{"product_id":"dont_let_it_die_vol_1","title":"Don't Let It Die Vol. 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eDon't Let It Die: Vol. 1 is a covers album by New Orleans five-piece The Deslondes, released May 22, 2026 on New West Records and produced by John James Tourville, Ajaï Combelic, and the band themselves. Recorded live to analog tape in New Orleans, the twelve-track collection steps away from the band's usual original songwriting to present interpretations of songs that have shaped their sound and community — drawing equally from celebrated predecessors and from lesser-known contemporaries who share their world of train-hopping, tour-van Americana. As the band described it on their website, the project \"maps out a community of likeminded musicians given to hopping trains, crowding tour vans, and blurring the lines between styles and scenes.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tracklist moves across a wide range of American vernacular music, covering Swamp Dogg (\"The World Beyond\"), Johnny Cash (\"The Ballad of Boot Hill\"), Clifton Chenier (\"I'm Coming Home\"), Shelby Lynne (\"Where I'm From\"), and Edgar Blanchard (\"Lawdy Mama\"), alongside material from friends and tourmates including Nick Woods, Pat Reedy, the Kernel, and Kiki Cavazos. The album closes with the title track, a cover of Hurricane Smith's \"Don't Let It Die,\" which anchors the record's central thesis. Cover Me observed that the selections are \"deep cuts that would credit the deepest of crate diggers,\" and that the album \"could easily pass as all their own work\" — a testament to how thoroughly the band has absorbed these influences into their own New Orleans country-funk idiom. One Kind Radio highlighted the band's \"beautifully democratic group dynamic in which lead vocal and arrangement duties are naturally shared among members,\" a quality that gives the record the feel of a communal celebration rather than a conventional tribute project.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl \/ Album","offer_id":53620291502394,"sku":"38454","price":40.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD \/ Album","offer_id":53620291535162,"sku":"38455","price":22.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Vinyl \/ Album - Indie Excl. White Vinyl","offer_id":53620291600698,"sku":"38456","price":40.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-06-17_at_9.06.29_PM.jpeg?v=1781744937","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/dont_let_it_die_vol_1","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}