Alabama Southern Drawl

Southern Drawl is the twenty-third studio album by American country music group Alabama, and their first new studio album of original materials since When It All Goes South in 2001. The album was released on September 18, 2015, with lead single "Wasn't Through Lovin' You Yet" released the same month. The track "One on One" previously appeared on lead singer Randy Owen's 2008 album of the same name. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic criticized some tracks, including the title track, "Hillbilly Wins the Lotto Money", "I Wanna Be There", and "American Farmer" as "trying too hard", but added that "Such down-the-middle numbers overshadow much subtler and nicer moments scattered throughout the record, moments that usually arrive in the soft, sweet ballads that give the group plenty of opportunity to showcase its gentle, interwoven harmonies. These slow tunes more than the over-pumped rockers feel the truest to old Alabama."

Alabama will release a brand new holiday album, American Christmas, on October 6. It will feature fifteen tracks and is the first newly recorded Christmas album by the iconic group in 21 years.

You’d be forgiven if the vision of Canada’s rolling plains, shoulder-high wheat, and farm country didn’t immediately send you to thoughts of southern rock. Canada’s prairies aren’t exactly Alabama or the bayou, but this is exactly where The Sheepdogs hail from, and southern rock is exactly what they do. It’s their bread and butter. Saskatoon’s favourite sons have made a living on albums dripping with Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers Band, and Crosby, Stills & Nash. However, their latest album, Changing Colours, goes further.

Blues Legend James Harman returns with his Electro-Fi Records debut, Bonetime his first new Studio release in 12 years. It's been worth the wait as James lays down his patented vocal and harmonica work on a dozen new and original tracks. Joining James on Bonetime is an All Star crew of artists: Nathan James, Junior Watson, Kid Ramos, Candye Kane, Gene Taylor, Jeff Turmes and Kirk Fletcher. Bonetime is a high water mark in the career of a man who's been singing, playing and writing inspired Blues music since 1962. Watch for Bonetime and James Harman to be doing big things in 2015. (37th Blues Music Award Nominee - Album of the Year).