by Tenille Townes
June 26, 2020
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Bottom of the World
by Terry Allen
February 5, 2013
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Just Like Moby Dick
by Terry Allen & the Panhandle Mystery Band
January 24, 2020
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Sunday Morning Record
by The Band of Heathens
September 17, 2013
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Pioneer
by The Band Perry
April 2, 2013
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Rough Carpenters
by The Black Twig Pickers
February 19, 2013
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Bottle Rockets/The Brooklyn Side [Reissue]
by The Bottle Rockets
November 19, 2013
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Modbilly
by The Boxmasters
April 21, 2009
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Dead Reckoning
by The Builders and the Butchers
February 22, 2011
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Bury Me in My Boots
by The Cadillac Three
August 5, 2016
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Country Fuzz
by The Cadillac Three
February 7, 2020
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Gaslighter
by The Chicks
July 17, 2020
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No. 6
by The Coal Porters
September 16, 2016
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Jubilee
by The Deep Dark Woods
September 30, 2013
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Colfax
by The Delines
June 17, 2014
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The Imperial
by The Delines
January 11, 2019
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The Sea Drift
by The Delines
February 11, 2022
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The Deslondes
by The Deslondes
June 9, 2015
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I'm a Stranger Here
by The Devil Makes Three
October 29, 2013
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Redemption & Ruin
by The Devil Makes Three
September 16, 2016
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