Nashville guitarist and songwriter Kevin Coleman celebrates the belated release of KC Blues, his new album out via Centripetal Force and Ramble Records.

Recorded over two years in bedrooms, basements, and home setups around Nashville, KC Blues pulls from the country blues and folk recordings that first inspired Coleman to play guitar, then pushes them somewhere stranger. Banjo, fiddle, lap steel, jaw harp, organ, field recordings, wine glasses, gopichand, and plenty of improvisation find their way into a record that favors feel and spontaneity over polish.

The album grew increasingly collaborative along the way, with Trevor Nikrant (Styrofoam Winos, MJ Lenderman, Ryan Davis’s Roadhouse Band) playing a central role alongside Tommy Stangroom, J.W. Bird, John Fernandes, and others. What began as Coleman reckoning with the particularly unsettled atmosphere of 2024 gradually turned inward, leaving behind six songs full of exhaustion, uncertainty, humor, and restless experimentation.

Come celebrate KC Blues a little later than planned, which somehow feels appropriate for a record shaped by broken equipment, scheduling conflicts, happy accidents, and following a good idea wherever it leads.