Anytime is a good time for a new John Prine album. Found Dogs was released initially in April in a limited edition run of 2,000 LPs for Record Store Day. ‘Found Dogs’ celebrates the 30th anniversary of Prine’s ‘Lost Dogs & Mixed Blessings’ and includes alternate takes, demos, and five unheard original songs gathered from recording sessions from that time.
This album opens with an alternate version of “Ain’t Hurtin’ Nobody,” a swaying, New Orleans shuffle riding atop striding boogie-woogie piano with Prine’s growling baritone testifying to a live-and-let-live philosophy inherent in the rock and roll life. Circling fingerpicking lie beneath Prine’s tender vocals on the spacious and atmospheric “All the Way with You (Acoustic Version).”
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Having unexpectedly passed away in late 2025, the first posthumous album from 
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Native Companion is the fourth collection of contemporary Celticana from the peregrine musician that is Ryan O’Reilly. Alongside his English roots, the Oxford-born and Winchester-bred troubadour has strong Irish and Canadian connections, and currently teaches poetry and songwriting at the Berlin campus of BIMM University. No surprise then, that his lyrics are carefully crafted and tell stories that paint scenes and memories drawn from his travels, taking in Brighton and Boston via Wicklow.
Americana/folk musician 
For their fifth album, Here Lies Love / Sawdust to Stardust, Lawrence Rothman has brought an ‘A‘ list of collaborators, including Madi Diaz, Amanda Shires, Katie Pruitt, Jason Isbell and Jillian Jaqueline. Written and recorded in Biarritz, France, and Nashville, Tennessee, and produced and mixed entirely by Rothman himself, the album leans to the darker side of Americana in its tone, with rich, deep vocals from Rothman, reminiscent of Nick Cage, and arrangements at times in Hannah Aldridge/southern gothic mould.
Not only outside the music industry but within its margins (much less frequently at its very core), there are those for whom music is one of several activities to pursue. It’s a question not only related to the increasing difficulty of living off music without a head start, but also to personal circumstances and lifestyle choices.
Rhode Island native, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Phil Madeira is celebrating 50 years as a professional musician. Madeira is likely best known as the multi-instrumentalist in the Red Dirt Boys, Emmylou Harris’s backup band for the past 18 years. Americana aficionados recognize him as the steadfast keyboardist and guitarist for Buddy Miller and Julie Miller in the late ’90s and early 2000s.
For the most recent offering on Easy Eye Sound, the Swiss-Ecuadorian siblings Hermanos Gutiérrez wanted to craft an instrumental love letter to South America. The resulting ten-track breezy affair, Los Ojos Del Cóndor, is an elegant journey through these soundscapes.
We are living after the end of the end of history—both in the sense that Francis Fukuyama’s 1989 theory of a democratic finish line has come and gone, and that it feels disconcertingly like we’re living through the end times themselves, alive after everything and left to make a life in the wreckage that optimism left behind. We are living post- everything: post-liberalism, post-language, post-hope. On “Culture,” Greg Freeman adds two more to the list: post-culture and post-rock-and-roll. The current moment, he says, is simply beyond analogy. When all our words are “plagiarized before they’re written,” as he puts it on “Loser’s Prize,” even art itself begins to feel mind-numbingly futile. Everything that’s worth saying has already been said, but if we say nothing at all…
Mary Gauthier was something of a late starter, delivering her first album when she was in her late thirties but she has become one of americana’s most distinctive songwriters over the years since she started recording her songs in 1997.
Craft Recordings reissue 
Pop music is a game where reinvention is a vital part of the process in the 21st century, and Orville Peck knows that as well as anyone. Transforming himself from a talented but unknown Canadian indie rocker to a bigger-than-life gay cowboy icon with a voice and a swagger as big as all outdoors was no small accomplishment, and as strong as his work has been (especially 2019’s 
Ohio’s punk scene is well-known for many things: hyperactive egg punk, indignant hardcore, and every style of jangle pop you can think of, just to name a few. Trippy, motorik-heavy meditations, not so much. But as the saying goes, there are always exceptions that prove the rule.
Carrying on the legacy after the tragic passing of lifelong friend and co-founder Daniel Hutchens, influential roots-rock outfit Bloodkin released the downtrodden and poetic Flowers & Ash. The 10-song project is a cathartic, meditative listen on the idea that you never need a bigger picture to worry about if the little things are out of order, opting for slower melodies that punctuate the complexity of the songwriting.
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