BONUS TRACKS: 39 Bob Dylan CDs, New Anti-ICE Compilation, and More Roots Music News

Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings announced a massive new Bob Dylan box set titled The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1976 Live Recordings due out November 6. Distributed via 39 CDs, the 371 tracks that have never been head on recordings before from 19 shows, mostly across the southern states.

A vinyl edition, featuring three LPs, will also be released that includes the entirety of the Fort Worth, Texas show from May 16, 1976. A single from that gig is available now.

A new protest compilation album title Contra-ICE Vol. 1: ICE OUT is out today via SoundsGood Records. While not specifically a roots music release, it does feature artists No Depression has covered, like Tom Morello, Adrian Quesada, and Orquestra Pacifico Tropical. The album's 47 tracks are now available via digital download, CD, and an extremely limited quantities of vinyl. Proceeds from the benefit album and accompanying release show (which takes place tomorrow at La Cita in Los Angeles) will directly fund frontline powerhouses, including the National Day Laborer Organizing Network and Unión del Barrio to defend labor rights and protect community-built wealth.

Lalo Alcaraz, the artistic director and cartoonist for Contra-ICE, stated in a press release:

Artists, musicians, performers, and decent people from all walks of life are pushing back against the authoritarianism we are feeling in our own country. Contra-ICE is one expression of that. Through art, humor, and creativity, we are using free expression to remind people what is at stake and to show how culture itself can be a form of resistance.

Tompkins Square Records announced a new archival collection featuring the works of New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton. The two-CD set will include 53 tracks, which were transferred and restored from the original 78rpm records, as well as an 80-page booklet with liner notes and history. The compilation is due out November 6.

To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Free Dirt Records will release a compilation album on November 6 featuring 12 previously unreleased tracks. The Long Memory: 20 Years of Free Dirt Records will feature artists on the label and alumni including Willi Carlisle, Cinder Well, Kaia Kater, Viv & Riley, Nathan Evans Fox, The Wilders, and Liv Greene.

Michael Hurley's debut LP will get the reissue treatment via Smithsonian Folkways. First Songs originally came out in 1964 and the re-release is due out November 6. Illustrator Drew Christie, whose work often graced the inside front and back covers of No Depression, did the animation for "The Werewolf Song."

WHAT WE'RE LISTENING TO

Marisa Anderson - Cloud Corner
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Opus
Spanish Love Songs - "Good American"
Father John Misty - "The X-panded Universe"

NEW RELEASES - 10/2/26

Stef Chura - Dancing Alone on the Concrete
Paula Fong - A Bird on the Wing
Greg Freeman - All Set The Bone
Allison de Groot and Rich Ruth - Allison de Groot and Rich Ruth
Wynonna Judd - The Hard Truth
Celeste Krishna - The New Room
Miranda Lambert - Crisco
John Leventhal - National Drift
Travis McKeveny & The Famous Doctor Scanlon Band - From Dublin To Duluth
David Miner - West Texas Stars
Meshell Ndegeocello - Synonym
Rising Appalachia - Trade My Troubles
Lily Seabird - Lightspheres on Their Way [Digital Release]
The Suitcase Junket - To Go On
Susanne Sundfør - Revelations Of Divine Love
Libby Weitnauer - Freehand

COMING SOON - 10/9/26

Mary Bragg - Secrets to Strangers
Burnett Sisters Band - Easy Come, Easy Go
Margo Cilker - Little White Cross
Laura Cortese - Lucky Water
Sheryl Crow - Pick You Up
Levi Foster - Appalachian Funk Tree
Brody Price - Leaf Miner's Daughter
John Prine - Found Dogs
Jacob Sharp - Middle Kid
Todd Snider - My Second Rodeo
Talking Hearts - Memory Lane
The Tallest Man On Earth - Just Beyond Endless Mountain
The Texas Headhunters - Rise and Shine
Jess Williamson - A Mile South of Heaven