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September 7

• JERRY LEE LEWIS, Mean Old Man
• STEELDRIVERS, Reckless
• VARIOUS ARTISTS, Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band: Legacy

August 31

• RICHARD THOMPSON, Dream Attic (Shout Factory!)
• HEART, Red Velvet Car
• RYAN BINGHAM, Junky Star
• BOBBY BARE, JR., A Storm A Tree My Mother’s Head
• THE WEEPIES, Be My Thrill
• BILL FRISELL, Beautiful Dreamers

August 24

• JJ GREY, Georgia Warhorse
• MARTY STUART, Ghost Train (The Studio B Sessions)
• EELS, Tomorrow Morning
• NILS LOFGREN, I Came to Dance

August 17

• RAY LAMONTAGNE, God Willin’ & The Creek Don’t Rise
• JOHN MELLENCAMP, No Better Than This
• DAVID GRAY, Foundling
• MATTHEW DEAR, Black City

August 10

• ELI “PAPERBOY” REED, Come And Get It
• NEIL JUKEBOX YOUNG, Neil Young’s Jukebox
• BUCKCHERRY, All Night Long

August 3

• ARCADE FIRE, The Suburbs (Merge)
• LOS LOBOS, Tin Can Trust (Shout Factory!)
• BLACK CROWES, Croweology
• GOV’T MULE, Mulennium

July 27

• TOM JONES, Praise & Blame
• BUTCHER HOLLER AND EILEN JEWELL, Butcher Holler
• MARK OLSON, Many Colored Kite

July 20

• SHERYL CROW, 100 Miles From Memphis (A&M)
• BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA, Don’t Mess With A Big Band: Live
• BOB DYLAN, Folksingers Choice
• BIG HEAD TODD & THE MONSTERS, Rocksteady
• ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL, It’s a Good Day
• THE NATIONAL, Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
• CHARLIE LOUVIN, Hickory Wind: Live at the Gram Parsons Guitar Pull
• SHAWN COLVIN, Wichita Skyline
• FRONTIER RUCKUS, Deadmalls and Nightfalls

July 13

• CROWDED HOUSE, Intriguer (Fantasy)
• DANGER MOUSE AND SPARKEHORSE, Dark Night of the Soul (Capitol)
• ELIZA GILKYSON, JOHN GORKA, AND LUCY KAPLANSKY, Red Horse
• SUN KIL MOON, Admiral Fell Promises
• TIM O’BRIEN, Chicken & Egg
• THE INNOCENCE MISSION, My Room in the Trees
• TOMMY KEENE, Tommy Keene You Hear Me: A Retrospective 83-2009
• CHRIS SHIFLETT & THE DEAD PEASANTS, Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants
• CHATAM COUNTY LINE, Wildwood

July 6

• STONEHONEY, The Cedar Creek Sessions (Music Road Records)
• JIMMIE VAUGHAN, Jimmie Vaughan-Plays Blues, Ballads & Favorites
• ROBERT POLLARD, Moses on a Snail

June 29

• ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO, Street Songs of Love (Fantasy)
• INDIGO GIRLS, Staring Down the Brilliant Dream (Live)
• JACKIE GREENE, Till The Light Comes
• JOHN FOGERTY, Centerfield (25th Anniversary Edition)
• PETER CASE, Wig!

June 22

• DANZIG, Deth Red Sabaoth (Evilive)
• CYNDI LAUPER, Memphis Blues (Downtown)
• STARS, Five Ghosts (Vagrant)
• PAUL THORN, Pimps and Preachers (Thirty One Tigers)
• DEREK TRUCKS BAND, Roadsongs (Sony Legacy)
• VARIOUS ARTISTS, Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs Of John Prine
• ROBERT RANDOLPH & THE FAMILY BAND, We Walk This Road
• HERBIE HANCOCK, The Imagine Project
• SARAH HARMER, Oh Little Fire
• GRIFFIN HOUSE, The Learner
• ROBERT POLLARD, Moses on a Snail
• CONSTELLATIONS, Southern Gothic

June 15

• COWBOY JUNKIES, Remnin Park (Razor & Tie)
• GASLIGHT ANTHEM, American Slang (Side One Dummy)
• TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS, Mojo (Reprise)
• CHRIS ISAAK, Live at the Fillmore
• STEVE MILLER BAND, Bingo!
• SUZANNE VEGA, Close-Up Vol. 1, Love Songs
• COWBOY JUNKIES, Renmin Park
• PERNICE BROTHERS, Goodbye Killer
• FRED EAGLESMITH, Cha Cha Cha
• PUNCH BROTHERS, Antifogmatic
• FOXY SHAZAM, Foxy Shazam
• VIC CHESNUTT, About To Choke

June 8

• AGAINST ME!, White Crosses (Sire)
• BLITZEN TRAPPER, Destroyer of the Void (Sub Pop)
• CADILLAC SKY, Letters in the Deep (Dualtone)
• DEER TICK, Black Dirt Sessions (Partisan)
• DELTA SPIRIT, History From Below (Rounder)
• HANSON, Shout It Out (3CG)
• KRISTIN HERSH, Cats & Mice (Kitten Charmer)
• HOT HOT HEAT, Future Breeds (Dangerbird)
• JEWEL, Sweet and Wild (Valory)
• KAISER CARTEL, Secret Transit (Daniel)
• NADA SURF, If I Had a Hi-Fi (Mardev)
• GRACE POTTER AND THE NOCTURNALS, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals (Hollywood)
• TEENAGE FANCLUB, Shadows (Merge)
• THE FAREWELL DRIFTERS, Yellow Tag Mondays (Thirty Tigers)

June 1

• JACK JOHNSON, The Bride Screamed Murder (Universal Republic)
• TIFT MERRITT, See You On The Moon (Fantasy)
• CHERRYHOLMES, Cherryholmes IV Common Threads
• WATERMELON SLIM, Ringers
• BILL WITHERS, Justments

May 25

• BETH NIELSEN CHAPMAN, Back To Love
• DAMIEN JURADO, Saint Bartlett (Secretly Canadian)
• BETTYE LAVETTE, Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook
• JOHN PRINE, In Person & On Stage
• WIDESPREAD PANIC, Dirty Side Down (ATO)
• HANK WILLIAMS III, Rebel Within

May 18

• BAND OF HORSES, Infinite Arms
• BLACK KEYS, Brothers
• SUSAN COWSILL, Lighthouse
• CROOKED STILL, Some Strange Country
• BLACK FRANCIS, NonStopErotik (Cooking Vinyl)
• MARY GAUTHIER, The Foundling
• THE ROLLING STONES, Exile on Main Street (Remastered with bonus tracks)
• SADIES, Darker Circles (Yep Roc)
• JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION, Controversial Negro
• 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS, Headstone: Contact Sessions
• ANDRE WILLIAMS, That’s All I Need (Bloodshot)

May 11

• JACKSON BROWNE AND DAVID LINDLEY, Love Is Strange
• ELIZABETH COOK, Welder (TOTG)
• CRASH TEST DUMMIES, Oooh La La (Deep Fried)
• THE DEAD WEATHER, Sea of Cowards
• HARPER BLYNN, Loneliest Generation (Baby Jackal)
• JAYHAWKS, The Jayhawks (aka the Bunkhouse album) (Lost Highway)
• KEANE, Night Train (Cherrytree)
• JIM LAUDERDALE, Patchwork River
• THE NATIONAL, High Violet
• ELIZABETH COOK, Welder

May 4

• BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE, Forgiveness Rock Record (Arts And Crafts)
• JUSTIN CURRIE, The Great War (Ryko)
• FLAMING LIPS, Dark Side Of Moon (WAR)
• HOLD STEADY, Heaven Is Whenever
• CAROLE KING & JAMES TAYLOR, Live At The Troubadour
• GREG LASWELL, Take A Bow (Vanguard)
• NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, Together
• JOSH RITTER, So Runs The World Away (Pytheas)
• PAUL WELLER, Wake Up The Nation (Yep Roc)

April 27

• MELISSA ETHERIDGE, Fearless Love
• MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER, The Age of Miracles
• HOLE, Nobody’s Daughter
• PETER FRAMPTION, Thank You Mr Churchill
• JESSE MALIN & ST. MARKS SOCIAL, Love It to Life
• ANDERS OSBORNE, American Patchwork

April 20

• APPLES IN STEREO, Travellers In Space And Time
• AQUALUNG, Magnetic North (Verve)
• MERLE HAGGARD, I Am What I Am (Vanguard)
• JONNY LANG, Live at the Ryman (Concord)
• SHELBY LYNNE, Tears, Lies, And Alibis (Everso)
• WILLIE NELSON, Country Music (Rounder)
• OZOMATLI, Fire Away (Downtown)
• XAVIER RUDD, Koonyum Sun (Fontana North)
• SWEET APPLE, Love And Desperation (Tee Pee)
• RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu (Decca)
• INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS, Things That Fly
• LEGENDARY SHACK SHAKERS, Agridustrial (Colonel Knowledge)

April 13

• JEFF BECK, Emotion & Commotion (RAA)
• FOXY SHAZAM, Foxy Shazam (Sire)
• MATT POND PA, The Dark Leaves (MRI)
• STANTON MOORE, Groove Alchemy
• NATALIE MERCHANT, Leave Your Sleep (Nonesuch)
• MGMT, Congratulations
• CARRIE RODRIGUEZ, Love And Circumstance

April 6

• BODEANS, Mr. Sad Clown (Savoy)
• JOHN BUTLER TRIO, April Uprising (ATO)
• DR. DOG, Shame Shame (Anti-)
• JAKOB DYLAN, Women and Country (Columbia)
• SHARON JONES & THE DAP KINGS, I Learned the Hard Way (Daptone)
• MARTIN SEXTON, Sugarcoating (Kitchen Table)
• PETER WOLF, Midnight Souvenirs (Verve/UMe Records)
• ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND VENUS 3, Propellor Time (Dig)
• PIETA BROWN, One & All
• CARY BROTHERS, Under Control

March 30

• JOAN ARMATRADING, This Charming Life (Savoy)
• GRAHAM PARKER, Imaginary Television (Bloodshot)
• BLACK FRANCIS, Nonstoperotik

March 23

• THE RIGHT ONS, Look Inside, Now! (Q Division)
• ROADSIDE GRAVES, You Won’t Be Happy With Me EP (Autumn Tone)
• SHE AND HIM, Volume Two (Merge)
• THE BIRD AND THE BEE, Interpreting the Masters, Vol. 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall & John Oates
• WEAKERTHANS, Live at the Burton Cummings Theatre
• BRIGHT EYES & NEVA DINOVA, One Jug of Wine Two Vessels
• SONYA KITCHELL, Convict of Conviction (EP)

March 16

• DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, The Big To-Do (ATO)
• THE WHIGS, In the Dark (ATO)
• THE WHITE STRIPES, Under Great White Northern Lights
• POPA CHUBBY, The Fight Is On
• PETER KARP & SUE FOLEY, He Said She Said

March 9

• BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, Beat the Devil’s Tattoo (Abstract Dragon/Vagrant)
• THE CHIEFTAINS FEATURING RY COODER, San Patricio (Fantasy Records/Concord Music Group)
• JASON COLLETT, Rat A Tat Tat (Arts and Crafts)
• ALBERTA CROSS, Broken Side of Time (ATO)
• FRIGHTENED RABBIT, The Winter Of Mixed Drinks (Fat Cat)
• GORILLAZ, Plastic Beach (Virgin)
• BEN HARPER, Live From the Montreal Int’l Jazz Festival (Virgin)
• TED LEO, The Brutalist Bricks (Matador)
• THE MORNING BENDERS, Big Echo (Rough Trade)

March 2

• ROGUE WAVE, Permalight (Brushfire)
• THE WHIGS, In The Dark (ATO)
• PETER GABRIEL, Scratch My Back
• GREAT AMERICAN TAXI, Reckless Habits (GAT)
• JOHN HIATT, The Open Road (New West)
• JAMIE CULLUM, The Pursuit
• HOLMES BROTHERS, Feed My Soul
• SHOOTER JENNINGS & HIEROPHANT, Black Ribbons
• THE TEXAS TORNADOES, Esta Bueno

February 23

• DAVID BROZA, Night Dawn: The Unpublished Poetry of Townes Van Zandt (S Curve)
• JOHNNY CASH, American VI: Ain’t No Grave (American)
• DEADSTRING BROTHERS, Sao Paulo (Bloodshot)
• WILL KIMBROUGH, Wings (Daphne)
• BUTCH WALKER, I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart (One Haven)
• CLEM SNIDE, The Meat of Life
• ROCKY VOTOLATO, True Devotion

February 16

• JULIANA HATFIELD, Peace & Love (Ye Olde Records)
• JOE PUG, Messenger (Lightning Rod)
• PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND, Preservation: An Album To Benefit Preservation Hall & The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program
• CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS, Genuine Negro Jig
• MATTHEW RYAN, Dear Lover
• BEN SOLLEE & DANIEL MARTIN MOORE, Dear Companion
• BILL WITHERS, + ‘Justments
• JAMIE CULLUM, Devil May Care
• IKE REILLY, Hard Luck Stories
• ROBERT POLLARD, We All Got Out of the Army
• KASEY ANDERSON, Nowhere Nights
• BACKYARD TIRE FIRE, Good to Be

February 9

• ALLISON MOORER, Crows (Ryko)
• RECKLESS KELLY, Somewhere in Time (Yep Roc)
• WATSON TWINS, Talking To You, Talking To Me (Vanguard)
• DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, Live in Las Vegas
• HOT CHIP, One Life Stand
• CHRIS CAGLE, Best of Chris Cagle
• TIM BARRY, 28th & Stonewall

February 02

• VARIOUS ARTISTS, Dear John: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
• GLOSSARY, Feral Fire

January 26

• PATTY GRIFFIN, Downtown Church (Credential)
• SHURMAN, Still Waiting for the Sunset (Sustain/Universal Republic)
• LADY ANTEBELLUM, Need You Now
• BLUE RODEO, The Things We Left Behind

January 19

• DANNY BARNES, Pizza Box (ATO)
• EELS, End Times (Vagrant)
• SPOON, Transference (Merge)
• CRAZY HEART soundtrack (New West)

January 12

• RAY WYLIE HUBBARD, A. Enlightenment, B. Endarkment (Hint: There Is No C) (Bordello)
• FREEDY JOHNSTON, Rain on the City (Bar None)
• SONNY LANDRETH, Mississippi Blues (Varese Sarabande)
• OK GO, Of the Blue Color of the Sky (Capitol)
• VAMPIRE WEEKEND, Contra (XL)
• RINGO STARR, Y Not
• LAURA VEIRS, July Flame
• NICK CAVE AND WARREN ELLIS, The Road
• BROOKE FRASER, What to Do With Daylight
• RANDY KOHRS, Quicksand

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