Montana-raised, Los Angeles-based Americana duo Joselyn & Don have announced the release of their third studio album, Lost & Found Highway, their first full-length project recorded beyond the pandemic period. Arriving on October 3, 2025, it was co-produced by Graham Richman and Don Barrozo, and the album features contributions from Greg Leisz (pedal steel), Bob Glaub (bass), Mauricio “Fritz” Lewak (drums), and guest vocalists Chris Pierce, Cristina Vane, and Abby Posner.
Blending Laurel Canyon Folk, Soul, Alt-Country, and Americana elements, Lost & Found Highway
“explores what we leave behind, what we gain, and the spaces in between.” The album moves through themes of “memory, change, connection, and rediscovery.”
Joselyn Wilkinson, who is also the founder of the global fusion band ADAAWE, shares about the upcoming album:
This record is about the moments between milestones. It’s for anyone who’s stared out a car window and wondered how they got here, and where they’re headed next.
Today, we’re very pleased to premier a new track from Lost & Found Highway, here on Wildfire Music + News, “Workin’ the Hi-Line”, which will be released August 22nd, 2025. The new track features a Folk arrangement, and honors Don’s father, Paul Barrozo, a Filipino immigrant who built a life and legacy in Montana after arriving in the U.S. in 1929. The duo feels that this song, particularly, has resonance right now in this country’s dialog about immigration.
“Workin’ the Hi-Line” is a very emotionally moving song whether or not your family has a recent history of immigration. While you’d think that any American would be gripped by the emotion of an immigrant’s story, this song makes sure, through its details and personal narrative, that you can’t forget this particular family’s story easily. Something about the careful craftsmanship of the song, where not a second is wasted, helps convey the intensity of the message and mood, while also suggesting the importance of the song to Joselyn & Don. The interweaving Folk elements hint, in their robust motion, at the ways in which time moves on, and life continues to push ahead, even in the most challenging circumstances.
Duet vocals throughout give the song extra energy and emotional range, reinforcing the idea that changing your country of residence and digging deep to support yourself in a new land is never a story about just one person. There are often whole families affected by arrival in a new country and those left behind in a previous one, and those emotional ties continue to affect an immigrant’s experience. The story that the song tells also anchors the audience in a particular geography and in the physicality of the labor that the narrator took part in and witnessed. We’ve got the sweep of the West to the Pacific Northwest, and also the duo’s own beloved Montana. Ideas of home and ideas of belonging move in and out of the story, built on decisions made that are fateful, and commitments made to a new way of life. The whole song casts these figures against the “big sky” of Montana in sharp definition and carries the pathos of their experience, but also provides a little room for reflection and acceptance of the inherent difficulty of their experiences.
Humanizing immigration is obviously a very important thing right now, rather than allowing it to be used purely as a catchword or an abstract idea by those who have their own agendas to push. This song does, indeed, do an excellent job of reminding us how this country was actually built and of the privations and difficulties that people undertake in order to make a home here. The story told in “Workin’ the Hi-Line” is recognizably similar to the experiences immigrants continue to encounter today.
Joselyn says about the song, which they started working on after she wrote the chorus:
Don wrote the verses in one sitting. It just poured out, a beautiful tribute to his father’s journey and the emotional truth of choosing to stay in a place where you can build a life, even if it means never seeing your family again.
For this song, solo artist, and frequent Ben Harper collaborator, Tom Freund joins on the upright bass, along with pedal steel from Greg Leisz.
Following their debut album Soar (2020) and EP Seeds & Bones (2022), Lost & Found Highway continues Joselyn & Don’s exploration of introspective songwriting, fingerpicked guitar, and emotive vocals. The new songs are also grounded by the rhythm section of Lewak and Glaub who are known for their longtime work with Jackson Browne.
Don Barrozo, who is also a veteran TV editor for The Simpsons and a former member of world champion drum corps, The Blue Devils, says about the sonic direction of the new album:
We’ve always been rooted in acoustic music. But this time, we widened our sonic lens. Graham [Richman] encouraged us to stretch stylistically, adding strings, layered guitars, even horns. It’s still us, but fuller and freer.
Recent years have seen Joselyn & Don performing at the Montana Performing Arts Consortium, FAR-West Folk Alliance, and venues like ASU Kerr Cultural Center, Grand Annex, and Hotel Café. Their music has charted on Roots Music Report and the Americana Music Association’s Top 100.
