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Wilson, who palled around with Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Kris Kristofferson, and other “outlaw country” artists in the ’70s, put his funky stamp on that burgeoning movement, then quietly disappeared from Nashville.

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She might be Hank’s granddaughter, but Holly Williams doesn’t let the lovesick blues get her down on this twangy-yet-smooth sophomore effort.

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Biological maturation has yet to provide guitarist Ivan and bassist Ada (ages 15 and 13, respectively) with vocals that don’t incur Kidz Bop comparisons, but there’s a compelling difference: When these young’uns sing, they ain’t smiling.

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Sometimes pigeonholed as a bluesman, Otis Taylor can’t be defined by any single category. The follow-up to an album celebrating the African roots of the banjo, Pentatonic Wars is a sprawling folk and jazz set featuring everything from cornet to cello to djembe drums as backing for Taylor’s resilient rasp.

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For Fox News and likely many Americans, Syrian pop star Omar Souleyman’s mere visage -- turbaned, sunglassed, and mustachioed -- would probably strike terror. And yet belying such surfaces, Souleyman likes to party hard, rock out, and pine for lost love.

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In case the 2007 song title “Tits & Acid” wasn’t warning enough, Simian Mobile Disco’s second-album moniker should drive home the electro duo’s nobly sleazy goal. Regardless of which indie celeb is on the mic or which recreational drug best suits the beat, each track hints at hedonism without hangovers.