Red Sammy celebrates the release of their third album, These Poems With Kerosene. The record is full of the ragged Americana glory of songwriter Adam Trice’s (pictured) lyrics and melodies. Trice is one of those songwriters who takes his word-smithery seriously—no “doo-wops” and “yeah babies” for this guy—and on this album he and his band team up with Steve Matanle, a poet and University of Baltimore professor with whom Trice shares a post-Beat, Tom Waits-ish sensibility. (Baynard Woods)