It's the last week of summer yet it feels like the fall release schedule is upon us as high profile releases are starting to rapidly appear on store shelves.  Darius Rucker, Kristy Lee Cook, Eric Durrance, Eli Young Band and Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicolson are out of the gates this week.

Rattlin’ Bones, the new album from Kasey Chambers and her husband Shane Nicholson is a quite reminder of how good a country album can be when it is stripped back to its purist and most simple form.   Rootsy, almost bluegrass, instrumentation permeates the entire release giving it an Appalachian feel that is accentuated by an abundance of minor key ballads.

Here's a track from Shane Nicholson's last album "Faith & Sound." Nicholson is the husband of Aussie country star Kasey Chambers.  They've recently recorded a duets album and it's set to be released by Sugar Hill in early September of 2008.