americana round-up
As promised, rosanne cash will finally release her new album on Blue Note,
Remembers Everything, in October. The successor to 2014’s Grammy-winning
River & The Thread has been co-produced by her musician husband John Leventhal and Tucker Martine, whose credits include My Morning Jacket, Neko Case and The Decemberists. The latter’s colin
meloy adds vocal harmonies to a couple of songs. Meanwhile, Cash has also been writing a musical with Leventhal and author John Weidman. Another cause for celebration that month is the arrival of Live
From The Ryman, from Jason isbell and The 400 unit. Issued on Isbell’s own Southeastern label, it was recorded She during the band’s sell-out run at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium last year. The set draws The from Isbell’s last three releases and features such treasures as “Something More Than Free”, “Super 8” and “Flying Over Water”. The late Blaze Foley is the subject of a new biopic, co-written and directed by ethan Hawke. Premiered at Sundance earlier this year and now due an official release in the States, Foley sees ben dickey take the title role of the mercurial songwriter who was gunned down in 1989, with Kris Kristofferson playing his father, charlie sexton as his great friend Townes Van Zandt and sam rockwell as a record label no-gooder. ROB HugHES