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New Music Friday: The Top 8 Albums Out On Sept. 17

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🗓️ 17 September 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The debut album from singer and rapper Lil Nas X tops our list of the week's best releases, along with the 25th anniversary of Buena Vista Social Club, new ones from José González, Carly Pearce and more.

Featured Albums:
1. Lil Nas X — Montero
Featured Song: "Dead Right Now"
2. Carly Pearce — 29: Written In Stone
Featured Song: "Diamondback"
3. Charley Crockett — Music City USA
Featured Song: "Honest Fight"
4. Adia Victoria — A Southern Gothic
Featured Song: "Troubled Mind"
5. Buena Vista Social Club — Buena Vista Social Club
Featured Songs: "Chan Chan" and "El Diablo Suelto"
6. José González — Local Valley
Featured Song: "Visions"
7. Sheila Jordan — Comes Love: Lost Session 1960
Featured Song: "Ballad of the Sad Young Men"
8. Moor Mother — Black Encyclopedia of the Air
Featured Song: "Vera Hall"

Other notable releases for Sept. 17: Bob Dylan — Springtime In New York: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 16; Cory Henry — Best of Me; James Vincent McMorrow — Grapefruit Season; Lindsey Buckingham — Lindsey Buckingham; Melissa Ethridge — One Way Out.

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0:00.0

Happy Friday everyone from NPR Music and all songs considered.

0:02.8

I'm Robin Hilton.

0:03.5

I'm here with contributor Gavin Gottfried.

0:05.5

Hey, Gavin.

0:06.1

What's going on, Robin?

0:07.4

It's new music Friday that Dave the Week when most new albums drop.

0:10.5

And we're doing a quick rundown of the best releases out now on September 17th,

0:14.7

starting with Lil Nas X.

0:16.4

His debut album out now is called Montero.

0:46.4

I'm on your hair right now.

0:56.4

You want it for when we're so bare right now.

1:00.9

Oh, now you can't right now.

1:04.2

2018 hours since the host host, some songs wasn't doing numbers.

1:12.2

Part in full content, some songs in art.

1:23.7

I never need no niggas, I ain't never need no feature

1:26.8

If I didn't draw with a dodge in the field here

1:28.6

Everything goes from a side when we hear

1:30.6

That they all come around and they fit here

1:32.6

We are getting this rich in famous

1:34.3

Everybody come up to you

1:36.0

Sing it, Hollywood, how you doing?

1:39.2

You been on my mind, you been running through your

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