Daily Archives: September 25, 2026

One of the best in Texas country is back with a brand new album…sort of. Wade Bowen dropped his latest album The Version Of Me You Get today, his first album since 2024. But as it turns out, this is one that’s been sitting on the shelf for a while, just waiting for the right time to be heard. The 10-track album was originally recorded in 2020, during the COVID pandemic and also following a period of losses and hardships in Bowen’s […]

The post Wade Bowen Recorded His New Album In 2020: Why Now Was The Right Time To Release ‘The Version Of Me You Get’ first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

The drama surrounding Ed Sheeran’s “Loop” tour appears to be never-ending. Sheeran’s multi-city tour was scheduled to hit Gillette Stadium this weekend — home of Robert Kraft’s New England Patriots. However, those shows have now been called off, according to a Friday (September 25) report from TMZ. Ed Sheeran’s Shows at Gillette Stadium Get Axed […]

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You come for the king, you best not miss. Or forget the ketchup.

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James Felice (of The Felice Brothers) has announced his sophomore solo album, Homeward Blue, will be released on Nov. 13 via Conor Oberst‘s Million Stars Records. The follow-up to 2025’s The Little Ones was produced by Bright Eyes’ Nate Walcott. Felice has dropped the

Downstate September  2026! This is a nice list, with frequent and fresh quality updates. Please follow and heart Americana Highways’ Apple Music playlist, “Downstate,” curated by Rodney Metoyer, which has just been newly updated! Find new quality music that maybe you haven’t heard of, or hadn’t realized they had something new, or heck, just enjoy […]

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This is a surprisingly jagged edged, gritty, and at times, hard country affair where Wade’s not looking to try and distract you from all your dilemmas and worries, but speak to them with bruised and bloodied songs that pull no punches.

The post Album Review – Wade Bowen’s “The Version of Me You Get” first appeared on Saving Country Music.

Cindy’s weekly Fresh Cuts radio hour airs every Friday at 2pm ET / 11am PT on Folk Alley’s 24/7 stream — available on our website, mobile app, or your smart speaker. You can always hear the best in new folk music on our Fresh Cuts stream.

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Mary Gauthier excels at creating soundscapes, little cinematic scenes in which haunting music evokes a human heart bereft of hope and love or in which propulsive rhythms elevate the human longing to be transported above the fray of clashing emotions. The spare quality of the songs on ‘Reckoning,’ her first album since 2018’s ‘Rifles & Rosary Beads,’ plumb the depths our losses as well as the ways we overcome them with anticipation and action, both in our personal and in our political relationships.

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There is a quiet, deliberate magic to the way the Gutiérrez brothers craft music. On Los Ojos Del Cóndor, the Ecuadorian-Swiss duo of Alejandro and Estevan Gutiérrez (Hermanos Gutiérrez) offer another mesmerizing exercise in instrumental storytelling, trading the sun-baked, wide-

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