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This morning, the consistently solid and beautifully blossoming Ruination Record Co. announced Solo Guitar Improvisations , a collection of instrumental experiments by Lilah Larson (Cassandra Jenkins, Thao). Any announcement of solo guitar instrumentals is always good news here, and Lilah’s incredible work does not disappoint. Dive in now with the first track, “i” – which I interestingly read as the article at first, rather than the roman numeral. The collection…

Better late than never, we’re sharing Jeffrey Silverstein’s new single from the upcoming Western Sky Music, out 5.12.23 on Arrowhawk Records. Jeffrey ceases to shy away from twang with the new record, both in nomenclature and in sound. The new single has Barry Walker Jr. at his Sneakiest Petiest, and Silverstein at his Bermaniest. Unsurprisingly, its awesome. Jeffrey gets better and better with each release and his songs are taking…

Nashville Ambient Ensemble’s debut release Cerulean in 2021 was pivotal in its collaborative, compositional nature. Headed by the visionary Michael Hix, the ensemble featuring Deli Paloma-Sisk (vocals), Jack Silverman (guitar), Kim Rueger (piano), and Luke Schneider (pedal steel), with the addition of violinist Alicia Enstrom, returned to score Nashville’s Frist Museum’s exhibit Light, Space, Surface: Works from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. NAE’s music moves you immediately, with…

Good news! The always enchanting Bobby Lee returns with a third album, Endless Skyways, out this spring on Tompkins Square. Endless Skyways is Bobby Lee’s third full album and second release on Tompkins Square. Returning to the full band sound of his debut, the name Endless Skyways is borrowed from a line in Woody Guthrie’s This Land Is Your Land, one of the cornerstones of American music. That song’s mix of the terrestrial (“ribbons of highway”)…

Goooood morning! Nothing like waking up to an announcement that Eric D. Johnson has been at it again. “Over the years there’s been a lot of geography in my music, a lot of landscapes,” Johnson says. “Sometimes the places are real, sometimes they’re emotional. I’ve always liked the idea of songs and albums that exist in a continuum with one another. I’m not talking about some kind of deep series…