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The music · 2013–2024

Start with a song.

Shared voices, guitars, and the songs that carried the band. Listen, then follow the records back to the rooms where they were made.

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The debut and beyond.

Start with the shared voices and guitar interplay of the debut, then move to the latest studio album.

The debut · 2013

The Wild Feathers

The clearest introduction to the shared voices, measured builds, and guitar interplay that defined the band’s early sound.

Open the debut on Spotify ↗

Latest studio album · 2024

Sirens

Listen to the complete record through the band’s official Bandcamp catalog.

Open Sirens on Bandcamp ↗

Before the first record

Still unreleased. Already working.

The archive begins before the album covers and national television—with borrowed rooms, rehearsal nights, opening slots, and the vehicles that carried the songs.

The Wild Feathers' white Ford van and Route 66 trailer parked beside a large tour bus in Duluth, Georgia.
December 2, 2011 · The Arena at Gwinnett Center, Duluth, Georgia · Photograph by the founding guitarist. Publication permission documented by rights owner.
5
confirmed Paul Simon support dates in six days
319
dated road entries from 2013–2014
410
performance listings preserved with evidence status

The road was the work

The work between the songs.

Load in. Wait. Play. Drive. Sleep where you could. Do it again. Small rooms became theaters, festivals, television stages, buses, and flights. The scale changed. The work did not.

5studio albums
8documented releases
95tracks indexed
2013–2024release span
  1. 01
    Studio album
    Cover artwork for The Wild Feathers
    Warner Bros. Records album artwork; full design credit not yet attached
    Artwork note

    Publication permission not documented; separate artwork clearance remains under review.

    The Wild Feathers

    The band’s full-length debut established its four-voice, guitar-led sound and reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart.

    Label
    Warner Bros. Records
    Producer
    Jay Joyce
    Tracks
    12
    View track listing
    1. Backwoods Company
    2. American
    3. I Can Have You
    4. Tall Boots
    5. The Ceiling
    6. Left My Woman
    7. I’m Alive
    8. Hard Wind
    9. If You Don’t Love Me
    10. Hard Times
    11. Got It Wrong
    12. How
    2 sources · verified
    The Wild Feathers — Warner Music Japan · Live at the Ryman — Warner Bros. sell sheet
  2. 02
    Studio album
    Cover artwork for Lonely Is a Lifetime
    Warner Bros. Records album artwork; full design credit not yet attached
    Artwork note

    Publication permission not documented; separate artwork clearance remains under review.

    Lonely Is a Lifetime

    The second album widened the band’s palette while retaining the shared lead-vocal identity at the center of its sound.

    Label
    Warner Bros. Records
    Producer
    Jay Joyce
    Tracks
    11
    View track listing
    1. Overnight
    2. Sleepers
    3. Goodbye Song
    4. Don’t Ask Me to Change
    5. Happy Again
    6. Leave Your Light On
    7. Help Me Out
    8. Lonely Is a Lifetime
    9. On My Way
    10. Into the Sun
    11. Hallelujah
    2 sources · verified
    Lonely Is a Lifetime · Nashville Rockers The Wild Feathers Re-team With Jay Joyce
  3. 03
    Live album
    Cover artwork for Live at the Ryman
    Warner Bros. Records album artwork; full design credit not yet attached
    Artwork note

    Publication permission not documented; separate artwork clearance remains under review.

    Live at the Ryman

    The first official live album documents the sold-out June 25, 2016 homecoming at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, the final date of the Lonely Is a Lifetime tour.

    Label
    Warner Bros. Records
    Producer
    Not listed in source
    Tracks
    17

    Two-disc release; recorded June 25, 2016.

    View track listing
    1. Help Me Out
    2. Overnight
    3. Backwoods Company
    4. If You Don’t Love Me
    5. Don’t Ask Me to Change
    6. Got It Wrong
    7. Hard Times
    8. Sleepers
    9. Goodbye Song
    10. Into the Sun
    11. Happy Again
    12. Left My Woman
    13. American
    14. Lonely Is a Lifetime
    15. How
    16. The Ceiling
    17. Hard Wind
    1 source · verified
    Live at the Ryman — Warner Bros. sell sheet
  4. 04
    Studio album
    Cover artwork for Greetings from the Neon Frontier
    Reprise Records album artwork; full design credit not yet attached
    Artwork note

    Publication permission not documented; separate artwork clearance remains under review.

    Greetings from the Neon Frontier

    The third studio album brought the band’s country-rock influences forward and reunited the group with producer Jay Joyce.

    Label
    Reprise Records
    Producer
    Jay Joyce
    Tracks
    10
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    1. Quittin’ Time
    2. Wildfire
    3. Stand By You
    4. No Man’s Land
    5. Two Broken Hearts
    6. Golden Days
    7. Big Sky
    8. Hold Onto Love
    9. Every Morning I Quit Drinkin’
    10. Daybreaker (Into the Great Unknown)
    2 sources · verified
    The Wild Feathers Return With New Album Greetings from the Neon Frontier · Greetings from the Neon Frontier
  5. 05
    Archive collection
    Cover artwork for Medium Rarities
    The Wild Feathers / New West Records album artwork; full design credit not yet attached
    Artwork note

    Publication permission not documented; separate artwork clearance remains under review.

    Medium Rarities

    Eleven B-sides, covers, demos, and previously unreleased recordings drawn from the band’s first decade.

    Label
    Independent; later New West Records
    Producer
    The Wild Feathers, Jay Joyce, and Dave Cobb
    Tracks
    11

    First documented as an independent release on November 20, 2020; the current New West edition is dated October 21, 2022.

    View track listing
    1. Blue
    2. Heartbreak
    3. Marie
    4. Almost Cut My Hair
    5. Fire
    6. Goodnight
    7. My Truth
    8. To Be Gone
    9. Lose Yourself
    10. Guitar Man
    11. After the Bottle’s Gone
    2 sources · verified
    The MusicRow Weekly — November 20, 2020 · Medium Rarities
  6. 06
    Studio album
    Cover artwork for Alvarado
    New West Records album artwork; full design credit not yet attached
    Artwork note

    Publication permission not documented; separate artwork clearance remains under review.

    Alvarado

    Recorded largely in a VanLeer, Tennessee cabin, the self-produced fourth studio album marked the band’s New West debut.

    Label
    New West Records
    Producer
    The Wild Feathers
    Tracks
    12
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    1. Alvarado
    2. Ain’t Lookin’
    3. Over the Edge
    4. Side Street Shakedown
    5. Out on the Road
    6. Get Out of My Own Way
    7. Off Your Shoulders
    8. Long Shot
    9. Top of the World
    10. Flashback
    11. Midway Motel
    12. Another Sunny Day
    2 sources · verified
    Alvarado · The Wild Feathers — Alvarado
  7. 07
    Acoustic re-recording
    Cover artwork for The Wild Feathers (Acoustic)
    The Wild Feathers / New West catalog artwork; full design credit not yet attached
    Artwork note

    Publication permission not documented; separate artwork clearance remains under review.

    The Wild Feathers (Acoustic)

    A ten-year anniversary return to the debut album, re-recorded as a complete twelve-song acoustic set.

    Label
    New West catalog
    Producer
    Not listed in source
    Tracks
    12

    Re-recording, not a sixth studio album of new material.

    View track listing
    1. Backwoods Company (Acoustic)
    2. American (Acoustic)
    3. I Can Have You (Acoustic)
    4. Tall Boots (Acoustic)
    5. The Ceiling (Acoustic)
    6. Left My Woman (Acoustic)
    7. I’m Alive (Acoustic)
    8. Hard Wind (Acoustic)
    9. If You Don’t Love Me (Acoustic)
    10. Hard Times (Acoustic)
    11. Got It Wrong (Acoustic)
    12. How (Acoustic)
    1 source · verified
    The Wild Feathers (Acoustic)
  8. 08
    Studio album
    Cover artwork for Sirens
    New West Records album artwork; full design credit not yet attached
    Artwork note

    Publication permission not documented; separate artwork clearance remains under review.

    Sirens

    The fifth studio album was recorded at Dave’s Room in North Hollywood and places road-worn narratives inside a broad American rock vocabulary.

    Label
    New West Records
    Producer
    Shooter Jennings
    Tracks
    10
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    1. Stereo
    2. Pretending
    3. Sanctuary
    4. L.A. Makes Me Sad
    5. Slow Down
    6. Comedown
    7. Don’t Know
    8. Rendezvous
    9. Sleep For Days
    10. Giving Up
    2 sources · verified
    Sirens · The Wild Feathers — Sirens

How the records were made

The catalog has a working life behind it.

Making the debut with Jay JoyceSmoke, Feedback, and Brutal HonestyA plain email, an unfinished agreement, a search for a working scanner, and a basement full of decisive performances reveal how the first record was actually made.The second album and a lineup changeThe Second Record and the DepartureThe music continued through a difficult transition. The record documents the work and the date the lineup changed; the most personal circumstances remain private.