October Music CD Spotlight
New and Noteworthy
Pop & Rock
Bonny Light Horseman
 
 The astral folk outfit is mixing the ancient, mystical medium of transatlantic traditional folk music with a contemporary, collective brush.
- Bandcamp
 
Bob Dylan / Greatest Hits, Volumes I-III
 
A four-disc collection of Dylan's greatest songs spanning from the start of his career to 1993.
-Amazon
  
 
 
 
Adrianne Lenker / Abysskiss
 
Lovely, such a heartwarming experience with the voice of an angel.
(See also Big Thief)
- Bandcamp 
 
 
 
Country & Folk 
Jake Blount / Spider Tales
 
 Named for Anansi, the great trickster of Akan mythology, Spider Tales features fourteen carefully chosen tracks drawn from Blount’s extensive research of Black and Indigenous mountain music.
- Bandcamp
 
 
Little Big Town / Nightfall
 
Nightfall doesn’t pull any punches as the band addresses everything from the reality of heartbreak to the vulnerability of human existence and the company one may find at the bottom of a bottle. 
-Riffmagazine
 
 
Billy Strings / Home
 
Billy Strings has been hailed as the future of bluegrass, transcending tradition and genre with his high velocity, flat-picking guitar technique and intense, confessional songwriting.
-Amazon
 
Jazz & Blues
Jon Hassell / Seeing Through Sound
 
A companion piece to 2018’s Listening To Pictures, this second volume in the pentimento series presents eight new tracks by the music visionary, continuing his lifelong exploration of the possibilities of recombination and musical gene-splicing.
- Bandcamp 
 
World &
Electronic Music
Aurelio / Darandi
 
Aurelio is a master of the paranda, a style based around the acoustic guitar that often draws comparisons to the blues for its often bittersweet melodies and sharp social commentary concealed within songs about everyday life.
- Amazon
 
 
Built to Spill Plays the Songs of Daniel Johnson
 
 11 tracks of Johnston's fractured pop presented through the eyes of Built To Spill.
- Bandcamp
 
 
Dream Syndicate / Universe Inside
 
The Universe Inside is... something else. Psychedelic in the purest sense of the word, it's 5 massive, wild, jazz/prog epics.
-Bandcamp
  
 
 
The Police / Message in a Box

 Message in a Box includes every single song the Police recorded between 1977 and 1986.
 - Amazon
 
 
 
 
 
 
Steve Earle / Ghosts of West Virginia
 
In ten deftly drawn, roughly eloquent, powerfully conveyed sonic portraits, Earle and his long-time band the Dukes explore the historical role of coal in rural communities. - Amazon
 
 
 
John Prine / Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings
 
 The follow-up to Prine's comeback album, The Missing Years.
- Allmusic
 
 
 
 
 
Watkins Family Hour / Brother Sister
 
 Sean and Sara Watkins consider 'brother sister' a duo-centric record,  with Sean primarily on guitar and Sara on fiddle, and both of them sharing vocals 
 - Amazon  
 
 
Sass Jordan / Rebel Moon Blues
 
While she has touched upon Blues over her 40-year career, this is the first time Sass Jordan has focused exclusively on creating an album of songs that showcase her talent as a Blues singer.
- Amazon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Bassekou Kouyate / Miri
 
2019 album from the Malian Afro-rock artist, with backing band Ngoni BaHabib Koite, Afel Bocoum, Abdoulaye Diabate & others.
- Amazon
 
 
Caamp / By and By

"A delightful compilation of laid back tunes."
- Bandcamp
 
 
 
 
 
 
Flying Lotus / Flamagra
 
The Warp release encompasses hip-hop, funk, soul, jazz, global dance music, tribal poly-rhythms, IDM, the L.A. Beat scene, but it soars above a specific vortex whose coordinates cant be accurately charted. 
-Amazon
 
Teddy Thompson / Heartbreaker Please
 
 From its opening track Thompson s new album Heartbreaker Please reckons with the breakdown of love with a wistful levity as satisfying as it is devastatingly honest. - Amazon
 
Jason Isbell / Reunions
 
Unreal album with such poignant verse - sadness, hope, reflection all sung with conviction.
- Bandcamp
 
 
 
 
 
Bonnie Raitt / Dig In Deep
 
Dig In Deep illustrates the delicate balance of consistency and risk-taking that has defined Raitt’s remarkable career for more than forty-five years.
- Amazon 
 
 
 
 
Jaime Wyatt / Neon Cross
 
If there's one lesson to be gleaned from Jaime Wyatt's latest album, Neon Cross, it's that life goes on. And through it all 'good times and bad, dreaming and desperation, there is truth.
-Amazon   
 
 
Dr. Lonnie Smith / All In My Mind
 
Smith's new album All In My Mind captures the irrepressible NEA Jazz Master at the height of his powers live at the Jazz Standard in New York City with his nimble and dynamic trio featuring guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg and drummer Johnathan Blake.
- Amazon
 
 
 
 
 
Kerry Leimer / A Period of Review
 
With its hypnotic, arcadian terraces and nearly narcotic glacial beauty,A Period of Review has a rightful place in the canon of pioneering ambient music.
- Bandcamp
 
 
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