Hustle Souls - Scrape & Scramble

Hustle Souls – Scrape & Scramble
LE 100
HWF Exclusive Frog Legs colored vinyl
 
This is a pre-order to ship in October 2026 and any items purchased with this pre-order will ship in October 2026.

HWF’s exploration of Asheville, NC artists in 2026 continue with Hustle Souls. For years, the 5-piece has orbited three core sonic worlds. Finally, they have landed. Retro-inspired Southern soul in the lineage of Muscle Shoals and Stax, New Orleans brass band rhythms and second-line grooves inspired by Allen Toussaint, Little Feat, and Trombone Shorty, and roots-forward Americana songwriting in the spirit of The Wood Brothers, Todd Snider, and Justin Townes Earle.

 On their new full-length LP Scrape and Scramble, Asheville, NC’s Hustle Souls deliver their most vibrant, playful, and soul-stirring work to date while also digging deeper than ever into vulnerability and hard learned truth.  Scrape and Scramble is their most horn-driven album yet. Infectious street-party rhythms and a booming sousaphone backbone track like “Fine Line Tight Rope,” “Brass Is Metal,” and “Abigail.”
 
But the album’s heart lies in its contrast.

On more intimate cuts, the horns step aside, making room for pedal steel, stripped-down arrangements, and deeply personal songwriting. The title track, “Scrape and Scramble,” leans into themes of perseverance and grit, while “West Virginia Bathroom” a tongue-in-cheek yet surprisingly poignant gem proves that inspiration can strike anywhere.

The result is a record that feels both celebratory and grounded, joyful without ignoring the struggle, and polished without losing its grit.

The bands first single “Clementine” a Muscle Shoals inspired track about the sense of fufillment in becoming a a father, releases on June 19th 2026 with all 10 songs to be released later in the year on vinyl, CD and digitally.

Scrape and Scramble finds Hustle Souls at their most cohesive, most confident, and maybe most importantly, their most excited. It’s a band fully embracing what they do best, and having a hell of a time doing it.