The Long Ryders announce brand-new album High Noon Hymns

The Long Ryders announce brand-new album High Noon Hymns

Release date: 13 March 2026
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​Seminal Americana pioneers The Long Ryders return with High Noon Hymns, their powerful new studio album and the follow-up to the critically acclaimed September November.
 
Produced by longtime collaborator Ed Stasium - famed for his historic work with the Ramones and previous Long Ryders albums - High Noon Hymns captures the band at their most assured, distilling decades of songwriting craft into a collection that is both reflective and forward-looking. Stasium’s résumé also includes classic recordings by the Smithereens, Soul Asylum, Motörhead, Marshall Crenshaw, Living Colour, the Hoodoo Gurus and Julian Cope.
 
Founding member Sid Griffin describes the album as “two thirds the distilled alt-country genre we helped found back in the 1980s, one third Paisley Underground adventurism, with a dash of our own crazed soulfulness thrown in.” That balance is evident throughout High Noon Hymns, where melodic immediacy meets lyrical depth across fourteen new songs.
 
Following the passing of beloved bassist Tom Stevens, bass duties on High Noon Hymns are shared by Murry Hammond of Americana stalwarts Old 97s, alongside Long Ryders guitarist Stephen McCarthy, who also performs live with The Jayhawks and records with Dream Syndicate. Guest appearances include DJ Bonebrake of punk legends X on vibes, and bluegrass prodigy Wyatt Ellis on mandolin.
 
Recorded at Kozy Tone Studios in sunny Poway, California, High Noon Hymns is a statement of continuity and resilience - a modern Long Ryders album rooted in the spirit that first defined them, yet shaped by experience, loss and renewal.
 
Formed in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, The Long Ryders helped lay the foundations of what would later become known as alternative country, blending the influences of Gram Parsons, The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and punk rock energy into a sound that pre-dated the movement by nearly a decade. Their 1984 debut Native Sons was hailed by Rolling Stone as an album “where Nashville, ’77 London and the mid-60s Sunset Strip converge,” and their influence continues to echo across Americana and roots-rock scenes today.

​High Noon Hymns is available from 13 March 2026 on CD and double vinyl.

Side One
1.    Four Winters Away
2.    World Without Fear
3.    Stand A Little Further In The Fire
4.    Ramona
Side Two
1.    (How How How) How Do You Wanna Be Loved?
2.    Knoxville On The Line
3.    A Hymn For The City Of Angels
Side Three
1.    Down To The Well
2.    Wanted Man In Arkansas
3.    A Belief In Birds
Side Four
1.    Rain In Your Eyes
2.    Say Goodbye To Crying
3.    Forever Young​