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2009 Release Calendar Archive

December 9

  • JIMMY BUFFETT, Buffet Hotel (Mailboat)
  • NEIL YOUNG, Dreamin’ Man Live ’92 (WEA)
  • JOHN MAYALL & THE BLUESBREAKERS, Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton (Decca)
  • JON DEE GRAHAM & THE FIGHTING COCKS, It’s Not As Bad As It Looks (Freedom)

November 24

  • IKE REILLY, Hard Luck Stories
  • TOM WAITS, Glitter and Doom (live) (Anti)
  • TOWNES VAN ZANDT, In The Beginning (Fat Possum)

November 17

  • NORAH JONES, The Fall (Blue Note)
  • PAUL McCARTNEY, Good Evening New York City (Hear Music)
  • JOHN MAYER, Battle Studies (Sony)

November 10

  • TORI AMOS, Midwinter Graces (Universal Republic)
  • BLACK REBE MOTORCYCLE CLUB, Live (Vagrant)
  • ROBYN HITCHCOCK, I Often Dream of Trains in New York (Yep Roc)
  • RICKIE LEE JONES, Balm in Gilead (Fantasy)
  • RAY DAVIES & THE CROUCH END FESTIVAL CHORUS, The Kinks Choral Collection (Decca)

November 3

  • THE SWIMMERS, People Are Soft (Mad Dragon)
  • WEEZER, Raditude (Geffen)
  • MORRISSEY, Swords (Ume)

October 27

  • THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA, Duets (Time Life)
  • ROSIE FLORES, Girl of the Century (Bloodshot)
  • GOV’T MULE, By A Thread (Evil Teen)
  • HEM, Twelfth Night (Nettwerk)
  • JACK JOHNSON, En Concert (Brushfire)
  • B.B. KING, The Four Kings of Blues Guitar (Great American Music)
  • LOS LOBOS, Los Lobos Goes Disney
  • MORNINGWOOD, Diamonds and Studs (Morningwood)
  • THE MOTHER HIPS, Pacific Dust
  • CHUCK PROPHET, Let Freedom Ring (Yep Roc)
  • R.E.M., Live At The Olympia
  • CARLY SIMON, Never Been Gone (Iris)
  • SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS, Lost At Sea
  • STEPHEN STILLS, Live At Shepherds Bush
  • STING, If On A Winter’s Night… (Deutsche Grammophon)
  • THE SWELL SEASON, Strict Joy by (Anti)
  • TEGAN AND SARA, Sainthood
  • WOLFMOTHER, Cosmic Egg by (Interscope)
  • WRINKLE NECK MULES, Let The Lead Fly (Lower 40)

October 20

  • SAM BUSH, Circles Around Me (Sugarhill)
  • JAY FARRAR/BEN GIBBARD, One Fast Move Or I’m Gone: Music From Kerouac’s Big Sur (Atlantic)
  • LYLE LOVETT, Natural Forces (Universal Nashville)
  • ELVIS PERKINS, The Doomsday (Beggars Xl)
  • TIMOTHY SCHMIT, Expanded (Lost Highway)
  • SNOW PATROL, Late Night Tales (LTN)
  • SUFJAN STEVENS, The BQE (Asthmatic Kitty)

October 13

  • BOB DYLAN, Christmas In the Heart (Sony)
  • THE FLAMING LIPS, Embryonic (WEA/Reprise)
  • SUGARLAND, Gold and Green (Mercury Nashville)
  • NEIL DIAMOND, A Cherry Cherry Christmas (Columbia)
  • JAMES MCMURTRY, Live in Europe (Lightning Rod)
  • LOS LONELY BOYS, 1969 (R.E.D. Distribution)
  • BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA, Songs from Lonely Avenue (Surfdog)
  • ERIN MCKEOWN, Hundreds of Lions (Righteous Babe)
  • GRANT LEE PHILLIPS, Little Moon (Yep Roc)
  • LINDA RONSTADT, Hand Sown… Home Grown/Silk Purse (Raven)
  • NICK CAVE, Nick Cave’s Jukebox (United States Of Dist./Ka)
  • THAO, Know Better Learn Faster (Kill Rock Stars)

October 6

  • LOU BARLOW, Goodnight Unknown (Merge)
  • MIKE DOUGHTY, Sad Man Happy Man (ATO)
  • DANIEL JOHNSTON, Is And Always Was
  • THE MOUNTAIN GOATS, The Life of the World to Come
  • NOAH AND THE WHALE, The First day Of Spring
  • PORT O’BRIEN, Threadbare
  • ROSANNE CASH, The List (Manhattan)
  • BRANDI CARLILE, Give Up the Ghost (Sony)
  • WILLIE NELSON, Souvenirs (Fuel 2000)
  • SUFJAN STEVENS, Run Rabbit Run (Asthmatic Kitty)
  • LUCERO, 1372 Overton Park (Republic)

September 29

  • THE AVETT BROTHERS, I and Love and You (Columbia)
  • LOU BARLOW, Goodnight Unknown (Merge)
  • DAWES, North Hills (ATO)
  • KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, Closer To The Bone (New West)
  • LANGHORNE SLIM, Be Set Free (Kemado)
  • CORB LUND, Losin’ Lately Gambler (New West)
  • 7 WORLDS COLLIDE, The Sun Came Out (Sin UK)
  • BOB SCHNEIDER, Lovely Creatures (Kirtland)
  • ROBERT EARL KEEN, The Rose Hotel (Lost Highway)
  • MIRANDA LAMBERT, Revolution (Sony)
  • PATTY LOVELESS, Mountain Soul II (Saguaro Road)
  • CHRIS SMITHER, Time Stands Still (Signature Sounds)
  • WILL HOGE, Wreckage (Rykodisc)
  • MICHAEL MCDONALD, This Christmas (Razor & Tie)
  • DRIVIN N’ CRYIN, Great American Bubble Factory (Thirty Tigers)
  • RICHMOND FONTAINE, We Used to Think the Freeway Sounded Like a River (Arena Rock)

September 22

  • VIC CHESNUTT, At The Cut (Constellation)
  • GUY CLARK, Somedays The Songs Writes You
  • DAVID GRAY, Draw the Line (Downtown)
  • MONSTERS OF FOLK, Monsters of Folk
  • NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLIS, White Lunar (Mute)
  • JOSHUA JAMES, Build Me This (Intelligent Noise)

September 15

  • THE DYNAMITES, Burn It Down (Outta Sight)
  • GORDON GANO AND THE RYANS, Under The Sun (Yep Roc)
  • BRUCE HORNSBY & THE NOISEMAKERS, Levitate (Verve Forecast)
  • MASON JENNINGS, Blood Of Man (Universal Republic)
  • CHRIS KNIGHT, Trailer II (Drifters Church)
  • OR, THE WHALE, Or, The Whale (Seany)
  • SCOTLAND YARD GOSPEL CHOIR, …And The Horse You Rode In On (Bloodshot)
  • MARK KNOPFLER, Get Lucky (Warner Bros.)
  • PORCUPINE TREE, The Incident (Roadrunner)
  • PETE YORN & SCARLETT JOHANSSON, Break Up (Rhino / Wea)
  • BIG STAR, Keep An Eye On The Sky [Box Set] (Rhino)
  • LIVING COLOUR, The Chair in the Doorway (Megaforce)
  • UNCLE KRACKER, Happy Hour (Atlantic)
  • JOHN MAYALL, Tough (Eagle)
  • TOM WAITS, The Document (United States Of Dist./Ka)
  • THE BAND OF HEATHENS, One Foot in the Ether (Boh)

September 8

  • THE BEATLES, Remastered / Rediscovere(various remastered classics!) (Capitol Records)
  • STEPHEN KELLOGG AND THE SIXERS, The Bear (Vanguard)
  • SIMPLE MINDS, Graffiti Soul (Decca Label Group W14 Music/Decca)
  • J. TILLMAN, Year In The Kingdom (Western Vinyl)
  • PHISH, Joy (Jemp)
  • YO LA TENGO, Popular Songs (Matador)
  • HOWIE DAY, Sound The Alarm (Sony)
  • FRANK TURNER, Poetry of the Deed (Epitaph)
  • PROCLAIMERS, Notes & Rhymes by (429)

September 1

  • APPLES IN STEREO, #1 Hits Explosion (Yep Roc)
  • SAM BAKER, Cotton (Music Road)
  • A.A. BONDY, When The Devil’s Loose (Fat Possum)
  • BLACK CROWES, Before the Frost…Until the Freeze (Red Distribution)
  • CROSS CANADIAN RAGWEED, Happiness and All The Other Things [15th Anniversary Deluxe Limited Edition] (Universal South)
  • DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, The Fine Print ( A Collection of Oddities and Rarities) (New West)
  • LIAM FINN AND ELIZA JANE, Champagne In Seashells (Yep Roc)
  • JOHN FOGERTY, The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again (Verve)
  • RADNEY FOSTER & THE CONFESSIONS, Revival (New West)
  • JULIETTE LEWIS, Terra Incognita (The End)
  • LADYHAWKE, Ladyhawke (Modular)
  • CHUCK RAGAN, Gold Country (Side One Dummy)
  • REVEREND HORTON HEAT, Laughin’ And Cryin’ With The Reverend Horton Heat (Yep Roc)
  • THESE UNITED STATES, Everything Touches Everything (United Interests)
  • ALLEN TOUSSAINT, Saint of New Orleans (GREAT AMERICAN)
  • YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND, The Show

August 25

  • BEASTIE BOYS, Hello Nasty (Remaster) (Capitol)
  • TIM BUCKLEY, Live at the Folklore Center, NYC – March 6, 1967 (Tomkins Square)
  • WOODY GUTHRIE, My Dusty Road (Rounder)
  • WILLIE NELSON, American Classic (Blue Note)
  • DOLORES O’RIORDAN, No Baggage (Rounder)
  • THE SUBDUDES, Flower Petals (429)

August 18

  • BRENDAN BENSON, My Old, Familiar Friend (ATO)
  • PAUL BURCH, Still Your Man (Ramseur)
  • CHEAP TRICK, Sgt. Pepper Live (Big3)
  • HOT CLUB OF COWTOWN, Wishful Thinking (Gold Strike)
  • JONES STREET STATION, In Verses (Smith Street)
  • MADNESS, The Liberty Of Norton Folgate (Yep Roc)
  • DELBERT MCCLINTON, Aquired Taste (New West)
  • SISTER HAZEL, Release (Rock Ridge)
  • RICHARD THOMPSON, Walking on a Wire: Richard Thompson (1968-2009) (Shout Factory)
  • JOE HENRY, Blood from Stars (Anti)
  • LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III, High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project (2nd Story Sound)
  • VARIOUS ARTISTS, New Tales to Tell: A Tribute to Love and Rockets (Justice)
  • THE CAVE SINGERS, Welcome Joy (Matador)
  • TWO TONS OF STEEL, Two Tons of Steel: Not That Lucky (SMITH ENTERTAINMENT)

August 11

  • BOTTLE ROCKETS, Lean Forward (Bloodshot)
  • TOMMY CASTRO, Hard Believer (Alligator)
  • ROBERT CRAY BAND, This Time (Vanguard)
  • ROBERT POLLARD, Elephant Jokes
  • MINDY SMITH, Stupid Love (Vanguard)
  • THE WAILIN’ JENNYS, Live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House (Red House)
  • WILLIE NELSON, Lost Highway (Lost Highway)
  • SAM & RUBY, Here & The Now (Rykodisc)
  • HOT TUNA, First Pull Up, Then Pull Down (Wounded Bird)

August 4

  • THE DUKE AND THE KING, Nothing Gold Can Stay (Ramseur)
  • GRANT LANGSTON, Stand Up Man (MSG)
  • MAC MACANALLY, Down By The River (Show Dog Nashville)
  • MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD , Radiolarians III (Indirecto)
  • MODEST MOUSE, No One’s First, and You’re Next (Sony)
  • HANK WILLIAMS III AND ASSJACK, AssJack (Curb)
  • YIM YAMES (Jim James alias), Tribute to George Harrison (ATO)

July 28

  • GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS, The Dirty Dozen (Capitol)
  • KIERAN KANE, Somewhere Beyond the Roses (Compass)

July 21

  • TREVOR GUILIANI, Subcontrario (Dovecote)
  • IAN HUNTER, Man Overboard (New West)
  • MATTHEW SWEET AND SUSANNA HOFFS, Under The Covers Vol. 2 (Shout! Factory)
  • WHEAT, White Ink, Black Ink (The Rebel Group)
  • DELBERT MCCLINTON, Honky Tonkin’ All Night (GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC)
  • MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO., Josephine (Secretly Canadian)
  • BETTYE LAVETTE, Change Is Gonna Come Sessions (Anti-)

July 14

  • BEASTIE BOYS, Ill Communication (Remastered) (Capitol)
  • BLEU, A Watched Pot (Artist Garage)
  • DAVID BOWIE, VH1 Storytellers (CD/DVD) (Capitol)
  • DANDY WARHOLS, Dandy Warhols Are Sound (BTW)
  • THE DEAD WEATHER, Horehound (WEA/Reprise)
  • PEARL JAM, The Lowdown (SEXY INTELLECTUAL)
  • GINA VILLALOBOS, Days On Their Side (Face West)

July 7

  • THE MINUS FIVE, Killingsworth (Yep Roc)
  • SON VOLT, American Central Dust (Rounder Records)
  • STELLASTARR, Civilized (Warner)
  • THOSE DARLINS, Those Darlins (Thirty Tigers)
  • CASS MCCOMBS, Catacombs (Domino)
  • LOVELL SISTERS, Time To Grow (self)
  • YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS, I Think This Is (Yep Roc)
  • DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, Live from Austin Texas (CD/DVD COMBO) (New West)
  • THE JAYHAWKS, Music from the North Country: The Jayhawks Anthology (Sony Legacy)
  • VARIOUS ARTISTS, Poet: A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt (Fat Possum)

June 30

  • LEVON HELM, Electric Dirt (Dirt Farmer Music/Vanguard Records)
  • WILCO, Wilco (the Album) (Nonesuch)
  • AMY SPEACE, The Killer In Me (Wildflower)

June 23

  • DEER TICK, Born On Flag Day (Partisan)
  • PATTERSON HOOD, Murdering Oscar (and other love songs) (Bloodshot)
  • LEMONHEADS, Varshons (The End)
  • JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO, Live In Toronto ’69 (Shout!)
  • CHARLIE ROBISON, Beautiful Day (Dualtone)
  • PETE YORN, Back & Forth (Columbia)
  • CHRISTINA COURTIN, self-titled (Nonesuch)
  • LARRY JON WILSON, self-titled (Drag City)
  • OTIS TAYLOR, Pentatonic Wars And Love Songs (Telarc/Concord)

June 16

  • HA HA TONKA, Novel Sounds Of The Nouveau South (Bloodshot)
  • AMONG THE OAK & ASH, self-titled (Verve Forecast)
  • HOLLY WILLIAMS, Here With Me (Mercury Nashville)
  • MAURA O’CONNELL, Naked With Friends (Sugar Hill)
  • RHONDA VINCENT, Destination Life (Rounder)
  • SARAH JAROSZ, Song Up In Her Head (Sugar Hill)
  • SWEETBACK SISTERS, Chicken Ain’t Chicken (Signature Sounds)

June 9

  • BRITISH SEA POWER, Man Of Aran (Rough Trade)
  • RHETT MILLER, Rhett Miller (Shout Factory!)
  • ROADSIDE GRAVES, My Son’s Home (Autumn Tone)
  • TODD SNIDER, The Excitement Plan (Yep Roc)
  • SONIC YOUTH, The Eternal (Matador)
  • BROTHERS OF THE SOUTHLAND, self-titled (Zoho Roots)
  • CHARLIE MARS, Like A Bird, Like A Plane (Thirty Tigers)
  • COSMOS, Jar Of Jam Ton Of Bricks (Happy Jack Rock)
  • JOHN ANDERSON, Bigger Hands (Country Crossing/Stroudavarious)
  • LOW ANTHEM, Oh My God Charlie Darwin (Nonesuch)
  • PETER HOLSAPPLE & CHRIS STAMEY, Here And Now (Bar/None)

June 2

  • JEFF BUCKLEY, Grace – Around The World (Legacy)
  • ELVIS COSTELLO, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane (Hear Music)
  • MARSHALL CRENSHAW, Jaggedland (429 Records)
  • EELS, Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs Of Desire (Vagrant)
  • DAVE MATTHEWS, Big Whiskey & the Groo Grux King (RMG / RCA)
  • IGGY POP, Preliminaires (Astralwerks)
  • ASTRID WILLIAMSON, Here Come The Vikings (One Little Indian)
  • CATHERINE MACLELLAN, Water In The Ground (True North)
  • HOOTS AND HELLMOUTH, The Holy Open Secret (Mad Dragon)
  • MELISSA MCCLELLAND, Victoria Day (Six Shooter)
  • RYAN BINGHAM, Road House Sun (Lost Highway)
  • TANYA TUCKER, My Turn (Saguaro Road)

May 26

  • CHRIS GAFFNEY TRIBUTE, The Man Of Somebody’s Dreams (Yep Roc)
  • DAVE ALVIN & THE GUILTY WOMEN, self-titled (Yep Roc)
  • DAVID BERKELEY, Strange Light (Thirty Tigers)
  • DAVID SERBY, Hony Tonk And Vine (Harbor Grove)
  • GRIZZLY BEAR, Veckatimest (Warp)
  • JOHNNY WINTER, The Johnny Winter Anthology (Shout! Factory)
  • MARY BRAGG, Sugar (self)
  • RED HEART THE TICKER, Oh My! Mountains Below (Auger Down)
  • SARAH SISKIND, Say It Louder (Red Direct/Thirty Tigers)
  • SIR RICHARD BISHOP, The Freak Of Araby (Drag City)

May 19

  • TORI AMOS, Abnormally Attracted to Sin (Universal Republic)
  • ASHLEY CLEVELAND, God Don’t Never Change (Koch)
  • CARBON LEAF, Nothing Rhymes With Woman (Vanguard)
  • CEDAR HILL REFUGEES, Pale Imperfect Diamond (Effigy)
  • COLIN LINDEN, From The Water (True North)
  • DIANA JONES, Better Times Will Come (Proper American)
  • IRON & WINE, Around The Well (Sub Pop)
  • JASON LYTLE, Yours Truly, The Commuter (Anti-)
  • MONAHANS, Dim the Aurora (Misra)
  • RED STICK RAMBLERS, My Suitcase Is Always Packed (Sugar Hill)
  • SCOTT H. BIRAM, Something’s Wrong/Lost Forever (Bloodshot)
  • ZEE AVI, self-titled (Brushfire)

May 12

  • BELLEVILLE OUTFIT, Time to Stand (Belleville)
  • STEVE EARLE, Townes (New West)
  • MEAT PUPPETS, Sewn Together (Megaforce)
  • ROMAN CANDLE, Oh Tall Tree In The Ear (Carnival Recording Company)
  • MICHELLE SHOCKED, Soul of my Soul (Megaforce)
  • PASSION PIT, Manners (French Kiss)
  • CASEY DRIESSEN, Oog (Red Shoe)
  • CHUCK MEAD, Journeyman’s Wager (self)
  • HANNE HUKKELBERG, Blood From A Stone (Nettwerk)
  • OPERATION ALOHA, self-titled (self)
  • WOODEN BIRDS, Magnolia (Barsuk)
  • DEXATEENS, Singlewide (Skybucket/Cornelius Chapel)
  • HILL COUNTRY REVUE, Make A Move (Razor & Tie)

May 5

  • CRACKER, Sunrise In The Land Of Milk And Honey (429)
  • BEN HARPER AND THE RELENTLESS 7, White Lies for Dark Times (Virgin)
  • NEW YORK DOLLS, Cause I Sez So (Atco)
  • JACK OBLIVIAN AND THE TENNESSEE TEARJERKERS, Disco Outlaw (Sympathy For the Record Industry/Goner Records)
  • THE ROLLING STONES, Goat’s Head Soup (Re-issue) (UME)
  • THE ROLLING STONES, It’s Only Rock N’ Roll (Re-issue) (UME)
  • THE ROLLING STONES, Sticky Fingers (Re-Issue) (UME)
  • ST VINCENT, Actor (4AD)
  • DOYLE LAWSON & QUICKSILVER, Lonely Street (Rounder)
  • ZIGGY MARLEY, Family Time (Tuff Gong)
  • ALASDAIR ROBERTS, Spoils (Drag City)

April 28

  • A CAMP, Colonia (Nettwerk)
  • BLACK CROWES, Warpaint Live (Eagle)
  • SAMANTHA CRAIN AND THE MIDNIGHT SHIVERS, Songs in the Night (Ramseur Records)
  • BOB DYLAN, Together Through Life (Columbia)
  • TIM EASTON, Porcupine (New West)
  • BEN FOLDS, Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella! (Epic)
  • BEN LEE, The Rebirth of Venus (New West)
  • PALEFACE, The Show is on the Road (Ramseur Records)
  • DISCIPLINES, Smoking Kills (Second Motion)
  • DEBRA COWAN, Fond Desire Farewell (Falling Mountain)
  • SLAID CLEAVES, Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away (Music Road)
  • NEWFOUND ROAD, Same Old Place (Rounder)
  • LOS STRAITJACKETS, The Further Adventures Of (Yep Roc)
  • ZERA MARVEL, Birds And Bullets Fly (In Spades)
  • KING WILKIE, The Wilkie Family Singers (Casa Nueva)

April 21

  • WAYNE HANCOCK, Viper Melody (Bloodshot)
  • BOOKER T. JONES (With the Drive-By Truckers and Neil Young), Potato Hole (Anti-)
  • EILEN JEWELL, Sea Of Tears (Signature Sounds)
  • THE GREENCARDS, Fascination (Sugar Hill)
  • TIM BRANTLEY, Goldtop Heights (Blackledge)
  • WUSSY, self-titled (Shake It)
  • BOXMASTERS, Modbilly (Vanguard)
  • BRIAN BLADE, Mama Rosa (Verve Forecast)
  • WEBB WILDER, More Like Me (BlindPig)
  • ROY ROGERS, Split Decision (Blind Pig)
  • COMMANDER CODY, Dopers, Drunks, And Everyday Losers (BlindPig)
  • JESSE WINCHESTER, Love Filling Station (Appleseed)
  • ALLEN TOUSSAINT, The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch)
  • CHRISTOPHER REES, Devil’s Bridge (Red Eye)
  • KATIE HERZIG, Apple Tree (Marion-Lorraine)
  • TINTED WINDOWS, Tinted Windows (S-Curve)

April 14

  • JOHN DOE AND THE SADIES, Country Club (Yep Roc)
  • EVERYDAY VISUALS, The Everyday Visuals (Self-Released)
  • MIKE FARRIS & THE ROSELAND RHYTHM REVIEW, Shout! Live (INO)
  • MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD, Radiolarians II (Indirecto/Megaforce)
  • JILL SOBULE, The California Years (Pinko)
  • MOONALICE, self-titled (self)
  • PAPERCUTS, You Can Have What You Want (Gnomonsong)
  • HANDSOME FAMILY, Honey Moon (Carrot Top)
  • WILLIE NILE, House Of A Thousand Guitars (River House/GB)
  • SCOTT MILLER, For Crying Out Loud (F.A.Y.)
  • JAKE SHIMABUKURO, Live (Hitchhike)

April 7

  • THE TRAGICALLY HIP, We Are The Same (Rounder Records)
  • SARA WATKINS, Sara Watkins (Nonesuch)
  • HALLOWEEN, ALASKA, Champagne Downtown (East Side Digital)
  • BOB MOULD, Life And Times (Anti-)
  • SINGLE FILE, Common Struggles (Reprise)
  • RAY CHARLES, Genius: The Ultimate Collection (Concord)
  • MARIA TAYLOR, LadyLuck (Nettwerk)
  • VIENNA TENG, Inland Territory (Zoe/Rounder)
  • RAMBLIN’ JACK ELLIOTT, A Stranger Here (Anti-)
  • THERMALS, Now We Can See (Kill Rock Stars)
  • RICHARD SHINDELL, Not Far Now (Signature Sounds)
  • ALEXIS HARTE, Big Red Sun (self)
  • CAROLINE WEEKS, Songs For Edna (Manimal)
  • CHRIS VELAN, Solidago (NewSong)
  • GREATER CALIFORNIA, All The Colors (Subtitled)
  • MANDA MOSHER, Everything You Need (Red Parlor)
  • CASSANDRA WILSON, Closer To You: The Pop Side (Blue Note/EMI)
  • WILLIAM FITZSIMMONS The Sparrow And The Crow (Mercer Street)
  • GLEN TILBROOK & THE FLUFFERS, Pandemonium Ensues (E1)
  • NAKIA, Water To Wine (self)
  • FELICE BROTHERS, Yonder Is The Clock (Team Love)
  • OLD CALIFORNIO, Westering Again (self)
  • NEIL YOUNG, Fork In The Road (Reprise)

March 31

  • PETER BJORN AND JOHN, Living Thing (Almost Gold)
  • THE FLATLANDERS, Hills and Valleys (New West)
  • A BROKEN CONSORT, Box Of Birch (Tompkins Square)
  • DIANA KRALL, Quiet Nights (Verve)
  • GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS, Lost Channels (Nettwerk)
  • GOMEZ, A New Tide (ATO)
  • MARCUS ROBERTS, New Orleans Meets Harlem, Vol. 1 (J-Master)
  • BOBBY OSBORNE, Bluegrass & Beyond (Rounder)
  • MICHELLE MALONE, Debris (SBS)
  • DAILEY & VINCENT, Brothers From Different Mothers (Rounder)
  • BRUCE COCKBURN, Slice O Life: Live Solo (Rounder)
  • VENICE IS SINKING, Azar (One Percent Press)
  • PAUL WESLEY, When I Let Go (self)

March 24

  • SARAH BORGES, The Stars are Out (Sugar Hill)
  • DECEMBERISTS, Hazards of Love (Capitol)
  • JJ CALE, Roll On (Rounder)
  • PETER DOHERTY, Grace / Wastelands (Astralwerks)
  • INDIGO GIRLS, Poseidon and the Bitter Bug (Welk)
  • PEARL JAM, Ten (Reissue) (Legacy)
  • PET SHOP BOYS, Yes (Astralwerks)
  • VARIOUS ARTISTS, Keep Your Soul: A Tribute To Doug Sahm (Vanguard)
  • IAN TYSON, Yellowhead To Yellowstone (Stony Plain)
  • SUNNY & HER JOY BOYS, Introducing… (Stony Plain)
  • JULIAN LAGE, Sounding Point (Emarcy)
  • OBITS, I Blame You (Sub Pop)
  • ALECIA NUGENT, Hillbilly Goddess (Rounder)
  • SPECIAL CONSENSUS, Signs (Pinecastle)
  • DAN HICKS AND THE HOT LICKS, Tangled Tales (Surfdog)
  • ERIC LINDELL, Gulf Coast Highway (Alligator)
  • STRANGE BOYS, …And Girls Club (In The Red)
  • RED RED MEAT, Bunny Gets Paid (Sub Pop)
  • JOSH FREESE, Since 1972 (self)

Winter 2009

March 17

  • BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, Beware (Drag City)
  • BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE HONEYBEARS, Industry Giants (Superdrag Sound Labratories/Thirty Tigers)
  • JOHN WESLEY HARDING, Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is (Lost Highway)
  • NICK LOWE, Quiet Please: The New Best of Nick Lowe (Yep Roc)
  • MGMT, Time To Pretend (Cantora/ Megaforce)
  • SUPERDRAG, Industry Giants (Superdrag Sound Labratories/Thirty Tigers)
  • WILLIE NELSON, Naked Willie (RCA/Legacy)
  • TOO SLIM & THE TAILDRAGGERS, Free Your Mind (Underworld)
  • KELLY JOE PHELPS, Western Bell (Black Hen)

March 10

  • MARK O’CONNOR, Americana Symphony (OMAC)
  • SOMETYMES WHY, Your Heart Is A Glorious Machine (Signature Sounds)
  • MADELEINE PEYROUX, Bare Bones (Rounder)
  • JOHN WESLEY HARDING, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead (Popover Corps)
  • DM STITH, Heavy Ghost (Asthmatic Kitty)
  • PETULA CLARK, Open Your Heart: The Love Song Collection (Collectors’ Choice)
  • BODEANS, Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams, Collector’s Edition (Rhino)
  • RONNIE MILSAP, Then Sings My Soul: 24 Favorite Hymns & Gospel Songs (EMG CMG)
  • TOUBAB KREWE, Live At The Orange Peel (Upstream)
  • OREN LAVIE, The Opposite Side Of The Sea (Quarter Past Wonderful)
  • PRONTO, All Is Golden (Contraphonic)
  • ROCCO DELUCA, Mercy (Ironworks)
  • ROMI MAYES, Achin’ In Yer Bones (self)
  • WILLIE HEATH NEAL, Out Of Highway (Chicken Ranch)
  • ARI HEST, Twelve Mondays (self)
  • HANDSOME FURS, Face Control (Sub Pop)
  • DANNY SCHMIDT, Instead The Forest Rose To Sing (Red House)
  • LUKA BLOOM, Eleven Songs (Bar/None)
  • COURTNEY FAIRCHILD, 11 Chances (Stanley)

March 3

  • NEKO CASE, Middle Cyclone (-Anti)
  • JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE, Midnight at the Movies (Bloodshot)
  • RAUL MALO, Lucky One (Fantasy)
  • JULIE AND BUDDY MILLER, Written in Chalk (New West)
  • U2, No Line on the Horizon (Island)
  • JESSE HARRIS, Watching The Sky (Mercer Street)
  • SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES, Communion (Yep Roc)
  • CLARENCE BUCARO, ‘Til Spring (Twenty Twenty)
  • ANGUS AND JULIA STONE, A Book Like This (Nettwerk)
  • LAURA GIBSON, Beasts Of Seasons (Hush)
  • CHRIS DARROW, self-titled/Under My Own Disguise (Everloving)
  • MOLLY JENSON, Maybe Tomorrow (Nettwerk)
  • BOSQUE BROWN, Baby (Burnt Toast)
  • MARTY WILLSON-PIPER, Nightjar (Second Motion)
  • BELL X1, Blue Lights On The Runway (Yep Roc)
  • SETH WALKER, Leap Of Faith (Hyena)
  • IAN MCLAGAN, Never Say Never (00:02:59)
  • DANNY O’KEEFE, In Time (Bicameral)
  • BELA FLECK, Throw Down Your Heart: Tales From The Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3 – Africa Sessions (Rounder)

February 24

  • RANDY WEEKS, Going My Way (Certifiable)
  • NEIL YOUNG, Archives (Reprise)
  • TOM RUSH, What I Know (Appleseed)
  • ALTERNATE ROUTES, A Sucker’s Dream (Vanguard)
  • OLD CEREMONY, Walk On Thin Air (Alyosha)
  • SHEMEKIA COPELAND, Never Going Back (Telarc)
  • JJ CALE, Roll On (Rounder)
  • VARIOUS ARTISTS, Singing Through The Hard Times: A Tribute To Utah Phillips (Righteous Babe)
  • VAN MORRISON, Astral Weeks: Live At The Hollywood Bowl (Listen To The Lion/EMI)

February 17

  • ROBYN HITCHCOCK AND THE VENUS 3, Goodnight Oslo (Yep Roc)
  • JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit (Lightning Rod)
  • GURF MORLIX, Last Exit to Happyland (Rootball)
  • M. WARD, Hold Time (Merge)
  • ELENI MANDELL, Artificial Fire (Zedtone)
  • WILLIAM ELLIOT WHITMORE, Animals In The Dark (Anti-)
  • BRIGITTE DEMEYER, Red River Flower (BDM)
  • JEFFREY FOUCAULT, Shoot The Moon Right Between The Eyes (Signature Sounds)
  • MICKEY CLARK, Winding Highways (Ear X-Tacy)
  • VETIVER, Tight Knit (Sub Pop)
  • JOHN LEE HOOKER, 50 Years: The John Lee Hooker Anthology (Shout! Factory)
  • TOMMY KEENE, In The Late Bright (Second Motion)
  • SAM ROBERTS, Love At The End Of The World (Rounder)
  • STEVE KILBEY, Painkiller (Second Motion)
  • WATSON TWINS, Live At Fingerprints EP (Vanguard)

February 10

  • BEN LEE, The Rebirth of Venus (New West)
  • GUY DAVIS, Sweetheart Like You (Red House)
  • DAN AUERBACH, Keep It Hid (Nonesuch)
  • JORMA KAUKONEN, River Of Time (Red House)
  • DEX ROMWEBER DUO, Ruins Of Berlin (Bloodshot)
  • MIRANDA LEE RICHARDS, Light Of X (Nettwerk)
  • MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY, Buckaroo Blue Grass (Rural Rhythm)
  • MEGAN MUNROE, One More Broken String (Diamond)
  • VAN MORRISON, Astral Weeks: Live At The Hollywood Bowl (Listen To The Lion/EMI)

February 3

  • BEN KWELLER, Changing Horses (ATO)
  • DENT MAY, And His Magnificent Ukulele (Car Park)
  • MORRISSEY, Southpaw Grammer (Rhino)
  • THE YOUNG DUBLINERS, Saints and Sinners (429)
  • MARYKATE O’NEIL, Underground (Nettwerk)
  • ROBERT EARL KEEN TRIBUTE, Undone (Right Ave)
  • LISA HANNIGAN, Sea Sew (ATO)
  • NIGHTHAWKS, American Landscape (Powerhouse)
  • RUTHIE FOSTER, The Truth According To Ruthie Foster (Blue Corn)
  • PINE LEAF BOYS, Homage Au Passe (Lionsgate)
  • HEARTLESS BASTARDS, The Mountain (Fat Possum)
  • WILLIE NELSON & ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL, Willie and the Wheel (Bismeaux)

January 27

  • ANDY FRIEDMAN & THE OTHER FAILURES, Weary Things (Self)
  • ASA, self-titled (Mercer Street)
  • AUDIE BLAYLOCK, self-titled (Rural Rhythm)
  • BOB WILLS & THE TEXAS PLAYBOYS, The Tiffany Transcriptions (Collectors’ Choice (10-CD set))
  • BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Working on a Dream (Columbia)
  • DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD, Echoes Of The Mountains (Rounder)
  • DUNCAN SHEIK, Whisper House (SMG/Victor)
  • ERIC BRACE & PETER COOPER, You Don’t Have To Like Them Both (Red Beet)
  • JAMES BROWN, Live at the Boston Garden: April 5, 1968 (Shout!Factory)
  • MARK OLSON AND GARY LOURIS, Ready for the Flood (New West)
  • MICKEYS, Walk Along (Riverbeat/Select-O-Hit)
  • PAT GREEN, What I’m For (SBMG)
  • ODDS, Cheerleader (Second Motion)
  • RAN BLAKE, Driftwoods (Tompkins Square)
  • RHYTHM ANGELS, Girls Like Us (High Horse)
  • SAFFIRE – THE UPPITY BLUES WOMEN, Havin’ The Last Word (Alligator)
  • STRAND OF OAKS, Leave Ruin (La Societe Expeditionnaire)
  • TRADITIONIST, Season To Season (Better Looking)
  • VARIOUS ARTISTS, Johnny Cash Remixed (Compadre)
  • VOLCANO SUNS, All Night Lotus Party / The Bright Orange Years (Merge)

January 20

  • ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS, The Crying Light (Secretly Canadian)
  • ANDREW BIRD, Noble Beast (Fat Possum)
  • CALEXICO, Live from Austin TX (New West)
  • OTIS GIBBS, Grandpa Walked A Picketline (Wanamaker)
  • A.C. NEWMAN, Get Guilty (Matador)
  • BEN NICHOLS, The Last Pale Light In The West (Liberty And Lament)
  • NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS, Do It Like We Used To (NMA)
  • WIDEAWAKE, Something That We Can’t Let Go (Artists Garage)

January 13

  • BANG CAMARO, Bang Camaro II (8th Impression)
  • BEE GEES, Odessa: Deluxe Edition (Rhino)
  • DEREK TRUCKS BAND, Already Free (SMG/Victor)

January 6

  • GLASVEGAS, Glasvegas (Sony)
  • GOURDS, Haymaker (Yep Roc)
  • BIG SHANTY, Sold Out… (King Mojo)

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