Gerry Beckley has always written songs that live somewhere between light and shadow. On his forthcoming solo album Merciful, arriving August 28, the America co-founder leans fully into that balance — reflective, melodic songs that look back on a lifetime of music while still searching for what comes next.
Celebrated singer-songwriter Cory Branan has spent the better part of two decades carving out a career that refuses easy categorization. Blending punk grit, Southern storytelling, folk intimacy and heartland rock into something unmistakably his own, the Memphis native now returns with You’ll Live, his seventh studio album and second release for Blue Élan Records, arriving August 21.
Today, Nashville-based outlaw country siren India Ramey releases her new album Villain Era via Copaco Records/Blue Élan Records, a bold and cathartic statement of autonomy, identity, and hard-won self-possession.
Man Boy Brown — the solo alter ego of Raul Pacheco, vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and co-founding member of the three-time Grammy-winning Los Angeles institution Ozomatli — releases his new single “The Word” today, a slow-burning, romantic track steeped in sensuality, longing, and cinematic storytelling.
With today’s release of “Lucretia,” Sam Morrow pushes further into the bold new chapter he first introduced with “Cruisin’,” building momentum toward the release of his new full-length album, Southern Boogie, arriving June 12, 2026 via Copaco/Blue Élan Records. Long celebrated for his swampy blend of country funk and roadhouse blues, Morrow has fully stepped beyond the Americana-leaning palette of his earlier trilogy and into something grittier, louder and raw, Texas-bred southern rock that sounds exactly like what it is: Sam Morrow, confidently evolving.
Today, powerhouse vocalist Courtney Santana steps into the spotlight with the release of her debut solo album, Living Through It All, via Hardcharger Records. Leading the album is the bold and blues-soaked focus track, “No Apology,” a defiant bluesy anthem written by Samantha Fish that captures Santana at her most unflinching and self-assured.