Put a Record On: Mind Your Fresh Hot Biscuits & Life Will Be Asleep at the Wheel

Marissa Moss

08 Aug 2025 — 3 min read

Photo by Joshua Black Wilkins

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The Good

"Fresh Hot Biscuits," Joshua Hedley: A delightful Western swingy bop from one of our finest purveyors of the old-school sound, produced by one of the finest Jewish Yankee Hippies around (a.k.a our surrogate dad, appointed by us) Asleep at the Wheel's Ray Benson? Couldn't love it more. - MM

"Always The Horse, Never The Jockey," Cleo Reed: An experimental project intended to disrupt and challenge norms around folk/country (the album is called Cuntry) this is definitely worth a spin; there's some shared DNA here with last year's Kara Jackson record, though that one was a bit more traditional. Always here for pushing at genre edges!! — NW

"Who Will Sing For Me?," Zach Russell: Sonic existential wandering in the key of Gospel, I will always say yes (especially since I think about death a lot - yay!). - MM

Tennessee Lightning, Ashley Monroe: An album that opens with a Twin Peaks-country moment ("I'm Gonna Run," with T. Bone Burnett), gives 90s Veruca Salt on "Hot Rod Pipe Dream" and ends on on a gorgeously sung gospel prayer? Only Ashley Monroe could do it, and it's exquisite: fun, saucy and musically adventurous in all the right ways. - MM

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