Van Dyke Parks and Pete Seeger are among the guests on the guitarist's rustic 17-song effort, which is told from the perspective of a cat, a mouse, and a toad(!).

The second live release for the slide guitarist is a collaboration with The Corridos Famosos band and recorded from two nights at San Francisco's Great American Hall in 2011.

The first new full-length solo release in six years for the guitarist was produced with his son, Joachim Cooder.

The 15th solo album for the California singer was self-produced and written with his son, Joachim Cooder.

The seven-disc box set contains Ry Cooder's work on the soundtracks for The Long Riders; Alamo Bay; Paris, Texas; Blue City; Crossroads; Johnny Handsome; and Trespass.

The Grammy-award winning musician returns with a concept album about corruption in America.

The guitarist's latest is a concept album about the residents of 1940's Chavez Ravine, a Mexican-American community near downtown Los Angeles that was famously bulldozed to make way for Dodger Stadium.

This is the second full-length release for the Australian, LA-based singer-songwriter.

As the title implies, this is not a true follow-up to 2001's 'Gold,' but rather a collection of demo recordings--13 never-before-released tracks (down from a rumored four-CD set!) captured on tape during spare moments while on tour.

Ryan Adams returns with his band The Cardinals to release its latest album produced by Tom Schick.

The alt-country singer-songwriter covers every song on Taylor Swift's 2014 pop album.

Adams' 'Love Is Hell' 2-part album concludes with seven more tracks.

Norah Jones guests on the second (and most straight-ahead country) of a planned three 2005 releases for Adams, who is once again backed by The Cardinals. Tom Schic produced.

Love Is Hell, Part 1 is one-half of the planned 'Love Is Hell' full-length that Adams had intended as his official follow-up to 2001's 'Gold' until Lost Highway refused to release it intact (instead encouraging the singer to record a more upbeat LP, 'Rock n Roll'). John Porter (The Smiths) produces.

Recorded in just two weeks after Adams (rather, his record company) scrapped plans to release 'Love Is Hell' as his official follow-up to 'Gold' (the former will instead appear as a 2-part EP), 'Rock'n'Roll' features guest appearances from Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day), Melissa Auf Der Mauer (Hole) and Parker Posey (every indie film in the last 15 years).

The live album for the singer-songwriter features ten songs from his 2014 concerts at New York's Carnegie Hall on November 15 and 17.

The eight-track iTunes release features a cover of Bob Mould’s "Black Sheets of Rain."

Credited to Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, double album 'Cold Roses' is the first of three planned 2005 releases for the prolific singer-songwriter. Tom Schick produced.

Well off his 3-disc-a-year pace, Adams celebrates just his first release of 2007 with the 13-song 'Tiger.' Sheryl Crow guests, and The Cardinals once again provide the backing.

The North Carolina-born singer's 13th album was produced by Glyn Johns, and it is his first since he left the band in part to Meniere's disease in 2009.

The 14th solo studio release for the rock singer-songwriter was self-produced.

'Gold' is the second solo release for former Whiskeytown frontman Ryan Adams, and garnered a good deal of attention for the singer-songwriter in 2001.

Ethan Johns produced the singer-songwriter's third and final release of 2005, which unlike its predecessors is a stripped-down solo affair consisting of nine lengthy story-songs each representing a year of Adams' life during his twenties.

The 16th full-length solo release for the singer-songwriter was influenced by his divorce from singer Mandy Moore.

Adams' fifth album with The Cardinals was recorded during the 2007 Easy Tiger sessions and is now being released as this double album. The two-disc effort is full of guitar-driven hard rock, as well as more downbeat, melodious tracks.

The fifth full-length studio release from the singer-songwriter was produced with Jim Scott.

The sixth full-length studio release for the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter was co-produced with Charlie Sexton.

Ryan Bingham goes independent and solo with this rock-oriented release on his own label.

Songwriter Ryan Bingham has grown tremendously on this third full-length. Barely 30 years old, his previous work showed promise but carried the excess expected of a novice. Bingham won both a Golden Globe and an Oscar for "The Weary Kind," the theme song from the film Crazy Heart. The song was produced by T-Bone Burnett, creating a partnership extended on Junky Star. Bingham and his Dead Horses--drummer Matthew Smith, bassist Elijah Ford, and guitarist Corby Schaub, prove the song was no fluke. The sound is pure Americana; these 12 lyrically sophisticated yet direct songs, reflect a host of tense, lost, desperate, individuals dreaming the same dark dream, one that suggests that we are all growing tenser with the times. Bingham has trimmed his songwriting to the bone, while learing to use metaphor and metonomy like a veteran. A former rodeo rider, he wears his influences proudly: Guthrie, Dylan, Van Zandt, Ely, Earle, Clark, and Hubbard. He begins with a sandblasted vision of America in "the Poet." Amid acoustic guitars, a lonesome harmonica ,restrained electric and bass drum, Bingham's whiskey-smoked vocal offers a lyric theme the entire album turns on: "As I keep walking, people keep talking/About things they've never seen or done/Homeless sleep in the park, lovers kiss in the dark/Me, I keep moving on through time." Time is suspended as Bingham's protagonists tell stories from the road (some of them bone-chilling), from America's past and present, physically and psychologically. Rootlessness as peace of mind is portrayed via country rock in "The Wandering," but the feeling in "Strange Feeling In The Air," the title track, a deeply moving acoustic murder ballad (they are strewn throughout the album), and the angry uptempo "Depression," reflect a contradiction: constant movement is the key to survival, not necessarily peace. "Hallelujah" is another murder ballad with a disturbing twist. "Lay My Head On The Rail," is pure folk poetry illustrated by a lone acoustic guitar. The blues in "Hard Worn Trail," are rooted in poverty worry, strained, broken relationships resulting in the search for comfort. It doesn't come anywehre on Junky Star. "All Choked Up Again," set to Waylon Jennings' brand of outlaw country closes it out by mining the existential darkness deeper. Bingham is unflinching, but his songs hold out for a glimmer of something else. The only real consolation Junky Star offers is that no one need feel alone in her or his desperation-this is a true accomplishment. Bingham has delivered a set of songs that mirrors our uncertain times in a musical language that doesn't unduly distort or romanticise them. ~ Thom Jurek

The second major release for the New Mexico singer.

The second full-length release from Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band was recorded and mixed by Seth Manchester.

The second full-length solo release for the producer features guest appearances from Alex G, Doss, Dawn Golden, GTW, Little Cloud, Kotomi, and Lontalius.

The debut full-length studio release for the Canadian producer features guest appearances from Sinead Harnett, Kitty (formerly known as Kitty Pryde), Lofty305, Haleek Maul, and Tinashé.

The Harvard graduate releases his debut American album.

The debut release for Seattle rapper Macklemore and producer Ryan Lewis features such guests as Ab-Soul, Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses, ScHoolboy Q, and Allen Stone.

Each track on the third release from the Los Angeles-based artist is said to represent the sound of an animal's spirit.

Dave Grohl produced this fourth album for the emo-rockers.

This third album for the Jersey City rockers (who come across a bit like an emo Tenacious D) was produced by Steve Albini.

The debut full-length release for the Baltimore club rapper features guest appearances by Akon, Robyn, Tyga, and Porcelain Black.

The third full-length release for the singer-songwriter was produced by Wilco's Leroy Bach.

The collaboration between Ryley Walker and Kikagaku Moyo was recorded at 2018's Utrecht Le Guess Who? Festival.

The latest release for the Chicago singer-songwriter is a cover album of the Dave Matthews Band's unreleased (but bootlegged and some rerecorded for Busted Stuff) Lillywhite Sessions.

The fourth full-length release for the Chicago singer-songwriter was produced with LeRoy Bach.

The latest release for the New York-based singer-songwriter was produced by Tortoise's John McEntire and features contributions from Bill MacKay, Nancy Ives, Douglas Jenkins, Ryan Jewell, and Andrew Scott Young.

This is the second full-length release for the Chicago singer-songwriter.

The debut full-length release for the pop singer was produced by Benny Blanco and Passion Pit’s Michael Angelakos.

The latest full-length release for Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto was written and recorded in Tokyo while he was recovering from cancer treatment.

This is the second release from the collaboration between Christopher Willits and Ryuichi Sakamoto.

The first solo release for the Grammy-winning Japanese synth pop composer in eight years features David Sylvian on one track.

Alva Noto, Arca, Cornelius, Electric Youth, Fennesz, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Motion Graphics, Oneohtrix Point Never, Andy Stott, S U R V I V E and Yves Tumor remixed some of the tracks from Ryuichi Sakamoto's 2017 release.

Ryuichi Sakamoto worked with Alva Noto, and Bryce Dessner on the soundtrack of Alejandro G. Iñárritu's 2015 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

The latest full-length release for rapper RZA is a soundtrack to an upcoming graphic novel featuring his Bobby Digital alter-ego.

The Wu Tang's RZA releases a soundtrack to his martial arts film of the same name featuring tracks by such artists as The Black Keys, Ghostface Killah, Freddie Gibbs, Method Man, Pharoahe Monch, Kanye West, and Wiz Khalifa.

The fourth full-length solo release for Jenn Ghetto of Carissa's Wierd was produced by Death Cab for Cutie's Chris Walla.

Fresh off scoring Netflix's Stranger Things, Michael Stein and Kyle Dixon and the other three members of the Austin synth band return with its self-recorded second full-length album on new label, Relapse Records.

Justin Vernon was so impressed with Sean Carey's ability that he was invited to be a part of Bon Iver's touring band. Now comes Carey's solo debut album recorded at his own home and Vernon's studio in Wisconsin.

The third full-length release for the singer-songwriter features contributions from such artists as Casey Foubert, Gordi, and Rob Moose of yMusic.

The six-track solo EP from Bon Iver's Sean Carey features reimaginings of four songs from his first two albums as well as a cover of Radiohead's "Bullet Proof... I Wish I Was," and a new song.

The four-track EP from S. Carey (of Bon Iver) was produced by bandmates Justin Vernon and Brian Joseph.

The second full-length solo release for the Bon Iver drummer includes a guest appearance from Justin Vernon.

The fourth full-length solo release for Bon Iver's S. Carey was produced with Zach Hanson and Chris Messina.

The British rock quintet releases its debut full-length album produced by Ken and Jolyon Thomas.

The latest full-length release from singer-songwriter S.G. Goodman features guest appearances by Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Clyde Charles, Mary Overbey, Matthew Rowan, and Myrtle Turner.

The second full-length release for Kentucky singer-songwriter S.G. Goodman was co-produced with Drew Vandenberg.

This is the debut full-length release for the collaboration between Marielle V Jakobsons and Chuck Johnson.

The third full-length release for Chicago rapper Saba features guest appearances from 6LACK, Black Thought, Cheflee, Daoud, Fousheé, G Herbo, Eryn Allen Kane, Krayzie Bone, Mereba, Pivot Gang, Smino, and Benjamin Earl Turner.

The second full-length release for the Chicago rapper was influenced in part by the death of his cousin Walter Long, Jr. and was co-produced with daedaePIVOT and Daoud.

The debut full-length release from the collaboration between Saba & No ID features guest appearances by Joseph Chilliams, Jean Deaux, Frsh Waters, Ibeyi, Love Mansuy, Madison McFerrin, MFnMelo, Ogi, Smino, Tru, and Jordan Ward.

The ninth full-length studio release for the Swedish heavy metal band is its first with Tommy Johansson.

The debut solo release for Brazilian Girls' Sabina Sciubba was produced with Frederik Rubens.

The latest full-length release from pop singer-songwriter Sabrina Carpenter was co-produced with Jack Antonoff.

The sixth full-length release from pop singer-songwriter Sabrina Carpenter features production by Jack Antonoff, Julian Bunetta, Ian Kirkpatrick, and John Ryan.

This is the first release from Ray Aggs and Eilidh Rodgers as Sacred Paws since 2019's Run Around The Sun.

This is the second full-length release for the British indie pop duo of Rachel Aggs and Eilidh Rodgers.

The debut full-length release for the duo of Eilidh Rodgers and Rachel Aggs was produced by Tony Doogan.

The fifth full-length release for the Phoenix-based thrash metal led by Phil Rind is its first in 23 years.

The second full-length release for the solo project of Sadie Dupuis was mixed by Sarah Tudzin.

The debut full-length solo release for Speedy Ortiz's Sadie Dupuis was self-produced and features a guest appearance from Sammus.

After a 10-year hiatus, Sade returns with her sixth studio effort and first since 2000's "Lover's Rock."

The second full-length solo release for the Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit's guitarist was self-produced and recorded in Nashville.

The indie MC moves from Anticon to Epitaph for his sophomore release. Will Oldham, Danger Mouse, Alias and Saul Williams guest.

The first studio release for the indie rapper in four years features production from Alias, Buck 65, Cecil Otter, and Reanimator.

The fourth full-length studio album for the rapper from Rhode Island features songs co-written with such artists as Tim Fite, Death Cab For Cutie’s Chris Walla, Califone’s Tim Rutili, Grandaddy’s Jason Lytle, and Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous.

The underground rapper/poet returns with his second album for Epitaph, joined by guests Buck 65, Jolie Holland and Mark Isham.