Kate McGarry and Keith Ganz Ensemble/ ‘What To Wear In The Dark’

Multi-time GRAMMY nominee Kate McGarry, "one of the country's premier jazz singers today" per NPR, has teamed with renowned guitarist Keith Ganz (Harry Connick Jr, Luciana Souza) - her partner in life and music - for What To Wear In The Dark, a new collaborative collection out September 3rd via Resilience Music Alliance. Teaming with Downbeat Critics Poll winner Gary Versace on keyboard, Blue Note recording artist Ron Miles on trumpet, and a host of jazz A-listers, What To Wear In The Dark finds McGarry and Ganz using their decorated jazz backgrounds to offer imaginative and fresh perspectives on the indelible pop standards that have helped them transcend their own challenges.

Jon Randall/ ‘self-titled’

Jon Randall -- a GRAMMY, CMA, and ACM Award-winner and one of Nashville’s premier hitmakers -- announces his solo album, Jon Randall, out September 10th. Considered one of the most prolific hitmakers in Country, bluegrass and Americana music, this 9-track collection is Randall’s first solo album in 15 years. This marks Randall’s return to the spotlight and his roots, follows the success he’s recently found as one third of The Marfa Tapes (his collaboration with Miranda Lambert and Jack Ingram). 

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Various Artists/ ‘Home In This World: Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads’/ Elektra

Randall Poster, one of the most celebrated music supervisors in entertainment and the creative director of Premier Music Group, has been busy in 2021 working on a number of key projects in the worlds of film, TV and music. Today it was announced that Home In This World: Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads, an interpretation of Guthrie’s landmark 1940 album Dust Bowl Ballads (Elektra), will be released September 10. 

Pat Metheny/ ‘SIDE-EYE NYC (V1.IV)’/ BMG Modern Recordings

Pat Metheny has unveiled the latest chapter in his wildly prolific career – SIDE-EYE, a new setting featuring the 20-time GRAMMY winner accompanied by a handpicked and rotating cast of players featuring some of the most exciting and innovative new musicians on the New York scene. The new album, SIDE-EYE NYC will be released September 10 through BMG Modern Recordings. Recorded just before the pandemic, SIDE-EYE (V1.1V) deftly balances a mix of stunning new originals with inventive reworkings of some of Metheny’s most beloved compositions such as “Timeline,” which originally featured Metheny performing with fellow icons Michael Brecker and Elvin Jones. Now bringing that same unmistakable spirit to a new crop of players who grew up with his music as a part of their musical heritage, Metheny’s SIDE-EYE seamlessly flowsin his usual genre-defying way from post-organ-trio grooves to expansive mini-suite forms to simply Metheny at his most rocking.

Joshua Henry/ ‘Grow’/ BMG

Three-time Tony nominee and GRAMMY-nominee Joshua Henry announces his debut album ‘Grow’ via BMG. This album is a kaleidoscopic spectrum of sounds that showcases Joshua’s powerhouse vocals and versatile talents. Tied to this announcement, he released his smooth composition “Checking In.” His falsetto vocals absolutely shine throughout this track and are paired with a positive tempo as he sings about moving on.  

Concert for the Human Family/ ‘American Hymn’ EP

In 2020, Nashville recording artist, pianist and composer Kory Caudill partnered with The Episcopal Church in designing the Concert for the Human Family. The series includes a team of musicians, artists and creatives shaping a musical journey exploring the powerful intersection between art, social justice and faith. Now, he’s diving further into this musical journey via the ‘American Hymn’ songbook, out September 17th.

‘American Hymn’ offers five instrumental songs that masterfully interpret the heavy human emotions that continue to resound through conversations of race, cultural barriers, diversity and navigating the most important moments in our country.

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Nick Lowe/ ‘The Convincer’ 20th Anniversary Edition/ Yep Roc Records

On September 17, 2021, Yep Roc Records will release an expanded 20th Anniversary Edition of Nick Lowe’s classic album The Convincer. Remastered from the original tapes, the album will be reissued as a blue vinyl LP, with accompanying blue vinyl 45 featuring three rarities from The Convincer era that have never before been released on vinyl or digital services, including covers of The Shirelles’ “Mama Said” and The Chi-Lites’ “There Will Never Be Any Peace (Until God Is Seated at the Conference Table),” plus the Lowe original “A Different Kind of Blue.”

Cory Henry/ ‘Best of Me’

Internationally renowned keyboard master, soul singer, composer, and producer Cory Henry will release his new solo album, Best of Me, on September 17th. Produced, arranged, performed and co-written by Henry, the 11-track album, largely instrumental, features the prodigious musician on vocals, Hammond B3 organ, Moog and Harpejji—a rare electric stringed instrument. With a sound that Cory has christened “future soul”—a groove-heavy fusion of funk, blues, gospel, jazz and R&B—Best of Me calls upon influences including Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathaway, P-Funk, and James Brown. The album’s title references Henry’s appreciation for those who came before him, creators of the 70s soul that he cites as “the greatest era of music.”

Nu Deco Ensemble & Larkin Poe/ “Paint The Roses: Live in Concert”

Kyle Dion/ ‘SASSY’

LA-based singer-songwriter and boisterous rising star with a golden falsetto, Kyle Dion, officially reveals the cover art, title, and release date for his upcoming summer turn-up record. ‘SASSY’ (out September 17th) is a bold and bright sonic landscape that promises an unfiltered sound while flaunting a no rules mission statement. The upcoming record, inspired by his time touring and exploring international territory in support of his debut album 2019’s SUGA, marks a new era for the “rising star” (PAPER) as he sheds his melancholy in favor of more bright and buoyant tunes. It’s a joyous and exclamatory soundtrack to better times. 

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‘The King Of Gospel Music: The Life And Music Of Reverend James Cleveland’/ Malaco Records

Malaco Records announces the September 21 publication of The King Of Gospel Music: The Life And Music Of Reverend James Cleveland, a stunning reflection on the unparalleled artistry and towering influence of the Gospel giant. Written by Grammy Award-nominated historian Robert Marovich (The Gospel According To Malaco) with a foreword by Gospel superstar Kirk Franklin, The King Of Gospel Music traces James Cleveland’s evolution as he boldly incorporated the modern musical conventions of soul, pop, and jazz into worship music and became a star and beacon to aspiring Gospel singers everywhere.

Alongside the archival photos and academic insight into Cleveland’s life and art, The King Of Gospel Music is accompanied by a 4 disc set that features over 50 Cleveland recordings, from definitive performances to lesser-known jewels from the catalogue. This is the first time selections from Cleveland's Apollo, HOB, and Savoy sessions have been combined into a single collection.

Natalie Imbruglia/ ‘Firebird’/ BMG

Natalie Imbruglia has announced her forthcoming new album, ‘Firebird’, set for release on September 24 via BMG. New album ‘Firebird’ was written in an array of international locations alongside Albert Hammond Jr of The Strokes, Romeo Stodart of The Magic Numbers, KT Tunstall, Eg White (Adele, Dua Lipa, Sam Smith), Luke Fitton (Little Mix, Girls Aloud), Fiona Bevan (One Direction, Ed Sheeran), Rachel Furner (Little Mix, Jason Derulo, Craig David) and more, touching on themes of independence, vulnerability, the juxtaposition of strength and fragility, revealing Natalie’s newfound sense of confidence. 

Pastor T.L. Barrett/ ‘I Shall Wear a Crown’ Box Set/ Numero Group

Eleven-time GRAMMY-nominated Numero Group announces I Shall Wear A Crown, a definitive statement on the fifty-year career of Pastor T.L. Barrett. Out September 24th, the all-encompassing box set is the most comprehensive tribute ever assembled to South Side Chicago's fabled preacher and long-overlooked gospel music pioneer. Featuring 49 tracks spread across five LPs, the collection includes reissues of the essential Like A Ship… (Without A Sail), Do Not Pass Me By Volume 1 & Volume 2and I Found The Answer records, plus a bonus album of singles and sermons that further prove why Radiohead's Colin Greenwood credits Barrett with creating "the most euphoric celebratory music that makes you want to jump around the house and explode with joy." 

The Industry/ ‘Sweet Land’

The Industry — the ambitious and acclaimed company that represents “the leading edge of operatic innovation” (WIRED) — announces the September 24 album release of Sweet Land, the history-reckoning opera that uses Western culture’s most high-brow medium to dismantle the consecrated myths of colonialism and white hegemony. The subject of fawning praise from The LA Times, The New York Times, and The New Yorker upon its debut in 2020, Sweet Land retains its potency in recorded form, placing emphasis on the striking compositions and cutting libretto that liberates opera from its rigid conventions. 

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Various Artists/ ‘Join The Ritual’/ Jagjaguwar

Jagjaguwar invites listeners to Join The Ritual, as the record label begins the third quarter of its 25th Anniversary through a celebration of those who have guided its history. With a nod to the company's roots in Dungeons & Dragons, Join The Ritual is a new album out September 24th that pays homage to the artists and fellow independent titans like Drag City, K Records, Too Pure, Touch & Go and more who originally inspired Jagjaguwar to take a seat at the table and enter the wild, dark magic ritual of music. On each of Join The Ritual's 11 tracks, Jagjaguwar artists, alumni and one very close friend recreate songs that captured the imaginations of company founder Darius Van Arman and partner Chris Swanson. Angel Olsen covers Smog's "Cold Blooded Old Times"; They Hate Change takes on Stereolab's "The Seeming and The Meaning"; Cut Worms, Nap Eyes, Okay Kaya, Pink Mountaintops and S. Carey deliver their own renditions of formative cuts from Simon Joyner, Built to Spill, R.E.M., Teenage Fanclub and Low, respectively.

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Esperanza Spalding/ ‘SONGWRIGHTS APOTHECARY LAB’/ Concord Recordings