5 October 2026 – Lindsay Everly Finds Cosmic Country Glitter That Isn't Fool's Gold

Northern California singer-songwriter Lindsay Everly has announced new album Fool's Gold for November 13, an independently released collection that treats Americana less as a fenced-off genre than a particularly useful starting point. Produced by Gawain Mathews, the record moves through classic country, rock, pop, psychedelia and cosmic-country territory while circling ideas of intuition, self-worth and learning to recognise the difference between something genuinely valuable and something merely shiny.

The title track, released in September, demonstrates that flexibility particularly well by placing a classic country narrative over a disco-driven pulse. Next single "Rainbow of the Night" arrives October 20 and moves further into celestial and psychedelic territory. Everly's musical background helps explain the wide field of reference: she grew up in rural Wisconsin, learned piano on a neighbouring dairy farm, absorbed church music, country and classic rock, later studied music in Ghana and now works from Northern California.

Her current band, Lindsay Everly & The Evergreens, adds folk, alt-country, bluegrass and three-part harmonies to the picture. Fool's Gold will appear digitally, on streaming services and vinyl through Everly's independent operation. Country purists may wish to prepare the complaint forms. The disco beat has already escaped.