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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Kentucky folk singer-songwriter Joan Shelley features contributions from Matt Kelley, Tamara Lindeman, Philippe Melanson, Karen Ng, Doug Paisley, Nathan Salsburg, Talya Bloom Salsburg, Ben Whiteley, and Ken Whiteley.
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- Record Label: No Quarter
- Genre(s): Folk, Pop/Rock
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UncutSep 25, 202513 songs of luminous, impeccably judged country-folk. [Nov 2025, p.36]
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Sep 25, 2025It's a record that doesn't just offer warmth -- it invites you to enthusiastically participate in it and find comfort in the quiet spaces.
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Sep 25, 2025The folk-adjacent auteur’s ninth studio LP is alive, Natalie Merchant-style, to the marvels of creation, but also the vulnerability that comes with suddenly having a physical stake in the future of humanity. [Oct 2025, p.88]
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Oct 3, 2025Real Warmth, her seventh album and sixth for No Quarter, is an authentically emotive rejoinder to the all too prevalent practice of pretend empathy.
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Sep 25, 2025Real Warmth makes it easy to believe that music can be that lifeline out of the darkness, or at least a roadmap to home.