Feral Foster - New World Blues (2026) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Feral Foster
- Title: New World Blues
- Year Of Release: 2026
- Label: Jalopy Records
- Genre: Folk, Blues, Americana
- Quality: FLAC 24/48000; 16/44100
- Total Time: 00:42:50
- Total Size: 211; 454 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
New York folk and blues artist Feral Foster, named “Best Folk Artist” by the Village Voice, releases the album New World Blues on October 23, 2026 via the Brooklyn label Jalopy Records. It is his first record in twelve years and his second live set, recorded at the Brooklyn Folk Festival and at The Brooklyn Rod & Gun Club. In the intervening years he focused on live performance and community building. For over two decades he has hosted the hootenanny-style series Roots n’ Ruckus at the Jalopy Theatre, which began in 2005 on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village. Alynda Segarra (Hurray for the Riff Raff), The Deslondes, Nora Brown, Charley Crockett, Nat Myers and Miriam Elhajli either started out there or tested new material.
Foster is rooted in blues and American folk, but his influences reach to the Near East and beyond. His voice has been compared to Howlin’ Wolf, Eric Burdon of The Animals, Nathaniel Rateliff and Dave Van Ronk. The title track, “New World Blues,” is about natural disasters, built on a whirl of diminished chords in a “Greek rebetika meets blues” vein. Its anxious drumbeat is played by Aaron Frazer (Durand Jones & The Indications), and Foster sounds haunted by a 1920s Delta bluesman, singing while the world burns.
The second song, “Tell Old Bill,” is about the shock of profound loss. It is a traditional piece first published in Carl Sandburg’s The American Songbag (1927), later played by Dave Van Ronk, Roger McGuinn and Joni Mitchell. Foster turns it into a louder, ever-building revelation. The album’s reflective moments (“An Empty Glass’ Glee,” “Parade of Roses,” “Sound of Tears”) eventually explode, while “Be Mine” is a love song about the earth, wind and leaves offered to lovers. The album’s main themes are mortality, inequity, empathy for refugees, the effects of climate change and the venality of our time. “Black Friday Blues,” with its image of shovels on sale and plots bought on credit, is one example. The only other cover besides “Tell Old Bill” is Roosevelt Sykes’ “44 Blues” (made famous by Howlin’ Wolf as “Forty Four”). With drunken barroom piano, a Mike Bloomfield-style guitar arrangement and a syncopated backbeat, it turns the murder ballad into a werewolf howling at the moon. Tracklist: New World Blues; Tell Old Bill; An Empty Glass’ Glee; Be Mine; Angels Are Listening In; Black Friday Blues; Sound of Tears; Parade of Roses; 44 Blues; Suffer Little Children.
Tracklist:
01-01 Feral Foster - New World Blues [2:50]
01-02 Feral Foster - Tell Old Bill [5:12]
01-03 Feral Foster - An Empty Glass' Glee [4:32]
01-04 Feral Foster - Be Mine [2:13]
01-05 Feral Foster - Angels Are Listening In [3:48]
01-06 Feral Foster - Black Friday Blues [4:39]
01-07 Feral Foster - Sound of Tears [4:22]
01-08 Feral Foster - Parade of Roses [3:55]
01-09 Feral Foster - 44 Blues [4:04]
01-10 Feral Foster - Suffer Little Children [7:15]
Foster is rooted in blues and American folk, but his influences reach to the Near East and beyond. His voice has been compared to Howlin’ Wolf, Eric Burdon of The Animals, Nathaniel Rateliff and Dave Van Ronk. The title track, “New World Blues,” is about natural disasters, built on a whirl of diminished chords in a “Greek rebetika meets blues” vein. Its anxious drumbeat is played by Aaron Frazer (Durand Jones & The Indications), and Foster sounds haunted by a 1920s Delta bluesman, singing while the world burns.
The second song, “Tell Old Bill,” is about the shock of profound loss. It is a traditional piece first published in Carl Sandburg’s The American Songbag (1927), later played by Dave Van Ronk, Roger McGuinn and Joni Mitchell. Foster turns it into a louder, ever-building revelation. The album’s reflective moments (“An Empty Glass’ Glee,” “Parade of Roses,” “Sound of Tears”) eventually explode, while “Be Mine” is a love song about the earth, wind and leaves offered to lovers. The album’s main themes are mortality, inequity, empathy for refugees, the effects of climate change and the venality of our time. “Black Friday Blues,” with its image of shovels on sale and plots bought on credit, is one example. The only other cover besides “Tell Old Bill” is Roosevelt Sykes’ “44 Blues” (made famous by Howlin’ Wolf as “Forty Four”). With drunken barroom piano, a Mike Bloomfield-style guitar arrangement and a syncopated backbeat, it turns the murder ballad into a werewolf howling at the moon. Tracklist: New World Blues; Tell Old Bill; An Empty Glass’ Glee; Be Mine; Angels Are Listening In; Black Friday Blues; Sound of Tears; Parade of Roses; 44 Blues; Suffer Little Children.
Tracklist:
01-01 Feral Foster - New World Blues [2:50]
01-02 Feral Foster - Tell Old Bill [5:12]
01-03 Feral Foster - An Empty Glass' Glee [4:32]
01-04 Feral Foster - Be Mine [2:13]
01-05 Feral Foster - Angels Are Listening In [3:48]
01-06 Feral Foster - Black Friday Blues [4:39]
01-07 Feral Foster - Sound of Tears [4:22]
01-08 Feral Foster - Parade of Roses [3:55]
01-09 Feral Foster - 44 Blues [4:04]
01-10 Feral Foster - Suffer Little Children [7:15]
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