Life is about options, and American Aquarium sit in the top spot this week with a way that has worked for them in “One Day at a Time” on the weekly Top Ten for Wednesday, May 22, 2018. Friends helped out in the studio on cuts this week, with a Sons of Bill featuring Molly Parden on “Easier” and John Wesley Harding backing a tune from his cover album, Greatest Other People’s Hits, with The Universal Thump on “Wah Wah”. Jeffrey Foucault has a new album (Blood Brothers) due on June 22, 2018, and he offers “War on the Radio” featuring Tift Merritt and Kenneth Pattengale, who is on this week’s chart with his band, The Milk Carton Kids, with a track from their upcoming (June 29, 2018) release with “Big Time”. The Pinkerton Raid sing of “Jefferson Davis Highway”, and Oliver the Crow scatter “Ashes for a Day Gone By” as Karen Jonas tells of “The Circus”. Jim Lauderdale will be releasing two albums on August 3, 2016, a re-issue and a new album, Time Flies, with the title track featured on the weekly Top Ten for Wednesday, May 23, 2018.

Filling the I-wanna-go-home role for a day out, Karen Jonas lists the reasons she is done with “The Circus”. The track is from Butter, the upcoming (June 2, 2018) release from Karen Jonas.