A new single from long time favorite Micah Schnabel? Well count me in for sure. Coin$tar is out on Bandcamp and I already bought my digital copy of it. Check out this moving picture of the loveliest thieves first and then hit the Bandcamp link for this and other gems from Micah’s song vault.

Micah Schnabel at Facebook

From last Friday’s single highlights to album highlights. One of them is definitely Mikayla McVey’s debut full-length Time Turns Everything that was released by Long Road Society. A beautiful and engaging album full of great songs. This one works best with headphones. Not that they are must. Here’s the music video for New Year along with another album cut On Naming (feat Twain). Hit the links on that Bandcamp to buy/listen the whole wonderful album.

Mikayla McVey Website

Wrapping this little blog entry with something brand new, because the latest single from Carson McHone’s forthcoming Daniel Romano-produced album Still Life surfaced earlier today. It’s called Only Lovers and sound mighty good just like the earlier advance singles. The album will hit the stores and our hearts on the 25th of February and it will be released by Merge Records and Loose Music.

Carson McHone Website

Major news alert! There’s a new Dakota Hall Scott song in this world and an album Bakersfield, CA will follow sometime fairly soon. I think I’ve read about early March release, but I’m not sure is that set in stone. The wonderful lead single is called All You Do Is Take and you can listen to it and pre-order the album on his Bandcamp page. Oh and if you haven’t listened to his 2019 (should-be) classic My Body Longed For the Summer, I suggest doing that immediately. One of the finest folk singer-songwriter album of recent years.

Dakota Hall Scott Website

Another lead single that I’ve been loving lately is this beauty from Austin-based folk songwriter Scott Ballew. The song Blue Eyes is an outtake from his forthcoming album Leisure Rodeo.

Scott Ballew Website

Kicking this up a notch and wrapping this short blog entry with another lead single. This time from Nashville-based country songwriter Joshua Hedley who has signed with New West Records and is getting ready to release a new full-length in April. The gorgeous first single and title track Neon Blue is here now with an entertaining music video.

Joshua Hedley Website

Another quick late night round up of releases that I love. We’ll start this one from Nashville, Tennessee with Maya de Vitry’s exceptional new album Violet Light. Reflective, deeply moving and perpetually beautiful folk album. If you want a recommendation for tomorrow’s Bandcamp Friday, I would like to shout this from the roooftops. Or well maybe instead climb on top of the mountain and gently whisper Violet Light into the air. Love this album.

Maya de Vitry Website

Next we have a magical new single from Portland-based folk songwriter Erisy Watt. Her new album Eyes like the Ocean will be released by American Standard Time Records on the 1st of April. This beauty of a song lift the expectations sky high and I look forward to hearing the whole album when the spring arrives.

Erisy Watt Website

Then across the border to Canada. Saskatoon to be more precise. Songwriter Ellen Froese has recently released a couple of singles that you may have heard, if you follow the new music weekly. I’m not exactly sure are these advance singles of a forthcoming album or just separate singles, but what I do know is that both are gorgeous and I love them. That In the Sun music video is also pure gold.

Ellen Froese Website

We’ll wrap this little blog post in New York with songwriter Renata Zeiguer. More spring magic will hit our hearts on the 8th of April when her new album Picnic in the Dark will be released by Northern Spy Records. Here’s the tremendous lead single Sunset Boulevard along with the equally impressive music video.

Renata Zeiguer Website

Should I get back to these short posts of songs and music videos that I love? I don’t really know, but here’s one anyway. Starting from Portland, Oregon with the latest MAITA song/video Loneliness. It’s a wonderful outtake from their forthcoming album I Just Want the Be Wild for You that will be released by Kill Rock Stars on the 18th of February.

MAITA Website

Across the border and over to Toronto, Canada where long time favorite Jerry Leger is getting ready to release his next full-length. The album Nothing Pressing is due out March 16th on Latent Recordings. The announcement came with this magnificent lead single Have You Ever Been Happy?

Jerry Leger Website

I think it’s mandatory to visit Nashville in these round-up posts, so let’s take care of that with one of the first album highlights of the year. A new album Listen to the Blood from The Kernal came out 14th of January on Single Lock Records. Here’s the great single The Fight Song that also features the fabulous Caitlin Rose along with another album favorite Wrong Turn to Tupelo.

The Kernal Website

Jake Balzer did his best to not be included on my EPs of the year 2022 list by releasing his gorgeous Never Better EP on the 31st of December. I may have to disappoint him and bend the rules a little bit, because I probably won’t have the heart to leave this out if the blog/world still exists at the end of 2022. Let’s wrap with a Red Barn live take of EP track In Your Memories.