Recommendations

A selection of favorites from our readers and editors. Readers’ Picks marked in bold.

2015

Winter

• JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE, Absent Fathers
• ERIC SARDINAS, Boomerang

2014

Fall

• MARK KOZELEK, Sings Christmas Carols
• DARIUS RUCKER, Home for the Holidays
• JOHN SCHNEIDER & TOM WOPAT, Home for ChristmaS
• MICHAEL W. SMITH, The Spirit of Christmas
• Lost on the River by The New Basement Tapes and Elvis Costello
• My Favourite Faded Fantasy by Damien Rice
• Sitcom Afterlife by Frontier Ruckus
• Storytone by Neil Young
• Welcome to the Big World by Adam Hood
• Aviator by Stoney LaRue
• Rock & Roll Time by Jerry Lee Lewis
• Fumes by Lily & Madeleine
• Boxers by Matthew Ryan
• Indian Ocean by Frazey Ford
• Lucky 13 by Chris Duarte
• And The War Came by Shakey Graves
• Standing In The Breach by Jackson Browne
• Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn by Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn

Summer

• Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone by Lucinda Williams
• Love & Logic by Sons of Bill
• Saturday Night / Sunday Morning by Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives
• Paradise Outlaw by Pieta Brown
• Single Mothers by Justin Townes Earle
• Ryan Adams by Ryan Adams
• Somewhere Under Wonderland by Counting Crows
• Step Back by Johnny Winter
• Live My Life by Sena Ehrhardt
• Swimmin’ Time by Shovels & Rope
• Connecting Stars by Connecting Stars
• Too Blessed to Be Stressed by Paul Thorn
• No-Hit Wonder by Cory Branan
• Can’t Even Do Wrong Right by Elvin Bishop
• Live From Atlanta by Lucero
• Rockabilly Riot! All Original by Brian Setzer
• Get Hurt by The Gaslight Anthem
• Long in the Tooth by Billy Joe Shaver
• They Want My Soul by Spoon
• Don’t Wait Up for George by Shooter Jennings
• Angus & Julia Stone by Angus & Julia Stone
• Hypnotic Eye by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
• The Voyager by Jenny Lewis
• A Life Worth Living by Marc Broussard
• Acoustic Classics by Richard Thompson
• Still on the Levee by Chris Smither
• Terms Of My Surrender by John Hiatt
• Wild Animals by Trampled by Turtles
• Eagle Rock Fire by Joe Purdy
• Counterfeit Blues by Corb Lund
• Remedy by Old Crow Medicine Show

Spring

• Heal by Strand of Oaks
• Emergency Situation by Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers
• Good Luck Charm by The Mastersons
• Favorite Waitress by Felice Brothers
• Good News by Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters
• MARY GAUTHIER, Trouble & Love
• JACK WHITE, Lazaretto
• FIRST AID KIT, Stay Gold
• DAVE & PHIL ALVIN, Common Ground
• MIKE MATTISON, You Can’t Fight Love
• ROBERT FRANCIS, Heaven
• JOHN FULLBRIGHT, Songs
• KELLY WILLIS & BRUCE ROBISON, Our Year
• ZOE MUTH, World of Strangers
• NEIL YOUNG, A Letter Home
• CHATHAM COUNTY LINE, Tightrope
• DUHKS, Beyond the Blue
• JOLIE HOLLAND, Wine Dark Sea
• DAVE SPECTER, Message in Blue
• HOWLIN BROTHERS, Trouble
• STURGILL SIMPSON, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
• THE BLACK KEYS, Turn Blue
• GREGG ALLMAN, All My Friends: Celebrating The Songs & Voice Of Gregg Allman
• JAREKUS SINGLETON, Refuse To Lose
• SANTANA, Corazon
• BEN HARPER AND ELLEN HARPER, Childhood Home
• OLD 97S, Most Messed Up
• CHRIS ROBINSON, Phosphorescent Harvest
• RODRIGO Y GABRIELA, 9 Dead Alive
• EELS, Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett
• KEB MO, Bluesamericana
• THE WHIGS, Modern Creation
• SELDOM SCENE, Long Time: Seldom Scene
• MARGOT & THE NUCLEAR SO AND SO’S, Sling Shot to Heaven
• RODNEY CROWELL, Tarpaper Sky
• BOBBY BARE, JR. Undefeated
• JEREMY SPENCER, Coventry Blue
• JOAN OSBORNE, Love & Hate
• ALBERT CASTIGLIA, Solid Ground
• VARIOUS ARTISTS, Looking Into You: A Tribute To Jackson Browne
• HOLMES BROTHERS, Brotherhood
• NICKEL CREEK, A Dotted Line

Winter

• JOHNNY CASH, Out Among The Stars
• SIMONE FELICE, Strangers
• THE HOLD STEADY, Teeth Dreams
• LUTHER DICKINSON, Rock ‘n Roll Blues
• ELIZA GILKYSON, The Nocturne Diaries
• NICK MOSS BAND, Time Ain’t Free
• STEVE MARTIN AND THE STEEP CANYON RANGERS, Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers featuring Edie Brickell (live)
• CHARLIE OXFORD, Charlie Oxford
• MATT WALLACE, For a Season
• DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, English Oceans
• JOHN GORKA, Bright Side of Down
• THE MEN, Tomorrow’s Hits
• BECK, Morning Phase
• JOE LOUIS WALKER, Hornet’s Nest
• BOB MOULD, Workbook 25 (re-issue)
• JIMBO MATHUS & THE TRI-STATE COALITION, Dark Night of the Soul
• LYDIA LOVELESS, Somewhere Else
• LAKE STREET DIVE, Bad Self Portraits
• NEIL FINN, Dizzy Heights
• KIM SIMMONS AND SAVOY BROWN, Goin’ To The Delta
• JAMESTOWN REVIVAL, Utah
• BAND OF HORSES, Acoustic at the Ryman
• PARKER MILLSAP, Parker Millsap
• SCOTT H. BIRAM, Nothin But Blood
• GIRLS GUNS & GLORY, Good Luck
• NICOLE ATKINS, Slow Phaser
• DAVID CROSBY, Croz
• LAURA CANTRELL, No Way There From Here
• GASLIGHT ANTHEM, B-Sides
• AMY RAY, Goodnight Tender
• DAMIEN JURADO, Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son
• REVEREND HORTON HEAT, REV
• TOMMY CASTRO, The Devil You Know
• ROSANNE CASH, The River & The Thread
• BLACKIE & THE RODEO KINGS, South
• BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, High Hopes
• SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS, Give The People What They Want
• STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS, Wig Out at Jagbags
• PETER GABRIEL & VARIOUS ARTISTS, And I’ll Scratch Yours

2013

Fall

• NICK LOWE, Quality Street: a Seasonal Selection for All the Family
• BRIGHT EYES, A Christmas Album
• MINDY SMITH, Snowed In
• BILLIE JOE + NORAH, Foreverly
• CONNOR GARVEY, Meteors And Beating Hearts
• BOTTLE ROCKETS, Bottle Rockets & The Brooklyn Side
• JAKE BUGG, Shangri La
• SHELBY LYNNE, Thanks
• SONGS: OHIA, Magnolia Electric Company Co (reissue)
• BLUE RODEO, In Our Nature
• VARIOUS ARTISTS, Inside Llewyn Davis Original Soundtrack Recording
• HOWE GELB, The Coincidentalist
• MELVINS, Tres Cabrones
• THE DEVIL MAKES THREE, I’m A Stranger Here
• ARCADE FIRE, Reflektor
• LESLIE WEST, Still Climbing
• BRETT DENNEN, Smoke and Mirrors
• BLACK HEARTED BROTHER, Stars Are Our Home
• RICHIE RAMONE, Entitled
• WILLIE NELSON, To All The Girls…
• PEARL JAM, Lightning Bolt
• THE HEAD & THE HEART, Let’s Be Still
• PATTY GRIFFIN, Silver Bell
• ANDERS OSBORNE, Peace
• SCOTT MILLER, Big Big World
• THE SADIES, Internal Sounds
• THE WOOD BROTHERS, Muse
• DR. DOG, B-Room
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Summer

• DEER TICK, Negativity
• HA HA TONKA, Lessons
• SARAH JAROSZ, Build Me Up From Bones
• BAND OF HEATHENS, Sunday Morning Record
• ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ROOTS, Wise Up Ghost
• TIM O’BRIEN & DARRELL SCOTT, Memories & Moments
• TROMBONE SHORTY, Say That to Say This
• BRIAN WRIGHT, Rattle Their Chains
• MARK KNOPFLER, Privateering
• NEKO CASE, The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You
• RECKLESS KELLY, Long Night Moon
• NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS, World Boogie Is Coming
• ROBBIE FULKS, Gone Away Backward
• BLACK JOE LEWIS, Electric Slave
• THE RIDES, Can’t Get Enough: The Rides
• TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND, Made Up Mind
• THE GREENCARDS, Sweetheart of the Sun
• TRAVIS, Where You Stand
• VALERIE JUNE, Pushin’ Against A Stone
• TODD WOLFE, Miles to Go
• THE CIVIL WARS, The Civil Wars
• SARAH LEE GUTHRIE & JOHNNY IRION, Wassaic Way
• KT TUNSTALL, Invisible Empire/Crescent Moon
• TWO TONS OF STEEL, Unraveled
• BUDDY GUY, Rhythm & Blues
• DARDEN SMITH, Love Calling
• ALELA DIANE, About Farewell
• GUY CLARK, My Favorite Picture of You
• EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
• TRUTH & SALVAGE CO., Pick Me Up
• ROBERT RANDOLPH & THE FAMILY BAND, Lickety Split
• MATT NATHANSON, Last of the Great Pretenders
• FRANK BLACK, Oddballs
• SCUD MOUNTAIN BOYS, Do You Love the Sun
• TRAMPLED UNDER FOOT, Badlands
• DEADLY GENTLEMEN, Roll Me Tumble Me

Spring

• WILLIE NILE, American Ride
• WATERMELON SLIM & THE WORKERS, Bull Goose Rooster
• AUGUST BURNS RED, Rescue & Restore
• DELBERT MCCLINTON & GLEN CLARK, Blind, Crippled & Crazy
• DONNA THE BUFFALO, Tonight Tomorrow & Yesterday
• STEPHEN KELLOGG, Blunderstone Rookery
• JASON ISBELL, Southeastern
• JOSEPH ARTHUR, Ballad of Boogie Christ
• WALTER TROUT, Luther’s Blues – A Tribute to Luther Allison
• HOUNDMOUTH, From The Hills Below The City
• QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, …Like Clockwork
• JOY KILLS SORROW, Wide Awake
• JOHN FOGERTY, Wrote a Song For Everyone
• LAURA MARLING, Once I Was An Eagle
• POPA CHUBBY, Universal Breakdown Blues
• THE NATIONAL, Trouble Will Find Me
• DARIUS RUCKER, True Believers
• BETH HART AND JOE BONAMASSA, Seesaw
• CHIP TAYLOR, Block Out the Sirens of This Lonely World
• THE HANDSOME FAMILY, Wilderness
• VAMPIRE WEEKEND, Modern Vampires Of The City
• JASON BOLAND & STRAGGLERS, Dark & Dirty Mile
• PATTY GRIFFIN, American Kid
• JAMES COTTON, Cotton Mouth Man
• PISTOL ANNIES, Annie Up
• RANDY ROGERS BAND, Trouble
• IGGY & THE STOOGES, Ready to Die
• DENISON WITMER, Denison Witmer
• FRANK TURNER, Tape Deck Heart
• LORI MCKENNA, Massachusetts
• CHARLIE PARR, Barnswallow
• STEVE EARLE, The Low Highway
• JJ GREY & MOFRO, This River
• IRON & WINE, Ghost on Ghost
• DEADSTRING BROTHERS, Cannery Row
• JOHN MURRY, Graceless Age
• RONNIE EARL & BROADCASTERS, Just for Today
• THE BLACK ANGELS, Indigo Meadow
• HEM, Departure & Farewell
• HACKENSAW BOYS, For the Love of a Friend

Winter

• THE WATERBOYS, Appointment With Mr Yeats
• THE MILK CARTON KIDS, The Ash & Clay
• BLACK LILLIES, Runaway Freeway Blues
• BILLY BRAGG, Tooth & Nail
• JASON ELMORE & HOODOO WITCH, Tell You What
• KACEY MUSGRAVES, Same Trailer Different Park
• SHOOTER JENNINGS, The Other Life
• ERIC CLAPTON, Old Sock
• DAVID BOWIE, The Next Day
• SON VOLT, Honky Tonk
• JOSH RITTER, Beast in Its Tracks
• BOZ SCAGGS, Memphis
• ROBYN HITCHCOCK, Love From London
• EMMYLOU HARRIS & RODNEY CROWELL, Old Yellow Moon
• THE MAVERICKS, In Time
• MOUNT MORIAH, Miracle Temple
• NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS, Push the Sky Away
• VARIOUS ARTISTS, Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys
• RICHARD THOMPSON, Electric
• JIM JAMES, Regions of Light and Sound of God
• KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, Feeling Mortal
• FICTION FAMILY, Fiction Family Reunion
• BEN HARPER AND CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE, Get Up!
• CARRIE RODRIGUEZ, Give Me All You Got
• CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN, La Costa Perdida
• ADAM ANT, Adam Ant is The BlueBlack Hussar Marrying The Gunner’s Daughter
• THE LONE BELLOW, Self-titled
• MAX GOMEZ, Rule the World
• YO LA TENGO, Fade
• ERIN MCKEOWN, Manifestra
• PARQUET COURTS, Light Up Gold
• DROPKICK MURPHYS, SIGNED and SEALED in BLOOD

2012

Fall

• JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT, Live From Alabama
• MARRY WATERSON & OLIVER KNIGHT, Hidden
• ELVIS COSTELLO, In Motion Pictures
• BUDDY MILLER AND JIM LAUDERDALE, Buddy and Jim
• THE ROLLING STONES, GRRR!
• GUIDED BY VOICES, Bears For Lunch
• PAUL KELLY, Spring & Fall
• JOSHUA JAMES, From the Top of the Willamette Mountain
• AEROSMITH, Music From Another Dimension
• NEIL YOUNG WITH CRAZY HORSE, Psychedelic Pill
• DANIELIA COTTON, Gun in Your Hand
• ANDREW BIRD, Hands of Glory
• KASEY CHAMBERS AND SHANE NICHOLSON, Wreck and Ruin
• ANDY ROBERTS, Urban Cowboy
• GRANT-LEE PHILLIPS, Walking in the Green Corn
• MARTHA WAINWRIGHT, Come Home To Mama
• WIDESPREAD PANIC, Wood
• WANDA JACKSON, Unfinished Business
• THE WALLFLOWERS, Glad All Over
• A.C. NEWMAN, Shut Down the Streets
• TIFT MERRITT, Traveling Alone
• IRIS DEMENT, Sing The Delta
• FRANK TURNER, Last Minutes & Lost Evenings

Summer

• JOHN HIATT, Mystic Pinball
• MUMFORD & SONS, Babel
• LUCY KAPLANSKY, Reunion
• RYAN BINGHAM, Tomorrowland
• DWIGHT YOAKAM, 3 Pears
• BAND OF HORSES, Mirage Rock
• THE AVETT BROTHERS, The Carpenter
• BOB DYLAN, Tempest
• CHRIS KNIGHT, Little Victories
• BOB MOULD, Silver Age
• CAT POWER, Sun
• MELISSA ETHERIDGE, 4th Street Feeling
• THE DUNWELLS, Blind Sighted Faith
• AMY COOK, Summer Skin
• SEAN ROWE, The Salesman and the Shark
• MAIA SHARP, Change the Ending
• RY COODER, Election Special
• LYNYRD SKYNYRD, Last of a Dyin’ Breed
• KELLY JOE PHELPS, Brother Sinner & The Whale
• VARIOUS ARTISTS, Joey’s Song 2
• ROBIN AND LINDA WILLIAMS, These Old Dark Hills
• BEN TAYLOR, Listening
• THE REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND, Between the Ditches
• FOLK SOUL REVIVAL, Prompting the Dapperness
• SIXPENCE NONE THE RICHER, Lost in Translation
• SHOVELS AND ROPE, O’ Be Joyful
• JOSHUA RADIN, Underwater
• WILL GRAY & REVA WILLIAMS, The Renegade
• THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM, Handwritten
• OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW, Carry Me Back
• JON DEE GRAHAM, Garage Sale
• MATT POND PA, Nature of Maps
• CHATHAM COUNTY LINE, Sight & Sound
• JAMES LUTHER DICKINSON & NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALL-STARS, I’m Just Dead I’m Not Gone
• MINDY SMITH, Mindy Smith
• CASEY ABRAMS, Casey Abrams
• JOE JACKSON, The Duke
• THE FLAMING LIPS, The Flaming Lips & Heady Fwends
• GLEN HANSARD, Rhythm And Repose
• CHRIS SMITHER, Hundred Dollar Valentine
• SMASHING PUMPKINS, Oceania
• FIONA APPLE, The Idler Wheel Is Wiser…

Spring

• THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH, There’s No Leaving Now
• DRIVIN N CRYIN, Songs From the Laundromat
• GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALS, The Lion The Beast The Beat
• BODEANS, American Made
• ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO, Big Station
• BRANDI CARLILE, Bear Creek
• LANGHORNE SLIM & THE LAW, Way We Move
• RIVERBOAT GAMBLERS, The Wolf You Feed
• JOHN MAYER, Born and Raised
• THE CULT, Choice of Weapon
• WILLIE NELSON, Heroes
• SANTANA, Shape Shifter
• MEIKO, The Bright Side
• ALABAMA SHAKES, Boys & Girls
• THE MASTERSONS, Birds Fly South
• BONNIE RAITT, Slipstream
• DR. JOHN, Locked Down
• THE LUMINEERS, The Lumineers
• ROCKY VOTOLATO, Television Of Saints
• ELVIS COSTELLO, The Return Of The Spectacular Spinning Songbook
• JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE, Nothing’s Going to Change The Way You Feel About Me Now
• SONS OF BILL, Sirens
• RAY WYLIE HUBBARD, Grifter’s Hymnal

Winter

• THE SHINS, Port of Morrow
• FRANK BLACK & THE CATHOLICS, Live at Melkweg
• MARGOT & THE NUCLEAR SO & SO’S, Rot Gut Domestic
• LUCERO, Woman & Work
• DELTA SPIRIT, Delta Spirit
• SHOOTER JENNINGS, Family Man
• TODD SNIDER, Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables
• BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Wrecking Ball
• CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS, Leaving Eden
• LYLE LOVETT, Release Me
• HONEYDOGS, What Comes After
• JOSH RITTER, Bringing in the Darlings (EP)
• KEVN KINNEY & GOLDEN PALOMINOS, A Good Country Mile
• LAMBCHOP, Mr. M
• ANGELA EASTERLING, Mon secret
• HEARTLESS BASTARDS, Arrow
• PUNCH BROTHERS, Who’s Feeling Young Now?
• CHUCK PROPHET, Temple Beautiful
• DR. DOG, Be The Void
• VAN HALEN, A Different Kind of Truth
• BEN KWELLER, Go Fly A Kite
• RUTHIE FOSTER, Let It Burn
• JOHN HIATT, Crossing Muddy Waters
• DARRELL SCOTT, Long Ride Home
• MICAH SCHNABEL, I’m Dead, Serious
• CRAIG FINN, Clear Heart Full Eyes
• NADA SURF, The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy
• CHRIS CASTLE, Last Bird Home
• KATHLEEN EDWARDS, Voyageur
• GUIDED BY VOICES, Let’s Go Eat the Factory

2011

Fall

• Shurman & Family Christmas Vol. 1
• SHE & HIM, A Very She & Him Christmas
• RHETT MILLER, The Interpreter: Live At Largo
• R.E.M., Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982 – 2011
• SEAN COSTELLO, At His Best: Live
• STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN, Soul to Soul
• NOEL GALLAGHER, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
• LAURA VEIRS, Tumble Bee
• THE DECEMBERISTS, Long Live the King
• MIRANDA LAMBERT, For The Record
• TOM WAITS, Bad As Me
• DEER TICK, Divine Providence
• PAUL KELLY, Songs From the South
• SHELBY LYNNE, Revelation Road
• CHRIS ISAAK, Beyond the Sun
• RYAN ADAMS, Ashes & Fire
• SCOTT H BIRAM, Bad Ingredients
• JAMES MORRISON, Awakening
• BONNIE PRINCE BILLY, Wolfroy Goes to Town
• MIKE VIOLA, Electro De Perfecto
• INDIGO GIRLS, Beauty Queen Sister

Summer

• WILCO, The Whole Love
• MATTHEW SWEET, Modern Art
• MEKONS, Ancient & Modern
• JAYHAWKS, Mockingbird Time
• RICHMOND FONTAINE, The High Country
• WILL DAILEY, Will Dailey & The Rivals
• LYDIA LOVELESS, Indestructible Machine
• GOURDS, Old Mad Joy
• RECKLESS KELLY, Good Luck & True Love
• SLAID CLEAVES, Sorrow & Smoke: Live at the Horseshoe Lounge
• TOM RUSSELL, Mesabi
• JOHN DOE, Keeper
• ERIC LINDELL, West County Drifter
• ROBERT EARL KEEN, Ready for Confetti
• MATTHEW RYAN, I Recall Standing as Though Nothing Could Fall
• STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS, Mirror Traffic
• THE BOTTLE ROCKETS, Not So Loud: An Acoustic Evening
• JEFF BRIDGES, Jeff Bridges
• GUY CLARK, Songs & Stories
• JOHN HIATT, Dirty Jeans & Mudslide Hymns
• KEB MO, The Reflection
• FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE, Sky Full of Holes
• BODEANS, Indigo Dreams
• JIMMIE VAUGHAN, Plays More Blues, Ballads & Favorites
• RAY WYLIE HUBBARD, Ray Wylie Hubbard & the Cowboy Twinkies
• AMY LAVERE, Stranger Me
• GEORGE THOROGOOD AND THE DESTROYERS, 2120 South Michigan Ave
• OLD 97′S, Grand Theatre Vol. 2
• TIM EASTON, Since 1966, Vol. 1

Spring

• GILLIAN WELCH, The Harrow & The Harvest
• EILEN JEWELL, Queen of the Minor Key
• DAVE ALVIN, Eleven Eleven
• BON IVER, Bon Iver
• JIM LAUDERDALE, Reason & Rhyme
• JAMES MADDOCK, Wake Up & Dream
• NEIL YOUNG INTERNATIONAL HARVESTERS, A Treasure
• MARC BROUSSARD, Marc Broussard
• MADELEINE PEYROUX, Standing on the Rooftop
• JOE ELY, Satisfied at Last
• TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND, Revelator
• CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS, Heritage
• MY MORNING JACKET, Circuital
• DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, Codes And Keys
• FLOGGING MOLLY, Speed Of Darkness
• EDDIE VEDDER, Ukulele Songs
• JOSEPH ARTHUR, Graduation Ceremony
• CHIP TAYLOR, Rock & Roll Joe
• LEVON HELM, Ramble at the Ryman
• SARAH JAROSZ, Follow Me Down
• HANK WILLIAMS III, Hillbilly Joker
• FELICE BROTHERS, Celebration Florida
• BEN SOLLEE, Inclusions
• OKKERVIL RIVER, I Am Very Far
• FLEET FOXES, Helplessness Blues
• BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA, Take The High Road
• ELIZA GILKYSON, Roses at the End of Time
• JEFFREY FOUCAULT, Horse Latitudes
• R.E.M., The Lowdown
• STEVE EARLE, I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive
• EMMYLOU HARRIS, Hard Bargain
• THE WAIFS, Temptation
• ROGER CLYNE & THE PEACEMAKERS, Unida Cantina
• BOB SCHNEIDER, Perfect Day
• GRAVEYARD, Hisingen Blues
• RALPH STANLEY, A Mother’s Prayer
• JASON ISBELL AND 400 UNIT, Here We Rest
• ALISON KRAUSS AND UNION STATION, Paper Airplane
• PAUL SIMON, So Beautiful or So What
• HA HA TONKA, Death of a Decade
• ROBBIE ROBERTSON, How To Become Clairvoyant
• HOT TUNA, Steady As She Goes
• BAND OF HEATHENS, Top Hat Crown & The Clapmaster’s Son
• LOS LONELY BOYS, Rockpango
• WILLIE NELSON, WYNTON MARSALIS, AND NORAH JONES, Here We Go Again
• SHANNON MCNALLY, Western Ballad
• THE STROKES, Angles
• SOLOMON BURKE AND DIJK, Hold On Tight

Winter

• CAITLIN ROSE, Own Side Now
• THE DAMNWELLS, No One Listens to the Band Anymore
• NICK LOWE, Labour of Lust
• J MASCIS, Several Shades of Why
• R.E.M., Collapse Into Now
• DR JOHN, Zu Zu Soiree
• BRUCE COCKBURN, Small Source of Comfort
• EXENE CERVENKA, Excitement of Maybe
• LUCINDA WILLIAMS, Blessed
• BUDDY MILLER, MARC RIBOT, BILL FRISELL & GREG LEISZ, The Majestic Silver Strings
• RON SEXSMITH, Long Player Late Bloomer
• LOW ANTHEM, Smart Flesh
• ADELE, 21
• THE CAVE SINGERS, No Witch
• DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, Go-Go Boots
• HAYES CARLL, KMAG YOYO (& other American stories)
• BRIGHT EYES, The People’s Key
• PJ HARVEY, Let England Shake
• THE WAILIN’ JENNYS, Bright Morning Stars
• OVER THE RHINE, Long Surrender
• TEDDY THOMPSON, Bella
• TODD SNIDER, Todd Snider Live: The Storyteller
• CARRIE RODRIGUEZ AND BEN KYLE, We Still Love Our Country
• NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS, Keys to the Kingdom
• AMOS LEE, Mission Bell
• WANDA JACKSON (WITH JACK WHITE), The Party Ain’t Over
• LORI MCKENNA, Lorraine
• CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS, Carolina Chocolate Drops / Luminescent Orchestrii
• IRON AND WINE, We Kiss Each Other Clean
• THE DECEMBERISTS, The King Is Dead
• GREGG ALLMAN, Low Country Blues
• SOCIAL DISTORTION, Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes
• ABIGAIL WASHBURN, City of Refuge
• EDIE BRICKELL, Edie Brickell
• CAKE, Showroom of Compassion

2010

Fall

• SCOTT MILLER, Christmas Gift
• SHELBY LYNNE, Merry Christmas
• INDIGO GIRLS, Holly Happy Days
• DAN HICKS, Crazy For Christmas
• MASON JENNINGS, The Flood
• SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS, Kudzu Ranch
• BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, The Promise
• VARIOUS ARTISTS, Coal Miner’s Daughter: A Tribute To Loretta Lynn
• NORAH JONES, …Featuring Norah Jones
• THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH, Sometimes the Blues Is Just a Passing Bird
• ALBERT KING/STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN, In Session
• ELVIS COSTELLO, National Ransom
• KEITH RICHARDS, Vintage Vinos
• WEEZER, Death To False Metal
• BOB DYLAN, The Bootleg Series: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964
• ELTON JOHN & LEON RUSSELL, The Union
• KINGS OF LEON, Come Around Sundown
• OLD 97S, The Grand Theatre Volume One
• BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, Write About Love
• DAR WILLIAMS, Many Great Companions
• RAILROAD EARTH, Railroad Earth
• RAUL MALO, Sinners & Saints
• THE AVETT BROTHERS, Live, Volume 3
• GUSTER, Easy Wonderful

Summer

• NEIL YOUNG, Le Noise
• JOHN MELLENCAMP, No Better Than This
• PETE YORN, Pete Yorn
• THE POSIES, Blood/Candy
• JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE, Harlem River Blues
• ROBERT PLANT, Band of Joy
• MAVIS STAPLES, You Are Not Alone
• VARIOUS ARTISTS, Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band: Legacy
• STEELDRIVERS, Reckless
• JERRY LEE LEWIS, Mean Old Man
• RICHARD THOMPSON, Dream Attic
• BOBBY BARE, JR., A Storm A Tree My Mother’s Head
• THE WEEPIES, Be My Thrill
• JJ GREY, Georgia Warhorse
• MARTY STUART, Ghost Train (The Studio B Sessions)
• NILS LOFGREN, I Came to Dance
• EELS, Tomorrow Morning
• RAY LAMONTAGNE, God Willin’ & The Creek Don’t Rise
• JOHN MELLENCAMP, No Better Than This
• ELI “PAPERBOY” REED, Come And Get It
• NEIL JUKEBOX YOUNG, Neil Young’s Jukebox
• LOS LOBOS, Tin Can Trust
• ARCADE FIRE, The Suburbs
• BLACK CROWES, Croweology
• GOV’T MULE, Mulennium
• MARK OLSON, Many Colored Kite
• BUTCHER HOLLER AND EILEN JEWELL, Butcher Holler
• BIG HEAD TODD & THE MONSTERS, Rocksteady
• SHERYL CROW, 100 Miles From Memphis
• FRONTIER RUCKUS, Deadmalls and Nightfalls
• CHRIS SHIFLETT & THE DEAD PEASANTS, Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants
• CHATAM COUNTY LINE, Wildwood
• TOMMY KEENE, Tommy Keene You Hear Me: A Retrospective 83-2009
• CROWDED HOUSE, Intriguer
• JIMMIE VAUGHAN, Jimmie Vaughan-Plays Blues, Ballads & Favorites
• STONEHONEY, The Cedar Creek Sessions
• ROBERT POLLARD, Moses on a Snail

Spring

• ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO, Street Songs of Love
• JACKIE GREENE, Till The Light Comes
• VARIOUS ARTISTS, Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs Of John Prine
• PAUL THORN, Pimps and Preachers
• GRIFFIN HOUSE, The Learner
• CONSTELLATIONS, Southern Gothic
• GASLIGHT ANTHEM, American Slang
• TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS, Mojo
• PERNICE BROTHERS, Goodbye Killer
• GRACE POTTER AND THE NOCTURNALS, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
• DEER TICK, Black Dirt Sessions
• DELTA SPIRIT, History From Below
• TIFT MERRITT, See You On The Moon
• JACK JOHNSON, The Bride Screamed Murder
• WATERMELON SLIM, Ringers
• SADIES, Darker Circles
• BAND OF HORSES, Infinite Arms
• BLACK KEYS, Brothers
• MARY GAUTHIER, The Foundling
• CROOKED STILL, Some Strange Country
• JIM LAUDERDALE, Patchwork River
• THE NATIONAL, High Violet
• JACKSON BROWNE AND DAVID LINDLEY, Love Is Strange
• JOSH RITTER, So Runs The World Away
• HOLD STEADY, Heaven Is Whenever
• JUSTIN CURRIE, The Great War
• NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, Together
• JESSE MALIN & ST. MARKS SOCIAL, Love It to Life
• ANDERS OSBORNE, American Patchwork
• MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER, The Age of Miracles
• WILLIE NELSON, Country Music
• SHELBY LYNNE, Tears, Lies, And Alibis
• APPLES IN STEREO, Travellers In Space And Time
• MERLE HAGGARD, I Am What I Am
• RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu
• INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS, Things That Fly
• LEGENDARY SHACK SHAKERS, Agridustrial
• CARRIE RODRIGUEZ, Love And Circumstance
• MGMT, Congratulations
• NATALIE MERCHANT, Leave Your Sleep
• PETER WOLF, Midnight Souvenirs
• JAKOB DYLAN, Women and Country
• DR. DOG, Shame Shame
• SHARON JONES & THE DAP KINGS, I Learned the Hard Way
• MARTIN SEXTON, Sugarcoating
• GRAHAM PARKER, Imaginary Television
• JOAN ARMATRADING, This Charming Life
• BLACK FRANCIS, Nonstoperotik

Winter

• ROADSIDE GRAVES, You Won’t Be Happy With Me (EP)
• THE RIGHT ONS, Look Inside, Now!
• SHE AND HIM, Volume Two
• DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, The Big To-Do
• THE WHITE STRIPES, Under Great White Northern Lights
• POPA CHUBBY, The Fight Is On
• THE CHIEFTAINS FEATURING RY COODER, San Patricio
• FRIGHTENED RABBIT, The Winter Of Mixed Drinks
• BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, Beat the Devil’s Tattoo
• JOHN HIATT, The Open Road
• THE TEXAS TORNADOES, Esta Bueno
• HOLMES BROTHERS, Feed My Soul
• SHOOTER JENNINGS & HIEROPHANT, Black Ribbons
• JOHNNY CASH, American VI: Ain’t No Grave
• WILL KIMBROUGH, Wings
• DEADSTRING BROTHERS, Sao Paulo
• JOE PUG, Messenger
• KASEY ANDERSON, Nowhere Nights
• MATTHEW RYAN, Dear Lover
• CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS, Genuine Negro Jig
• IKE REILLY, Hard Luck Stories
• BACKYARD TIRE FIRE, Good to Be
• RECKLESS KELLY, Somewhere in Time
• TIM BARRY, 28th & Stonewall
• ALLISON MOORER, Crows
• GLOSSARY, Feral Fire
• PATTY GRIFFIN, Downtown Church
• BLUE RODEO, The Things We Left Behind
• LADY ANTEBELLUM, Need You Now
• CRAZY HEART, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (New West)
• DANNY BARNES, Pizza Box (ATO)
• SPOON, Transference (Merge)
• RAY WYLIE HUBBARD, A. Enlightenment, B. Endarkment (Hint: There Is No C)
• LAURA VEIRS, July Flame
• FREEDY JOHNSTON, Rain on the City

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