Ian Noe has announced the release of his third studio album, Canyon Falls Trailer Band, on 25th September 2026 via Thirty Tigers. Canyon Falls Trailer Band is a 16-song concept album drawing on sounds from folk-rock to country which imagines a legendary fictional band who perform for one night only as a showcase seeking industry approval. The imaginary band explored a disparate range of genres in an attempt to entice the music industry, their fate being unknown, but their unforgettable performance remains the stuff of music legend.
Recorded with longtime collaborator Andrija Tokić at Nashville’s The Bomb Shelter, the majority of the album was tracked live during an intensive week of recording before months of overdubs and mixing added texture without sacrificing the live sound they were looking to capture. The album features a cast of real musicians, including Charlie McCoy on harmonica, fiddler Billy Contreras, and pedal steel virtuoso Russ Pahl.
The record is described as “a natural conclusion to a body of work that began with his debut Between the Country”. “It feels like the parent or maybe the grandparent of the first two records,” Noe says. “Once it was finished, I realised it brought together everything I’d been writing about over the last seven or eight years.” You can pre-save / pre-order Canyon Falls Trailer Band here.
Noe has released a new single from the album, The Heidelberg Fisherman’s Ball, a celebration set at an Eastern Kentucky fishing gathering and marks a pivotal moment in Noe’s creative process. Noe was struggling through a rut, ruminating on similar, minor-chord songs he wasn’t happy with, and a YouTube clip of songwriter Craig Wiseman provided inspiration. The central storytelling scene of the album draws on Wiseman’s philosophy of letting ideas flow without overthinking them.
“This is simply the story of a fisherman’s gathering down by the riverside where the various women of Heidelberg present themselves like a date auction and try to find a mate. That is the Heidelberg Fisherman’s Ball,” explains Noe.
