Yep, before we had a chance to realise the festive season was upon us it quickly departed, leaving us gazing forlornly or perhaps excitedly at the open musical prairie of 2015 laying before us.

2014 was a damn strong year for Americana releases and no doubt we’re in for another great twelve months of new music. Here’s a list of albums on the horizon for the next few months.

• Various – Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis (Jan 13th)
• Justin Townes Earle – Absent Fathers (Jan 16th)
• Dan Mangan + Blacksmith – Club Meds (Jan 17th)
• The Decemberists – What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World (Jan 20th)
  
• Husband – The Money (Jan 23rd)
• Ralph Stanley – Man Of Constant Sorrow (Jan 23rd)
• Andrew Combs – All These Dreams (Jan 26th)
  
• Jessica Pratt – On You Own Love Again (Jan 26th)
  
• Punch Brothers – The Phosphorescent Blues (Jan 26th)
  
• The Lone Bellow – Then Came The Morning (Jan 26th)
  
• Jake Xerxes Fussell – Self Titled (Jan 26th)
• Roland Kay-Smith – Sailing by the Stars (Jan 30th)
  
• The Staves – If I Was (Jan 30th)
  
• American Aquarium – Wolves (Feb 6th)
  
• Perry Keyes – Sunnyholt (Feb 6th)
  
• Bob Dylan – Shadows In The Night (Feb 6th)
  
• Sam Shinazzi – Forever & For Now (Feb 6th)
  
• Murder By Death – Big Dark Love (Feb 6th)
  
• Two Gallants – We Are Undone (Feb 6th)
  
• Ryan Bingham – Fear And Saturday Night (Feb 6th)
  
• Rhiannon Giddens – Tomorrow Is My Turn (Feb 6th)
  
• Father John Misty – I Love You Honeybear (Feb 10th)
  
• Robert Earl Keen – Happy Prisoner : The Bluegrass Sessions (Feb 10th)
  
• José González – Vestiges & Claws (Feb 16th)
  
• Steve Earle & The Dukes – Terraplane (Feb 17th)
  
• Phosphorescent – ‘Live At The Music Hall’ (Feb 17th)
  
• Iron & Wine – Archive Series Volume No.1 (Feb 24th)
  
• Jim Lawrie – EONS (Feb 28th)
  
• Tolka – One House (Mar 1st)
  
• Packwood – Autumnal (Mar 1st)
  
• Houndmouth – Little Neon Limelight (March 16th)
  
• Alison Moorer – Down To Believing (Mar 17th)
• Seasick Steve – Sonic Soul Surfer (Mar 20th)
  
• Laura Marling – Short Movie (Mar 24th)
  
• Ryley Walker – Primrose Green (Mar 31st)
  
• Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (Mar 31st)
  
• Marlon Williams – Marlon Williams (April 24th)
  
• The Deslondes – The Deslondes (Jun 9th)
  
• Mark Lucas – Prisoners Of The Heart (working title) (March)
  
• Ruby Boots – Solitude (April)
  
• James Thomson – Cold Moon (TBC)
  
• Joshua Seymour – (May)
• Perry Keyes – Great Western Highway (mid 2015)
• Raised By Eagles – Diamonds In The Bloodstream (TBA)
• Lost Ragas – Trans Atlantic Highway (TBC)
• Mark Lucas & the Dead Setters – Continental Drift (TBC)
• Bill Jackson – The Wayside Ballads Vol 1 (TBC)
• Fanny Lumsden (TBC)
• Neil Young with Lukas and Micah Nelson (TBC)
• Shane Nicholson (TBC)
• Darren Cross (TBC)
• Jed Rowe (TBC)
• Alison Ferrier (TBC)
• Richmond Fontaine (TBC)
• Joe Pug – Windfall (TBA)