James Talley has released two new projects available exclusively as custom CD's and downloads from his website. The collections are entitled "Journey: The Second Voyage", and "Heartsong", which features fifteen new James Talley compositions.

Here are James' own comments regarding these two new releases:

"When we released Journey in 2004, we almost had enough songs left from those Italian concerts to release a second CD of the live shows. I went to Texas in 2005 and mixed and edited the remaining songs with Tommy Detamore at his Cherry Ridge Studio near San Antonio. To add something new to the original recordings, I gathered some of the same players with whom I had recorded in Italy and cut several new songs, which were added to the original recordings. In addition, I added Tommy Detamore on steel guitar and Bobby Flores on fiddle to the entire compilation. If the money had been available for the extra players in Italy originally, they all would have been on the first "Journey" CD. I guess this is the way I "wish" the recordings would have sounded - although I am still quite pleased with the sparseness of the first "Journey" CD with only four players. It creates a seamless live recording which I hope my listeners will find enjoyable and musically interesting."

Although both "Journey" and "Journey: The Second Voyage" each contain five new songs, I had not released a whole CD's worth of new material since Nashville City Blues in 2000. I decided it was time for a new studio collection and I had many new songs I really wanted to share, so this past December (2007) I went to Texas and recorded several new songs and finished several others I had started earlier in Nashville. The result is the Heartsong collection. These recordings contain the same basic group of players I have used in both Nashville and Texas since I recorded Touchstones in 2001. If you have any of the earlier CDs, you know the heart and soul that all these players bring to framing my songs. The only old song here is my re-recording of "She's The One," which inspired Moby's re-write of the song as "Evening Rain" in 2003. His version was in the movie, Daredevil, starring Ben Affleck. I thought new listeners might enjoy hearing my updated version of this song. These songs, as are all my songs from the earliest days of my career, are about America and ordinary working people - their struggle, faith and love. There is no varnish here; this is real life."

"Thanks to all of you who have purchased my music in the past and those of you who have come to one of my performances. You are all sincerely appreciated."

- James Talley, 2008, Nashville