Today, Duane Betts releases his long-awaited debut solo album Wild & Precious Life.  A collection of songs that fuse swampy southern soul with SoCal cosmic country and dazzling guitar work, Wild & Precious Life has been met with early praise, performances and profiles with Garden & Gun, SiriusXM Outlaw Country, Q104.3, Guitar Player, Guitar World, No Depression, the Tennessean, American Songwriter, Relix and much more.

Brooklyn-based alt-rocker Moon Walker announces his experimental, timely third LP Apocalypticism due out October 20 and available for pre-order now here. Alongside the announcement comes an all new set of tour dates across the U.S. this fall with support from Nordista Freeze.

The Chapin Sisters make you long to return to a place you may have never been before.
 
“Bergen Street” is the new single (Out Now, Lake Bottom Records) from Abigail and Lily Chapin, the sibling members of what looks like a folk music dynasty, but in reality, is a proud family that has been making music for decades in the most humble of traditions.
 

Andy Falco and Travis Book of The Infamous Stringdusters have teamed up to honor one of their biggest musical influences, Jerry Garcia, through a collaborative album Falco and Book Play Jerry Garcia available on August 4th via Americana Vibes. Today, they have released their rendition of the fan favorite “New Speedway Boogie” stripping the sound of the Grateful Dead classic down to its core using just acoustic guitar, upright bass, and vocal harmonies to lean into the nuances.

Grammy-nominated band Hiss Golden Messenger releases the brand-new track “Shinbone” from their upcoming new album Jump for Joy (out August 25th via Merge Records).

For the past few months, veteran rocker and Foo Fighters six-stringer Chris Shiflett has been sharing new tastes of his signature honky-tonk-meets-rock-and-roll sound. “Dead And Gone” found the Southern Californian trading licks with Nashville pickers like Tom Bukovac and Charlie Worsham and “Black Top White Lines” put a rocking spin on the classic “murder ballad” format.