Great thread...definitely going to be digging in to some of these suggestions.
@spiritofradio & and @slaw our tastes seem very aligned. Big Isbell fan, both Sturgill's Cutting Grass albums have gotten tons of play in our house, LP5 is just beautiful, etc.
A couple others in that Americana genre that haven't been mentioned...
- Margo Price's That's How Rumors Get Started is great...little less of her previous honkey tonk vibe and more of a classic rock sound.
- Tyler Childers...discovered by fellow eastern KY artist Sturgill Simpson. 2020's Long Violent History gets less play than his earlier albums in our house (although the concept and pre launch video of TC speaking to his rural white listeners about BLM is super powerful), but Purgatory, Country Squire, etc. are amazing. My favorite of his is def 2018's Live on Red Barn Radio.
- Ruston Kelly (Casey Chamber's ex husband) Shape & Destroy 2020 release is good, but 2018's Dying Star is really good.
- 2018 release, but Brent Cobb's Providence Canyon album is fantastic (cousin of midas touch outlaw producer Dave Cobb...Stapleton, Isbell, Sturgill, Highwomen, Shires, etc.).
