The Starting 5:
• The Beaches, 'No Hard Feelings'
• The Beths, 'Straight Line Was A Lie'
• Margo Price, 'Hard Headed Woman'
• Rodney Crowell, 'Airline Highway'
• Anna Tivel, 'Animal Poem'
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The Lightning Round:
• Blood Orange, 'Essex Honey'
• Jaelee Roberts, 'Let Me Be Lonely'
• Brad Mehldau, 'Ride Into the Sun'
• CMAT, 'EURO-COUNTRY'
• Tiwa Savage, 'This One Is Personal'
See the long list of albums out Aug. 29 and sample dozens of them via our New Music Friday playlist on npr.org.
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