Mindy Smith - Quiet Town - Red - VINYL LP

Critically acclaimed and Americana Award-winning singer-songwriter Mindy Smith's sixth studio album, Quiet Town, brings a treasured musical voice back into the spotlight. For Quiet Town, her first album of new material in 12 years, Smith called on producer and musician Neilson Hubbard, alongside engineer Dylan Alldredge. Hubbard enlisted guitarists Will Kimbrough, Megan McCormick, and Juan Solorzano, bassist Lex Price, Danny Mitchell on keys and horns, and a host of acclaimed vocalists for the background vocals, including Maureen Murphy, Nickie Conley, Jodi Seyfried, Matraca Berg, Kate York, and Park Chisolm. Smith's talent for expressing the most human of vulnerabilities is on full display on the new album. Beyond the title track, other album highlights include InchJericho,Inch co-written with esteemed artist and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame songwriter Matraca Berg, which gives voice to anticipation of impending life changes of monumental import; InchI'd Rather Be a Bridge,Inch a plea for compassion and connection; and InchFarther Than We Should Have,Inch co-written with Natalie Hemby and K.S. Rhoads. The latter is a song about overcoming the deck stacked against kindred spirits who together trek through a difficult journey and find footing beyond beating the odds. Album Tracks 1. Quiet Town 2. Jacob's Ladder 3. Every Once in a While 4. Jericho 5. I'd Rather Be a Bridge 6. Peace Eludes Me 7. Something to Write in Stone 8. Farther Thanwe Should Have 9. Hour of My Departure 10. Light of Mine 11. I Always Will

Katie Schecter, for fans of Sharon Van Etten, Caroline Rose, and Amy Winehouse. Raised in NYC, it feels as if Katie Schecter time traveled to present day from a chicer and more sonically cool yesteryear of the future. She effortlessly blends the half-cool, half-kitsch of her home in Nashville that is neither new nor timeless. Deeply soulful and introspective indie rock await the listener when you drop the needle on this LP. Produced with care and love by Nick Bockrath of Cage The Elephant with an incredible set of musicians, this LP is one that reveals more of itself the more you spin it. Album Tracks 1. Empress 2. Run River Run 3. Kaleidoscope 4. Melting Away 5. Hide My Weapons 6. Taming the Beast 7. Pay It No Mind 8. Like a Crown 9. Should Woulda Coulda 10. Gust of Wind 11. Hiding Place

My career has been a lesson in patience, says Annahstasia, having cultivated her musical language between blazes of intimacy and independence across different lives, locations, and iterations, loves lost and gained, expectations evaded and recreated. The rising troubadour's proximity to love - for and from others, in society at large, and deeply within herself - guides the spirit of her soulful, poetic folk songcraft. Love is the elemental constant, alongside her distinctly resonant voice, shading the singer-songwriter's music since her earliest self-taught recordings, back when a 17-year-old Annahstasia Enuke was discovered and propelled into the pressures of an industry that nearly stifled her greatest strengths. Artistic resilience, gratitude, and dedication to process have yielded Tether, Annahstasia's full-length debut on art-forward indie tag drink sum wtr, a collection of beaming torch songs, orchestral hymns, and astral anthems that feel lived-in, drawn from the human experience and the spectrum of love. Album Tracks 1. Be Kind 2. Villain 3. Unrest 4. Take Care of Me 5. Slow 6. Waiting 7. Overflow 8. All Is. Will Be. As It Was 9. Silk and Velvet 10. Satisfy Me 11. Believer