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Today, Nashville-based singer/songwriter Cole Gallagher releases his new single “Traveling Man’s Blues” produced by GRAMMY-winner Vance Powell (Phish, Chris Stapleton, Jack White) and featuring current and previous 400 Unitmembers Chad Gamble, Sadler Vaden and Jimbo Hart. The song laments on the loneliness felt on the road, while the official video documents Gallagher’s experience moving from Los Angeles to Nashville earlier this year.

Today, GRAMMY®-nominated pianist Christian Sands announced Embracing Dawn, his new album out September 27 via Mack Avenue Records.

Today, critically acclaimed pianist, composer, and bandleader Emmet Cohen announced his new album, Vibe Provider, out August 23 via Mack Avenue. Through the years, Cohen has traveled the world with his sold-out performances, created the “most highly watched regular online jazz show in the world” (The Guardian) with Live From Emmet’s Place, and has served as an ambassador for most essential principles of the jazz tradition.

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Today, Jett Holden shares “West Virginia Sky,” the echoing new single from his debut album The Phoenix, which is out October 4 as the first release on the newly-launched Black Opry Records. As the song moves forward over keys and a sauntering steel guitar, it shifts from the mystical to material and reveals a story about a family slowly losing its matriarch. Paying homage to his favorite view growing up in West Virginia, Jett says “This is the way I love to tell a story.”

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Today, GRAMMY®-nominated trio Midland announced Barely Blue, an eight-song exploration of loneliness, masculinity and resilience in the face of heartache. Evoking near-empty bars and heat waves shimmering across the blacktop, the new album brings to life the generosity of spirit required to love, lose, and move on.

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Today, GRAMMY Award-winning singer-songwriter Joe Ely has shared his new single “Driven to Drive,” the title track from his upcoming album which is out August 2 via Rack ‘Em Records / Thirty Tigers. Capturing the rollicking nature of life out on the road, “Driven to Drive” is an empowering anthem about the freedom of independence, dedicated to those who refuse to stay put in one place.

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Today, the rising star Stephen Wilson Jr. released a poignant official video for “Grief is Only Love,” an emotional centerpiece to his critically-acclaimed debut double album søn of dad out now via Big Loud Records. At its core, søn of dad is a tribute to Stephen Wilson Sr., and was released on September 15, 2023, five years to the day that his father passed away.

Today, Jett Holden announces the October 4 release of his debut album The Phoenix as the first official release on Black Opry Records. Launched in partnership with Thirty Tigers, the new label continues the mission of The Black Opry, an organization and touring collective focused on celebrating and supporting Black roots and country artists.

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Today, GRAMMY-Nominated singer, songwriter, and guitarist Jontavious Willis announced his new album West Georgia Blues, out August 16th via Strolling Bones Records.

Today, ALP releases Grateful: The Music Plays the Band, a seventeen-track collection of some of the finest Grateful Dead songs performed by key members of the band’s greater musical community including Oteil Burbridge (Dead & Company), Dark Star Orchestra and more.