Emily Scott Robinson has announced the release of her highly anticipated new album, Appalachia, due January 30, 2026, on Oh Boy Records. The 10-song collection, produced by Josh Kaufman (Grateful Dead, Anais Mitchell, Bonny Light Horseman) at Dreamland Recording Studios in upstate New York, finds Robinson at her most fearless and tender, singing about love and loss, grief and hope, and the power of community in the face of devastation. The album’s title track, “Appalachia,” is released today (October 15) alongside a new music video.

Inspired by the stories of resilience following Hurricane Helene, which ravaged Western North Carolina in September 2024, the song centers on a mother determined to endure. “The song is less about what we can control and more about how we can care for one another,” Robinson says. “We’re so much stronger when we have a community. Then we have hope.”

Appalachia marks Robinson’s third release on Oh Boy Records and her fifth album overall. Over five days in the spring of 2025, she and Kaufman transformed Dreamland, a century-old church sanctuary tucked away near the Hudson River, into an ethereal recording space. The sanctuary’s creaking floors, cobwebbed windows, and natural reverb gave life to Robinson’s most expansive work to date. Robinson’s roots run deep in North Carolina, where she first discovered her love for songwriting as a teenager. Since releasing her debut Magnolia Queen in 2016, she has become one of Americana’s most distinctive voices. Her records Traveling Mercies (2019) and American Siren(2021) landed on Rolling Stone’s “Best Country and Americana Albums” lists and earned praise from NPR, The Washington Post, Billboard, American Songwriter, and more. With Appalachia, Robinson continues a career defined by songs that move people to tears and, more importantly, to hope. “There’s this thing I do with every record I make,” she says. “I knit a prayer into it and ask for the songs to find their way to everyone who needs them. If my music can be of service in that way, then I’ve done my work.” 

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Appalachia Tracklist

Hymn for the Unholy

Appalachia

Sea of Ghosts

Cast Iron Heart ft. John Paul White

Time Traveler

Dirtbag Saloon

Bless It All

The Time for Flowers

The Water is Wide The Fairest View

Kelsey Waldon's new record Every Ghost is out now! Available Here. 

Kelsey Waldon has earned wide praise for her “self-penned compositions [with] the patina of authenticity” (Rolling Stone). On her new album, Every Ghost — recorded at Southern Grooves studio in Memphis with her band, The Muleskinners — she confronts addiction, grief, generational trauma, and even herself, and comes through it stronger and at peace. Since signing to John Prine’s Oh Boy Records in 2019, as the independent label’s first new signee in 15 years, Waldon has earned the title of “Kentucky Colonel” — an honor recognizing goodwill ambassadors of Kentucky’s culture and traditions — and a spot in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s 2024 American Currents exhibit, among other accolades.

This is her story, told in full. Give it a listen! 

Track Listing:

1.) Ghost of Myself  

2.) Comanche 

3.) Tiger Lilies 

4.) Falling Down 

5.) Nursery Rhyme 

6.) Let it Lie  

7.) Lost in My Idlin’ 

8.) My Kin 

9.) Ramblin' Woman  

Rising Virginia trio Palmyra have announced their debut album for Oh Boy Records. Restless, will be out on March 28th and is available for pre-order today. To mark the occasion, the band has released the first single, titled “Shape I’m In,” along with a live performance video of the song. The track is a centerpiece of the album and was the band’s submission for the Tiny Desk Concert in 2024 which led NPR to naming them one of their ‘Best New Artists’. “Shape I’m In,” is a mind map that band member Sasha Landon wrote as they began to navigate their bipolar diagnosis. Every verse includes a new apology—their face, their demeanor, their tone. But as the song builds to a climax fit for vintage Bright Eyes, it becomes clear that it’s also a call for acceptance, to be taken not as an error but simply as they are.

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Established in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, Palmyra showcases the talents of Sasha Landon, Teddy Chipouras, and Manoa Bell. Through their unique blend of traditional folk string instruments, lush harmony, and earnest songwriting, they earned a spot on NPR's “Best New Artists of 2024”. Their sound, often described as a distant cousin to The Avett Brothers and the Wood Brothers, nods toward Appalachian and Midwestern Americana, with intricate arrangements that create the illusion of a full, larger-than-three ensemble. 

“We’re so excited to welcome Palmyra to Oh Boy! The energy and vitality of their performances grab you right away, but what really stays with you is the depth of their songwriting -  songs that tackle the struggle to make sense of yourself and the world around you. I think they’ve been able to resonate with audiences so deeply because of the honesty and vulnerability in their songs. This is music that is much needed in the world.” - Jody Whelan, Managing Partner, Oh Boy. 

"Since its inception with John, Oh Boy has always championed honest, intentional, damn good songwriting, and we are honored that they're holding us in that same reverence as the folks we look up to - Arlo, Dan, Kelsey, Swamp Dogg, Tre, Emily, and of course, John. What a gift." - Palmyra

Belladonna is available now with new music coming in 2025!

Read more about the band here: https://www.palmyratheband.com/

You Got Gold 2024 raised $300,000 to support disaster relief in the wake of Hurricane Helene.

A portion of the funds will directly benefit individuals who have experienced significant loss due to Hurricanes Helene and Milton, including low-income families with children and hospitality workers who have lost wages in the Gulfport, Florida area, where the Prine family has maintained a home for decades.

Additional organizational grants will be made to local and regionally-based organizations doing on-the-ground work in the Southeast, particularly in the hardest hit areas of east Tennessee, western North Carolina and the Gulfport area of Florida, to assist those most impacted by the storm. 100% of net proceeds from You Got Gold, including ticket and merch sales along with all donations, will benefit disaster relief. The foundation will continue actively directing funds toward these efforts through the end of the year, and donations can be made by visiting thehellointherefoundation.org.

“We are continually floored by the generosity of John’s fans. For the past three years, this community has gathered together to celebrate John’s music and legacy and this year was no different. We are so grateful for the continued support and contributions made on behalf of John, and we are so fortunate to be able to help so many people in need through the great work of the Hello In There Foundation.” - Fiona Prine

"Some of the songs have been out digitally for a while now. Others are "new". I think it's a nice record to listen to. Lots of variety. Up. Down. Fast. Slow. Sideways. And because it's vinyl, I think people will listen to it as it was meant to be listened to." - DAN REEDER

Dan Reeder's newest album has a whopping 27 songs to sing along to and is available on limited colored LP and CD! 

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Tracklisting

1. Fuzzyfalafelosophy

2. Speed king universal lifestyle

3. You don’t have to ask

4. Old socrates

5. It was a party

6. Gin tonic

7. I’ve got the blues (even though nothing is wrong) fun version

8. One of you

9. Hunt a little

10. Forever

11. Fun campfire song

12. The best conversations

13. Nine pound hammer

14. This new band 

15. Fuck off

16. Feather

17. What I was thinking

18. 52 years ago

19. This hopeless world

20. Smithereens

21. (I ain’t got no) fighting style

22. Banjoman

23. Bloo you believe in bloo blove

24. Sex is still a mess

25. Ma baby

26. Skiing song

27. Hungry Heart

Oh Boy is proud to present our newest artist, Swamp Dogg. Over the course of his seven-decade long career, the Virginia-born, Los Angeles based artist, songwriter and producer Swamp Dogg has firmly established himself as one of the most eccentric and influential cult figures in American music, exploring R&B, soul, and country music over the course of more than two dozen albums.

His new album, Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th Street, has just been announced and will be released on May 31st. The first track "Mess Under That Dress" is out now everywhere!

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This Friday, March 8, the feature-length documentary Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted will premiere at SXSW before performing at Luck Reunion on March 14. 

Tracklisting:

SIDE A

1. Mess Under That Dress

2. Ugly Mans Wife

3. Curtains On The Window

4. Have A Good Time

5. The Other Woman

6. Songs To Sing

SIDE B

7. Count The Days

8. Gotta Have My Baby Back

9. Your Best Friend

10. This Is My Dream

11. Rise Up

12. Murder Ballad

Kelsey Waldon has just announced her newest album, There's Always A Song, with the release date set for May 10, 2024. "I have been inspired by all kinds of music spanning many genres, but there is something about old time songs & bluegrass music that resonates so deeply within me", Waldon wrote in her announcement. 

"Hello Stranger" feat S.G. Goodman takes its place as the lead single and is out now everywhere.

Across four acclaimed full-length albums full of both “heavy twang and spitfire pedal steel” and “coffeehouse confessionals” (Rolling Stone), she’s brought listeners into her world and shared her own experiences and perspectives. Her new project, There’s Always a Song, however, is about the "singular voices" that shaped her into the artist she is today.

“It’s like, I kind of was able to find my voice through these voices, you know?” Waldon says. “A part of me doing this album is expressing so much gratitude for the music that I love, for music that has meant a lot to me and helped me.”

“These songs are deep. They were here long before me, and they will be here long after I’m gone, after any of us are here. They will survive the test of time,” Waldon says. “It’s like they live in some kind of universe that just survives forever. These songs know the secrets to life.”

You can order the album here.