Happy Friday!!  We made it through another week.  Now let’s enjoy the weekend with some great new music.  There is so much to choose from this weekend and some I can’t wait to grab a hold of and sonically consume.  Let me know what your interested in, and as always, my most anticipated ones are highlighted in Blue.  There are a lot so I am only going to comment on four of them, the others Bruce Springsteen and Joe Bonamassa are just too obvious choices that I am sure a lot of you are interested in as well.

•   Airbourne – Breakin’ Outta Hell – (Spinefarm):  Are you ready to rock 80’s style? Then turn that volume up and rock your ass off with Airbourne.  One of the most exciting retro rock bands to come out in the last 10 years.  Listen to the title track and then go get this album and turn to 11.

•   Crobot – Welcome to the Fat City – (Wind Up Records):  Do you want to talk about exciting, here is another retro rock band but this one does it more 70’s style.  Keep the volume up for this one and be prepared to blow out the windows in your house or your car.  These first 2 albums are going to keep me satisfied for a long damn time!!

•   Passenger – Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea – (Black Crow Records):  Looking forward to this one as well, but it might take some time to get to it after the first two releases above.  They are listed as singer/songwriter and they definitely fit that mold as the songwriting and music is always exceptional.  Definitely should be another great release.

•   Shawn Mendes – Illuminate – (Island Records):  Personally, not excited about this release, but my kids are so that means I need to listen to it to make sure it is appropriate.  However, it is Shawn Mendes so not real concerned about that.  He seems like a decent kid.  Plus, sometimes his songs are pretty darn good.

•   Joy Williams – Venus (Acoustic) – (Sensibility Music) Joy Williams has such a haunting, yet beautiful voice.  She draws you in and makes you really listen to the song.  Absolutely mesmerizing.  This is a great effort, but I do miss the Civil Wars.

•   Crowder – American Prodical – (sixstepsrecords)
•   Timothy B. Schmit – Leap of Faith – (Benowen)
•   Bruce Springsteen – Chapter & Verse – (Columbia)
•   Joe Bonamassa – Live at the Greek – (J&R Adventures)
•   Various Artists – The Man Who Fell to Earth (2CD) – (Hip-O)
•   Luke Bryan – Farm Tour…Here’s to the Farmer – E.P. – (Row Crops Records)
•   Operation: Mindcrime – Resurrection – (Frontiers Music Sri)
•   Kansas – The Prelude Implicit – (Inside Out Music)
•   Dwight Yoakam – Swimming Pools, Movie Stars… – (Sugar Hill)
•   My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade / Living with Ghosts (10th Anniversary) – (Reprise)
•   Randy Newman – The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 3 – (Nonesuch)
•   Vangelis – Rosetta – (Decca)
•   Idina Menzel – idina. – (Warner Bros.)
•   Kristin Chenoweth – The Art of Elegance – (Concord Records)
•   Various Artists – Wow Hits 2017 – (WOW)
•   John Scofield – Country for Old Men – (Impulse/UMC)
•   Allegaeon – Proponent of Sentience – (Metal Blade)
•   The Sword – Low Country – (Razor & Tie)