Luke Combs' new album, Fathers and Sons, is his first since his 2023 pop hit cover of Tracy Chapman's “Fast Car.” Zach Massey/Courtesy of the artist Hide caption
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Luke Combs' new album, Fathers and Sons, will be his first since his 2023 pop hit cover of Tracy Chapman's “Fast Car.”
Zach Massey/Courtesy of the Artist
This week, NPR Music's Daud Tyler Ameen and Ann Powers follow country superstar Luke Combs as his New Music Friday podcast heads into Father's Day weekend. Combs' new album, “Fathers & Sons,” is a heartfelt meditation on what it means to fulfill the roles of both father and son. It's Combs' first album since hitting the pop charts last year with his cover of Tracy Chapman's “Fast Car.”
Also this week, Raveena, who charmed legions of NPR Music fans with her 2022 album Asha's Awakening, mines the sounds of millennial pop and R&B with Where the Butterflies Go in the Rain, plus the official release of a long-praised 1974 bootleg of Paul McCartney and Wings' live-in-studio performance.
Featured Albums:
• Luke Combs, “Fathers and Sons”
• Rabina, “Where the Butterflies Go in the Rain”
• Paul McCartney & Wings, One Hand Clapping
Other notable albums releasing on June 14th include:
• Decemberists, as they have always been, so they will be again
• Normani, dopamine
• PJ Morton, Cape Town to Cairo
• This is a box for Lorelei, a box for Buddy, a box for Star
• Jess Cornelius, Care/Taking
• Sadler Vaden, Dad Rock
• Don Toliver, “Hardstone Psycho”
• Hermanos Gutierrez, Sonido Cosmico
• Sam Morton, Daffodils and Earth
• John Cale: POPtical Illusion
• Isabel Campbell, “Bow Down to Love”
• The Art of Lying, by John Grant
• Lalah Hathaway, VANTABLACK
• Moby is always at the center of the night
• Zella, Big for You