Consumer Guide: July, 2024

Jazz that swings from tunefulness to abstraction, a Nashville songbird with a can of gas and a match, Seattle self-described bit players with 13 songs in 27 minutes, & blues in search of lasting love.

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Bounaly: Dimanche á Bamako (Sahel Sounds)

Mike Cooley/Patterson Hood/Jason Isbell: Live at the Shoals Theater (Southeastern/Thirty Tigers)

Robert Finley: Black Bayou (Easy Eye Sound)

Fox Green: Light Over Darkness (self-released)

Ciara Grace: Write It Down (self-released)

The Gringo Pistoleros: The Rise and . . . Subsequent Fall of the Texas Alien (self released)

The Libertines: All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade (EMI)

Jason Moran: From the Dancehall to the Battlefield (Yes)

Willie Nelson: The Border (Columbia)

Carly Pearce: Hummingbird (Big Machine)

Madeleine Peyroux: Let's Walk (Just One/Thirty Tigers)

Slow Pulp: Yard (Anti-)

Wimps: City Lights (Youth Riot)

Jamila Woods: Water Made Us (Jagjaguwar)

Charli XCX: Brat (Atlantic)

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