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Our old friend Dave Miller has a new album titled "Party in the Pines" releasing early in 2026, and the first single from the upcoming release is now out! It's a tender and beautiful song of remembrance and family connections, called "Nail Can". It's on all the usual streaming and download sites - you can go to this smartlink https://vibe.to/dmnc  that will take you wherever you want to go to give a listen - check it out!

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Meghan Clarisse and "Chapter 23” (Calistro “Junior" and Mickie Vasquez) both have new albums just released on the Howlin’ Dog label, and we are honored and excited to be part of their musical journeys.

We're thrilled that a new project from Denver-based Meghan Clarisse is out into the world as of September 26th - releasing on all the streaming platforms, and also for sale on CD in the HDR record store. Meghan was one of the Howlin’ Dog Music Group grantees from our first year, and we're proud to have been able to help this beautiful music find its way into the world! Check out "Shadows of a Ghost Town" on your favorite source for music, or better yet, order a physical copy here. And if you want to help HDMG help other singer-songwriters to get their music out, please check out the HDMG website. Thank you and congratulations Meghan!

Also, our dear friends Junior and Mickie Vasquez, mainstays of the vibrant Lubbock, Texas music scene, are celebrating the release of their new duo project "Chapter 23", which released October 3rd on all of the usual streaming sites, and is also for sale in the HDR record store. Junior was also a 2024 grant recipient from HDMG, and the album is available on both CD and vinyl, as well as on all the streaming sites. Check it out - it's a gorgeous record!

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This is a most remarkable project - many years in the making. I first started doing recordings for Marty back in the 90s, to help him with his work as a music publisher - doing song demos etc. But we started doing recordings of Marty singing songs that he wrote but that others had recorded over the years - going all the way back to the late 1950s and early 60s. After a while it became clear that we had something really special. It’s taken a long time to get it into it’s present form - a truly first-class CD and booklet package, presenting Marty Cooper’s songs, that truly form a portrait of America in all its facets - the positive and the problematic, but always the land of the possible.

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Heroes and Friends features 15 songs written mostly by friends of the band, along with a couple by well-known songwriting heroes. Rifters member Don Richmond says, “Although we've often included friends' songs on our other mostly original albums, we decided to really pay tribute to as many of these friends of ours as we could, who are also very much heroes to us. We hope folks will love these songs and our interpretations of them too!”

We’re thrilled to share the first single (with a cool video) from the upcoming Eliza Gilkyson album “Dark Ages”, called “Dark Night of the Soul”. It’s actually a very hopeful anthem about getting through difficult times. The album will be released on Eliza’s own Realiza Records label, but was recorded and mixed by Don Richmond, primarily at our Howlin’ Dog Records studio.

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Congratulations to Eliza!

We had a nice bit of good news yesterday - our old friend and Howlin' Dog Records artist Dave Miller just found out that he's a finalist in the International Acoustic Music Awards songwriting competition for a great bluegrassy sort of tune he wrote called "Jenkin's Plan", which is on his HD Records release "Prayers in the Wind". It's a sweet tune, and we congratulate brother Dave! There will be new music coming this year from him - we'll keep you posted!

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