Just a quick note about two really good albums that was just released. First we have Lilly Hiatt’s new album Royal Blue that was released by Normaltown Records. I don’t know that much about Lilly. I just started listening to her music a couple of days ago and therefore I’m only in the process of matching my heart with her music. To be honest, I don’t know that much about her father John Hiatt either. I’m sure that’s a crime, but hey, at least you can’t argue that I only like Lilly because of her father. Perhaps this will actually go the other way around and I end up investigating that John Hiatt song catalogue after falling in love with Lilly’s music. This is Jesus Would’ve Let Me Pick The Restaurant from Royal Blue.

Lilly Hiatt Website

New Tom Brosseau album Perfect Abandon is also out and available. I don’t think I have written about this gorgeous folk singer-songwriter for years. Probably not since his 2006 album Empty Houses Are Lonely. I must admit that I even lost touch with him for several years and didn’t really continue listening until his excellent 2014 album Grass Punks. I should probably dig up everything that I lost between Empty Houses Are Lonely and Grass Punks, because these last two have both been excellent. This new one was produced by John Parish and Ali Chant. This is Roll Along With Me from Perfect Abandon.

Tom Brosseau Website

My main goal in life is still to just get rid of the pain and numbness and therefore I’ve been neglecting the blog and focused on doing all sort of exercises and paying my hard-earned money to all kind of specialists. I think the next step is try and see whether a chiropractor could help me out. So far it feels like music is still the only thing that helps. This week my medicine were the new albums by James McMurtry and Mark Edgar Stuart.

James McMurtry doesn’t need an introduction. He has been writing damn fine songs for a really long time. Sure it’s been a while since his 2008 album Just Us Kids, but he hasn’t lost his touch and his brand new album Complicated Game is again full of wonderful songs. This is South Dakota from the new album.

James McMurtry Website

Mark Edgar Stuart also released a new album this week. I didn’t know him beforehand, but John Paul Keith mentioned Mark Edgar Stuart’s new album on his FB and that got me interested. What I found was a mighty good album called Trinity My Dear that was released a few days ago by Madjack Records. Here’s We Were in Bloom from this beautiful album.

Mark Edgar Stuart Website