\u201cFuture 25\u201d <\/a>list in 2024). She\u2019s part of a group of young, like-minded country, folk and blues songwriters whose music you won\u2019t easily find on streaming algorithms or corporate festival lineups: Kaia Kater, Nathan Evans Fox, Kimaya Diggs, Nick Shoulders, Olivia Ellen Lloyd, A.J. Haynes, and Tray Wellington, among them.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\tPegged to the country\u2019s upcoming 250th anniversary (and released on Juneteenth), Outlaws\u2019 Almanac<\/em>, helmed and executive produced by No, <\/em>is a righteous and declarative gathering of contemporary and repurposed folk-roots freedom songs. Call it a People\u2019s Songbook of the United States<\/em>: These songs portray a modern America ripped apart by lack of access to healthcare and ruled by \u201cwhite boys with money,\u201d as roots veterans Kasey Anderson and Eric Ambel put it in their searing take on Anderson\u2019s \u201cThe Dangerous Ones.\u201d Mostly, it\u2019s a record that gives voice to the stories of working Americans who are struggling and searching for something to pin their hopes on, whether that\u2019s freedom from oppression or just one more paycheck.<\/p>\n\n\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\tBut the record is not merely a powerful plea for liberation. It also doubles as a showcase for some of the most exciting rising voices in folk-roots music. There\u2019s the mesmerizing \u201cOne Day\u201d from Hawaiian country bluesman Kapali Long, the searing Civil Rights-era spiritual \u201cAin\u2019t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around\u201d from Brandi Waller-Pace, and a solo saxophone avant-deconstruction of \u201cOl\u2019 Man River\u201d from Will Greene. Nathan Evans Fox, the North Carolina-raised singer whose just-released album Heirloom<\/em> is one of the year\u2019s best, dusts off an older homesick tale \u2014 \u201cSome Things Are Coming Back Again\u201d \u2014 for fresh ears.<\/p>\n\n