2013
May 31, 2013
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Afrolicious/California Dreaming/Self/Reggae
Joseph Arthur/The Ballad of Boogie Christ/Lonely Astronaut/Rock
George Benson/Inspiration: A Tribute to Nat King Cole/Concord/Jazz
Cristina Braga/Samba,Jazz & Love/Enja Records/Jazz-Latin
Natalia Clavier/Lumen/Nacional/Rock-Latin
Daft Punk/Random Access Memories/Columbia/Electronica
Donna the Buffalo/Tonight, Tomorrow & Yesterday/Sugar Hill/Rock
David Egan/David Egan/Self/Blues
Ben Folds Five/Live/Vee Pee Records/Rock
Cas Haley/La Si Dah/Self/Reggae
Head for the Hills/Blue Ruin/Self/Bluegrass-Folk
Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette/Somewher/ECM/Jazz
Joy Kills Sorrow/Wide Awake/Signature Sounds/Bluegrass
Dayna Kurtz/Secret Canon Vol. 2/Kismet Records/Blues
Femi Kuti/No Place for my Dream/Label Maison Ltd./World
Tommy Malone/Natural Born Days/MC Records/Rock
Laura Marling/Once I Was an Eagle/Ribbon Music/Rolk
Buddy Mondlock/The Memory Wall/Self/Rock
Quadron/Avalanche/Vested in Culture/R&B
Revelers/Revelers/Self/Cajun-Rock
Rogue Wave/Nightingale Floors/Vagrant/Rock
Stranglers/Giants/Self/Rock
K T Tunstall/Selections from Invisible Empire/Crescent Moon EP/Blue Note/Rock
Emily Wells/Mama Acoustic Recordings/Partisan/Rock
When Saints Go Machine/Infinity Pool/!K7 Records/RPM-Rock
Yellowjackets/A Rise in the Road/Mack Avenue/Jazz
Various/True Blood/ATO/Soundtrack
Various/Music Inspired by Swamp People/Rounder/Rock-Folk-Soundtrack
BIG SURPRISE: David Egan, Cas Haley.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Natalia Clavier.
HALL OF FAME: George Benson, Yellowjackets, Femi Kuti.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: McCrary Sisters/All the Way.
BEST OVERLOOKED: The Ghost Brothers of Darkland County.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Cannonball Adderley- Phenix.
AND DON'T FORGET: Ray Bonneville/Roll It Down.
COMING SOON: Lachlan Bryan, Pastels, Kenny Chesney, Mother Hips.
May 24, 2013
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Beat Funktion/Moon Town/Do Music Records/Jazz-Funk
Terence Blanchard/Magnetic/Blue Note/Jazz
Booker T/Sound the Alarm/Concord/Rock-R&B
Brazos/Saltwater/Dead Oceans/Rock
Slaid Cleaves/Still Fighting the War/Music Road Records/Folk
Davell Crawford/My Gift to You/Basin Street Records/Jazz-Soul
Ruby Dee & the Snakehandlers/Rockabilly Playground/Dionysus/Country
Della Mae/This World Oft Can Be/Rounder/Folk
Eisley/Currents/Equal Vision Records/Rock
Melissa Ferrick/The Truth Is/Mpress Records/Rock
Hooverphonic/The Night Before/Sony/Rock
Bob James & David Sandborn/Quartett Humaine/Self/Jazz
Claire Lynch/Dear Sister/Compass/Bluegrass
McCrary Sisters/All the Way/Self/Soul-Spiritual
Pat Metheny/Tap: John Zorn’s Book of Angels Vol. 20/Nonesuch/Jazz
Mount Kimbie/Cold Spring*Fault Less Youth/Warp Records/RPM
Orb feat. Lee “Scratch” Perry/Orbserving the StarHouse Dub/End Records/RPM
Professor Louie & the Crowmatix/Wings of Fire/Self/Rock
Kermit Ruffins/We Partyin’ Traditional Style/Basin Street/Jazz
Second Sky & Thomas Blondet/Remixes/Rhythm & Culture/RPM
Robinson Treacher/Porches/Self/Folk
Tricky/False Idols/!K7/Electronica
Various/The Other Side of Nashville/Lions Gate Entertainment/Country-Folk
Various/Rob Garza Remixes/Smashpod/Electronica
Various/Let Us In Americana: The Music of Paul McCartney/Revivor Music/Folk-Rock
BIG SURPRISE: Pat Metheny, Beat Funktion.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Booker T.
HALL OF FAME: Bob James & David Sandborn, McCrary Sisters.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Randall Bramblett/The Bright Spots; The Lone Bellow/The Lone Bellow.
BEST OVERLOOKED Vandaveer/Oh Willie Please…..
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Hubert Laws/In the Beginning.
AND DON'T FORGET: Harry Manx/Bread & Buddha.
COMING SOON: Poco, Ben Folds Live, Gregory Alan Isakov, Tedeschi Trucks Band.
May 17, 2013
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Frank Bang & The Secret Stash/Double Dare/Blue Hoss/Rock
Corey Christiansen/Lone Prarie/Origin/Jazz
CocoRosie/Tales of a Grass Widow/Self/Rock
Grace Curran & the High Falutin’ Band/Proof of Love/Vizzable Music/Blues
Eliane Elias/I Thought of You: A Tribute to Chet Baker/Concord/Jazz
Fitz & the Tantrums/More Than Just a Dream/Elektra/R&B-Rock
Eleanor Friedberger/A Personal Record/Merge/Rock
Greezy Wheels/Kitty Cat Jesus/MaHatMa Records/Folk
Yasmine Hamdan/Ya Nass/Kwaidan Records/World
Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa/Seesaw/J&R Adventures/Blues-Rock
Emily Herring/Your Mistake/Self/Country
Hot Club of Cowtown/Rendezvous in Rhythm/Gold Strike Records/Country-Folk
Julian Lennon/Everything Changes/Another Room/Rock
Morgan Heritage/Here Come the Kings/VP Record Group/Reggae
Motema/The Devil & the Diamond/Self/Folk
Nell Robinson & Jim Nunally/House & Garden/Self/Bluegrass
Skip & Die/Riots in the Jungle/Crammed Discs/World-RPM
Slightly Stoopid & Friends/Live at Roberto’s Tri Studios/LiveJam/Rock-Reggae
Tejas Brothers/Live a Little More/Self/Country
Treetop Flyers/The Mountain Moves/Partisan/Rock
Vieux Farka Toure/Mon Pays/Six Degrees/World
Vampire Weekend/Vampires of the City/XL Recordings/Rock
Various/Tru Blues/Telarc/Blues
BIG SURPRISE: Grace Curran & the High Falutin’ Band.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Yasmine Hamdan.
HALL OF FAME: Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa, Tru Blues.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts/Twice Around the Sun.
BEST REVISITED CD: Clairy Browne & the Bangin’ Rackettes/Baby Caught the Bus.
BEST OVERLOOKED: Fox Street AllStars/Tough Talk.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: The Billie Holiday Story Vol. 1.
AND DON'T FORGET: Beth Orton/Sugaring Season; Norah Jones/The Fall.
COMING SOON: John Vanderslice, Foreign Talks, Mavis Staples.
May 10, 2013
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Sam Amidon/Bright Sunny South/Nonesuch/Folk
Randall Bramblett/The Bright Spots/New West/Rock
Clairy Browne & the Bangin’ Rackettes/Baby Caught the Bus/Vanguard/Rock
Changing Colours/Joan & the King/Blank Tape Records/Folk
Dungeonesse/Dungeonesse/Secret Canadian/Rock
Joy Dunlop/Faileasan/Scradag/Celtic
Gondwana Dawn/Godwana Dawn/Arc/World
Katchafire/Best So Far/VP Music/Reggae
Guthrie Kennard/Cross Your Heart/Range Records/Country-Folk
Pokey LaFarge/Live in Holland/Free Dirt Records/Folk
Marshall Lawrence/House Call/Self/Blues
Natalie Maines/Mother/Columbia/Rock
Laura Mvula/Sing to the Moon/Sony/Soul-Rock
Myron E with the Soul Investigators/Broadway/Stones Throw Recores/Soul
Piano Guys/Piano Guys 2/Sony/Folk-Classical
Joshua Radin/Wax Wings/Self/Rock-Folk
Jeff Scroggins & Colorado/Western Branches/Self/Bluegrass
Various/Women of Brazil/Putumayo/Latin
Various/Made in Iceland IV/Iceland Music/Rock-RPM
Various/Blind Racoon Collection Vol 1/Blind Racoon/Blues
BIG SURPRISE: Laura Mvula, Changing Colors.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Sam Amidon, Clairy Brown & the Bangin’ Rackettes.
HALL OF FAME: Guthrie Kennard, Joshua Radin, Randall Bramblett.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Amy Speace- How to Sleep in a Stormy Boat.
BEST OVERLOOKED: Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors- Good Light.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Edward R. Murrow- I Can Hear It Now.
AND DON'T FORGET: Rachid Taha- Rock el Casbah.
COMING SOON: Dukes of Dixieland, Donna the Buffalo, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings.
May 3, 2013
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Blue Mule/This Way or That/Flat Five/Bluegrass
Willie Calhoun/Life in This World/Motema/Jazz
!!! (Chk, Chk, Chk)/Thri!!!er/Warp/Rock
James Cotton/Cotton Mouth/Alligator/Blues
Deerhunter/Monomania/4AD/Rock
Fox Street AllStars/Tough Talk/Self/Rock
Gaudi/In Between Times/Six Degrees/Electronica-Reggae*
Various/Ghost Brothers of Darkland County/Self/Soundtrack-Rock*
Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors/Good Light/Magnolia Music/Rock-Folk
Warren Hood Band/Warren Hood Band/Red Parlor/Country-Rock
Iggy Pop & the Stooges/Ready to Die/Fat Possum/Rock
Macklemore & Ryanlewis/The Heist/Self/HipHop
Maoli/Arise/Island Empire/Reggae
Bobby McFerrin/Spirit You All/Sony/Jazz-Spritual*
Aoife O’Donovan/Fossils/Yep Roc/Folk
Open the Door for Three/Open the Door for Three/Self/Folk
Popa Chubby/Universal Breakdown Blues/Mascot Music/Blues
Joshua Redman/Walking Shadows/Nonesuch/Jazz
Jussi Reijonen/Un/Unmusic/Jazz-World
Johnny Rivers/Live at Cache Creek/Soul City Records/Rock
Savages/Silence Yourself/Matador/Rock
Snoop Lion/Reincarnation/Berhane Sound/Reggae
Statesboro Revue/Ramble on Privilege Creek/Self/Blues-Rock
Rod Stewart/Time/Capitol/Rock
Chip Taylor/Block Out the Sirens of This Lonely World/Train Wreck/Folk
Tribe Called Red/Nation II Nation/Self/Electronica-World
Jim Wilson/Incarnation/New Earth/Native American
BIG SURPRISE: Snoop Lion, Fox Street Allstars, Statesboro Revue.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Various: Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, Maoli.
HALL OF FAME: Bobby McFerrin, Joshua Redman, Gaudi, Jim Wilson.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: The Lonely Wild- The Sun As It Comes.
BEST OVERLOOKED: Deadstring Brothers- Cannery Row.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Tuxedomoon- Scream with a View.
AND DON'T FORGET: Sonny Landreth- Elemental Journey; Duke Robillard- A Swingin’ Session.
COMING SOON: Ashley Moore, Fleetwood Mac EP, Calexico, Radiation City, Claire Lynch.
April 26, 2013
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Emily Bear/Diversity/Concord/Jazz
Michael Blanco/No Time Like the Present/Cognative Dissonance/Jazz
Marshall Chapman/Blaze of Glory/TallGirl Records/Country
Crackling/Mary Magdalene/Canada Music Fund/Rock-Folk
Cheick Hamal Diabate/Prudence/Electric Cowbell Music/World
Dustbowl Revival/Carry Me Home/Self/Folk
Ashleigh Flynn/A Million Stars/Self/Folk
David Francey/So Say We All/Laker Music/Folk
Andy Hackbarth/Treadmill Horses/January Records/Rock/Colorado
Here Comes the Mummies/Cryptic/Self/Funk
Stephen Kellogg/Blunderston Rookery/Self/Rock
Mackrosoft/S.E.M.E./Self/Jazz-Funk
Major Lazer/Free the Universe/Secretly Canadian/Reggae-RPM
Ruth Moody/These Wilder Things/Self/Folk
Mother Falcon/You Knew/Self/Rock
Mark Newton & Steve Thomas/Reborn/Pinecastle Records/Bluegrass
Phoenix/Bankrupt!/Loyaute/Rock
Kim Richey/Thorn in My Heart/Yep Roc/Rock-Folk
Peter Rowan/The Old School/Self/Bluegrass
Alice Russell/To Dust/Tru Thoughts/Soul
Cecile McLorin Salvant/Woman Child/Mack Avenue/Jazz
She & Him/Volume 2/Merge/Rock
Sturgill Simpson/High Top Mountain/Self/Country
Spin Doctors/If the River Was Whiskey/Ruf Records/Rock
Spirit Family Reunion/Spirit Family Reunion/Self/Folk
Swingadelic/Toussaintville/Zoho Music/Jazz-Funk
Vandaveer/Oh Willie, Please/Self/Folk
Various/Tru Thoughts Recording Compilation/Tru Thoughts/Funk-RPM
BIG SURPRISE: Here Comes the Mummies, Sturgill Simpson.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Spirit Family Reunion, Spin Doctors.
HALL OF FAME: Alice Russell, Peter Rowan, Tru Thoughts Compilation, Mackrosoft.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Steel Wheels- No More Rain.
BEST OVERLOOKED: Luke Winslow-King- The Coming Tide.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: The Doors- Morrison Hotel.
AND DON'T FORGET: Pieta Brown- Mercury; Grayson Capps- If You Knew My Mind.
COMING SOON: Portugal. The Man, Tango in the Attic, Booker T., Telarc: True Blues.
April 19, 2013
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Austin Lounge Lizards/Home & Deranged/Self/Folk
Eric Brace & Peter Cooper/The Comeback Album/Red Beet Records/Country
Randall Bramblett/The Bright Spots/New West/Rock
Raquel Cepeda/I’m Confessin’/Peonia Music/Jazz-Latin
Dailey & Vincent/Brothers of the Highway/Rounder/Bluegrass
Mia Dyson/The Moment/Co-op/Rock
Flaming Lips/The Terror/Warner Brothers/Rock
John Grant/Pale Green Ghosts/Partisan/Rock
Chris Henry/Making My Way to You/Self/Folk-Bluegrass
Hound Kings/Unleashed/9 Below/Blues
Iron & Wine/Ghost on Ghost/Nonesuch/Rock*
Tom Jones/Spirit on the Room/Rounder/Rock-Spiritual*
Junip/Junip/Mute/Rock*
K-OS/Black on Blonde/Nettwerk/HipHop
Letherette/Letherette/Ninja Tune/RPM
David Mayfield Parade/Good Man Down/Beautywood/Rock-Folk
Christian McBride & Inside Straight/People Music/Mack Avenue/Jazz
Willie Nelson & Family/Let’s Face the Music & Dance/Sony/Country-Jazz
NeyBuzz/MG’s Funk Workshop/Self/Funk
Bill Ryder-Jones/A Bad Wind Blows in My Heart/Domino/Rock
Hans Theessink/Wishing Well/Blue Groove/Blues
Thermals/Desperate Ground/Saddle Creek/Rock
Yellowman/Young, Gifted & Yellow/VP Music Group/Reggae
BIG SURPRISE: Hans Theessink.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Hound Kings, NeyBuzz.
HALL OF FAME: Willie Nelson, Iron & Wine, Tom Jones.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Mexican Dubwiser/Revolution Radio.
BEST OVERLOOKED: Luke Winslow-King/The Coming Tide.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Crosby Stills Nash & Young/Deja Vu
AND DON'T FORGET: Andy Narell/The Passage.
COMING SOON: Maps, Laura Marling.Sara Watkins, Mike Farris, Tedeschi Trucks Band.
April 12, 2013
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Akron -Family/Sub Verses/Dead Oceans/Rock
The Bills/Yes Please/Self/Bluegrass
Amy Black/Live at Johnny D’s/Self/Rock-Country
Boundary/Boundary/Self/Electronica
Jaimeo Brown/Transcendence/Motema Music/Jazz-Gospel.
Dead Can Dance/In Concert/Pias America/World
Patti Griffin/American Kid/New West/Folk*
Hands/Synesthesia/Kill Rock Stars/Rock
Har Mar Superstar/Bye Bye 17/Cuff Records/Funk-Soul-R&B
He’s My Brother She’s My Sister/Nobody Dances in this Town/Self/Folk
Hymn for Her/Lucy & Wayne’s Smokin’ Flowers/Self/Rock
Implodes/Recurring Dream/Kranky/Rock
Knife/Shaking the Habitual/Rabid Records/Rock-Electronica
Arthur Lee Land/Cracked Open/Perfect Groove Records/Folk-Bluegrass
Chico Mann/Magical Thinking/Soundway/Electronica-Latin*
Meat Puppets/Rat Farm/Megaforce Records/Rock
Jane Monheit/Heart of the Matter/Decca/Jazz
Niyaz/Sumud Acoustic EP/Six Degrees/World
Nynk/Alter/Crammed Discs/World
Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark/English Electric/BMG/Electronica
Ana Popovic/Can You Stand the Heat/ArtisteXclusive/Blues
Redtenbacher’s Funkestra/The Cooker/Self/Funk
Amy Speace/How to Sleep in a Stormy Boat/Self/Folk
Stephen Stills/Carry On/Rhino Entertainment/Rock
Kurt Vile/Wakin On a Pretty Daze/Matador/Rock
Jessie Ware/Devotion/Uir Ltd/Electronica-Rock
Luke Winslow-King/The Coming Tide/Bloodshot/Folk-Blues
Various/To Blue: The Songs of Nick Drake/Stony Sound/Folk
Various/Live on KDNK Vol 2/Self/All genres
BIG SURPRISE: Arthur Lee Land
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Luke Winslow-King.
HALL OF FAME: Ana Popovic, Patti Griffin, Amy Speace, Chico Mann.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Shannon McNally/Small Town Talk.
BEST OVERLOOKED: Garrett LeBeau/Rise to the Grind.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Genesis/ABACAB.
AND DON'T FORGET: Thomas Dolby/Map of a Floating City.
COMING SOON: James McCartney, Hot Club of Cowtown, Band of Heathens, Randall Bramblett, Tea Leaf Green.
April 5, 2013
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Bad Brad & the Fat Cats/Eyes on the Prize/Colorado Sound Studios/Blues
Besnard Lakes/Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO/Jagjaguwar/Rock
Bombino/Nomad/Nonesuch/World
Bonobo/The North Borders/Ninja Tune/Electronica
Carla Bruni/Little French Songs/Teorema/Rock-World
Computers/Love Triangles, Hate Squares/One Little Indian/Rock
CSC Funk Band/Funkincense/Electric Cowbell Records/Funk
Dawes/Stories Don’t End/Hub Records/Rock
Deadstring Brothers/Cannery Row/Bloodshot/Rock
Delta Saints/Death Letter Jubilee/Self/Rock
Eldar Djangirov Trio/Breakthrough/Motema Music/Jazz
Dave Douglas Quintet/Time Travel/Greenleaf Music/Jazz
Dropkick Murphys/Singed & Sealed in Blood/Born & Bred Records/Rock
Michael Feinstein/Change of Heart: The Songs of Andre Previn/Jazz
Frikstailers/El Son de Paz/ZZK/Latin-Electronica-HipHop
Michael Jude & John Michel/Acoustic Jems/Self/Rock
Yvette Landry/No Man’s Land/Self/Country
Lone Bellow/Lone Bellow/Descendant Records/Rock
Lenny Marcus Trio/Peace for Beethoven:A Jazz of Beethoven Companion/Self/Jazz
Shannon McNally/Small Town Talk (Songs of Bobby Charles)/Sacred Sumac Music/Folk
Mexican Dubwiser/Revolution Radio/Koolarrow Records/Latin-Electronica
Charnett Moffett/The Bridge: Solo Bass Works/Motema Music/Jazz
Os Mutantes/Fool Metal Jack/Krian Group/Latin-Rock
Palenke Soultribe/Mar/Self/Latin-RPM
Sayed Sabrina/Big Boy Blues/Self/Blues
The View/Cheeky for a Reason/Self/Rock
BIG SURPRISE: Mexican Dubwiser, Bad Brad & the Fat Cats.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: CSC Funk Band, Frikstailers.
HALL OF FAME: Bonobo, Delta Saints, Lone Bellow.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Steel Wheels- No More Rain.
BEST OVERLOOKED: Turntables on Las Ramblas.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Rush- Hemispheres.
AND DON'T FORGET: John Fogerty- The Blue Ridge Rangers Ride Again.
COMING SOON: Meat Puppets, Michael Franti, Casey Driessen, Randall Bramblett.
March 29, 2013
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Alan Bibey & Wayne Benson/The Mandolin Chronicles/Pinecastle Holdings/Bluegrass
Billy Jones Bluez/I’m a Bluesman/Self/Blues
Born Ruffians/Birthmarks/Yep Roc/Rock
Cayucas/Bigfoot/Secretly Canadian/Rock
Depeche Mode/Delta/Venusnote/Rock
Greyboy Allstars/Inland Emperor/Knowledge Room Recordings/Funk-Jazz
Lisa Hilton/Getaway/Self/Jazz
John Brown’s Body/Kings & Queens/All Star Records/Reggae
Keravel/Voltz/Kassure Productions/Electronica-Jazz
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba/Jama Ko/Out Here Records/World
Lapalux/Nostalchic/Brainfeeder/Electronica
Mutts/Object Permanence/Self/Rock
Postal Service/Give Up/Sub Pop/Rock
Walk Off the Earth/R.E.V.O./Columbia/Rock
Wheeler Brothers/Gold Boots Glitter/Bismeaux Records/Rock
Woody Pines/Rabbits’ Motel/Self/Folk
BIG SURPRISE: Mutts, Cayucas.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Woody Pines.
HALL OF FAME: Greyboy Allstars, Bassekou Kouyate, Wheeler Brothers.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Joe Bonamassa- An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House.
BEST OVERLOOKED: Various- A Tribute to the Music of Ron Davies.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Hall & Oates- Bigger Than the Both of Us.
AND DON'T FORGET: JD McPherson- Signs & Signifiers; AfroCubism- AfroCubism.
COMING SOON: Bonobo, Tom Jones, Kim Richey, Patty Griffin, Vampire Weekend.
March 22, 2013
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Amatorski/TBC/Crammed Discs/Rock
Black Angels/Indigo Meadow/Blue Horizon/Rock
Gerald Clayton/Life Forum/Concord/Jazz
Euforquestra/Let Us In/Self/Rock-World
JJ Grey & Mofro/This River/Self/Rock
Beth Hart/Bang Bang Boom Boom/Mascot Music/Rock
Rilo Kiley/Rkives/Little Record Company/Rock
Albert King/Born Under a Bad Sign Remastered/Concord Music/Blues
Jeremy Kittel/Chasing Sparks/Fiddlestick Music/Folk
Javelin/Hi Beams/Luaka Bop/Electronica
Chico Mann/Same Old Clown EP/Soundway/Electronica
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell/Love Has Come for You/Rounder/Folk
Mudhoney/Vanishing Point/Sub Pop/Rock
Kacey Musgraves/Same Trailer Different Park/Mercury/Folk
Paper Bird/Rooms/Self/Rock
Proclaimers/Like Comedy/429 Records/Rock
Steel Wheels/No More Rain/Self/Folk
Telekinesis/Dormarion/Merge/Rock
Veils/Time Stays, We Go/Rough Trade/Rock
Whitewater Ramble/Roots & Groove/Self/Folk
Various/The Music is You:A Tribute to John Denver/ATO/
Various: Classic Harmonica Blues/Smithsonian Folkways/Blues
BIG SURPRISE: Rilo Kiley.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Steve Martin & Edie Brickell.
HALL OF FAME: Beth Hart, Steel Wheels.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Black Lillies- Runaway Freeway Blues.
BEST OVERLOOKED Bjork- Bastards: Remixes; AfroQBen- Liquid Gold.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Squeeze- Sweets from a Stranger.
AND DON'T FORGET: Gary Clark Jr.- Blak & Blu; Jackson Browne- Late for the Sky.
COMING SOON: Pacifika, Greyboy Allstars, Shuggie Otis, Airborne Toxic Event.
March 15, 2013
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Black Lilies/Runaway Freeway Blues/North Knox Records/Folk
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club/Specter at the Feast/Abstract Dragon/Rock
Joe Bonamassa/Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House/J&R Adventures/Blues
David Bowie/The Next Day/ISO Records/Rock
Billy Bragg/Tooth & Nail/Self/Rock
Anthony Branker & Word Play/Uppity/Origin/Jazz
Suzie Glaze & the Hilonesome Band/White Swan/Self/Bluegrass-Folk
Helado Negro/Invisible Life/Asthmatic Kitty/Latin-Electronica
In Flight/South of America/Self/Jazz-Latin
Johnny & the Motones/Shake It/Altenburgh Records/Blues
Kendrick Scott Oracle/Conviction/World Culture Music/Jazz
Garrett Lebeau/Rise to the Grind/Music Road Records/Blues
Low/The Invisible Way/SubPop/Rock
Madeleine Peyroux/The Blue Room/Pennywell Productions/Jazz
Amy Regan/Pretty Little Baby/Self/Folk
Seryn/This is Where We Are/Velvet Blue Music/Rock
Nora Jane Struthers & the Party Line/Carnival/Blue Pig Music/Folk-Bluegrass
They Might be Giants/Nanobots/Megaforce Records/Rock
Cory Weeds & Bill Coon Quartet/“With Benefits”/Cellar Live/Jazz
Various/The Celluloid Record Story/Celluloid/Hip Hop-Rock-World
Various/Excerpts from Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective/Rounder/Rock-Blues
Various/Khat Thaleth/Strongholdsound/HipHop-World
Various/Unsung Hero: A Tribute to the Music of Ron Davies/Little Chickadee Productions/Folk-Rock
Various: Turntables on Las Ramblas/Wonderwheel/Electronica-Latin
BIG SURPRISE: Johnny & the Motones, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: In Flight.
HALL OF FAME: Celluloid Records Story, Joe Bonamassa, Turntables on Las Ramblas.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Various- Planet Chant/Triloka Records.
BEST REVISITED CD: Shooter Jennings- The Other Life.
BEST OVERLOOKED Spencer Day- The Mystery of You.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: The Go Go’s- Beauty & the Beats.
AND DON'T FORGET: Beth Hart- Don’t Explain; Forro in the Dark- Bonfires of Sao Joao.
COMING SOON: A Tribute to John Denver, Randall Bramlett, Denny Brown, McCrary Sisters.
March 8, 2013
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Bajofondo/Presente/SK Associates/Latin-Electronica
Devendra Banhart/Mala/Nonesuch/Rock
Charles Bradley/Victim of Love/Daptone/Funk
Brother Sun/Some Part of the Truth/Self/Folk
Cash Box Kings/Black Toppin’/Blind Pig/Blues
Larry Coryell/The Lift/Wide Hive/Jazz
Spencer Day/The Mystery of You/Concord/Jazz-Rock
Simone Dinnerstein & Tift Merritt/Night/Sony/Folk
Steve Earle & the Dukes (& Duchessess)/The Low Highway/New West/Rock-Folk
Kyle Eastwood/The View from Here/Jazz Village/Jazz
Fabulous Thunderbirds/On the Verge/Severn Records/Rock-Blues
Fol Chen/False Alarms/Asthmatic Kitty/Rock
Freshlyground/Take Me to the Dance/Freeground Records/World
William Ryan Fritch/The Waiting Room/Lost Tribe Sound/Electronica-Soundtrack
Gibson Brothers/They Called it Music/Compass/Bluegrass
Chris Greco Quartet/Trane of Thought/Pleiadian Records/Jazz
Bill Harris Quintet/This Time the Dream’s On Me/Pensative Music/Jazz
Kaleidoscope Jukebox/Infinite Reflection/Rhythm & Culture/Electronica
Doug MacLeod/There’s a Time/Reference Recordings/Blues
Marbin/Last Chapter of Dreaming/MoonJune Recordings/Jazz
Christian McNeill & Sea Monsters/Everything’s Up for Grabs/Q-Dee/Rock
Jaleel Shaw/Soundtrack of Things to Come/Changu Records/Jazz
Southern Hospitality/Easy Livin’/Blind Pig/Folk-Blues
Stubborn Heart/Stubborn Heart/One Little Indian/Rock
Verve Jazz Ensemble/It’s About Time/Self/Jazz
Villagers/Awayland/Domino/Rock
Hristo Vitchev Quartet/Familiar Fields/First Orbit Sounds/Jazz
Adrian Younge Presents the Delfonics/Adrian Young Presents the Delfonics/Wax Poetics Records/Funk
BIG SURPRISE: Freshlyground
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Kaleidoscope Jukebox, Southern Hospitality.
HALL OF FAME: Steve Earle, Devendra Banhart, Bajofondo, Kaleidoscope Jukebox, Freshlyground.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: The Mavericks- In Time.
BEST OVERLOOKED: Waterboys- An Appointment with Mr. Yeats.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Santana- Inner Secrets.
AND DON'T FORGET: Sean Rowe- The Salesman & the Shark; Ocote Soul Sounds & Adrian Quesada- Coconut Rock.
COMING SOON: Kopecki, Wheeler Brothers, Black Lilies, Houndmouth. Beth Hart.
March 1, 2013
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Olof Arnalds/Sudden Elevation/One Little Indian/Folk
Antonio Adolfo/Finas Misturas/Self/Latin-Jazz
Enter the Haggis/The Modest Revolution/Firebrand Entertainment/Celtic-Rock
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell/Old Yellow Moon/Nonesuch/Country
Hiromi/The Trio Project/Telarc/Jazz
Kraak & Smaak/The Future is Yours/Jalapeno/RPM
Lisa Leblanc/Lisa Leblanc/Bonsound Records/Folk-World
Amos Lee/Selections from Live from the Artist’s Den/Artist’s Den/Rock
Charles Lloyd/Hagar’s Song/ECM/Jazz
Kate Nash/Girl Talk/Have 10P Records/Rock
Caitlin Rose/ The Stand-In/ATO Rock
Alice Smith/She/Rainwater/Rock-R&B
Son Volt/Honky Tonk/Rounder/Rock-Folk
Southside Johnny & the Poor Fools/Songs from the Barn/Leroy Records/Rock-Blues
BIG SURPRISE: Enter the Haggis, Southside Johnny & the Poor Fools.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Alice Smith.
HALL OF FAME: Hiromi, Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell, Enter the Haggis.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Meklit & Quinn- Meklit & Quinn; Shooter Jennings- The Other Life.
BEST OVERLOOKED: Kail Baxley- Double EP; Teagan & Sara- Heartthrob.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Big Country- Wonderland.
AND DON'T FORGET: Cassandra Wilson- Another Country; Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey- Walking with Giants.
COMING SOON: Carla Bruni, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Keaton Henson, Wild Feathers.
February 22, 2013
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
William Adamson/Under an East Coast Moon/Brownswood/Rock
AfroQBen/Liquid Gold/Time Warp/Funk-Hip-Hop-RPM
Barney Bentall/Flesh & Bone/True North/Folk
Frank Bey with Anthony Paule Band/You Don’t Know Nothing/Blue Dot/Blues
Bomba Estereo/Elegancia Tropical/Soundway/Latin-RPM
Denny Brown/San Francisco,Austin, Hollywood Sessions/Self/Folk-Rock
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds/Push the Sky Away/Self/Rock
Thom Chacon/Thom Chacon/Pie Records/Folk
Detroit Memphis Experience/Detroit Memphis Experience/DMEX Records/Soul-R&B--Rock
El Sportivo & the Blooz/Nights & Weekends/White Iris Records/Rock
Foals/Holy Fire/Warner Brothers/Rock
Frightened Rabbit/Pedestrian Verse/Atlantic/Rock
Nicole Henry/So Good, So Right/Banister Records/Jazz-Funk
Robyn Hitchcock/Love from London/Yep Rock/Rock
Howlin’ Brothers/Howl/Ready Made Records/Folk-Bluegrass
Shooter Jennings/The Other Life/Black Country Rock/Country
Chris Leigh & the Broken Hearts/Broken Hearted Friends/Blue River Records/Country
Little Faith/Shelter/Self/Gospel-Folk
Bobby Long/Wishbone/ATO/Rock-Folk
Milk Carton Kids/Ash & Clay/Anti/Rock
Josh Rouse/Happiness Waltz/Yep Rock/Rock
Shout Out Louds/Optica/Merge/Rock
Harper Simon/Division Street/Tulsi Records/Rock
Sirsy/Comint into Frame/Self/Rock
David Starfire/Ascend/Six Degrees/Electronica
Superhuman Happiness/Hands/Royal Potato Family/Rock
Bow Thayer & the Perfect Trainwreck/Eden/Tweed River Productions/Folk
Vagabond Opera/Sing for Your Lives/Self/Folk-World
Waterboys/An Appointment with Mr. Yeats/Puck Records/Rock
Shannon Whitworth/High Tide/Blue Mermaid/Folk
BIG SURPRISE: Chris Leigh & the Broken Hearts, Milk Carton Kids.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Howlin’ Brothers, Shooter Jennings, AfroQBen.
HALL OF FAME: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Shooter Jennings, Waterboys.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Various- Planet Chant.
BEST REVISITED CD: Eels- Wonderful, Glorious;
BEST OVERLOOKED Jim James- Regions of Light & Sound; The Relatives- The Electric World.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Edgar Winter Group- Shock Treatment.
AND DON'T FORGET: Kai Welch- Send it Down; Traffic- John Barleycorn Must Die.
COMING SOON: Jimmy Cliff, Amy Speace, Bleached, Youth Lagoon.
February 15, 2013
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Devon Allman/Turquoise/Ruf Records/Rock
Bobby Bare/Darker Than Light/Plowboy Records/Country
BeauSoleil Avec Michael Doucet/From Bamako to Carencro/Self/Cajun
Ian Carey Quintet +1/Roads & Codes/Kabocha Records/Jazz
Cave Singers/Naomi/Jagjaguwar/Rock
Joe Clark Big Band/Lush/Jazzed Media/Jazz
Como Mamas/Get An Understanding/Daptone/Gospel
Jesse Dee/On My Mind In My Heart/Alligator/Soul-R&B
Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside/Untamed Beast/Partisan/Rock
Brad Goode/Chicago Red/Self/Jazz
Wayne Hancock/Ride/Bloodshot/Country
James Hunter Six/Minute by Minute/Go Records/Soul-R&B
Jamie Lidell/Jamie Lidell/Warp/Funk-Rock
Justin Hayward/Spirits of the Western Sky/Lagare International/Rock
Lotus/Build/SCI Fidelity/Electronica
Nilson Matta/Nilson Matta’s Black Orpheus/Motema Music/Jazz-Latin
Mavericks/In Time/Valory Music/Country
Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie “Prince” Billy/What the Brothers Sang/Palace Records/Folk
Mister Lies/Mowgli/Lefse Records/Electronica
Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer/Child Ballads/Wilderland Records/Folk-Celtic
Mount Moriah/Miracle Temple/Merge/Rock
Next Collective/Cover Art/Concord/Jazz
Overmountain Men/Next Best Thing/Ramsey/Folk
Ian Pooley/What I Do/Self/Electronica
Dick Reynolds/Dick Reynolds Music & Friends/Origin/Jazz
Relatives/The Electric World/Yep Roc/Funk-Gospel
Ulrich Schnauss/A Long Way to Fall/Domino/Electronica
STRFKR/Miracle Mile/Polyvinyl/Rock
Whiskey Singers/Whiskey Singers/Self/Rock-Country
BIG SURPRISE: Jesse Dee,
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Anais Mitchell, The Relatives.
HALL OF FAME: BeauSoleil, Sallie Ford, James Hunter, Jesse Dee, The Relatives.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Robert Randolph Presents: The Slide Brothers; Richard Thompson- Electric
BEST OVERLOOKED: Kail Baxley- Double EP.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: XTC- English Settlement.
AND DON'T FORGET: Sure Co./Sure Co.; Arto Lindsay- Salt.
COMING SOON: Elephant Stone, Devandra Banhart, Snow Patrol, Iron & Wine, Junip.
February 8, 2013
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Gabriel Alegria/Ciudad De Los Reyes/Saponegro Records/Jazz-Latin
Joan Armatrading/Starlight/429 Records/Rock
Kail Baxley/Double EP/Forty Below Records/Rock
Bjork/Bastards:Remixes/One Little Indian/Rock-RPM
Clannad/Christ Church Cathedral/Arc Music/Celtic
Jawanza Kobie/Feels Better Than it Sounds/Self/Jazz
Lisa Loeb/No Fairy Tale/429 Records/Rock
Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet/In a World of Mallets/Basin Street/Jazz
Susan McKeown/Belong/Hibernian Musi/Folk-Celtic
Pat Metheny/The Orchestrion Project/Nonesuch/Jazz
Willy Porter/Cheeseburgers & Gasoline/Weasel Records/Folk
Bobby Rush/Down in Louisiana/Deep Rush Records/Blues
Hadden Sayers/Rolling Soul/Self/Blues
Kevin Selfe/Long Walk Home/Delta Groove/Blues
Bishwo Shahi/Folk Songs & Soundscapes from Nepal/Arc/World
Slide Brothers/Robert Randolph presents the Slide Brothers/Concord/Blues
Sons of Brothers/Burning Days/Self/Folk-Rock
Stella!/Sorry,Stella/Self/Folk
Voodoo Swing/Fast Cars, Guitars, Tattoos & Scars/Nervous Records/Rock
Tango Siempre/Tangled/Arc/Latin
Various/Soul Brothers: A Celebration of Black History Month/Concord/Funk-Jazz
BIG SURPRISE: Voodoo Swing.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Kail Baxley, Stella.
HALL OF FAME: Joan Armatrading, Pat Metheny, Slide Brothers, Hadden Sayers.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Trampled by Turtles- Stars & Satellites.
BEST REVISITED CD: 2 Cellos- In2ition.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Foxygen- We are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Marvin Gaye- Anthology.
AND DON'T FORGET: Michael Franti & Spearhead- Yell Fire.
COMING SOON: Serena Ryder, Emmylous Harris & Rodney Crowell, Tony Bennett.
February 1, 2013
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Assembly of Dust/Sun Shot/Self/Rock
Boy/Mutual Friends/Nettwerk/Rock
Amanda Cevallos/I’ll Never Honky Tonk You/BMI/Country
John Corbett/Leaving Nothin’ Behind/Funbone Records/Country
Crankshaft & the Gear Grinders/What You Gonna Do?/Self/Blues-Rock
DJ Sun/One Hundred/Self/RPM
Tim Easton/Before the Revolution/New West/Rock
Kevin Eubanks/The Messenger/Mack Avenue/Jazz
Katie Euliss/40 Watt Dreams/Self/Country-Folk
Falty DL/Hardcourage/Ninja Tune/RPM
Petra Haden/Petra Goes to the Movies/Anti/Jazz
Matt Haslett/Amuse/Self/Folk
James Douglas Show/James Douglas Show/Arkiteks Music Group/Funk
Kris Kristofferson/Feeling Mortal/KK Records/Country
Local Natives/Hummingbird/Frenchkiss Records/Rock
Meklit & Quinn/Meklit & Quinn/Portofranco Records/Soul-Folk
Gurf Morlix/Finds the Present Tense/Rootball Records/Country
Jim Pearce/You Are an Edgy Visionary See/Self/Jazz
Josh Ritter/Beast in its Tracks/Self/Rock-Folk
Troy Roberts/Nu-Jive 5/Self/Jazz
Rusty Wright Band/Rusty Wright Band/Sadson Music/Blues
Boz Scaggs/Memphis ep/SLG/Rock
Wayne Shorter Quartet/Without a Net/Blue Note/Jazz
Ballake Sissoko/At Peace/Six Degrees/World
Steeldrivers/Hammer Down/Rounder/Bluegrass
Tegan & Sara/Heartthrob/Warner Brothers/Rock
Tracorum/Tricked/Arrowmaker/Rock
Y La Bamba/Oh February/Tender Loving Empire/Folk
BIG SURPRISE: Assembly of Dust, Y La Bamba.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: John Corbett.
HALL OF FAME: Steeldrivers, Ballake Sissoko, Kris Kristofferson, Meklit & Quinn.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD gone missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Richard Thompson- Electric.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Eels- Wonderful Glorious.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Joni Mitchell & LA Express- Miles of Aisles.
AND DON'T FORGET: Eliza Gilkyson- Land of Milk & Honey.
COMING SOON: Amor de Diaz, Shooter Jennings, Billy Bragg, Slide Brothers, James Hunter, Robyn Hitchcock.
January 25, 2013
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Teri Lyne Carrington/Money Jungle Provocative in Blue/Groove Jazz Media/Jazz
Matt Costa/Matt Costa/Brushfire Records/Rock
Tim Easton/Before the Revolution/New West/Rock
Eels/Wonderful Glorious/Vagrant/Rock
Riley Etheridge Jr/The Arrogance of Youth/Self/Blues-Country
Jim James/Regions of Light & Sound of God/ATO/Rock
Jenny O/Automechanic/Holy Trinity Records/Rock
Roger Knox/Stranger in My Land/Bloodshot/Country
Fela Kuti/The Best of Black President 2/Kalakuta Sunrise/World
Talitha Mackenzie/Spiorad/Sonas/Celtic
Anders Osborne/Three Free Amigos/Alligator/Rock-Blues
Roge/Bren Guele/Coqueiro Records/Latin
Otis Taylor/My World is Gone/Concord/Blues
Thao & the Get Down Stay Down/We the Common/Ribbon Music/Rock
Richard Thompson/Electric/New West/Folk-Rock
Holly Williams/The Highway/Georgiana Records/Folk-Country
BIG SURPRISE: Jenny O.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Holly Williams, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down.
HALL OF FAME: Richard Thompson, Fela Kuti, Otis Taylor, Holly Williams.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): George Strait- Ten Strait Hits.
BEST REVISITED CD: Living Sisters- Run for Cover; Night Beds- Country Sleep.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Big Harp- Chain Letters.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Steely Dan- Can’t Buy a Thrill.
AND DON'T FORGET: Steve Martin- The Crow.
COMING SOON: Jesse Dee, Goo Goo Dolls, Emmylou & Rodney Crowell, Milk Carton Kids, Hadden Sayers.
January 18, 2013
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Hashem Assadullahi/Pieces/RCA/Jazz
Larry Barilleau & The Latin Jazz Collective/Carmen’s Mambo/OA2/Jazz-Latin
Leroy Bell & His Only Friends/Rock n Soul/Martez Music/Rock
Marco Benevento/Tiger Face/Royal Potato Family/Rock-Jazz*
Big Harp/Chain Letters/Saddle Creek/Folk-Rock
Blue Foundation/In My Mind I Am Free Reconstructed/Dead People’s Choice/Electronica
Eric Burdon/’Til Your River Runs Dry/ABKCO Music/Rock-Jazz
Samantha Crain/Kid Face/Ramseur Records/Rock-Folk
Brett Dennen/The Definitive Collection/Dualtone/Rock
Robben Ford/Bringing It Back Home/Mascot Music/Blues-Jazz*
Mary Gauthier/Live at Blue Rock/In the Black Records/Folk
John Driskell Hopkins & Balsam Range/Daylight/Brighter Shade Studios/Bluegrass
Ivan & Alyosha/All the Times We Had/Dualtone/Rock
Jose James/No Beginning No End/Blue Note/Jazz-R&B
Brandon Jenkins/Through the Fire/Self/Country
Ted Russell Kamp/Night Owl/Poetry of the Moment Records/Country
Jerry Leake/Cubist Prominence/Rhombus Pub/Jazz-World
Living Sisters/Run for Cover/Vanguard/Rock*
Matisyahu/Spark Speaker:Acoustic Sessions/Fallen Sparks Records/Reggae
Aaron Neville/My True Story/Blue Note/Funk-Rock
Organissimo/Dedicated/Big O Records/Jazz
Lucky Peterson Band/Live at the 55 Arts Club Berlin/Blackbird Music/Blues*
Red Baraat/Shruggy Ji/Sinj Records/World
Toro Y Moi/Anything in Return/Carpark/Rock-RPM
Two Cellos/In2ition/Sony/Rock
Martha Wainwright/Come Home to Mama/V2 Cooperative/Rock
Dale Watson & His Lonestars/El Ranco Azul/Red House Records/Country
Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison/Cheaters Game/Premium Records/Country
Yo La Tengo/Fade/Matador/Rock
BIG SURPRISE: Robben Ford.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Big Harp, Ivan & Alyosha.
HALL OF FAME: Lucky Peterson, Marco Benevento, Living Sisters, Robben Ford, Ivan & Alyosha.
HALL OF SHAME: Various- Paint It Blue: The Songs of the Rolling Stones.
BEST REVISITED CD: Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite- Get Up!
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Jaimoe’s Jassz Band- Renaissance Man.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Kraftwerk- Trans-Europe Express.
AND DON'T FORGET: AfroCubism- AfroCubism.
COMING SOON: Charles Bradley, Steve Earle, Boz Scaggs, Peter Rowan, Alice Russell.
January 4 & 11, 2013
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Camper van Beethoven/La Costa Perdida/429 Records/Rock
Jon Durant & Colin Edwin/Burnt Belief/Alchemy Records/Jazz
Tony Furtado Band/Live at Mississippi Studios/Funzalo Records/Folk
Seth Glier/Things I Should Let You Know/MPress Records/Rock
Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite/Get Up! /Concord/Blues
Bap Kennedy/The Sailor’s Revenge Deluxe Edition (A re-release w/ bonus CD)/Lonely Street Discs/Folk*
Dom La Nena/Ela/Self/Latin
Daniel Lantz Trio/Daniel Lantz Trio Plays Bond/DO Records/Jazz
Joe Lovano/Cross Culture/Blue Note/Jazz
Rich Mahan/Blame Bobby Bare/Self/Rock/Country
Bex Marshall/House of Mercy/Self/Blues
Alison May/Earnest Keep/Misery Loves Company/Folk
Night Beds/Country Sleep/Dead Oceans/Rock
Pere Ubu/Lady from Shanghai/Fire/Rock
Ra Ra Riot/Beta Love/Self/Rock
James Sanders/Blue Violin/Amadeo/Jazz
Arturo Stable/Cuban Crosshatching/Origin/Jazz-Latin
Vo-Duo/Nou La/Lakou Brooklyn/Jazz-World
BIG SURPRISE: Rich Mahan.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Vo-Duo, Dom La Nena.
HALL OF FAME: Ben & Charlie, Joe Lovano, Rich Mahan.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): All the DJ Vadim CDs. Please bring them back.
BEST REVISITED CD: Andrew Bird- Break It Yourself; Putumayo Presents: African Blues.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Peter Oustroushko: The Mando Chronicles: Disc One Americana.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Wang Chung- To Live and Die in LA.
AND DON'T FORGET: Mocean Worker- Cinco do Mowo.
COMING SOON: Tristan Prettyman, Brother Slade, Kris Kristofferson, The Explorers Club, Lee Ritenour, Lisa Loeb.
2012
December 14 & 21 & 28, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Buddy Guy/Live at Legends/RCA/Blues
Chris Knight/Little Victories/Drifter’s Church/Folk
Various/Brownswood Bubbler’s Nine/Brownswood/Electronica
Shelley King/Armadillo Bootleg No. 2/Lemonade Records/Folk-Blues
Carrie Rodriguez/Give Me All You Got/Ninth Street Opus/Folk
BIG SURPRISE:
BIGGEST SURPRISE:
HALL OF FAME: Buddy Guy, Carrie Rodriguez.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Kanye West- Late Registration.
BEST REVISITED CD: Custodio Castelo- In Ventus.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Old Man Luedecke- Tender Is the Night.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Horace Silver- The Trio Sides.
AND DON'T FORGET: Adrian Legg- Inheritance.
COMING SOON: Surprises.
December 7, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Gary U.S. Bonds/Christmas is On!/g.l.a./Christmas-Rock
Rachel Brooke/A Killer’s Dream/Self/Country
Colbys/Christmas Gumbo/Galiza Records/Christmas-Jazz
Delta Flyers/Stevie DuPree & the Delta Flyers/Soulbilly Music/Blues
Nathan Eklund/Crafty Christmas/OA2/Christmas-Jazz
Gov’t Mule/The Georgia Bootleg Box/Self/Rock
Grip Weeds/The Grip Weed’s Under the Influence of Christmas/Strange Change Music/Christmas-Rock
Jaimoe’s Jassz Band/Renaissance Man/Self/Jazz
Alex Jenkins & the Bombers/Creepin’ After Midnight/Self/Jazz
Lee Boys/Testify/Evil Teen Records/Spiritual
Sufjan Stevens/Silver & Gold-5 cd set/Asthmatic Kitty/Christmas-Folk
Sure Co./The Sure Co./Jazz Re-Freshed/Jazz
Sweetback Sisters/Country Christmas Singalong Spectacular/Signature Sounds/Christmas-Country
Various/This is 40/Capital/Soundtrack
Tracey Thorn/Tinsel & Lights/Merge/Christmas-Rock
Jay Ungar & Molly Mason Family Band/A Fiddler’s Holiday/Rounder/Christmas-Folk
Various/Santa’s Got Mojo 2/Electro-Fi Records/Christmas-Blues
Various/Holidays Rule/MPL/Christmas-Rock
Various/Distiller’s Holiday Blend 2 cd set/Distiller/Christmas-Rock
BIG SURPRISE:
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Jaimoe’s Jassz Band- Renaissance Man.
HALL OF FAME: Jaimoe’s Jassz Band.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Tim O’Brien- Cornbread Nation.
BEST REVISITED CD: Greg Brown- Hymns to What Is Left.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Colin Linden- Still Live.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Cat Stevens- Foreigner.
AND DON'T FORGET: Los Super 7- Heard It on the X.
COMING SOON: Clannad.
November 30, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Steve Bug/Noir/Poker Flats/RPM
Ryan Cain & the Ables/My Pistol Rides Shotgun/Self/Rock
Catfish Keith/ A True Friend is Hard to Find: A Gospel Retrospective/Fish Tail Records/Blues
Bongos Ikwue & Double X/Wulu Wulu/BIK Records/World-Blues
Various/On the Road/Vanguard/Soundtrack
Peter Ostroushko/The Mando Chronicles: Disc 1 Americana/Red House/Folk-Bluegrass
Rage Against the Machine/XX/Sony/Rock
Various Artists/On the Road/Vanguard/Soundtrack
BIG SURPRISE: Steve Bug.
BIGGEST SURPRISE:
HALL OF FAME: Peter Oustroushko, Rage Against the Machine.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): The Best of Shakti.
BEST REVISITED CD: Neil Young & Crazy Horse- Psychedelic Pill.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Various- Live from the Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Ry Cooder- Show Time.
AND DON'T FORGET: Tinariwen- Amassakoul.
COMING SOON: Nick Cave, Thao, Frightened Rabbit, Villagers, Josh Ritter, Mavericks.
November 23, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Custodio Castelo/In Ventus/Arc/Latin
Coldplay/Live 2012/Capital/Rock
Etienne de Crecy/Essentials/Self/RPM
Michael DeLalla/This is How I Disappear/Falling Mountain Music/Folk-Classical
Jan Garrett & JD Martin/Inside the Songwriter’s Studio/Self/Local-Folk
Lana del Rey/Paradise/Polydor/Rock
Led Zeppelin/Celebration Day/Warner Music/Rock
Massive Attack/Wild Bunch 2012 Remix/Master/Virgin/RPM
Mogwai/A Wretched Virile Lore/Sub Pop/Rock/RPM
MOS Funnel/Hot Planet Vol 1/Self/Rock
Phillip Phillips/The World from the Side of the Moon/Interscope/Rock
Elin Ruth/Bang/Self/Rock
Dennis Wanebo/Running on Gravity/Self/Folk-Rock
Wolf + Lamb/Versus/Wolf + Lamb/RPM
BIG SURPRISE: Etienne de Crecy.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Custodio Castelo,
HALL OF FAME: Custodio Castelo, Led Zeppelin.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Big Bad Voodoo Daddy/Rattle Them Bones.
BEST REVISITED CD: Habib Koite & Eric Bibb- Brothers in Bamako.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: James Hand- Mighty Lonesome Man.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Rod McKuen at Carnegie Hall.
AND DON'T FORGET: Shelby Lynne- Tears, Lies and Alibis.
COMING SOON: Of Verona, Julianna Barwick, Eksi Ekso, Holly Williams.
November 16, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Jeff Babko/Crux/Tonequake Records/Jazz
Anthony Branker & Ascent/Together/Origin/Jazz
Ceumar/Sons Do Brazil/Arc Music/Latin
DeVotchka/Live with the Colorado Symphony/Cicero Recordings/Rock-World
Elephant Revival/It’s Alive/Self/Folk
Jesse Fischer & Soul Cycle/Retro Future/Obliqsound/Jazz
Michael Webster/Momentus/OA2/Jazz
BIG SURPRISE: Ceumar
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Anthony Branker
HALL OF FAME: DeVotchka, Elephant Revival
HALL OF SHAME: Kaki King/Glow
BEST REVISITED CD: Robert Glasper Experiment
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Milo Green / Grandfather Child
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: The Black Canyon Gang/Ridin' High
AND DON'T FORGET: Efterklang, Jason Vivone & the Billy Bats
UPCOMING: Unknown Mortal Orchestra,Ellen Ruth,Brickwall Jackson,Hospitality,Dinosaur Jr.
November 9, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Rez Abbasi Trio/Continuous Beat/Enja Records/Jazz-World
Bend Sinister/Small Frame/Self/Rock
Junior Brown/Volume Ten/Jameson Brown Music/Country
Current Swell/Long Time Ago/Self/Rock-Folk
Domenico/Cine Prive/Plug Research/Latin-RPM
El Perro Del Mar/Pale Fire/The Control Group/Rock
Empresarios/El Sonido Magico/Fort Knox Recordings/RMP-Latin
Brian Eno/Lux/Warp/RPM
Julian Fauth/Everybody Ought to Treat a Stranger Right/Electro-Fi Records/Blues
Glowing House/Days Run Out/Self/Folk
James Hand/Mighty Lonesome Man/Hillgrass Bluebilly Records
Jessica Lurie Ensemble/Megaphone Heart/Self/Jazz
Habib Koite & Eric Bibb/Brothers in Bamako/Stony Plain/World-Blues
Aimee Mann/Charmer/Supereco Records/Rock
Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale/Buddy & Jim/New West/Country
Kurt Rosenwinkel/Star of Jupiter/Wommusic/Jazz
Takuya Kuroda Sextet/Six Aces/Self/Jazz
Jason Vivone & the Billy Bats/Lather Rinse Repeat/Self/Blues
Wave Mechanics Union/Further to Fly/HX Music/Jazz
Shannon Whitworth & Barrett Smith/Bring it on Home/Echo Mountain Recording/Folk
BIG SURPRISE: Jason Vivone & the Billy Bats, Habib Koite & Eric Bibb
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Domenico
HALL OF FAME: Aimee Mann, Brian Eno, Empresarios, Junior Brown
HALL OF SHAME:
BEST REVISITED CD: Martin Harley, Caravan of Thieves
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Julianl Fauth, Shannon Whitworth
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: The Supremes/We Remember Sam Cooke
AND DON'T FORGET: Wave Mechanics Union, James Hand
UPCOMING: Cayukas, The Little Ones, The Eastern Sea
November 2, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Dam Mantle/Brothers Fowl/Notown/RPM
Fado/Em Si Bemol/Vidisco/Jazz-Latin
Fink/Wheels Turn Beneath my Feet/Ninja Tune/Folk-Rock
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit/Live from Alabama/Self/Rock-Folk
Silvana Kane/La Jardinera/Six Degrees/Latin
Cary Kanno/Changes/Self/Rock
Manu Katche/Manu Katche/ECM/Jazz
Frank Kimbrough Trio/Live at Kitano/Transdreamer/Jazz
Colin Linden/Still Live/Yellowdog/Blues
Old Man Leudecke/Tender is the Night/True North Records/Bluegrass-Folk
Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass/Road Into Town/Patuxent/Bluegrass
Snowgoose/Harmony Springs/Bababing Records/Folk-Rock
Submotion Orchestra/Fragments/Exceptional Records/RPM-Rock
Tom Tom Club/Downtown Rockers EP/Nacional/Rock
Walter White & Small Medium @ Large/Breaking Good/Bassjar Music/Jazz
Nelson Wright/Still Burning/Fetching Grace Music/Country
Y’Akato/Babyblues/Warner/World
Neil Young & Crazy Horse/Psychedelic Pill/Reprise/Rock
Various/PDX Pop Now!/Pop PDX/Rock-World
BIG SURPRISE: Walter White & Small Medium @ Large
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Nelson Wrigt
HALL OF FAME: Tom Tom Club
HALL OF SHAME: Wanda Jackson, Putumay Various: Blues, Rosie Flores, Teresa James, Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson
BEST REVISITED CD: Beth Orton, James Justin
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Martin Harley
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Canned Heat/Collage
AND DON'T FORGET: Cary Kanno, Snowgoose, Submotion Orchestra
UPCOMING: Old Time Machine, Tracey Thorn, Doldrums, Chelsae Wolfe, Unknown Rooms
October 26, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Paul Banks/Banks/Matador/Rock
Bonnie & Clydes/Wrong Side Up/Self/Country
Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown/Wild Child Sampler/Carved Records/Rock-Blues
DJ Vadim/Don’t Be Scared/BBE Records/RPM
Greg Brown/Hymns to What is Left/Sawdust/Folk
Gary Clark Jr./Blak&Blu/Warner Brothers/Rock-Blues
Mike Doughty/Flip is Another Honey/Self/Folk-Rock
Efterklang/Piramida/4AD/Rock
Danny Kalbn & Friends/Moving in Blue/Sojourn/Jazz
Karthala/Electric Cowbell Records/World
Jimmy LaFave/Depending on the Distance/Music Road Records/Folk
Steve Moore/Light Echoes/Cuneiform/RPM
Nicholl & Farquharson/Della by Moonlight/Self/Jazz
Plan B/Ill Manors/Atlantic/HipHop
Rusted Root/The Movement/Sanachie/Rock
Duncan Sheik/Covers Eighties Remixed/Sneaky Records/Rock-RPM
Skipping Girl Vinegar/Keep Calm, Carry the Monkey, Secret Fox Records/Rock
Tilly & the Wall/Heavy Mood/Team Love/Rock
Various/We Roots/Catch Me Time Records/Folk/RPM
Various/Live from the Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival/Sojourn Records/Blues
BIG SURPRISE: Nicholl & Farquharson , Skipping Girl Vinegar
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Duncan Sheik, Gary Clark Jr.
HALL OF FAME: DJ Vadim , Greg Brown
HALL OF SHAME: Skipping Girl Vinegar: Before it is even processed!, Beats Antique
BEST REVISITED CD: Lord Huron, Diawara Fatoumata
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Diego’s Umbrella
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Boz Scaggs-Boz Scaggs
AND DON'T FORGET: Bonnie & Clydes, Mike Doughty, Jimmy LaFave
UPCOMING: Old Time Machine. The Jigsaw Sun, Milow, Willy Moon
October 19, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Bergamot/Static Flowers/Both Records/Rock
Andrew Bird/Hands of Glory/Wegawam Music/Rock
Billy Don Burns/Nights When I’m Sober/Self/Country
Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb/In Session…/William F Cooke Television/Country
Children of the Wave/The Electric Sounds of Faraway Choirs/Self/RPM
Diamond Rings/Free Dimensional/Astralwerks/Rock-RPM
Diego’s Umbrella/Proper Cowboy/Ninth Street Opus/Rock
Egyptian Project/Ya Amar/Six Degrees/World
Donald Fagen/Sunken Condos/Reprise/Rock
Tom Feldmann/Lone Wolf Blues/Magnolia Recording/Blues
Gov’t Mule/The Georgia Bootleg Box Radio Sampler/Self/Rock
Kathy Mattea/Calling Me Home/Sugar Hill/Folk
Music Tapes/Mary’s Voice/Merge/Rock
State Radio/Rabbit Inn Rebellion/Nettwerk/Rock
BIG SURPRISE: Egyptian Project
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Billy Don Burns
HALL OF FAME: Donald Fagen, Glen Campbell, Andrew Bird, Gov’t Mule
HALL OF SHAME:
BEST REVISITED CD: Polica, Parker Ainsworth, Lakecia Benjamin
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Diego’s Umbrella
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: War Dance-Songs of Ponca
AND DON'T FORGET: Diamond Rings, Tom Feldmann & Kathy Mattea
UPCOMING: DJ Vadim, Hush Now, Night Moves
October 12, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Tori Amos/Gold Dust/Deutche Gramaphone/Rock
Augi/Citizens of the World/Self/Jazz
Beach Boys/Greatest Hits/Capitol/Rock
Bombay Dub Orchestra/The New York Remixes/Six Degrees/World-RPM
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson/Wreck & Ruin/Sugar Hill/Country
Cody ChestnuTT/Landing on a Hundred/Self/Funk
Jesse Cook/The Blue Guitar Sessions/Coach House Music/Latin-Classical
Danielia Cotton/The Gun in Your Hand/Self/Rock
Dapnhi/Jiaolong/Merge/RPM
Pete Escovedo/Live from Stern Grove/Stiletto Flats/Jazz-Latin
Lupe Fiasco/Food & Liquor II/Atlantic/Hip Hop
Fine Frenzy/Pines/Virgin/Rock
Rosie Flores/Working Girl’s Guitar/Bloodshot/Country-Rock
Robert Glasper Experiment/Black Radio Recovered the Remix/Blue Note/Jazz-RPM
Ben Harper/By My Side/Virgin/Rock
Stefon Harris, David Sanchez, Christian Scott/Ninety Miles Live at Curadisco/Montuno Productions/Jazz
Hundred Waters/Hundred Waters/OWSLA/Rock-RPM
Wanda Jackson/Unfinished Business/Sugar Hill/Rock
Jamey Johnson/Living for a Song:Tribute to Hank Cochran/Mercury/Country
Menahan Street Band/The Crossing/Dunham.Funk-World
Nu-Blu/Nail by Nail/Pinecastle/Bluegrass-Spiritual
Carlos Nunez/Discover/Sony/Celtic/World
Lindi Ortega/Cigarettes & Truckstops/Last Gang Records/Country-Rock
Poncho Sanches & His Latin Jazz Band/Live in Hollywood/Concord/Jazz-Latin
Sounds from the Ground/Widerworld/Waveform/RPM
Jacqui Sutton/Notes from the Frontier/Toy Blue Typewriter/Jazz
Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps/Come on Home/Self/Blues
Niall Toner/Onwards & Upwards/Pinecastle/Country-Folk
Martha Wainwright/Come Home to Mama/Self/Rock
Wallflowers/Glad All Over/Columbia/Roc
-BIG SURPRISE: Cody ChestnuTT
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Carlos Nunez
HALL OF FAME: Beach Boys, Wanda Jackson, Jamey Johnson, Robert Glasper
HALL OF SHAME: Asa, Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs
BEST REVISITED CD: Dangermuffin. Ottmar Leibert
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Jesse Cook, Jacqui Sutton
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Power-Lakeside
AND DON'T FORGET: Menahan Street Band, Lindi Ortega, Ben Harper, Lupe Fiasco, Rosie Flores
UPCOMING: Slam Dunk, The Bergamot, Artichoke
October 5, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Avett Brothers/Carpenter/American/Folk
Brother Slade/Good Rooster’s Reunion/Sully Boy/Folk
Freelance Whales/Diluvia/Mom + Pop/Rock
Gordon Grdina’s Haram/Her Eyes Illuminate/Songlines/World-Jazz
Stefan Grossman/Country Blues Guitar Festival/Self/Folk-Blues
Emmanuel Jal/See Me Mama/Gatwich Records/Hip Hop-World
Kid Koala/12 bit Blues/Self/Blues-Electronica
Kaki King/Glow/Velour/Rock
Jim Lauderdale/Carolina Moonrise/Sky Crunch Records/Bluegrass-Folk
Los Cenzontles/Regeneration/Self/Latin
Jason Lytle/Dept. of Disappearance/ANTI/Rock
Tim Maia/World Psychedelic Classics/Luaka Bop/Latin-Funk
Metz/Metz/Sub Pop/Rock
Miss Tess/Sweet Talk/Signature Sounds/Jazz-Country
Cahalen Morrison & Eli West/Our Lady of the Tall Trees/Self/Bluegrass
Mumford & Sons/Babel/Glassnote/Folk-Rock
Kelly Joe Phelps/Brother Sinner & the Whale/Black Hen Music/Folk-Spiritual
Piano Guys/Piano Guys/Sony/Folk/Classical
Cory Platt/Daydreams/Patuxent/Bluegrass-Folk
Tom Rigney & Flambeau/You’re the One/Parhelion Records/Folk
Allen Vizzutti/Ritzville/Village Place Music/Jazz
Victor Wooten/Sword & Stone/Vix Records/Jazz-Funk
Various/Brazilian Beat/Putumayo/Latin
Various/African Beat/Putumayo/World
Various/Acoustic Café/Putumayo/Folk
Various/Bluegrass/Putumay/Bluegrass
Various/African Blues/Putumayo/World-Blues
Various/Arabic Beat/Putumayo/WorldBIG SURPRISE: Kaki King
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Kid Koala
HALL OF FAME: Mumford & Sons, Avett Brothers
HALL OF SHAME: John Lee Hooker Jr.
BEST REVISITED CD: Guy Forsyth
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Victor Wooten
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Bill Cosby is a Very Funny Fellow Right!
AND DON'T FORGET: Kelly Joe Phelps, Metz, Jason Lytle
COMING SOON: Fink, Richard Thompson, Bat for Lashes, People Get Ready
September 28, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Birds of Chicago/Birds of Chicago/Self/Folk
Brother Ali/Mourning in America & Dreaming in Color/Rhymesayers/Hip Hop
Flying Lotus/Until Quiet Comes/Warp/Electronica
Rayna Gellert/Old Light: Songs from my Childhood and Other Gone Worlds/Storysounds/Folk
Ben Gibbard/Former Lives/Barsuk/Rock
Green Day/Uno!/Reprise/Rock
Milo Green/Milo Green/Atlantic/Rock
Martin Harley/Mojo Fix/60/20 Records/Blues
Mary Jane Lamond & Wendy MacIsaac/Seinn/Turtlemusik/Celtic
Van Morrison/Born to Sing: No Plan B/Exile Records/Rock
R.E.M./Document Re-Mastered/Capital/Rock
Jeff Strahan/Blue ‘Til I Die/Self/Blues
BIG SURPRISE: Brother Ali
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Milo Green
HALL OF FAME: Van Morrison, Flying Lotus
HALL OF SHAME: Amy LaVere/Ancors & Anvils
BEST REVISITED CD: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Mary Jane Lamond & Wendy MacIsaac
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: The Youngbloods/Elephant Mountain
AND DON'T FORGET: Birds of Chicago, Jeff Strahan
September 21, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Bang Data/La Sopa/Roclolito Music/Latin-Hip Hop
Beats Antique/Contraption Vol II/Self/Electronica/World
Comas/Charge/Mad River Records/Celtic
Crooked/Hollows/Self/Folk-Country
Iris DeMent/Sing the Delta/Self/Folk
Mark Eitzel/Don’t Be A Stranger/Merge/Rock
Aaron Embry/Tiny Prayers/Community Music/Folk
First Aid Kit/iTunes Session/Witchita Recordings/Rock
Ben Folds Five/The Sound of the Life of the Mind/Self/Rock
James Justin & Co./Places/Self/Folk
Diana Krall/Glad Rag Doll/Verve/Jazz
Benjamin Francis Leftwich/Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm/Rock-Folk
Dave Matthews/Away From the World/Bama Rags Recordings/Rock
Brad Mehldau Trio/Where Do You Start/Nonesuch/Jazz
Vusa Mkhaya/Vocalism/ARC Music/World
Meshell Ndegeocello/Pour Une Ame Souveraine a Dedication to Nina Simone/Rock
Olllam/ The Olllam/Self/Celtic
Onuinu/Mirror Gazer/Bladen County Records/Electronica
Beth Orton/Sugaring Season/ANTI/Rock
Preservation Hall Jazz Band/St. Peter & 57th St. /Rounder/Jazz
Relic/Miles to Go/Gammadelta Records/Hip-Hop
Lee Ritenour/Rhythm Sessions/Concord/Jazz
Pete Seeger & Lorre Wyatt/A More Perfect Union/Appleseed Recording/Folk
Paul Simon/Live in New York City/Self/Rock
Souljazz Orchestra/Solidarity/Strut/Jazz-World
Suite 709/Night & Day/Self/Rock-Funk
Sun Airway/Soft Fall/Dead Oceans/Rock-Electronica
Bow Thayer/Hindsight 1995-2012/Tweed River/Folk
XX/Coexist/Young Turks/Rock
Various/Hungarian Gypsy Music/Arc Music/World
BIG SURPRISE: Suite 709
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Bang Data & Onuinu
HALL OF FAME: Lee Ritenour, Brad Mheldau,Dave Matthews, Diana Krall & Iris DeMent
HALL OF SHAME: Bobby Long & James Blunt
BEST REVISITED CD: Uncle Lucius, Wax Poetic
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Vusa Mkhaya, James Justin & Co.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Bill Cosby is a Very Funny Fellow Right!
AND DON'T FORGET: XX, Bow Thayer, Beats Antique
COMING SOON: Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison, Frightened Rabbit, Chelsea Wolfe, Unknown Rooms
September 14, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Trevor Alguire/Till Sorrow Begins to Call/Self/Folk-Country
Alt-J/An Awesome Wave/Atlantic/Rock
Bibio/Mind Bokeh/Self/Rock
Buxter Hoot’n/Na Na Na/Self/Rock
David Byrne & St. Vincent/Love This Giant/4AD/Rock
Jason Collett/Reckon/Arts & Crafts/Rock
Dirty River Boys/Science of Flight/Self/Folk-Country
Bob Dylan/Tempest/Columbia/Rock
4th Ward Afro Klezmer Orchestra/Abdul the Rabbi/Self/World-Jazz
Larry Graham & Graham Central Station/Raise Up/Razor & Tie/Funk
Grizzly Bear/Shields/Warp/Rock
Fred Hersch Trio/Alive at the Vanguard/Transdreamer/Jazz
Hillbenders/Can You Hear Me?/Self/Bluegrass
Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs/Sunday Run Me Over/Self/Folk-Rock
Hood Smoke/Laid Up Ordinary/Origin/Jazz
John Lee Hooker Jr./All Hooked Up/Self/Blues
Rickie Lee Jones/The Devil You Know/Concord/Rock
Bettye LaVette/Thankful n’ Thoughtful/ANTI/Funk
Lee “Scratch” Perry/Master Piece/Born Free Records/Reggae-Electronica
Rupa & the April Fishes/Build/Self/World
Laetitia Sadier/Silencio/Drag City/Rock
Ian Siegal & the Mississippi Mudbloods/Candy Store Kid/Nugene Records/Blues
Ben Sollee/Half Made Man/Tin Ear Records/Folk
Tom Teasley/All the World’s a Stage/Self/Jazz-World
Hans Theessink & Terry Evans feat. Ry Cooder/Delta Time/Blue Groove/Blues
Big Walker/Root Walking/Self/Blues
Wax Tailor/Dusty Rainbow from the Dark/Lab’Oratoire/Rock-Hip-hop
Dwight Yoakum/3 Pears/Warner/Country
BIG SURPRISE: Ian Siegal & the Mississippi Mudbloods
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Hans Theessink & Terry Evans feat. Ry Cooder
HALL OF FAME: Dwight Yoakum
HALL OF SHAME: Previous Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs, Jon Herrington
BEST REVISITED CD: Plume Giant
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Dirty River Boys
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Moody Blues: This Is the Moody Blues
AND DON'T FORGET: Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs. John Lee Hooker Jr., Bettye LaVette
COMING SOON: Max Gomez, Ronnie Fauss, Mountain Goats, Dum Dum Girls, John Cale
September 7, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Ryan Bingham/Tomorrowland/Aster Bingham/Folk-Rock
Cactus Channell/Haptics/Hope Street/Funk-Jazz
Neil Cowley Trio/Face of Mount Molehill/Naim Jazz/Jazz
Deerhoof/Breakup Song/Polyvinyl/Rock
Fatoumata Diawara/Fatou/Nonesuch/World
Patterson Hood/Heat Lightning Rumbling in the Distance/Self/Rock-Country
Lord Huron/Lonesome Dreams/Iamsound/Rock
Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott/We’re Usually a Lot Better Than This/Full Light Records/Bluegrass-Folk
Orb featuring Lee “Scratch” Perry/The Observer in the Star House/The End/RPM
Bill Ortiz/Highest Wish/Left Angle Records/Hip Hop-Jazz
Phony Ppl/nothing Special/Self/Funk-Hip Hop
Reggie Quinerly/Music Inpired by Freedom Town/Redefinition/Jazz
Raveonettes/Observatir/Vice Records/Rock
Record Company/Superdead/Self/Blues
Stars/North/ATO/Rock
Time Jumpers/Time Jumpers/Rounder/Country
Tizer/Downbeat/JLK Productions/Jazz-World
Toddla T/Watch Me Dance/Ninja Tune/ RPM
Two Door Cinema Club/Beacon/Self/Rock
BIG SURPRISE: The Record Company
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Bill Ortiz
HALL OF FAME: Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott, Orb featuring Lee “Scratch” Perry
HALL OF SHAME: Darryl Holter, Flying Burrito Brothers
BEST REVISITED CD: Toussaint Morrison
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Lord Huron. Fatoumata Diawara
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Bay City Rollers/Dedication
AND DON'T FORGET: Wax Two Door Cinema Club, Raveonettes
COMING SOON: So Many Wizards, Yuna, Kate Earl, Heather Nova
August 31, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy/Rattle Them Bones/Anti/SLG
Calexico/Algiers/Anti/Rock
Matthew Dear/Beams/Ghostly/Electronica
Dukes of Dixieland/When Country Meets Dixie/Leisure Music Group/Jazz-Country
Art Garfunkel/The Singer/Sony/Rock
Hi-Fashion/Sprechen Sie Hi-Fashion?/Self/Electronica
Kickin Grass Band/Walk With Me/Superfan Records/Bluegrass
Jens Lekman/I Know What Love Isn’t/Secretly Canadian/Rock
Various/Lawless/Sony/Soundtrack
Janis Martin/The Blanco Sessions/Cow Island Music/Rock
Simon McBride/Crossing the Line/NuGene Records/Blues
Mount Eerie/Ocean Roar/PW Elverum & Sun/Rock
Lou Pallo/A Tribute to Les Paul/Showplace/Jazz
Jas Patrick/Tributaries/Tiny Lion Music/Rock
Chris Pickering/Corners/Self/Rock
William Pilgrim & the All Grows Up/The Great Recession/Castleridge Music/Folk
Polica/Give You the Ghost/Mom+Pop/Rock-Electronica
Polica/Dark Star Remixes/Mom+Pop/Electronica
Tom Tom Club/Downtown Rockers/Nacional/Rock-Electronica
Wax Poetic/One a Ride/Nublu/Electronica-Rock
Various/Lowe Country:The Songs of Nick Lowe/Fiesta Red Records/Rock
BIG SURPRISE: Janis Martin
BIGGEST SURPRISE: William Pilgrim
HALL OF FAME: Calexico, Tom Tom Club
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing) Ry Cooder
BEST REVISITED CD: Art Garfunkle
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Ombre
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Elton John: Captain Fantastic
AND DON'T FORGET: Wax Poetic,Various: Lowe Country,Polica
COMING SOON: Bob Dylan, Diana Kral, Lindi Ortega
August 24, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffitti/Mature Themes/4AD/Rock
Rayland Baxter/Feathers and Fishhooks/ATO/Rock
Deanna Bogart/Pianoland/Blind Pig/Blues
Chatham County Line/Sight and Sound/Yep Roc/Bluegrass
Ry Cooder/Election Special/Nonesuch/Rock
Shemekia Copeland/33 1/3 /Telarc/Blues
Dan Deacon/America/Domino/Electronica
Firewater/International Orange/Bloodshot/Rock
Flatlanders/The Odesssa Tapes/New Wave Records/Country
Guy Forsyth/The Freedom to Fail/Small & Nimble Records/Rock
Richard Hawley/Standing at the Sky’s Edge/Mute/Rock
Jimmy Herring/Subject to Change Without Notice/Abstract Logix/Jazz-Rock
John Haitt/Mystic Pinball/New West/Rock
Rick Holmstrom/Cruel Sunrise/MC Records/Blues
Lionel Loueke/Heritage/Blue Note/Jazz
Magic Slim & the Teardrops/Bad Boy/Blind Pig/Blues
Kendra Morris/Banshee/Wax Poetic/Rock
Persian Azeri Trio/From Shiraz to Baku/Arc Records/World
Ramin Sakurai/Brace Yourselves/Prismtone Records/Electronica
Tribe Called Red/Tribe Called Red/Self/Electronica
BIG SURPRISE: Rayland Baxter.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Jimmy Herring.
HALL OF FAME: Jimmy Herring, John Hiatt, Ry Cooder, Lionel Loueke, Rick Holmstrom.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Slightly Stoopid- Top of the World.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Waz E James- Noisy Trucks.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Merry Christmas Aspen.
AND DON'T FORGET: Ocote Soul Sounds- El Nino y El Sol
COMING SOON: Two Door Cinema Club, Helio Sequence, Deer Creek Canyon, Stars, David Byrne & St. Vincent
August 17, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Kyle Adem/Armour/ Ghost Motel Records/Rock/Folk
Bill Anshcell/Blueprints/Origin/Jazz
Black Prairie/A Tear in the Eye is a Wound in the Heart/Sugar Hill/Folk
Bluesmasters/Bluesmasters Vol.2/Direct Music/Blues
Bobtown/Trouble I Wrought/Self/Folk
Bonde Do Role/Tropicalbacanal/Mad Decent/Latin/Electronica
Bonfire Dub/Search/Self/Reggae
William Brittelle/Loving the Chambered Nautilus/New Amsterdam Music/Rock/Classical
Chick Corea & Gary Burton/Hot House/Self/Jazz
Dangermuffin/Olly Oxen Free/Self/Folk/Rock
David Wax Museum/Knock Knock Get Up/Great North Sound/Rock
Grandfather Child/Grandfather Child/New West/Rock
Neal Halstead/Palindrome Hunches/Brushfire Records/Rock
Harpeth Rising with David Greenberg/The End of the World/Grimm Rising/Folk
Kilmarnock Edition/Pay it Forward/Greentrax/Celtic
Lefty Jones Band/Live from San Diego/Self/Folk
Sondre Lerche/Bootlegs/Mona Records/Rock
Ottmar Leibert + Luna Negra/Dune/Spiral Subwave/Folk-Classical
Houston Marchman/Econoliner/Self/Country
The Mavericks/Suited Up & Ready/Valory/Country
Toussant Morrison/Toussant Morrison is Not my Boyfriend/Urban Home Companion/Hip Hop-Funk
My Darling Clementine/How Do You Plead?/Self/Country
Old Ceremony/Fairytales & Other Forms of Suicide/Yep Roc/Rock
Ombre/Believe You Me/Asthmatic Kitty/RPM/Latin
Staff Benda Bilili/Bouger Le Monde!/Crammed Discs/World
Cassie Taylor/Blue/Hypertension/Blues
Troubadour Kings/Heartache Town/Ride Records/Folk
Uncle Lucius/You Are Me/Entertainment One/Rock
Various/Concord:The Very Best of Series/Concord/Jazz
BIG SURPRISE: Black Prairie, Grandfather Child.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Dangermuffin, Ottmar Liebert.
HALL OF FAME: Ottmar Liebert, Dangermuffin, The Mavericks.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Corb Lund- Cabin Fever.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Poor Moon- Poor Moon.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: The Best of Buddha Records (2 Record Set).
AND DON'T FORGET: J.J. Cale- Naturally.
COMING SOON: Time Jumpers, Jamey Johnson, Alanis Morisette, Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs.
August 10, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Lee Brice/Hard 2 Love/Curb Records/Country-Rock
Michael “Iron Man” Burks/Show of Strength/Alligator/Blues
Careful/Because I Am Always Thinking/Self/Rock
Amy Cook/Summer Skin/Root House Records/Rock
Robert Cray Band/Nothin’ But Love/Mascot Music/Blues
Easy Star All Stars/Thrillah/Easy Star/Reggae
Steve Forbert/Over With You/Blue Corn Music/Rock
Fox Street AllStars/Welcome to Mighty Pleasin’/Self/Rock
Uri Geissendoerfer/Colors/Dripping House Productions/Jazz
Good Co./Electro Swing for the Masses/Self/Jazz-Electronica
Grasscut/Unearth/Ninja Tune/Electronica
Caroline Herring/Camilla/Self/Folk
Frank Herzberg Trio/Handmade/Self/Jazz
Waz E James/Noisy Trucks/Gravel Road Records/Rock
Nuala Kennedy/Noble Stranger/Compass/Celtic
Lianne La Havas/Is Your Love Big Enough?/Nonesuch/Funk
Corb Lund/Cabin Fever/New West/Country
Plume Giant/Callithump/Self/Rock/Funk
Poor Moon/Poor Moon/SubPop/Rock
Sean Rowe/The Salesman &the Shack/Anti/Folk-Rock
K Sabroso/Garifunasty/Spring Strut/Electronica
Bobby Sanabria Big Band/Multiverse/Jazzheads/Jazz-Latin
Slightly Stoopid/Top of the World/Self/Rock/Reggae
Somebody’s Darling/Jank City Shakedown/Self/Country-Folk
Gordie Tentrees/North Country Heart/Socan/Folk/Blues
Donald Vega/Spiritual Nature/Resonance/Jazz
Vybz Kartel/Kingston Story: Deluxe Edition/Vice Records/Reggae
Yeasayer/Fragrant World/Self/Rock
Various/We Walk the Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash/Blackbird/Country
BIG SURPRISE: Plume Giant, Waz E James.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Donald Vega, Lianne La Havas.
HALL OF FAME: Corb Lund, Sean Rowe, Slightly Stoopid, Lianne La Havas, Jimmy Herring.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Black Music Month 2012.
BEST REVISITED CD: Antibalas- Antibalas.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Radney Foster: Del Rio Texas Revisited.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: The Del Lords- Soldier’s Home.
AND DON'T FORGET: Clutchy Hopkins- The Storytellers.
COMING SOON: Ben Folds, Stars, Bat for Lashes, Passenger, Lord Huron.
August 3, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Abrams Brothers/Northern Redemption/Bug Music/Folk/Bluegrass
Antibalas/Antibalas/Daptone/World
Geoff Bartley/Mercy for the Dispossessed/Magic Crow/Folk
Boo City/Midnight Folklore/Galactic Soul/Funk/Reggae
Norton Buffalo & George Kahumoku Jr/From Paradise/Moon Valley Music/Folk
Coal Porters/Find the One/Prima Records/Folk
Randy Crawford & Joe Sample/Live/PRA/Jazz
Sean Hayes/Before We Turn to Dust/Self/Rock/Folk
Susanna Hoffs/Someday/Baroque Folk/Rock
Kevin Kastning & Sandor Szabo/The Book of Crossing/Greydisc/Folk
Various/The Last Ride: A Story of Hank Williams/Curb Records/Soundtrack/Country
Charlie Mars/Blackberry Light/Rockingham Records/Rock
Justin Martin/Ghettos & Gardens/Beatport/Electronica
Tift Merritt/Traveling Alone/Yep Roc/Folk-Rock
Amanda Palmer & Grand Theft Orchestra/Theatre Is Evil Radio Edits/8 Foot Records/Rock
Scrapomatic/I’m a Stranger & I Love the Night/Landslide/Blues
Serengeti/C.A.R./Anticon/Hip Hop
Charlie Shafter/Charlie Shafter/Self/Folk
Dr. Lonnie Smith/The Healer/Pilgrimage/Jazz
Stray Birds/Stray Birds/Self/Folk
Trishas/Trishas/Self/Folk
World Famous Headliners/World Famous Headliners/Big Yellow Dog Music/Rock
Rob Zombie/Mondo Sex Head/Geffen/Electronica-Rock
Various/A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac/StarCon/Rock
BIG SURPRISE: Scrapomatic.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Kevin Kastning & Sandor Szabo.
HALL OF FAME: Antibalas, Abrams Brothers, The Trishas, Kevin Kastning.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Mojo Nixon- Whereabouts Unknown.
BEST REVISITED CD: Gaelic Storm- Chicken Boxer.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: I Draw Slow- Redhills.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Leonard Cohen- Songs from a Room.
AND DON'T FORGET: Tuatara- East of the Sun.
COMING SOON: Beth Orton, Tom Tom Club, Sondre Lerche,
July 27, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
John Abercrombie Quartet/Within A Song/Decca/Jazz
Antony and the Johnsons/Cut the World/Secretly Canadian/Rock
Be Good Tanyas/A Collection/Porch Music/Folk
Chief Greenbud/Chief Greenbud Vol. 3/Self/Folk
Citizen Cope/One Lovely Day/Rainwater/Rock
Gaelic Storm/Chicken Boxer/Lost Again Records/Celtic
Jon Herington/Time on my Hands/Wise Axe/Rock
Lorenzo Jovanotti/Italia/ATO/World/Rock
Kraig Kenning/Maktub/Self/Folk
The Kennedys/Closer Than You Know/Self/Rock
Antsy McClain & the Trailer Park Troubadours/Living the Dream/DPR/Country/Folk
Marcus Miller/Renaissiance/Hannibal/Jazz
New Riders of the Purple Sage/17 Pine Avenue/Woodstock Records/Rock
Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band/Between the Ditches/SideOneDummy/Blues
Christian Scott/Christian Atunde Adjuah/Concord/Jazz
Steve Skinner/Genie/Self/Rock
Robin & Linda Williams/These Old Dark Hills/Red House/Bluegrass
BIG SURPRISE: Lorenzo Jovanotti, Kraig Kenning.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Gaelic Storm.
HALL OF FAME: Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Christian Scott, Gaelic Storm.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Dead Can Dance- Anastasis.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: I Draw Slow- Red Hills.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Harold Melvin & Blue Notes- The Blue Album.
AND DON'T FORGET: Depedro- Depedro.
COMING SOON: Lianne La Havas, Antibalas, Amanda Palmer & Grand Theft Orchestra.
July 20, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Aesop Rock/Skelethon/Rhymesayers/Hip Hop
Allah-Las/Allah Las/Innovative Leisure/Rock
Cinematic Orchestra/In Motion #1/Ninja Tune/Rock-Electronica
Chris Daniels/Better Days/Self/Rock
Crosby, Still, Nash & Young/2012/Self/Rock
Chris Daniels/Better Days/Self/Rock/Folk
Dead Can Dance/Anastasis/Pias/World
Radney Foster/Del Rio Texas Revisited: Unplugged and Lonesome/Devil’s River Records/Country
Missy Higgins/The Ol’ Razzle Dazzle/Self/Rock
Malcolm Holcombe/Down the River/Gypsy Eyes/Folk
I Draw Slow/Redhills/Pinecastle Records/Bluegrass-Folk
Kabanjak & Fat Albert Einstein/Dub O’ Dup/Switchstance/Electronica
Lindsay Lou & Flatbellys/Release Your Shrouds/Self/Bluegrass
Los Fulanos/Si Esto Se Acaba Que Siga El Boogaloo/Lovemonk/Latin
Los Straightjackets/Jet Set/Yep Roc/Rock
Daniel McBrearty/Clarinet Swing/Self/Jazz
Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang/En Yay Sah/Luaka Bop/World
Joshua Radin/Underwater/Mom+Pop/Rock
Ed Romanoff/Ed Romanoff/Self/Rock/Folk
Sun Kil Moon/Among the Leaves/Caldo Verde/Rock
Thenewno2/Thefearofmissingout/Self/Rock
Town Mountain/Leave the Bottle/Pinecastle Records/Bluegrass
Very Best/MTMTMK/Moshi Moshi/World-Electronica
Various/Radio Nederland Festival Highlights 2012/RNW/World
BIG SURPRISE: Radney Foster.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Dead Can Dance.
HALL OF FAME: Cinematic Orchestra, Dead Can Dance, Janka Nabay & Bubu Gang, Joshua Radin, Sun Kil Moon.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Santigold- Master of My Make Believe.
BEST REVISITED CD: Muddy Waters & Rolling Stones- Live Chicago 1981.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Husky- Forever So.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Prince- Controversy.
AND DON'T FORGET: Albert Lee- Road Runner.
COMING SOON: The Kennedys, Tift Merritt, The World Famous Headliners, Yeasayer, Calexico.
July 13, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Dan Bern & Common Rotation/Drifter/Self/Folk
Dan Bern & Common Rotation/Doubleheader/Self/Folk
Jimmy Cliff/Rebirth/Sunpower/Reggae
Do/Live Sessions at Studio Pigallle/Six Degrees/Rock
Mack Evans/Pawn Shop Guitar/StormoftheCentury Records/Blues
Zac Harmon/Music Is Medicine/Urban Eagle/Blues
Jesse Harris/Sub Rosa/Dangerbird/Rock
Beth Hart/Introducing Beth Hart/Mascot Music/Rock
Heavy Tin/Makeover/Concinnity Records/Jazz
Icky Blossoms/Icky Blossoms/Saddle Creek/Rock
Michael Kiwanuka/Home Again/Polydor/Funk
Richie Lawrence/Water/Big Book Records/Folk-Country
Kevin Mahogany & Dave Stryker Organ Trio/Next Time You See Me/Self/Jazz
Montag/Phases/Carpark/Electronica-Rock
Zoe Muth & the Lost High Rollers/Old Gold/Signature Sounds/Folk-Country
Ponderosa/Pool Party/New West/Rock
Greg Poree/Phoenix/Self/Jazz
Angus Stone/Broken Brights/Nettwerk/Folk
John Stowell & Ulf Bandgren/Throop/Origin/Jazz
Various/Brownswood Bubblers Eight/Brownswood/Electronica-Rock-Jazz
BIG SURPRISE: The Do.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Jimmy Cliff, Michael Kiwanuka.
HALL OF FAME: The Do, Jimmy Cliff, Jesse Harris, Beth Hart, Michael Kiwanuka.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Dubmission 2: The Remixes.
BEST REVISITED CD: The Blasters- Fun on Saturday Night.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Various- The Inner Flame: A Tribute to Rainer Ptacek.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Bruce Springsteen- Nebraska.
AND DON'T FORGET: The Nublues- Dreams of a Blues Man
COMING SOON: Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Robert Cray Band, Popa Chubby.
July 6, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Blasters/Fun on Saturday Night/Rip Cat Records/Rock
Debo Band/Debo Band/Next Ambience/World-Rock
Debbie Davies/After the Fall/Self/Blues
Dirty Projectors/Swing Lo Magellan/Domino/Rock
Grant Geissman/Bop! Bang! Boom!/Futurism Records/Jazz
Grates/Secret Rituals/Vagrant/Rock
Hot Panda/Go Outside/Mint Records/Rock
Johnny Mastro & Mama’s Boys/Luke’s Dream/Rip Cat Records/Blues
Matisyahu/Spark Seeker/Fallen Sparks Records/Reggae
Mornin’ Old Sport/Mornin’ Old Sport/Misery Loves Co./Folk/Jazz
Shawn Nelson/San Juan Street/Fonky Tonk Records/Country
Billy Joe Shaver/Live at Billy Bob’s Texas/Smith Records/Country
Anna Ternheim/The Night Visitor/Die Rider Music/Rock/Folk
Muddy Waters & the Rolling Stones/Live Chicago 1981/Eagle Vision/Blues
Various/Digitalism: DJ Kicks/!K7/RPM
BIG SURPRISE: Debo Band.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Dirty Projectors.
HALL OF FAME: Matisyahu, Debo Band.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Old Crow Medicine Show- Carry Me Back.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Delicate Steve- Positive Force; Twangtown Paramours- The Promise of Friday Night.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Kingston Trio- Time to Think.
AND DON'T FORGET: Jack Kerouac- On the Road (DAD #17642-17650).
COMING SOON: Beth Hart, Steeldrivers, Flatlanders.
June 29, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Elizabeth Cook/Gospel Plow/31Tigers/Country
Delicate Steve/Positive Force/Luaka Bop/Rock
James Luther Dickinson & North Mississippi Allstars/Merless Records/Blues
Driftwood Singers/Driftwood Singers/Trailer Fire Records/Folk
Dub Pistols/Worshipping the Dollar/Sunday Best Recording/Electronica
Rick Estrin & the Nightcats/Wrong Turn/Alligator/Blues
Flaming Lips & the Heady Fwends/Flaming Lips & the Heady Fwends/Warner/Rock
Bucky Halker & Andy Dee/The Ghost of Woody Guthrie/Self/Folk
Invisible/Rispah/Ninja Tune/Rock
Tim “ Too Slim” Langford/Broken Halo/Underworld/Blues
Eleni Mandell/I Can See the Future/Yep Roc/Rock
Mission of Burma/Unsound/Fire/Rock
Old Crow Medicine Show/Carry Me Back/Ato/Bluegrass
Omar & the Howlers/I’m Gone/Big Guitar Music/Blues
Smashing Pumpkins/Oceania/EMI/Rock
Joss Stone/Soul Sessions Vol 2/S-Curve/R&B
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs/Trouble/CasaBlanca/Electronica
Twangtown Paramours/The Promise of Friday Night/Inside Edge/Folk
Manuel Valera/New Cuban Express/Mavo Records/Jazz
Various/The Inner Flame/Fire/Folk-Rock
Various/Even More Songs of Route 66/Lazy Sob Recordings/Blues-Rock
BIG SURPRISE: Delicate Steve.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Various-The Inner Flame.
HALL OF FAME: The Inner Flame, Old Crow Medicine Show.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Wonderwheel Spins 2012, Little Feat- Rooster Rag.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Calibro 35.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Earth Wind & Fire- All n All.
AND DON'T FORGET: The Orb- The Future Academy of Noise, Rhythm & Gardening.
COMING SOON: Robert Cray, Iris Dement.
June 22, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Fiona Apple/The Idler Wheel is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw & Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do/Epic/Rock
Calibro 35/Any Resemblance to Real Persons or Actual Facts Is Purely Coincidental/Nublu/Electronica
Cory Chisel & Wandering Sons/Old Believers/Readymade Records/Rock
Chris Daniels & BMaster/We’ll Meet Again/Self/Rock
The Daredevil Christopher Wright/The Nature of Things/Self/Rock
Dirty Guv’nahs/Somewhere Beneath These Southern Skies/Dualtone/Rock
Bela Fleck & the Marcus Roberts Trio/Across the Imaginary Divide/Rounder/Folk-Jazz
Husky/Forever 50/Fake Moustache/Rock
Little Feat/Rooster Rag/Rounder/Rock
Squarepusher/Ufabulum/Warp/Electronica
Jeff Strahan/Amen to the Blues/Self/Blues
Stratospherius/The Next World/Fiddlefunk/Rock
Bibi Tanga & the Selenites/40 Degrees of Sunshine/NatGeo/RPM/World
Dr. Michael White/Adventures in New Orleans Jazz/Basin Street/Jazz
Don Williams/And So It Goes/Sugar Hill/Country
Keller Williams & the Travelin’ McCourys/Pick/KW Entertainment/Bluegrass/Folk
Various/The Wonderwheel Spins 2012/Wonderwheel/Electronica-World-Hip Hop
BIG SURPRISE: Dirty Guv’nahs.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Bela Fleck & Marcus Roberts.
HALL OF FAME: Bibi Tanga, Calibro 35, Keller Williams & Travelin McCourys, Bela & Marcus.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Chris Smither- Hundred Dollar Valentine.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Lettuce- Fly.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Richard Betts- Highway Call.
AND DON'T FORGET: Bonobo- Black Sands/Ninja Tune.
COMING SOON: Charlie Mars, Paul Weller, Old Crow Medicine Show.
June 15, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Billy Boy Arnold/Billy Boy Arnold Sings Broonzy/Self/Blues
Beachwood Sparks/Tarnished Gold/Sub Pop/Rock
Catfish Keith/Put on a Buzz/Fish Tail Records/Blues
Ba Cissoko/Nimissa/Cristal Records/World
Ravi Coltrane/Spirit Fiction/Blue Note/Jazz
Everest/Ownerless/ATO/Rock
Jimmy Fallon/Blow Your Pants Off/Warner/Rock-Comedy
Manuel Galban/Blue Cha Cha/Montuno/Latin
Rachel Harrington/Makin’ Our House a Honkytonk/Self/Country
Honey Dewdrops/Silver Lining/Self/Folk
Hot Chip/In Our Heads/Domino/Rock
Leftover Cuties/Departures/Self/Rock
Pat Metheny/Unity Band/Nonesuch/Jazz
No Joes/Valley of the Sky/Self/Rock
Oakhurst/Barrel/Self/Bluegrass
Otis/Music Elevator/Self/Rock
Richard Sussman Quintet/Continuum/Origin/Jazz
Anthony Valadez/Just Visiting/Plug Research/Electronica
Seth Walker/Time Can Change/Self/Blues
Various/Black Music Month Concord Sampler/Concord/Jazz
BIG SURPRISE: Honey Dewdrops
BIGGEST SURPRISE:
HALL OF FAME: Honey Dewdrops, Seth Walker.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Brandi Carlile- Bear Creek.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Delta Moon- Black Cat Oil.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Robert Plant- Pictures at Eleven.
AND DON'T FORGET: Sean Reefer & the Resin Valley Boys (DAD #56830-56840).
COMING SOON: Husky, Ben Hall, April Howard, Dirty Projectors.
June 8, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Blackberry Smoke/The Whippoorwill/Southern Ground/Rock
Brandi Carlile/Bear Creek/Columbia/Rock/Folk
Mary Chapin Carpenter/Ashes & Roses/Zoe Records/Country
Albert Castiglia/The Living Dream/Bluesleaf Records/Blues
Brian Culbertson/Dreams/Verve/Jazz-Funk
Chris Robinson Brotherhood/Big Moon Ritual/Silver Arrow/Rock
Endangered/Endangered/Self/Rock-Funk
Sara Gazarek/Blossom & Bee/Transdreamer/Jazz
Hardin Burns/Lounge/Self/Folk
Al Jarreau/Al Jarreau & the Metropole Orkest/Concord/Jazz
Stacey Kent/Dreamer in Concert/Token Productions/Jazz
Mega Ran/Language Arts Volume 1/Random Beats/Hip Hop
Kate Miller-Heidke/Nightflight/Sony BMG/Rock
Niki & the Dove/Instict/Sub Pop/Rock
Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show/”Take Me Back Home”/ Pinecastle Holdings/Country
Paul Simon/Graceland Re-Issue/Self/Rock
Chris Smither/Hundred Dollar Valentine/Homunculus Music/Folk/Blues
Mike Stern/All Over the Place/Heads Up/Jazz
Sandi Thom/Flesh & Blood/Guardian Angels Records/Rock
Chris Watson Band/Pleasure & Pain/GatorMusic/Blues
Cassandra Wilson/Another Country/Ojah Media Group/Jazz
Bobby Womack/The Bravest Man in the Universe/XL/Soul
Various/Stronghold Sound Presents Sembe Ma Fa Fe/Stronghold/World
BIG SURPRISE: Blackberry Smoke.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Bobby Womack.
HALL OF FAME: Bobby Womack, Chris Smither, Brandi Carlile.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Kin: Songs by Mary Karr & Rodney Crowell.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Steve Poltz- Noineen Noiny Noin.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Savoy Brown- Raw Sienna.
AND DON'T FORGET: Crooked Still- Shaken by a Low Sound.
COMING SOON: Grizzly Bear, Liz Phair. Seth Walker.
June 1, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Ancient Astronauts/The Orion Nebula Remixes/ESL/Electronica
Beach Boys/That’s Why God Made Radio/Capitol/Rock
Lakecia Benjamin/Retox/Self/Jazz/Funk
Shawn Colvin/All Fall Down/Nonesuch/Folk
Cookers/Believe/Motema Music/Jazz
Curumin/Arrocha/Six Degrees/Latin-Electronica*
Voo Davis/A Place for Secrets/Self/Blues
Delta Moon/Black Cat Oil/Red Parlor/Blues*
Duke Ellington Legacy/Single Petal of a Rose/Renma Recordings/Jazz
Rebecca Ferguson/Heaven/Syco Music/Funk
Glen Hansard/Rhythm & Response/Anti/Rock/Folk
Kelly Hogan/I Like to Keep Myself in Pain/Anti/Rock
Kraak & Smaak/Mixed Feelings/CMJ/Electronica-Funk*
Ladyhawke/Anxiety/Casablanca/Rock
Lettuce/Fly/Franklin & Greene/Funk
Steve Poltz/Noineen Noiny Noin/Self/Folk-Rock
Grace Potter & the Nocturnals/The Lion, The Beast, The Beat/Hollywood/Blues
Lisa Marie Presley/Storm & Grace/XIX Recordings/Rock/Country
Professor Louie & Crowmatix/Wings on Fire/Woodstock/Folk-Blues
Emeli Sande/Our Version of Events/Capitol/Funk
Shovels & Rope/O’ Be Joyful/Dualtone/Folk/Rock
Sigur Ros/Valtari/XL/Rock
Regina Spektor/What We Saw from the Cheap Seats/Sire/Rock
Tallest Man on Earth/There’s No Leaving Now/Dead Oceans/Folk*
Joe Walsh/Analog Man/Self/Rock
Neil Young & Crazy Horse/ Americana/Reprise/Rock/Folk*
Various/Music of Central Asia Vol 10: Borderlands/Smithsonian Folkways/World
Various/Jalapeno Funk Vol 4/JAL 124/RPM/Funk*
Various/Kin: Songs by Mary Karr & Rodney Crowell/Vanguard/Country
Various/Foggy Mountain Special: A Tribute to Earl Scruggs/Rounder/Bluegrass
BIG SURPRISE: Beach Boys, Lettuce.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Shovels & Rope, Steve Poltz.
HALL OF FAME: Curumin, Delta Moon, Glen Hansard, Kraak & Smaak, Steve Poltz, Regina Spektor, Tallest Man on Earth, Neil Young, Jalapeno Funk.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): George Strait- One Step at a Time.
BEST REVISITED CD: Xavier Rudd- Spirit Bird, Bap Kennedy- The Sailor’s Revenge. BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Heritage Blues Orchestra- And Still I Rise, Treme Soundtrack.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: The The- Mind Bomb.
AND DON'T FORGET: Tangle Eye: Alan Lomax’s Southern Journey.
COMING SOON: Anna Ternheim, Ponderosa, Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band. Little Feat.
May 25, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Tim Carey/Room 114/Midnight Snack Records/Jazz
Cheebacabra/Pass the Information/Mackrosoft/Funk-Soul-Electronica*
Coyote Grace/Now Take Flight/Mile After Mile Music/Folk
John Doe & Exene Cervenka/Singing & Playing/Moonlight Graham Records/Rock
El-P/Cancer4Cure/Fat Possum/HipHop
Get the Blessing/OCDC/Naim Audio/Jazz
Heritage Blues Orchestra/And Still I Rise/Raisin’ Music/Blues
Tom House/Winding Down the Road/Mud Records/Folk
Bap Kennedy/The Sailor’s Revenge/Lonely Street/Folk*
Kimbra/Vows/Warner Brothers/Rock
King Tuff/King Tuff/Sub Pop/Rock
Shawn Lee/Synthesizers in Space/ESL/Electronica
Lil’ Ed & the Blues Imperials/Jump Start/Alligator/Blues
John Mayer/Born & Raised/Columbia/Rock
Rhett Miller/The Dreamer/Maximum Sunshine/Rock
Mynabirds/Generals/Saddle Creek/Rock
Nickodemus/Moon People/ESL/Electronica-World
Parlotones/Journey Through the Shadows/Sovereign Entertainment/Rock
Public Image Ltd./This is PiL/Self/Rock
Pujol/United States of Being/Saddle Creek/Rock
Xavier Rudd/Spirit Bird/Self/Rock-World
Edward Sharp & the Magnetic Zeros/Here/Vagrant/Rock
Langhorne Slim/The Way We Move/Ramseur Records/Rock
Sugarman 3/What the World Needs Now/Daptone/Funk
Swamp Cabbage/Drumroll Please/Walter Parks Music/Rock
Various/Treme: Music from the HBO Series/Sountrack-Jazz
Walter Wilkins/Plenty/Ride Records/Folk
Wendy Woo Band/Austerity/WoodMusic/Rock
Zulu Winter/Language/Arts & Crafts/Rock
Various/Plant Music:Love Me/Plant Music/Electronica
Various/Original Jazz Classics Remastered/Concord/Jazz
BIG SURPRISE: Treme Soundtrack, Parlotones, Heritage Blues Orchestra.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Bap Kennedy, Cheebacabra.
HALL OF FAME: Sugarman 3, Bap Kennedy, Edward Sharpe, Xavier Rudd.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Mammas- Par Philippe Eidel, Atari Teenage Riot- 60 Second Wipeout.
BEST REVISITED CD: Sara Watkins- Sun Midnight Sun
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Jon Dee Graham- Garage Sale; Mark Collie & His Reckless Companions- Alive at Brushy Mountain Penitentiary.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Stanley Turrentine- The Baddest Turrentine.
AND DON'T FORGET: Tim O’Brien- Cornbread Nation.
COMING SOON: Dangling Teeth, Smithsonian Folkways Music of Central Asia, Corb Lund, Mary Chapin Carpenter.
May 18, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Bodeans/American Made/A & F Records/Rock
Cold Specks/I Predict a Graceful Expulsion/Broken Hertz Records/Folk
Mark Collie & His Reckless Companions/Live at Brushy Mtn. State Penitentiary/Country
Jerry Douglas/Traveler/Entertainment One/Folk
Elan/Retrospective 2002-2012/CTYCS/Rock
Garbage/Not Your Kind of People/Self/Rock
Melody Gardot/The Absence/Verve/Jazz
Jon Dee Graham/Garage Sale/Self/Folk
YoYo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile/Goat Rodeo Sessions Live/Sony BMG/Bluegrass
Mariachi El Bronx/Revolution Girl RMX/ATO/Latin-Electronica
Marley’s Ghost/Jubilee/Sage Arts/Folk
Meiko/The Bright Side/Concord/Rock
Willie Nelson/Heroes/Sony/Country
Niyaz/Sumud/Six Degrees/World
Rowan Cunningham Band/New Horizons/Self/Bluegrass/Folk
Royal Southern Brotherhood/Royal Southern Brotherhood/Ruf Records/Blues-Rock
Ryan Shaw/Real Love/Dynotone Records/Funk
Sonnymoon/Sonnymoon/Plug Research/RPM-Rock
Walkmen/Heaven/Fat Possum/Rock
Sara Watkins/Sun Midnight Sun/Nonesuch/Folk
Various/Mercyland: Hymns for the Rest of Us/Mercyland/Spiritual/Folk
BIG SURPRISE: Mark Collie & His Reckless Companions.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Cold Specks.
HALL OF FAME: Willie Nelson, Niyaz.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): George Strait-One Step at a Time.
BEST REVISITED CD: Various Artists-Samaya: A Benefit for Cheb I Sabbah.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Turnpike Troubadours-Goodbye Normal Street.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Willie & Leon-One for the Road.
AND DON'T FORGET: Gigi-Gold and Wax.
COMING SOON: Rodney Crowell, David Gray, Flatlanders.
May 11, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Barcelona/Not Quite Yours/NBD Music/Rock
Albert Bashor/Cotton Field of Dreams/Earwig/Blues
Natasha Borzilova/Out of My Hands/Hadley Music Group/Rock
Gary Champion/Shanachie Days/GSM Music/Blues
Danielle Ate the Sandwich/Like a King/Self/Rock
Elan/See Us Spin/CTYCS/Rock-Blues*
Elenowen/Elenowen/Dualtone/Rock
Guitar Mikey & the Real Thing/Out of the Box/Self/Blues
Lars Hollmer/With Floury Hand (Sketches)/Cuneiform/Folk
Jesca Hoop/The House that Jack Built/Bella Union/Rock
Jukebox the Ghost/Safe Travels/Yep Roc/Rock
Lake Street Dive/Fun Machine/Signature Sounds/Rock/Jazz*
Sonny Landreth/Elemental Journey/Landfall Records/Rock*
The Mannish Boys/Double Dynamite/Delta Groove/Blues
Rachael Sage/Haunted by You/Mpress Records/Rock
Silversun Pickups/Neck of the Woods/Dangerbird/Rock
Simian Mobile Disco/Unpatterns/Self/Electronica
Wadada Leo Smith/Ten Freedom Summers/Cuneiform/Jazz
The Spy from Cairo/Arabadub/Wonderwheel Recordings/World-Electronica*
Allen Stone/Allen Stone/Sticky Stones/Funk-Soul-R&B
Tedeschi Trucks Band/Live: Everybody’s Talkin’/Sony/Rock/Blues*
Various/Samaya: A Benefit for Cheb I Sabbah/Six Degrees/World-Electronica*
Various/Made in Iceland/Iceland Music Export/Rock
BIG SURPRISE: Jukebox the Ghost.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Elan.
HALL OF FAME: Elan, Lake Street Dive, Spy from Cairo, Various: Samaya.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): George Strait-Pure Country.
BEST REVISITED CD: The Wandering- Go On Now, You Can’t Stay Here.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Two Man Gentlemen Band-Two at a Time; Ryan Montbleau-For Higher.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: A Wizard, A True Star.
AND DON'T FORGET: Christian McBride- Live at Tonic.
COMING SOON: Langhorne Slim, Edward Sharpe & Magnetic Zeros, Steeldrivers, Seth Walker.
May 4, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
All Good Funk Alliance/Jacks of All Trades/Fort Knox Recordings/Funk-Electronica*
Beach House/Bloom/SubPop/Rock
Best Coast/The Only Place/Kemado Records/Rock
Blues Traveler/Suzie Cracks the Whip/BT Recording/Rock
Le Boeuf Brothers/In Praise of Shadows/Self/Jazz
Cory Branan/Mutt/Bloodshot/Rock
Campo/Campo/Self/Latin
Ablaye Cissoko & Voelker Goetze/Amanke Dionti/Self/World
The Cribs/In the Belly of the Brazen Bull/Wichita/Rock
Driftwood/A Rock n Roll Heart/Dualtone/Folk
Amina Figarova/Twelve/In+Out Records/Jazz
Keene/Strangeland/Cherrytree-Interscope/Rock
Greg Laswell/Landline/Vanguard/Rock
Ryan Montbleau/For Higher/Blue’s Mountain/Blues
Mystix/Mighty Tone/Self/Blues
Gary Primich/Just a Little Bit More/Old Pal Records/Blues
Santigold/Master of My Make-Believe/Downtown/Rock/Hip Hop
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars/Radio Salone/Cumancha/World/Reggae
South Memphis String Band/Old Times There/Merless Records/Folk
Strata-Tones/Dressed Up to Fess Up/Self/Blue
Tall Dark Stranger/There It Is/Self/Rock
Turnpike Troubadours/Goodbye Normal Street/Bossier City Records/Folk
Two Man Gentlemen Band/Two At a Time/Bean Tone Records/Jazz
Various/Exit Bratislava: Near Dark and Beyond Vol. 1/
BIG SURPRISE: Driftwood.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Ablaye Cissoko & Voelker Goetze.
HALL OF FAME: Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, Strata-Tones, Two Man Gentlemen Band.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Pam Tillis- Rhinestoned.
BEST REVISITED CD: Two Man Gentlemen Band.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Great Recession Orchestra- Double Shot.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: The Essential Pete Seeger.
AND DON'T FORGET: Chumbawamba- Un.
COMING SOON: Shawn Lee, Nickodemus, Chris Smither.
April 27, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Afrobeta/Wig Party/Do It Entertainment/RPM
Allo Darlin’/Europe/Slumberland Records/Rock
Tab Benoit/Legacy: The Best Of/Concord/Blues
Brothers Comatose/Respect the Van/Self/Folk/Bluegrass
Carbon Choir/Sakhalin/Self/Rock
Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer/Little Blue Egg/Red House/Folk
Romain Collin/The Calling/Transdreamer/Jazz
Luther Dickinson/Hambone’s Meditations/Songs of the South/Blues/Gospel-Blues
Caroline Doctorow/I Carry All I Own: The Songs of Mary McCaslin/Self/Folk
Antje Duvekot/Antje Duvekot/Self/Folk
Alejandro Esovedo/Big Station/Concord/Rock
Great Recession Orchestra/Double Shot/NewTrax/Country/Folk
George Harrison/Early Takes Volume 1/Estate/Rock
Imaginary Cities/Temporary Resident/Self/Rock
Norah Jones/Little Broken Hearts/Blue Note/Rock
Leftover Salmon/Aquatic Hitchhiker/Los Records/Bluegrass/Rock
Gordon Lightfoot/All Live/Rhino/Folk
Manner Effect/Abundance/Self/Jazz
Monks of the Desert/Blessings Peace & Harmony/Sony/Spiritual
O’Brien Party of 7/Reincarnation: The Songs of Roger Miller/Howdy Skies Records/Folk
Lawrence Preston/Eclectic Soul/Gemstone/Funk-Soul-R&B
Reptar/Body Faucet/Vanguard/Rock
Joey Ramone/Ya Know?/Mutated Music/Rock
Arturo Sandoval/Dear Diz (Every Day I Think of You/Concord/Jazz
Todd Snider/Time As We Know It :The Songs of Jerry Jeff Walker/Aimless/Rock
Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives/Nashville Vol. 1:Tear the Woodpile Down/Sugar Hill/Country
Wanderings/Go On Now, You Can’t Stay Here/Songs of the South/Folk
Jack White/Blunderbuss/Third Man/Rock
BIG SURPRISE: Todd Snider, Afrobeta.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Great Recession Orchestra, Wanderings.
HALL OF FAME: Jack White, Arturo Sandoval, Leftover Salmon, Marty Stuart.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan (PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!! IT’S NOT IN DAD!).
BEST REVISITED CD: Black Seeds- Dust & Dirt.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Andre Williams & the Sadies- Night & Day.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Grace Jones- Warm Leatherette.
AND DON'T FORGET: Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster.
COMING SOON: Shawn Colvin, Fiona Apple, Tallest Man on Earth, Sierra Leone’s Refugee All-Stars.
April 20, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Alabama Shakes/Boys & Girls/Self/Rock
Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem/Some Bright Morning/Signature Sounds/Folk
Black Seeds/Dust & Dirt/Easy Star/Reggae
Joe Bonamassa/Driving Towards the Daylight/J&R Adventures/Blues/Rock
Chicha Libre/Canibalismo/Barbes Records/Latin
Dandy Warhols/This Machine/Self/Rock
Doc Marshalls/Watch Out, Compadre/Self/Rock-Country
Dry the River/Shallow Bed/Sony BMG/Rock-Folk
Finbar Furey/Colours/Valley Entertainment/Celtic
Hawthorne Headhunters/Myriad of Now/Plug Research/Electronica-Soul-HipHop
Warren Haynes Band/Live at the Moody Theater/Self/Rock
Here We Go Magic/A Different Ship/Secretly Canadian/Rock
Carole King/The Legendary Demos/Rockingdale Records/Rock
Chuck Leavell/Back to the Woods/Evergreen/Blues
Coco Montoya/I Want it All Back/Ruf Records/Blues
Drew Nelson/Tilt a Whirl/Red House/Folk/Rock
Anders Osborne/Black Eye Galaxy/Alligator/Rock
Paa Kow’s By All Means Band/Hand Go Hand Come/Self/World
Grant Peeples/Prior Convictions/GatorBone Records/Country
Savoy Brown/Voodoo Moon/Ruf Records/Blues
Slavic Soul Party/New York Underground Tapes/Barbes Records/World
Curtis Stigers/Let’s Go Out Tonight/Concord/Rock
Ebo Taylor/Appia Kwa Bridge/Strut/World
Paul Thorn/What the Hell Is Goin’ On?/Perpetual Obscurity Records/Rock
Walter Trout/Blues for the Modern Daze/Mascot Music/Blues
Waco Brothers & Paul Burch/Great Chicago Fire/Bloodshot/Rock
Rufus Wainwright/Out of the Game/Decca/Rock
Patrick Watson/Adventures in Your Own Backyard/Domino/Rock
Andre Williams & the Sadies/Night & Day/Yep Roc/Blues
Various/Boston Blues Works Vol. 1/Boston Blues Works/Blues
BIG SURPRISE: Andre Williams & the Sadies.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Paa Kow’s By All Means Band, Alabama Shakes.
HALL OF FAME: Alabama Shakes, Black Seeds, Joe Bonamassa, Paul Thorn, Rufus W.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Father John Misty- Fear Fun.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Curtis Salgado- Soul Shot.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Keith Jarrett- The Koln Concert.
AND DON'T FORGET: Ben Harper- Burn to Shine.
COMING SOON: Alejandro Escovedo, Melody Gardot, Xavier Rudd, Lake Street Dive.
April 13, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Ryan Adams/iTunes Session/Capitol/Rock-Folk
Amadou & Mariam/Folila/Nonesuch/World
At First Light/Idir/Self/Celtic
Bassnectar/Vava Voom/Amorphous/RPM
Willis Earl Beal/Acousmatic Sorcery/2AD/Rock
Todd Bishop Group/Little Played Little Bird: Music of Ornette Coleman/Origin/Jazz
Budman/Levy Orchestra/From There to Here/OA2/Jazz
Buzz Cason/Surf & Turf/Self/Country
Adam Cohen/Like a Man/Decca/Folk
Alex Cuba/Static in the System/Caracol/Latin
Cyber Zen Sound Engine/Cooperation/Self/Electronica
Father John Misty/Fear Fun/Sub Pop/Rock
Amit Friedman Sextet/Sunrise/Origin/Jazz
Gloom Prophet/Let the Prophet Speak: the Remixes of Grand Duchy/Sonic Union/RPM
Nanci Griffith/Intersection/Hell No Records/Folk
Jim Hanft/Weddings or Funerals/Veranda/Rock
JP Harris & the Tough Choices/I’ll Keep Calling/Cow Island Music/Country
Garrison Hawk with Sly & Robbie/Survive/MOD Technologies/Reggae
Little Freddie King/Chasing the Blues/MadeWright Records/Blues
Lenny Marcus Trio/Sun Ray: A Tribute to Ray Bryant/Self/Jazz
Gemma Ray/Island Fire/Bronzerat Records/Rock
Joan Soriano/LA Familia Soriano/Iaso/Latin
Spiritualized/Sweet Heart Sweet Light/Fat Possum/Rock
Jef Stott/Arcana/Six Degrees/RPM/World
Jonah Tolchin/Criminal Man/New Wheel/Folk
Toro y Moi/June 2009/CarPark/Rock
Nick Waterhouse/Time’s All Gone/Innovative Leisure/R&B
Hank Williams III/Long Gone Daddy/Curb Records/Country
BIG SURPRISE: Nick Waterhouse.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Father John Misty, Adam Cohen.
HALL OF FAME: Jef Stott, Nanci Griffith, Alex Cuba, Amadou & Mariam.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Sister Sparrow & Dirty Birds (PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!! It is in DAD though (DAD #24066-24077).
BEST REVISITED CD: Mickey Hart Band- Mysterium Tremendum; JD McPherson- Signs & Signifiers.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Bryan Clark & the New Lyceum Players- Southern Intermission.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: The Byrds- Sweetheart of the Rodeo.
AND DON'T FORGET: North Mississippi AllStars- Hill Country Revue.
COMING SOON: Carole King, Chappo Moonwater. Sonny Landreth, Tim O’Brien, Cassandra Wilson.
April 6, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Afrolicious/Pleasuretime/ESL/RMP/Funk
Brownout/Oozy/Nat Geo Music/Latin
Bryan Clark & the New Lyceum Players/Southern Intermission/Rainfeather/Country
Jon Cleary/Occapella!/FHQ/Rock
Congo Sanchez/Congo Sanchez Vol. 1/ESL/Latin/RPM
Counting Crows/Underwater Sunshine ( full art copy)/Collective Sounds/Rock
Dirty Dozen Brass Band/Twenty Dozen/Self/Jazz
Dr. John/Locked Down/Nonesuch/Blues
Dub Nation/Rising Force for Change/Self/Reggae
Jason Eady/AM Country Heaven/Underground Sound/Country
Eligh & Amp Live/Therapy at 3/Self/HipHop
The Forty Four’s/Americana/Rip Cat Records/Blues
Mickey Hart Band/Mysterium Tremendium/Self/World/RPM
Peter Karp & Sue Foley/Beyond the Crossroads/Blind Pig/Blues
Kri & Hettie/Rhymes with Tree & Betty/MCB/Funk-Soul-R&B
Dayna Kurtz/Secret Canon Vol 1/Kismet Records/Blues
JD McPherson/Signs & Signifiers/Rounder/Rock
Ted Nash/The Creep/Plastic Sax Records/Jazz
Doug Paisley/Golden Embers/Self/Country
Quantic & Alice Russell/Look Around the Corner/Tru Thoughts/Funk/Rock/Latin
Bonnie Raitt/Slipstream/Red Wing Records/Blues/Rock
The Revivalists/City of Sound/Self/Rock
White Buffalo/Once Upon a Time in the West/Self/Rock
Xiu Xiu/Always/Polyvinyl/Rock
Various/Tru Thoughts Compilation/Tru Thoughts/Funk/RPM
BIG SURPRISE: Congo Sanchez.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: JD McPherson, The Revivalists.
HALL OF FAME: Bonnie Raitt, Jon Cleary, Brownout, Mickey Hart Band, Quantic & Alice Russell.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): The Best of Sonny Rollins.
BEST REVISITED CD: Matt Harlan & the Sentimentals, Ahmad Jamal- Blue Moon.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Melody Walker- Gold Rush Goddess.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Devo- Duty Now for the Future
AND DON'T FORGET: 1 Giant Leap. (DAD #24629-24640).
COMING SOON: Walter Trout, Melody Gardot, Anders Osborne, Santana, Norah Jones, Amadou & Mariam,
March 30, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Arctic Monkeys/R U Mine?/Domino/Rock
AU/Both Lights/Hometapes/Rock
Badly Drawn Boy/Being Flynn/Lakeshore/Soundtrack/Rock
Eric Bibb/Deeper in the Well/Flatbrim Recordings/Blues
Butterfly Boucher/Butterfly Boucher/Self/Rock
Jill Cohn/Beautiful I Love You/BMI Boxbeanies/Folk
Paco de Lucia/Conciertos Espana/Decca/Latin/World
Stacey Earle & Mark Stuart/Dedication/Gearle Records/Folk
Matt Harlan & the Sentimentals/Bow & Be Simple/Ghost Moon/Folk
Infamous Stringdusters/Silver Sky/High Country Records/Bluegrass
Ahmad Jamal/Blue Moon: The New York Sessions/ACM Productions/Jazz
Love on a Real Train/Love on a Real Train/Aeronaut/RPM
Mars Volta/Noctourniquet/Warner Brothers/Rock
Mastersons/Birds Fly South/New West/Rock/Folk
Georgia Anne Muldrow/Seeds/E One/Funk
Lukas Nelson & the Promise of the Real/Wasted/Tone Tide Records/Rock
John Oates Band/The Bluesville Sessions/MBA Records/Blues
Right Now/Gets Over You/Sweet Deebs/Funk
Curtis Salgado/Soul Shot/Alligator/Blues
Steep Canyon Rangers/Nobody Knows You/Rounder/Bluegrass
Ten Foot Ganja Plant/10 Deadly Shots Vol 2/ROIR/Reggae
Trampled by Turtles/Stars & Satellites/Banjoland/Bluegrass
M. Ward/A Wasteland Companion/Merge/Rock
Emily Wells/Mama/Partisan/Rock
Dar Williams/In the Time of Gods/Razor & Tie/Folk
World Party/Arkeologoy Sampler/Seaview/Rock
BIG SURPRISE: Ahmad Jamal, Curtis Salgado,
BIGGEST SURPRISE: AU, Matt Harlan & The Sentimentals
HALL OF FAME: Ahmad Jamal, Matt Harlan, AU, Eric Bibb, Trampled By Turtles, Infamous Stringdusters, Matt Harlan
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): The Essential Donovan. (We don’t have this in DAD, dadgummit.)
BEST REVISITED CD: Andrew Bird- Break It Yourself; La Chiva Gantiva- Pelao
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Melody Walker- Gold Rush Goddess
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Bob Seger and Silver Bullet Band- Night Moves
AND DON'T FORGET: Christian McBride- Live at Tonic (DAD Cut ID #44513-44532).
COMING SOON: John Fogarty, Leftover Salmon, The Doc Marshalls
March 23, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Derrick Ashong /G Soulfege/Afropolitan/Self/HipHop
Birdy/Birdy/Jasmine Van Den Bogaerde/Rock
Bitch Magnet/Ben Hur-Amber-Star Booty/Temporary Residence/Rock
Bonnie & the Clydes/Bonnie & the Clydes/Self/Country/ (Colorado Artist)
Don Braden & Karl Latham/Big Funk Live/Creative Perspective Records/Jazz
Chimney Choir/Ladder/Self/Folk (Colorado Artist)
Fela Kuti & Egypt 80/Live in Detroit 1986/EMI/World
Kenny Garrett/Seeds from the Underground/Mack Avenue/Jazz
Grant Farm/Grant Farm/Self/Country (Colorado Artist)
Great Lake Swimmers/New Wild Everywhere/Nettwerk/Folk
Billy Hart/All Our Reasons/ECM/Jazz
John McEuen/The McEuen Sessions: For All the Good/Mesa,Blue Moon Records/Folk
Brad Mehldau Trio/Ode/Nonesuch/Jazz
Mike + Ruthy/The NYC EP/Humble Abode Music/Folk
Papa Grows Funk/Needle in the Groove/Self/Funk/Jazz
Lee Ranaldo/Between the Times & Tides/Matador/Rock
Rebelution/Peace of Mind/Self/Reggae
The Shins/Port of Morrow/Sony/Rock
Thee Satisfaction/Awe Naturale/Self/HipHop
Tiempo Libre/My Secret Radio/Sony/Latin
Caetano Veloso & David Byrne/Live at Carnegie Hall/Sony/Rock/Latin
Melody Walker/Gold Rush Goddess/Self/Folk
Wylie & the Wild West/Rocketbuster/Hi-Line Records/Country
BIG SURPRISE: Rebelution, Bonnie & the Clydes,
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Melody Walker
HALL OF FAME: Rebelution, Mike + Ruthy
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Beatles- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
BEST REVISITED CD: Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds- Pound of Dirt
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Marvin Etzioni- Marvin Country
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Waterboys- Fisherman’s Blues
AND DON'T FORGET: Donovan- Beat Cafe
COMING SOON: Jason Eady, Sonny Landreth
March 16, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
ALO/Sounds Like This/Brushfire Records/Rock
Theresa Andersson/Street Parade/Basin Street/Rock*
Robert Sarazin Blake/Put It All Down in a Letter/Same Room Records/Folk-Blues
Ane Brun/It All Starts With One/Balloon Ranger Recordings/Rock
Ceu/Caravana Sereia Bloom/Six Degrees/Latin
Cranberries/Roses/Timeless Solutions/Rock
Adrian Cunningham/Walkabout/Self/Jazz
The Do/Both Ways Open Jaws Remixes EP/Six Degrees/Electronica
Helado Negro/Island Universe Story/Asthmatic Kitty/Latin/Electronica
Horse Feathers/Cynic’s New Year/Self/Rock
Javelin/EP 1 & 2/Luaka Bop/Electronica
La Chiva Gantiva/Pelao/Self/Latin
Loreena McKennitt/Troubadours on the Rhine/Quintan Road/Celtic*
Peter Mulvey/The Good Stuff/Signature Sounds/Folk
Alistair Ogilvy/Leaves Sae Green/Greentrax/Celtic
Dudley Owens Aaron Wright Band/People Calling/Origin/Jazz
Andra Suchy/Little Heart/Red House/Country
Vintage Trouble/The Bomb Shelter Sessions/Self/Funk
Rocky Votolato/Television of Saints/Undertow/Rock
Loudon Wainwright III/Older Than My Old Man Now/2nd Story Records/Folk*
The Washers/Tired Eyes/?/Rock
Wrinkle Neck Mules/Apprentice to Ghosts/Self/Rock
Yarn/Almost Home/Ardley Music/Folk
BIG SURPRISE: Theresa Andersson
BIGGEST SURPRISE: La Chiva Gantiva
HALL OF FAME: La Chiva Gantiva, Theresa Andersson, Peter Mulvey, Loreena McKennit
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Bob Schneider- Lonelyland
BEST REVISITED CD: Caravan of Thieves- The Fun House; Andrew Bird- Break It Yourself
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Lee Fields- Faithful Man
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: X- More Fun in the New World
AND DON'T FORGET: Bill Frisell- Unspeakable (2004)
COMING SOON: M. Ward, Tim O’Brien, Steep Canyon Rangers
March 9, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Aggrolites/Live/Self/Reggae*
Band of Heathens/The Double Down:Live in Denver/BOH Records/Rock*
Kishi Bashi/151a/Joyful Noise/Rock
Bear in Heaven/I Love You, It’s Cool/Dead Oceans/Rock
Andrew Bird/Break it Yourself/Mom+Pop/Rock
Caravan of Thieves/The Fun House/UFO Records/Folk*
Cock & Swan/Stash/Lost Tribe Sounds/Electronica
Bob Corritore & Taildragger/Longtime Friends in the Blues/Delta Groove/Blues
Nikka Costa/Pro Whoa!/Gofunkyourself Records/Funk-Soul-R&B
Decemberists/We All Raise Our Voices to the Air Live/Capital/Rock
Justin Townes Earle/Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now/Bloodshot/Rock*
Marvin Etzioni/Marvin Country!/Regional Records/Rock/Folk
Fanfarlo/Rooms Filled with Light/Atlantic/Rock
Lee Fields/Faithful Man/Truth & Soul/Funk
Mati Haskell/10,2&6/Self/Blues
Haunted Windchimes/Out with the Crow/Shadow Pine Music/Folk
Ray Wylie Hubbard/The Grifter’s Hymnal/Self/Country*
Vijay Iyer Trio/Accelerando/ACT Music/Jazz
Nathan James & the Rhythm Scratchers/What You Make of It/Delta Groove/Blues
June Rise/Of Raging Waters/Lord & Love Records/Folk
Lijadu Sisters/Mother Africa/Knitting Factory/World
Joe Pug/The Great Despair/Self/Rock
Daniel Rossen/Silent Hour, Golden Mile/Warp/Rock
Todd Snider/Agnostic Hymns Stoner Fables/Aimless Records/Rock*
Sons of Bill/Sirens/Self/Rock
Esperanza Spalding/Radio Music Society/Heads Up/Jazz*
Bruce Springsteen/Wrecking Ball/Self/Rock
Mariel Vandersteel/Hickory/Self/FolkMadison Violet/The Good in Goodbye/Mummy Dust/Folk/Country
VCMG/Ssss/Musical Moments/Electronica
Madison Violet/The Good in Goodbye/Mummy Dust/Folk
Denison Whitmer/The Ones Who Wait/Asthmatic Kitty/Rock
BIG SURPRISE: Haunted Windchimes, Madison Violet
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Caravan of Thieves
HALL OF FAME: Andrew Bird!!!!, Justin Townes Earle, Esperanza Spalding
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Adele- 21
BEST REVISITED CD: Ladysmith Black Mambazo & Friends
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds- Pound of Dirt
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: The Walton’s Family Christmas Album
AND DON'T FORGET: Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble- Live at Montreaux (DAD Cut ID #45699-45716)
COMING SOON: Shelby Lynne
March 2, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Ayo/Billie-Eve/MBM Records/Funk
Carolina Chocolate Drops/Leaving Eden/Nonesuch/Folk*
Counting Crows/Selections from Underwater Sunshine/Collective Sounds/Rock
Defiance String Band/Circle of Time/Self/Local-Bluegrass
Delta Spirit/Delta Spirit/Rounder/Rock
Jennifer Gillespie/Belita/Narooma Records/Folk
Jerry Joseph & Jackmormons/Happy Book/Self/Rock
The Kills/The Last Goodbye/Domino/Rock
Mad Buffalo/Red and Blue/Self/Country
Janiva Magness/Stronger For It/Alligator/Blues
Mallard/Less on Blood/Castleface/Rock
Nneka/Soul Is Heavy/Yo Mama’s Recording/Funk/World
Sinead O’Connor/How About I Be Me( and You be You)/One Little Indian/Rock
Joan Osborne/Bring it on Home/Saguaro Road Records/Rock/Blues*
School of Seven Bells/Ghostory/Vagrant/Rock/RPM
Anoushka Shankar/Traveller/Deutsche Gramaphone/World
Sister Sparrow & Dirty Birds/Pound of Dirt/Modern Vintage Recording/Rock
Sleigh Bells/Reign of Terror/Mom & Pop/Rock
Speech Debelle/Freedom of Speech/P&C Big Dada Recordings/HipHop
Jack Wilson/Jack Wilson/Fluff Gravy/Rock
Halden Wofford & the Hi-Beams/Live at Hodi’s/Self/Country
Yellow Ostrich/Strange Land/Barsuk/Rock
Zeus/Busting Visions/Arts & Crafts/Rock
BIG SURPRISE: Joan Osborne, Jack Wilson
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Nneka
HALL OF FAME: Joan Osborne, Nneka,
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Carolina Chocolate Drops & Luminescent Orchestrii
BEST REVISITED CD: Punch Brothers- Who’s Feeling Young Now?
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: The Vespers- The Fourth Wall
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Rick James- Can’t Stop
AND DON'T FORGET: Masters of Groove Meets DJ9
COMING SOON: Rufus Wainwright, Norah Jones, Horsefeathers, Father John Misty
February 24, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Altan/The Poison Glen/Compass/Celtic
Baloji/Kinshasa Succursale/Crammed Discs/World
Tommy Bolin & Friends/Great Gypsy Soul/Samson Records/Rock
Cowboy Junkies/The Wilderness Vol. 4/Razor & Tie/Rock
Guy Davis/The Adventures of Fishy Waters: In Bed with the Blues/Smokeydoke Records/Blues
Ecid/Werewolf Hologram/Fill in the Breaks/HipHop
Tim Fite/Aint Aint Aint/Anti/Rock
Funk Ark/High Noon/ESL/Funk/Latin
Good Old War/Come Back as Rain/Sargent House/Folk
Robert Glasper Experiment/Black Radio/Blue Note/Jazz-R&B-HipHop
Macy Gray/Covered/SLG/Rock-Funk
Shana Halligan/Shana Halligan/Lady Swank/Electronica
Haunted Windchimes/Live at the Western Jubilee/Shadow Pine/Folk/Country
Lyle Lovett/Release Me/UMG/Country
Lucero/Women and Work/ATO/Rock
Magnetic Fields/Love at the Bottom of the Sea/Merge/Rock
New Cassettes/Winterhead/New Label/Rock
Josh Ritter/Bringing in the Darlings/Self/Rock
Steel Wheels/Lay Down Lay Low/Self/Folk
Various Artists/Roots Moments: Live from the Loveless Café Season 1/Music City Records
BIG SURPRISE: Steel Wheels
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Robert Glasper Experiment
HALL OF FAME: Robert Glasper, Funk Ark, Good Old War
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Laura Veirs Sings Folk Songs for Children
BEST REVISITED CD: Audra Mae & the Almighty Sound
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Tommy Womack- Now What!
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Bruce Springsteen- The Wild, the Innocent & the E-Street Shuffle
AND DON'T FORGET: Cross Canadian Ragweed
COMING SOON: Madison Violet, Todd Snider, Chelle Rose, Theresa Andersson, Fiona Apple, M Ward, Norah Jones
February 17, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Adam Arcuragi/Like a Fire That Consumes All Before It/Self/Rock
Dave Barnes/Stories to Tell/Razor & Tie/Rock
Bonobo/Black Sands Remixed/Ninja Tune/RPM
Bowerbirds/The Clearing/Dead Oceans/Rock
Stew Cutler/After Hours/Cogna/Jazz
The Darcys/Aja/Arts & Crafts/Rock
Farrar, Johnson, Parker & Yames/New Multitudes/Rounder/Rock/Folk
Gaddabouts/Look Out Now!/Racecarlotta Records/Folk
Otis Gibbs/Harder Than Hammered Hell/Wanamaker Sounds/Folk
Joel Harrison, Lorenzo Feliciati, Cuong Vu/Holy Abyss/Cuneiform/Jazz
Ben Howard/Old Pine/Self/Folk
Jeff Lorber Fusion/Galaxy/Heads Up/Jazz
Wes Montgomery/Echoes of Indiana Avenue/Resonance Records/Jazz
Popa Chubby/Back to New York City/Mascot Music/Blues
Punch Brothers/Who’s Feeling Young Now?/Nonesuch/Bluegrass/Folk
Amy Ray/Lung of Love/Daemon Records/Rock
Shoebox Letters/Or Someone Like/Self/Rock
Chip Taylor & the New Ukrainians/All the Perfect People/Train Wreck/Folk
Trailer Radio/Trailer Radio/Moonshine Martini Records/Country
Two Bears/Be Strong/Self/Electronica
Loga Ramin Torkian/Mahraab/Six Degrees/ World
Various/The Descendants/Sony/Soundtrack/World
The Vespers/The Fourth Wall/Black Suit Records/Folk
Hristo Vitchev/Heartmony/First Orbit Sounds/Jazz
Andre Williams/Hoods & Shades/Bloodshot/Blues
Jamie Woon/Mirrorwriting/Verve/Rock
BIG SURPRISE: Adam Arcuragi,
BIGGEST SURPRISE: The Vespers, The Gaddabouts
HALL OF FAME: The New Multitudes, Otis Gibbs, Punch Brothers, Vespers
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Leonard Cohen- Old Ideas
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Craig Finn- Clear Heart Full Eyes
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION:
AND DON'T FORGET: Sharon Jones & Dap Kings- 100 Days and 100 Nights
COMING SOON: Yellow Ostrich, Shana Halligan, Lee Fields
February 10, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Air/Le Voyage Danse la Lune/Aircheology/Electronica-Rock
Audra Mae & the Almighty Sound/Audra Mae & the Almighty Sound/Side One Dummy/Rock
Balkan Beat Box/Give/National Geo Music/World
Band of Skulls/Sweet Sour/Vagrant/Rock
The Chieftains/Voice of Ages/Blackrock Records/Celtic*
Todd Clouser’s A Love Electric/20th Century Folk Collections/Royal Potato Family/Jazz
Cursive/I Am Gemini/Saddle Creek/Rock
DJ Food/The Search Engine/Ninja Tune/Electronica
Dr Dog/Be the Void/Anti/Rock
Charlotte Gainsbourg/Stage Whisper/Elektra/Rock
Galactic/Carnivale Electricos/Anti/Funk*
Ladysmith Black Mambazo/Ladysmith Black Mambazo & Friends/Razor & Tie/World*
Paul McCartney/Kisses on the Bottom/MPL Communications/Rock
Hugh Makekela/Jabulani/Razor & Tie/Jazz/World
Chuck Mead & His Greasy Knoll Boys/Back to the Quonset/Ramseur Records/Country
moe/What Happened to the La La’s/Sugar Hill/Rock
Cory Morin/Sing it Loud/Music Maker/Blues
Phenomenal Handclap Band/Form & Control/Tummy Touch Records
Soul Rebels/”504” Remixes/Rounder/RPM
Teitur/Let the Dog Drive Home/Arlo & Betty Recordings/Rock
Watussi/1000% Guapo/MGM/Latin
Tommy Womack/Now What!/Cedar Creek Records/Rock
Y La Bamba/Court the Storm/Tender Loving Empire/Folk
Martin Zellar & the Hardways/Roosters Crow/Owen Lee Recordings/Country
BIG SURPRISE: Watussi, Chuck Mead & His Grassy Knoll Boys
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Audra Mae & the Almighty Sound
HALL OF FAME: Audra Mae, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Chieftains
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Gretchen Peters- Hello Cruel World
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: The Pines- Dark So Gold
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Sly & Family Stone- Higher
AND DON'T FORGET: Tony Joe White
COMING SOON: Macy Gray, Horsefeathers, Lyle Lovett, Steeldrivers, Jason Eady
February 3, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Anais Mitchell/Young Man in America/Wilderland/Folk
Steven Bernstein & the Millennial Territory Orchestra/MTO Plays Sly/Royal Potato Family/Jazz-Funk
Buttshakers/Natives/Luaka Bop/Funk, Soul, R&B
Don Byron & the New Gospel Quintet/Love, Peace & Soul/SLG/Jazz
Lana Del Rey/Born to Die/Interscope Records/Rock
Dry the River/Weights & Measures EP/RCA/Folk
Francois & the Atlas Mountains/E Volo Love/Domino/Rock
Gang Colours/The Keychain Collection/Brownswood/RPM
Georgetown Orbits/Super Sonic/Self/Reggae
Heartless Bastards/Arrow/Partisan/Rock
Jade/Analogic/Z Production/RPM
Damien Jurado/Maraqopa/Secretly Canadian/Folk
Ingrid Michaelson/Human Again/Mom+Pop/Rock
Novox/Hollywood is on Fire/Z Production/Jazz
Phony PPL/Phonyland/Self/Funk-HipHop
Random Rab/Visurreal/Xalex Music/RPM
Shearwater/Animal Joy/SubPop/Rock
Otis Taylor/Contraband/Telarc/Blues
Wiley/Evolve or Be Extinct/Big Dada Recording/Hiphop
Various/Soul Sisters: A Black History Month Celebration/Funk
BIG SURPRISE: Buttshakers.
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Steven Bernstein & the Millenial Territory Orchestra.
HALL OF FAME: Bernstein & MTO; Jade, Otis Taylor.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: The Wiyos- Twist; Rodrigo & Gabriela & C.U.B.A.- Area 52.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Asteroid Galaxy Tour- Out of Frequency; Soul Rebels- Unlock Your Mind.
BEST NEW VINYL ACQUISITION: Steely Dan- Can’t Buy a Thrill.
AND DON'T FORGET: Medieval Baebes- Mirabilis.
COMING SOON: Punch Brother, Y La Bamba, The Chieftains.
January 27, 2012
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD (or will be soon)
Mary Black/Stories from the Steeples/3u Records/Folk
Bahamas/Barchords/Brushfire Records/Rock
Elliott Brood/Days Into Years/Paperback Records/Rock
Linda Chorney/Emotional Jukebox/Self/Rock
Leonard Cohen/Old Ideas/Columbia/Rock
Craig Finn/Clear Heart Full Eyes/Vagrant/Rock
Matt Flinner Trio/Winter Harvest/Compass/Bluegrass
Stephane Grappelli &Toots Thielemans/Bringing it Together/Li-sem/Jazz
Jackstraw/Sunday Never Comes/Self/Bluegrass
Amos Lee/As the Crow Flies/Blue Note/Rock/Folk
Shook Twins/Window/Self/Folk
Ringo Starr/2012/Rockabella/Rock
Tennis/Young & Old/Fat Possum/Rock
Sharon Van Ett
2011
December 16, 2011
Name/Album/Label/KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Back City Woods/Dirt from Which We Came/Self/Rock
Ani DiFranco/Which Side Are You On?/Righteous Babe Records/Rock
Loka/Passing Place/Ninjatunes/Rock
Baba Maraire/Wona Baba Maraire/Self/World
The Paul McKenna Band/Stem the Tide/Mad River Records/Celtic
Scribes/What Was Lost/Self/Hip Hop
Sophistafunk/Twenty Eleven/Self/Funk
Grace Woodroofe/Always Want/Modular Recordings/Folk
Various/This One’s for Him:A Tribute to Guy Clarke/Icehouse Music/Folk
BIG SURPRISE:
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Grace Woodroofe.
HALL OF FAME: Sophistafunk, Ani DiFranco, Grace Woodroofe.
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Caravane- Caravane; Jimmy Cliff- Sacred Fire EP.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Cloud Control- Bliss Release.
AND DON'T FORGET: AfroCubism- AfroCubism.
COMING SOON: Cloud Nothings, Jessie Baylin, Esperanza Spalding, Otis Taylor, Ruthie Foster, Sinead O’Connor, Enter the Haggis, The Wiyos, Steeldrivers, Steep Canyon Rangers.
December 9, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Black Keys/El Camino/Nonesuch/Rock
Boy & Bear/Moonfire/Universal/Rock
Caravane/Caravane/Marralchi Records/World/RPM
Jimmy Cliff/Sacred Fire ep/Collective Sounds/Reggae
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr./My Love is Easy: Remixes Pt. 2/Warner Brothers/RPM
Head & Heart/iTunes Sessions/Sub Pop/Rock
Josh Rouse & the Long Vacations/Josh Rouse & the Long Vacations: Bedroom Classics/Rock
Amy Winehouse/Lioness:Hidden Treasures/Universal/R&B
Pegi Young & the Survivors/Bracing for Impact/Vapor Records/Rock
BIG SURPRISE:
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Caravane
HALL OF FAME: Jimmy Cliff, Caravane, Josh Rouse, Black Keys
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Dilated Peoples- The Platform
BEST REVISITED CD: Hindi Zahra, Tim Love Lee: Fully Bearded
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Sugar & the Hi Lows- Sugar & the Hi Lows
AND DON'T FORGET: Willie Dixon- The Chess Compilations
COMING SOON: Gretchen Peters, Wood Brothers
November 25 and December 2, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Mandy Barnes/Winter Wonderland/Rounder/Christmas-Country
Kate Bush/50 Words for Snow/Anti/Rock
Cloud Control/Bliss Release/Ivy League Records/Rock
Da Cruz/Boom Boom Boom Remixes/Six Degrees/Electronica
Ilhan Ersahin’s Istanbul Sessions/Night Rider/Nublu/Electronica-Jazz
The Gathering/The Gathering/Sycamore Road/Christmas-Folk
Grip Weeds/Under the Influence of Christmas/Rainbow Quartz/Christmas-Rock
Carole King/A Holiday Carole/Rockingale/Christmas-Rock
Little Willies/For the Good Times/Milking Bull Records/Country*
Elisabeth Lohninger Band/Christmas in July/Jazzsick/Christmas-Jazz
The Looping Jaw Harp Orchestra/Universal Language/Self/Electronica-World
Nick Moss/Here I Am/Blue Bella Records
Willie Nelson/Remember Me Vol. 1/R&J Records/Country
Owen/Ghost Town/Polyvinyl Records/Rock
See-I/See-I Remixed/Fort Knox Recordings/Electronica-Reggae
Sensitive Chaos/Remembering Christmas, Icy Cold, and Bells/Sub Sequent Records/Christmas-Electronica
She & Him/A Very She & Him Christmas/Merge/Christmas-Rock
Candy Staton/Who’s Hurting Now/Self/Soul-R&B
Sugar & the Hi-Lows/Sugar & the Hi-Lows/Tone Tree Music/Rock-Country
Various/The World of Daptone Records/Daptone/Funk-Soul-R&B
Various/Warren Haynes Presents the Benefit Concert Vol 4/Evil Teen Records/Rock
Various with Michel Legrand/Noel!Noel!!Noel!!!/Christmas-Rock
Various/Celtic Christmas/Putumayo/Christmas/Celtic
Various/Minnesota Beatle Project/Vega Project/Rock
Various/Time Love Lee: Fully Bearded Fifteen Years of Tummy Touch Records/Tummy Touch/Electronica-Reggae
BIG SURPRISE: Ilhan Ersahin’s Istanbul Sessions, Owen
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Looping Jaw Harp Orchestra, Ilhan Ersahin
HALL OF FAME: Looping Jaw Harp Orchestra, Ilhan Ersahin, Little Willies, Nick Moss, Tim Love Lee: Fully Bearded
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Hindi Zahra- Handmade
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Sons of Fathers, Damn Quails- Down the Hatch
AND DON'T FORGET: Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives- Souls’ Chapel
COMING SOON: Grace Woodroofe, Craig Finn, Heartless Bastards, Tennis, The Black Keys, Killers
November 18, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Anthemeers/Anthemeers EP/Self/Folk
Olivia Broadfield/This Beautiful War ( Remixes )/Cherry Bang/RPM/Rock
Bua/Down the Green Fields/Foras Na Gaeilge/Celtic
Reed Foehl/Once an Ocean/Neverfoehl Records/Folk
William Ryan Fritch/Plumed & Dessicated/Lost Tribe Sound/RPM/Classical
Hal Galper Trio/Trip the Light Fantastic/Origin/Jazz
Amy Hart/Congratulations/Painted Rock Records/Blues
Harrison Kennedy/Shame the Devil/Electro-Fi Records/Blues
Sunnie Paxson/Bohemian Sun/Roxboro/Blues
R.E.M./Part Lies Part Heart Part Truth Part Garbage 1982-2011/Warner Brothers/Rock
Sigur Ros/Inni/XL Recording/Rock
Enoch Smith Jr./Misfits/Self/Jazz
Ernie Watts Quartet/Oasis/Flying Dolphin Records/Jazz
Hindi Zahra/Handmade/Oursoul Records/Rock/World
BIG SURPRISE: Anthemeers
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Hindi Zahra
HALL OF FAME: Hindi Zahra, William Ryan Fritch
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): The latest Dum Dum Girls.
BEST REVISITED CD: Roots Manuva- 4everrevolution; Sola Rosa- Get It Together
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Devil Makes Three- Stomp & Smash
AND DON'T FORGET: Bob Marley- Roots Rock Remixed
COMING SOON: Sharon Van Etten, Damien Jurado, Tegan & Sara, Vieo Abiungo
November 11, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Anthemeers/Anthemeers EP/Self/Folk
Boca Chica/Get Out of Sin City/Self/Folk
Bonnie Prince Billy/Wolfrov Goes to Town/Drag City/Folk
Booka & Flaming Geckos/The Not So Meaningful Songs in the Life of Jeremy Fink/Loudhouse Texas Music/Folk
Canyons/Keep Your Dreams/Modular/Rock
Ray Charles/Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles/Concord/Blues/*
Lisa Dancing-Light/Light Years/Earthtree Music/Local-Folk
Devil Makes Three/Stomp & Smash/Milan Records/Folk
11 Acorn Lane/Swing Thing/Self/Jazz
Kathleen Edwards/Voyageur/Rounder/Rock
Etta James/The Dreamer/Verve/Blues
Jumpin’ Jack Benny/I’ll Be Alright/Boppin’ Records/Blues
Stephen Kellogg & Sixers/Gift Horse/Vanguard/Rock
Chris Isaak/Beyond the Sun/Wicked Game Records/Rock
Cass McCombs/Humor Risk/Domino/Rock
Yael Meyer/Everything Will Be Alright/KLI Records/Rock
Jon Pousette-Dart/Anti-Gravity/Little Big Deal Music/Rock
Puppini Sisters/Hollywood/Verve-Forecast/Jazz-Lounge
Carmen Rizzo/Space Left Behind/Electrotone Records/Electronica
Roots Manuva/4everrevolution/Big Dada/HipHop
Bobby Rush/Show You All a Good Time/Deep Rush Records/Blues
Sola Rosa/Get It Together/Melting Pot Music/Electronica
Astrid Williamson/Pulse/One Little Indian/Rock
BIG SURPRISE: Yael Meyer, Jumpin’ Jack Benny
BIGGEST SURPRISE: 11 Acorn Lane
HALL OF FAME: Puppini Sisters, Chris Isaak, 11 Acorn Lane
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): THE NEW KITTY, DAISY & LEWIS IS GONE. PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!!!!! ALSO MISSING: THE GOAT RODEO SESSIONS (NEW FROM YO YO MA, EDGAR MEYER et al.)
BEST REVISITED CD: Piers Faccini- My Wilderness; Mayer Hawthorne- How Do You Do
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Adam Ezra Group- Ragtop Angel
AND DON'T FORGET: James Brown- Please Please Please
COMING SOON: The Revelations, Charles Bradley
November 4, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Eddie and Martha Adcock with Tom Gray & Friends/Many a Mile/Patuxent Music/Bluegrass
Olof Arnolds/Olof Sings/One Little Indian/Folk
Sean Chambers Band/Live from Long Island Blues Warehouse/Blue Heat Records/Blues
Anthony David/Locationlocationlocation/Purpose Music/Funk-Soul-R&B
Do/Both Ways Pen Jaws/Six Degrees/Rock
John Doyle/Shadow & Light/Compass/Celtic
Mayer Hawthorne/How Do You Do/Universal Republic/Funk-Soul-R&B
David Lynch/Crazy Clown Time/Pias America/Electronica
Magnolia Memoir/Perfect Crime/Peak Records/Rock
John McCutcheon/This Land: Woody Guthrie’s America/Appalseed Records/Folk
Nee Nee Suede/Bad & Bodacious/Eddie Dee Live Records/Electronica
Jim Kimo West/Nanali O Maui Maui Skies/Westermost Records/World
Chick Willis/Let the Blues Speak for Itself/Benevolent Blues/Blues
Wise Blood/These Wings/Dovecote Records/Rock
Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings/Radio Sampler/Ripple Records/Rock
Zun Zun Egui/Katang/Self/Rock
BIG SURPRISE: Nee Nee Suede, Zun Zun Egui
BIGGEST SURPRISE: David Lynch
HALL OF FAME: Olof Arnolds, Do, Mayer Hawthorne, Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Hayseed Dixie- Weapons of Grass Destruction
BEST REVISITED CD: Kitty, Daisy & Lewis- Smoking in Heaven
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Reverend Raven & Chain Smokin’ Altar Boys- Shake Your Boogie
AND DON'T FORGET: T. Ray Becker- The Vanishing Cowboy
COMING SOON: Kathleen Edwards, 11 Acorn Lane
October 28, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Amador Adanowsky/Everloving/Self/Latin-Rock
Danny Barnes/Rocket/ATO/Rock
The Bees/Every Step’s a Yes/Fiction/Rock
Brown Bird/Salt for Salt/Self/Folk
Coldplay/Mylo Xyloto/Capitol/Rock
Damn Quails/Down the Hatch/Self/Folk
Decemberists/Long Live the King/Capitol/Rock
Dessa/Castor, the Twin/Doomtree/HipHop
Dirty Projectors & Bjork/Mount Wittenberg Orca/Domino/Rock
Dntel/Life Is Full of Possibilities/Sub Pop/Electronica
Adam Ezra Group/Ragtop Angel/Tatteredstring/Folk
Folk Uke/Reincarnation/Self/Folk
Ma, Duncan, Meyer, Thile/Goat Rodeo Sessions/Sony/Bluegrass
Joni Haastrup/Wake Up Your Mind/Tummy Touch/World
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis/Smoking in Heaven/Sunday Best Recordings/
Korallreven/An Album by Korallreven/Acephale/Electronica
Lijadu Sisters/Danger/Knitting Factory/World
Lissie/Covered Up with Flowers/Fat Possum/Rock
M83/Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming/Mute/Rock
Christian McBride/Conversations with Christian/Mack Avenue/Jazz
Paladino/Paladino/Self/Folk
Peggy Sue/Acrobats/Yep Roc/Rock
Phantogram/Nightlife/Self/Rock
Noam Pikelny/Beat the Devil & Carry a Rail/Compass/Bluegrass
Lou Reed & Metallica/Lulu/Warner/Rock
Reverend Raven & Chain Smokin’ Altar Boys/Shake Your Boogie/Nevermore/Blues
Tom Waits/Bad as Me/Anti/Rock
BIG SURPRISE: Paladino
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Adam Ezra Group, Damn Quails
HALL OF FAME: Noam Pikelny; Kitty, Daisy & Lewis
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Six Degrees Arabian Travels
BEST REVISITED CD: eccodek- Remixtasy
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Bappi Lahiri- Walking on Love Street
AND DON'T FORGET: Miles Davis- Cellar Door Sessions 1970
COMING SOON: She & Him, Craig Finn
October 21, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
James Asher/Return of the Tiger/New Earth/World-New Age
Corina Bartra & Her Orchestra/Cielo Sandunguero/Blue Spiral/Jazz
Booka & the Flaming Geckos/The Not So Meaningful Songs in the Life of Jeremy Fink/Loudhouse Texas/Folk
The Crags/Big Divide/Self/Rock
Bert Dievert/Kid Man Blues/Self/Blues
Madi Diaz/Plastic Moon/Self/Folk
Shane Dwight/A Hundred White Lies/R-tist/Blues
Scott Ellison/Walkin’ Through the Fire/JSE/ Blues
The Ericksons/Don’t Be Scared, Don’t Be Alarmed/Self/Folk
Funktion/Step Into It/Self/Funk-Soul-R&B
Connor Garvey/Where Ocean Meets Land/Self/Folk
HoneyHoney/Billy Jack/Self/Folk
Bappi Lahiri/Walking on Love Street/Planet LA/Jazz-Lounge
Mike McClure/Fifty Billion/Casa de Joe/Country
Daphne Lee Martin & Raise the Rent/Dig & Be Dug/Les Petites Morts/Folk
Real Estate/Days/Domino/Rock
Sons of Fathers/Sons of Fathers/Self/Folk
3 Cohens/Family/Anzic/Jazz
Laura Veirs/Tumblebee/Raven Marching Band/Childrens
Viva Voce/The Future Will Destroy You/Vanguard/Rock
BIG SURPRISE: Shane Dwight, Booka & Flaming Geckos, Bappi Lahiri
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Daphne Lee Martin & Raises the Rent, Sons of Fathers, Honey Honey
HALL OF FAME: Bappi Lahiri, Daphne Lee Martin
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Deer Tick, Ian Siegal & Youngest Sons
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: The R’s- De Flora et Fauna
AND DON'T FORGET: Bruce Sprinsteen- The Seeger Sessions
COMING SOON: Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings, Da Cruz Remixes, Danny Barnes
October 14, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Bjork/Biophilia/Warner/Rock
Blixt/Blixt/Cuneiform/Rock
JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound/Want More/Bloodshot/Funk-Soul-R&B*
Carper Family/Back When/Self/Country
Johnny Cash/Bootleg Vol 3: Live Around the World/Columbia Legacy/Country*
Crooked Still/Friends of the Fall/Signature Sounds/Bluegrass
Duchess Says/In a Fung DAY T!/Alien8/Rock
Will Dailey & the Rivals/Will Dailey & the Rivals/Universal/Rock
Deer Tick/Divine Providence/Partisan/Rock
Eccodek/Remixtasy/Self/World-Electronica*
Elders/Wanderin’ Life & Times/Pub Tone/Celtic
Ben Folds/The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective/Sony/Rock
Graffiti6/Free EP/Capitol/Rock
Indigo Girls/Beauty Queen Sister/Vanguard/Rock-Folk
Infamous Stringdusters/We’ll Do It Live/Bluegrass*
Jane’s Addiction/The Great Escape Artist/Capitol/Rock
Chris Joss/No Play No Work/ESL/Electronica*
Nappy Riddem/One World Sovereignty/Fort Knox Recordings/HipHop
Natty/The Rebelship Sessions/Warner UK/Reggae
Meshell Ndegeocello/Weather/Naïve/Funk-Soul-R&B
The Rapture/In the Grace of Your Love/Syndicate/Rock
Sao Paulo Underground/Tres Cabecas Loucouras/Cuneiform/Jazz
Cosy Sheridan/The Horse King/Self/Folk
Ian Siegal & the Youngest Sons/The Skinny/Nugene Records/Blues*
Dara Tucker/Soul Said Yes/Watchman/Jazz-Soul
Various Artists/Rock the Tabla/ARC/World
BIG SURPRISE: Blixt
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Ian Siegal & the Youngest Sons, Deer Tick
HALL OF FAME: Ian S. & Youngest Sons, Eccodek, Chris Joss, Deer Tick, Ian Siegal, Infamous Stringdusters, Rock the Tabla
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): The Beatles- Yellow Submarine
BEST REVISITED CD: The R’s- De Flora et Fauna; The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Joe Henry- Reverie
AND DON'T FORGET: Nigeria 70: The Definitive Story of 1970’s Funky Lagos
COMING SOON: Kate Bush, Tom Waits, Coldplay
October 7, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Ryan Adams/Ashes & Fire/Capitol/Rock-Folk
Angel Band/Shoot the Moon/Big I Deer/Folk
Ross Beach/Orange Gerbera Daisies/Self/Rock
Patrizio Buanne/Patrizio/Concord/Jazz
Cinque/Catch a Corner/Alma/Jazz
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah/Hysterical/Self/Rock
Joe Cocker/Hard Knocks/Adaven/Rock
Crooked Fingers/Breaks in the Armor/Merge/Rock
El Rego/El Rego/Daptone/World
Piers Faccini/My Wilderness/Six Degrees/Folk
Feist/Metals/Universal/Rock
Peter Gabriel/New Blood/Self-Real World/Rock
Great American Taxi/Paradise Lost/Self/Rock-Folk
Gringo Starr/Count Yer Lucky Stars/Gigantic/Rock
Hess Is More/Creation Keeps the Devil Away?/Nublu/Electronica
Hoots & Hellmouth/Salt/Self/Rock
Merle Haggard/Working in Tennessee/Vanguard/Country
Joe Henry/Reverie/Anti/Rock-Folk
Icebird/The Abandoned Lullaby/Self/Rock
Marketa Irglova/Anar/Anti/Rock
Bob James & Keiko Matsui/Altair & Vega/Tappan Z/Jazz
Jeff Gauthier Goatette/Open Source/Cryptogramophone/Jazz
Kasabian/Velociraptor/Sony/Rock
Chris Thomas King/Antebellum Postcards/21st Century Blues/Blues
Oscar Peterson/Unmistakable/Sony/Jazz
The R’s/De Flora et Fauna/Nat Geo/Rock
Red Molly/Light in the Sky/Self/Folk
San Sebastian/Relations/Last Gang/Rock
Sensitive Chaos/Seeker After Patterns/Self/Electronica
Westbound/Blackjack Road/44 Stone/Folk
Various Artists/Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams/Columbia/Country*
Various Artist/Putumayo Presents: Acoustic Café/Putumayo/Folk
BIG SURPRISE: Westbound, Icebird, Joe Cocker
BIGGEST SURPRISE: El Rego, The R’s
HALL OF FAME: Red Molly, Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams, Acoustic Café, The R’s, Joe Henry
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Andy Belt & Friends- Playin’ in the Band
BEST REVISITED CD: J. Boogie’s Dubtronic Science- Undercover, Kiran Ahluwalie- Aam Zameen
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Jim Keller- Soul Candy
AND DON'T FORGET: Jackson Browne & David Lindley- Love Is Strange: En Vivo Con Tino
COMING SOON: Kate Bush, Deer Tick, Coldplay
September 30, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Kiran Ahluwalia/Aam Zameen/Kiran/World*
Stephen David Austin/A Bakersfield Dozen/BMI/Country
B 52’s/With the Wild Crowd/Eagle/Rock
Camille Boudoin & the Living Rumours/Old Bayou Blues/Threadhead/Folk-Blues
Scott H. Biram/Bad Ingredients/Bloodshot/Rock
J. Boogie’s Dubtronic Science/Undercover/OM/Electronica*
Cash Box Kings/Holler & Stomp/Blind Pig/Blues
Everclear/Return to Santa Monica/Cleopatra/Rock
Evidence/Cats & Dogs/Rhymesayers/HipHop
Headhunters/Platinum/Owl/Jazz
Stanley Jordan/Friends/Mack Avenue/Jazz
Jim Keller/Soul Candy/Self/Rock
Lights/Siberia/Last Gang/Rock
Lizh/Lizh/O/Rock
Christian McBride/Big Band/Mack Avenue/Jazz
John Prine/Singing Mailman Delivers/Oh Boy/Folk
Paul Sachs/Oil Town/Self/Folk
DJ Shadow/Less You Know the Better/Island/Electronica-Funk-Soul-R&B*
Story UK/Joy Ride on Memory Lane/Westminster/Rock
Talkdemonic/Ruins/Glacial Pace/Electronica-Rock
Rachel Yamagata/Chesapeake/Self/Rock
BIG SURPRISE: Lizh, Paul Sachs
BIGGEST SURPRISE: J. Boogie’s Dubtronic Science, Lights
HALL OF FAME: DJ Shadow, J. Boogie, Cash Box Kings, Kiran Ahluwalia
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Various Artists- Cuba Fully Charged
BEST REVISITED CD: Beats Antique- Elektraphone,
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Mandolin Orange- Haste Make/Hard Hearted Stranger
AND DON'T FORGET: Mink Deville- Cabretta
COMING SOON: Crooked Still, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, Little Willies
September 23, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Beats Antique/Elektraphone/Self/Electronica*
Tony Bennett/Duets II/Columbia/Jazz*
George Benson/Guitar Man/Concord/Jazz*
Comanchero/Undeserved/Self/Country
Chick Corea & Stefano Bollani/Orvieto/ECM/Jazz*
Lisa Hannigan/Passenger/ATO/Rock
The Kooks/Junk of the Heart/Capitol/Rock
Loney Dear/Hall Music/Polyvinyl Music/Rock
Mandolin Orange/Haste Make-Hard Hearted Stranger/Self/Folk
Rudresh Mahanthappa/Samdhi/Act Music/Jazz
Reptar/Oblangle Fizz Ya’ll/Vagrant/Rock
Poncho Sanchez & Terence Blanchard/Chano y Dizzy!/Concord/Jazz
John Scofield/A Moment’s Peace/Longsolo/Jazz*
Still Corners/Creatures of an Hour/SubPop/Rock
Wilco/The Whole Love/dBjorn Records/Rock*
Youth Lagoon/Year of Hibernation/Fat Possum/Rock
BIG SURPRISE: Mandolin Orange
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Beats Antique
HALL OF FAME: Wilco, John Scofield, Beats Antique
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Bad Religion- The Dissent of Man
BEST REVISITED CD: Pieta Brown- Mercury
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Rita Chiarelli- The Big House
AND DON'T FORGET: Pharaoh Sanders- Save Our Children
COMING SOON: DJ Shadow, Tom Waits, Laura Viers
September 16, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
AfroBop Alliance/Una Mas/Self/Jazz/Latin
Natacha Atlas/Mounqaliba-Rising the Remixes/Red Oz Music/RPM/World
Barr Brothers/The Barr Brothers/Secret City/Folk
Rita Chiarelli/The Big House/Mad Iris/Soundtrack*
Ray Bonneville/Bad Man’s Blood/Red House Records/Blues*
Pieta Brown/Mercury/Red House Records/Folk*
Lindsey Buckingham/Seeds We Sow/Self/Rock
Charlie Chamberlain/Old & New/Creative Commons/RPM/Folk
Cubic Zirconia/Follow Your Heart/Fool’s Gold/Rock/Funk
Dum Dum Girls/Only in Dreams/SubPop/Rock
PJ Harvey/iTunes Sessions/Vagrant/Rock
Beth Hart feat Joe Bonamassa/Don’t Explain/J&R Adventures/Blues*
Roy Haynes/Roy-Alty/Dreyfus Jazz/Jazz*
Will Hoge/Number Seven/Ryko/Rock
Charles Lloyd & Maria Farantouri/Athens Concert/ECM/Jazz/World
Laura Marling/A Creature I Don’t Know/Ribbon Music/Folk
Lenny Marcus/The Jazz of Beethoven/Self/Jazz
Megafaun/Megafaun/Self/Rock
Mekons/Ancient & Modern 1911-2011/Bloodshot/Rock
Miguel Migs/Outside the Skyline/Om Records/RPM/World
Mocean Worker/Candygram for Mowo!/Mowo!/RPM/Funk*
Nation Beat/Growing Stone/Barbes Records/Latin
Tineke Postma/The Dawn of Light/Challenge Records/Jazz
Rich Robinson/Through a Crooked Sun/Circle Sound/Rock
Sonny Rollins/Road Shows Vol. 2/Doxy Records/Jazz
St. Vincent/Strange Mercy/4AD/Rock
Leslie West/Unusual Suspects/Mascot/Rock
Whitehorse/Whitehorse/Six Shooter/Folk
Kenny Vaughan/V/Sugar Hill/ Country
April Verch/That’s How We Run/Slab Town Records/Folk
Carolyn Wonderland/Peace Meal/Bismeaux Records/Blues*
Beth Woods/The Weather Inside/Blue Rock/Folk
Zucchero/Chocabeck/Decca/Rock
BIG SURPRISE: Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Pieta Brown
HALL OF FAME: Beth & Joe, Pieta Brown, Ray Bonneville, Bill Frisell, Will Hoge
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Dust Brothers- Soundtrack from Fight Club
BEST REVISITED CD: Bearfoot- The American Story
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: David Jacobs-Strain- Live from the Left Coast
AND DON'T FORGET: Jimmy McGriff with Lonnie Smith- McGriff’s House Party
COMING SOON: Coldplay, Great American Taxi, Mark O’Connor
September 9, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Kasey Anderson & the Honkies/Heart of a Dog/Red River Records/Rock
Bearfoot/The American Story/Self/Folk*
Big Harp/White Hat/Saddle Creek/Folk/Rock
Jason Boland & the Stranglers/Rancho Alto/Apex/Country
Carrie Clark & Lonesome Lovers/Between the Bedsheets & Turpentine/Self/Folk
Bill Frisell/All We Are Saying/SLG/Jazz*
Gangstagrass feat T.O.N.E.Z/Gangstagrass/Self/HipHop-Bluegrass
Gold Panda/Lucky Shiner/Self/Electronica
Honey Honey/Billy Jack/Lost Highway/Rock
David Jacobs-Strain/Live from the Left Coast/Self/Blues
Solomon King/Medicine/Self/Blues
Nikki Lane/Walk of Shame/Iamsound/Country
Jens Lekman/An Argument for Myself/Secretly Canadian/Rock
Lydia Loveless/Indestructible Machine/Bloodshot/Country
Lera Lynn/Have You Met Lera Lynn/Slow Records/Folk
Steve Gerard & the National Debonaires/Voodoo Workin’/Blue Edge Records/Blues
Bix Medard/Take a Deep Breath/Altair Musik/Electronica
Pajama Club/Pajama Club/Lester Records/Rock
Pink Floyd/ Dark Side of the Moon: Selections from Live 1974 Wembly Concert/Capital/Rock
Pistol Annies/Hell on Heels/Capital/Country
Primus/Green Naugahyde/ATO/Rock*
Sambadende/Ao Vivo/Self/Latin
Southern Culture on the Skids/Zombified/Monkey Dog Records/Rock
Umphrey’s McGee/Death by Sterio/ATO/Rock
Frank Wakefield/A Tribute to Bill Monroe/Patuxent Music/Bluegrass
Andrea Wolper/Parallel Lives/Jazzed Media/Jazz
Dan Zanes & Friends/Little Nut Tree/Festival Five Records/Children
Various/Note of Hope/429 Records/Folk/Rock
Various/Brownswood Bubblers Seven/Brownswood/RPM/Funk
Various/All My Friends are Here/NuNoise Records/Jazz-Rock
Various/Live on KDNK/KDNK/Rock*
BIG SURPRISE: Carrie Clark, Nikki Lane
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Lydia Loveless, Honey Honey
HALL OF FAME: David Jacobs-Strain, Southern Culture on the Skids,
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Putumayo Presents: African Odyssey
BEST REVISITED CD: Gary Clark Jr.- Bright Lights EP
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: John Doe- Keeper
AND DON'T FORGET: Rolling Stones- Exile on Main Street
COMING SOON: San Sebastian, David Lynch, Mocean Worker
September 2, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
A A Bondy/Believers/Fat Possum/Folk
Tori Amos/Night of Hunters/Deutsche Gramophone
Billy Burnette/Rock n Roll With It/Self/Rock
Kathryn Calder/Bright &Vivid/FUM/Rock
Cow Bop/Too Hick for the Room/Self/Country
Dang It Bobbys/Big Trouble/Self/Bluegrass
Elan/We Are/1Lion Records/Rock/Reggae
Emot/Make You Electric/Self/Rock
Melissa Ferrick/Still Right Here/Mpress Records/Rock
JJ Grey & Mofro/Brighter Days/Grey Music/Rock
The Gourds/Old Mad Joy/Vanguard/Rock
Harpeth Rising/Dead Man’s Hand/Grimm Rising/Folk
Holy Goats/Next Round/Copycat/Blues
Knitting by Twilight/Weathering/It’s Twilight Time/Rock/Classical
Marsalis & Clapton/Marsalis & Clapton Play the Blues Live at Lincoln Center/Blues/Jazz
Natural Vibrations/Got This Music/Go Aloha Music/Reggae
Nurses/Dracula/Dead Oceans/Rock
Red Hot Chili Peppers/I’m With You/Warner Brothers/Rock
Toddla T/Watch Me Dance/Ninja Tune/RPM/Funk
Toro y Moi/Freaking Out/Carpark/Rock
Twenty Three String Band/Catch 23/Self/Bluegrass/Folk
Whiteboy James & the Blues Express/Extreme Makeover/Rip Cat Records/Blues
BIG SURPRISE: Elan
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Billy Burnette
HALL OF FAME: JJ Grey & Mofro, Marsalis & Clapton, Billy Burnette
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Desi Arnaz & His Orchestra- Babalu; St. Vincent- Actor
BEST REVISITED CD: Ry Cooder- Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Mike Doughty- Yes and Also Yes
AND DON'T FORGET: Bitter: Sweet
COMING SOON: Belle X1, Melissa Etheridge
August 26, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Arcade Fire/The Suburbs/Self Rock
Beirut/The Riptide/Pompeii Records/Rock
Blitzen Trapper/American Goldwing/Sub Pop/Rock*
BoDeans/Indigo Dreams/Self/Rock
Ry Cooder/Pull Up Some Dust & Sit Down/Nonesuch/Rock/Folk*
D’Mar & Gill/Real Good Friends/Airtight/Blues
Kyle Eastwood/Songs From the Chateau/Candid Productions/Jazz
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey/Race Riot Suite/Kinnara Records/Jazz
David Grisman Trio/David Grisman’s Folk Jazz/Acoustic Disc/Folk/Jazz*
David Grisman Quintet/25th Year Reunion Concert/Acoustic Disc/Folk/Jazz*
Alexis Harte/6 Spoons of Honey/Self/Rock
Joy Kills Sorrow/This Unknown Science/Signature Sounds/Bluegrass
Robert Earl Keen/Ready for Confetti/Lonesome Highway/Folk*
Rene Lopez/ELS/Nat Geo Music/Latin*
Nick Lowe/The Old Magic/Yep Rock/Rock
Stephen Malkmus & Jicks/Mirror Traffic/Matador/Rock
Milagres/Glowing Mouth/Secret Manual Music/Rock
Mogwai/Earth Division EP/Sub Pop/Rock
Tom Morello & the Night Watchman/World Wide Rebel Songs/New West/Rock
Pharis & Jason Romero/A Passing Glimpse/Lula Records/Folk
Claudio Roditi/Bons Amigos/Resonance/Jazz/
Trent Romens/Aware/New Folk Records/Blues
Ivan Rosenberg & the Foggy Hogtown Boys/Hogtown Sessions/Volo-O-Phone Records/Bluegrass
Connie Smith/Long Line of Heartaches/Sugar Hill/Country
Matthew Sweet/Modern Art/Missing Piece/Rock
Ernie Watts Quartet/Alive/Flying Dolphin Records/Jazz
Various/Listen to Me:Buddy Holly/Verve/Rock
BIG SURPRISE: Trent Romens,
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Alexis Harte, Rene Lopez
HALL OF FAME: Ry Cooder, Joy Kills Sorrow, Rene Lopez
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Waylon Thibodeaux- Who’s Yo’ Cher Be’ Be’
BEST REVISITED CD: 10 Ft Ganja Plant- Shake Up the Place
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Sena Ehrhardt- Leave the Lights On
AND DON'T FORGET: Ernest Ranglin & Baaba Maal- In Search of the Lost Riddim
COMING SOON: Florence and the Machine, Warren Haynes, Tom Waits
August 19, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Afrobeta/Under the Streets/Kentsoundz/Electronica
Bassnectar/Divergent Spectrum/Amorphous Music/ Electronica
The Berrys/Fairmount Station/Self/Folk
Blind Pilot/We Are the Tide/Self/Rock
Blue Highway/Sounds of Home/Rounder/Bluegrass
Gary Clark Jr./The Bright Lights ep/Warner Brothers/Rock
Counting Crows/August and Everything After: Live at Town Hall/Self/Rock
Coyote Poets of the Universe/Pandora’s Box/Self/Rock
Peter Wolf Crier/Garden of Arms/Jagjaguwar/Rock
Crosby Nash/Don’t Dig Here/Bluecastle Records/Rock
Cymbals Eat Guitars/Lenses Alien/Self/Rock
Brigitte DeMeyer/Rose of Jericho/Self/Folk
Digital Dubs #1/Digital Dubs #1/ROIR/Reggae
Driftwood Fire/How to Untangle a Heartache/Self/Folk
Guadalupe Plata/Guadalupe Plata 2011/Self/Rock-Blues
J. Viewz/Rivers & Homes/Self/Electronica
Stephen Merritt/Obscurities/Merge/Rock
Moreland & Arbuckle/Just a Dream/Telarc/Blues
O Brother Where Art Thou expanded/Soundtrack/Folk
Patti Smith/Outside Society/Arista/Rock
Joss Stone/LP1/Stone’d Records/Funk Soul
10 Ft Ganja Plant/Shake Up the Place/ROIR/Reggae
Tinariwen/Tassili/Wedge/World*
Butch Walker & the Black Widows/The Spade/Dangerbird/Rock
Jonathan Wilson/Gentle Sprit/Bella Union/Folk
Johnny Winter/Roots/Megaforce Records/Blues
Various/Get Lost 4 remixed by Damien Lazarus/Crosstown/Electronica
Various/Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration: A Classic Bluegrass Tribute/Rounder/Bluegrass
BIG SURPRISE: Driftwood Fire
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Gary Clark Jr, Johnny Winters
HALL OF FAME: Blue Highway, Gary Clark Jr, Tinariwen
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Hugh Laurie- Let Them Talk; Grace Jones- Hurricane
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Slaid Cleaves- Live at the Horseshoe Lounge
AND DON'T FORGET: Bob Marley- Kaya
COMING SOON: Lindsay Buckingham, Snow Patrol, Ryan Adams, Glen Campbell, Shelby Lynne
August 12, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Asa/Beautiful Imperfection/Naïve/Rock
Canon Blue/Rumspringa/Self/Electronica
Cabin Dogs/Midnight Trail/Crippled Hound Records/Folk
Irene Cara/Hot Caramel/Caramel Productions/Funk/Rock
Jose Conde/Jose Conde/Self/Latin
Mike Cottone/Just Remember/Self/Jazz
The Decemberists/iTunes Sessions Live/Self/Rock
Mike Doughty/Yes & Also Yes/Snack Bar/Rock
Jimmie Dale Gilmore & the Wronglers/Heirloom Music/Neanderthal/Country
Girls Guns & Glory/Sweet Nothings/Lonesome Day Records/Folk/Country
Hercules Love Affair/Blue Songs/Moshi Moshi Records/ Electronica
Donal Hinely/The Famous Rocket Cage/Atom Records/Folk
Mason Jennings/Minnesota/Stats and Brackets/Rock
Hugh Laurie/Let Them Talk/Warner Music/Blues
Amos Lee/ITunes Soho Performance/Blue Note/Rock/Folk
Eric Lindell/West Country Drifter/M.C.Records/Blues
Trombone Shorty/For True/Verve/Jazz
Jim Ward/Quiet in the Valley.On the Shores the End Begins/Tembloroso/Folk
Various/The Audio Refugee Compilation/Stronghold Sound/World/ Electronica
BIG SURPRISE: Girls Guns and Glory
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Asa, Hugh Laurie
HALL OF FAME: Girls Guns and Glory, Asa, Hugh Laurie, Trombone Shorty
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Mariachi El Bronx- Mariachi El Bronx; John Doe- Keeper
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Slaid Cleaves- Live at Horseshoe Lounge
AND DON'T FORGET: Bob Dylan- Blood on the Tracks
COMING SOON: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Jane’s Addiction, Feist
August 5, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
AM & Shawn Lee/Celestial Electric/ESL/Rock-Electronica*
Bottle Rockets/Not So Loud/Bloodshot/Folk
Catie Curtis/Stretch Limousine on Fire/Compass/Folk
Deep Blue Organ Trio/Wonderful/Origin/Jazz*
John Doe/Keeper/Yep Roc/Rock
Thomas Dolby/A Map of the Floating City/Lost Toy People/Rock
Travis Moonchild Haddix/Old Man in Love/CBS Records/Blues
Candye Kane/Sister Vagabond/Delta Groove/Blues
Little Dragon/Ritual Union/Peacefrog/Rock
Mariachi El Bronx/Mariachi El Bronx/ATO Records/Latin*
Ana Popovic/Unconditional/Eclectic Groove Records/Blues
Maria Taylor/Overlook/Saddle Creek/Rock
Yellow Ostrich/The Mistress/Barsuk/Rock
BIG SURPRISE: Little Dragon, John Doe
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Mariachi El Bronx
HALL OF FAME: AM & Shawn Lee, Mariachi El Bronx
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): The Promised Land Soundtrack Album
BEST REVISITED CD: Imelda May, Ollabelle
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Gary Nicholson- Texas Songbook; Teddy Bears- Devil’s Music
AND DON'T FORGET: Solomon Burke- Nashville; Jackson Browne & David Lindley- Love Is Strange
COMING SOON: Moreland & Arbuckle, Tom Morello, Lindsay Buckingham
July 29, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Ancient Future/World Without Walls/Ancient Future Coalition/World
Joseph Arthur/The Graduation Ceremony/Self/Rock
Zee Avi/Ghostbird/Brushfire Records/Rock
Bandana Splits/Bandana Splits/Boy Scout Recordings/Rock
Slaid Cleaves/Live at the Horseshoe Lounge/Self/Folk
Guy Clark/Songs & Stories/Dualtone/Folk
Kris Delmhorst/Cars/Signature Sounds/Folk
The Henhouse Prowlers/Verses Chapters & Rhymes/Prowler Records/Bluegrass
The Jayhawks/Mockingbird Time/Rounder/Rock
Grace Jones/Hurricane/Pias America/Rock/Electronica
Arnold McCuller/Soon As I Get Paid/What’s Good Records/R&B
Keb Mo/The Reflection/Yolabelle/Blues
Mulebone/Bluesville Sessions/Uncle Eustis Music/Blues
Ximena Sarinana/XimenaSarinana/Warner Brothers/Latin
Kai Welch/Send it Down/Self/Folk
BIG SURPRISE: Bandana Splits
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Arnold McCuller
HALL OF FAME: Keb Mo, Grace Jones, Guy Clark, Ancient Future
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Ollabelle- Blue Neon Bird
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Dustbowl Revival- Holy Ghost Station
AND DON'T FORGET: Chancha Via Circuito- Rio Arriba
COMING SOON: Indigo Girls, Maria Taylor, Robert Earl Keen, Ana Popovic, Candye Kane
July 22, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Jeff Bridges/Jeff Bridges/Anti/Folk
Richard Buckner/Our Blood/Merge/Rock
Bye Bye Blackbirds/Fixed Hearts/Rainbow Quartz International
Drive By Truckers/Ugly Buildings, Whores & Politicians/New West/Rock
Dustbowl Revival/Holy Ghost Station/Self/Folk
Ana Egge/Bad Blood/Ammal Records/Folk
Lake Street Dive/Lake Street Dive/Signature Sounds/Jazz/Folk
Imelda May/Mayhem/Decca/Rock/Blues
Brian Molnar & the Naked Hearts/Of the Fall/Avenue A Records/Folk
Ollabelle/Neon Blue Bird/Self/Folk
Pollution Salute/Neon/Lost Tribe Sound/Rock
Portugal the Man/In the Mountain In the Cloud/Atlantic/Rock
Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band/Peyton on Patton/Side One Dummy/Blues
Rebecca Pidgeon/Slingshot/Toy Canteen Records/Rock
Leon Russell/Live in Japan/Capitol/Rock
Jake Schepps/An Evening in the Village: The Music of Bela Bartok/Self/Folk
Smoove + Turrell/Eccentric Audio/Jalapeno Records/Funk
They Might be Giants/Join Us/Rounder/Rock
Ursula 1000/Mondo Beyondo/ESL/Electronica
Various/Thunderball/12 Miles High Remixed/ESL/Electronica
Various/Nickodemus Presents Turntables on the Hudson Vol 8: Reflecting Cielo/ESL/Electronica
BIG SURPRISE: Jeff Bridges
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Jake Schepps, Lake Street Dive
HALL OF FAME: Imelda May, Lake Street Dive, Ollabelle, Nickodemus
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Fruit Bats- Tripper
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Teddybears- Devil’s Music
AND DON'T FORGET: Carolina Chocolate Drops and Luminescent Orchestrii
COMING SOON: Tinariwen, Ry Cooder
July 15, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Peter Bradley Adams/Between Us/Self/Folk
Back Porch Mary/Life Is Now/Self/Folk
Brothers of Brazil/Brothers of Brazil/Side One Dummy/Rock
Fountains of Wayne/Sky Full of Holes/YepRoc/Rock
Fruit Bats/Tripper/Sub Pop/Rock
Pokey LaFarge & South City Three/Middle of Everywhere/Trade Root Music/Folk
Edwin McCain/Mercy Bound/429 Records/Rock
Piney Gir Roadshow/Jesus Wept/Greyday/Folk
Release the Sunbird/Come Back to Us/Brushfire Records/Rock
Dex Romweber Duo/Is That You in the Blue?/Bloodshot/Rock
Spring Creek/Hold On Me/Self/Bluegrass
Tower of Power/Live at the Fillmore Auditorium/Top Records/Funk-Soul-R&B
Woody Witt/Pots and Kettles/Blue Bamboo Music/Jazz
Mike Zito/Greyhound/EclectoGroove Records/Rock-Blue
BIG SURPRISE:
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Fruit Bats
HALL OF FAME: Spring Creek, Tower of Power
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
BEST REVISITED CD: Hope Waits- Introducing Hope Waits
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: David Wax Museum- Everything Is Saved
AND DON'T FORGET: Bill Frisell & the 858 Quartet- Signs of Life
COMING SOON: Cymbal Eat Guitars, Stephen Bruton, Trombone Shorty
July 8, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
The Beekeepers/Apiculture/Jalapeno/Electronica
Terri Lyne Carrington/The Mosaic Project/Groove Jazz/Jazz
Kasey Chambers/Little Bird/Essence/Folk/Country
Ruby Dee & the Snakehandlers/Austin Texas/Dionysus/Country
Brian Eno & Rick Holland/Drums Between the Bells/Warp/Electronica
Eleanor Friedberger/Last Summer/Merge/Rock
Karmacoda/Eternal/Sola Musa Music/Electronica:
Matisyahu/Live at Stubbs I Vol II Deluxe/Fallen Sparks/Reggae*
Matt Nathanson/Modern Love/Vanguard/Rock
Gary Nicholson/Texas Songbook/Bismeaux Records/Country
Pimps of Joytime/Janxta Funk!/Wonderwheel/ Funk*
REM/Life’s Rich Pageant: 25th Anniversary Edition/Capitol/Rock
Nell Robinson/On the Brooklyn Road/Red Level Records/Folk
Elspeth Savani/Flights of Mind, Pensamientos En Vuelo/Self/Latin/Jazz
Sole and the Skyrider Band/Hello Cruel World/Fake Four Inc/HipHop
Jesse Sykes & Sweet Hereafter/Marble Son/Self/Rock
Tempers/Strum & Drag/Blue Jordan Records/Folk/Country
Hope Waits/Introducing Hope Waits/Spann Records/Blue*
Yarn/Leftovers Vol. 1/Ardsley /Folk
Various/Brownswood Electr*c/Brownswood/Electronic
BIG SURPRISE: Tempers
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Nell Robinson, Hope Waits
HALL OF FAME: Kasey Chambers, Matisyahu, Pimps of Joytime
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: John Hiatt- Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Tori Sparks- Until Morning
AND DON'T FORGET: Bo-Keys- Got to Get Back
COMING SOON: Beirut, Gringo Starr
July 1, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Battlefield Band/Line-Up/Temple Records/Celtic
Billy Cardine/Yours to Find/Self/Folk
Ruby Dee & the Snakehandlers/Austin Texas/Dionysus/Country
Fiora/Blue Muse/Self/Electronica
Funk Ark/From the Rooftops/ESL/World
John Hiatt/Dirty Jeans & Mudslide Hymns/New West/Rock
Amy LaVere/Stranger Me/Archer Records/Folk
Mighty Mojo Prophets/Mighty Mojo Prophets/Rip Cat Records/Blues
Real Tuesday Weld/The Last Werewolf: a Soundtrack/Six Degrees/Rock
David Starfire/Bollywood Bass Remixes Vol. 2/Six Degrees/Electronica
Teddy Bears/Devil’s Music/Atlantic/Rock-HipHop
George Thorogood & the Destroyers/2120 South Michigan Avenue/Capitol/Rock
Ursa Minor/Showface/Self/Rock
Vieo Abiungo/And the World is Still Yawning/Lost Tree Sound/Electronica-Classical*
William Elliott Whitmore/Field Songs/Anti/Folk
BIG SURPRISE: Teddy Bears
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Vieo Abiungo
HALL OF FAME: John Hiatt, Amy LaVere, Vieo Abiungo
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Grayson Capps- The Lost Cause Minstrels
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: David Wax Museum- Everything Is Saved; Handsome Furs- Sound Kapital
AND DON'T FORGET: Ocote Soul Sounds- Taurus
COMING SOON: Blitzentrapper, REM, John Doe
June 24, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Amina Alaoui/Arco Iris/ECM/World*
Bo-Keys/Got to Get Back/Eliminator Music/Blues-Rock*
David Bromberg/Use Me/Appleseed Records/Blues*
Cindy Bradley/Unscripted/Trippin ‘n’ Rhythm Music/Jazz
Steve Cropper/Dedicated/SLG/Funk-Blues
Jolie Holland & the Grand Chandeliers/Pint of Blood/Anti/Folk
Justin Roth/Now You Know/Self/Folk
Steel Wheels/Live at Goose Creek/Goose Crreek/Folk
Dave Stewart/Blackbird Diaries/Razor & Tie/Rock
Thievery Corporation/Culture of Fear/ESL/Electronica*
Gillian Welch/The Harro & the Harvest/Acony Records/Folk*
Various/Red Hot+Rio 2/Red Hot Organization/Latin*
BIG SURPRISE: Steve Cropper
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Justin Roth, Steel Wheels, Amina Alaoui
HALL OF FAME: Bo-Keys, David Bromberg, Steve Cropper, Thievery, Gillian Welch, Amina Alaoui, Red Hot & Rio
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Flogging Molly- Speed of Darkness, Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi- Rome
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: King Creosote & Jon Hopkins- Diamond Mine
AND DON'T FORGET: Steve Earle- Jerusalem
COMING SOON: Mulebone, Tinariwen
June 17, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Dave Alvin/Eleven Eleven/Yep Roc/Rock*
Bill Bourne & the Free Radio Band/Bluesland/Self/Blues
Blind Willies/Needle, Feather & a Rope/Diggory Records/Rock
Cody Canada & the Departed/This Is Indian Land/Underground Sound/Rock-Folk
Grayson Capps/The Lost Cause Minstrels/Royal Potato Family/Rock-Folk*
Bootsy Collins/The Funk Capital of the World/Mascott Music/Funk
Da Cruz/Sistema Subversiva/Six Degrees/Latin-Electronica*
Robert Ellis/Photographs/New West/Folk
Jessica Fichot/Le Secret EP/Self/World
Michael Franks/Time Forgotten/Shanachie/Jazz
Gomez/Whatever’s on Your Mind/ATO/Rock
Handsome Furs/Sound Kapital/Sub Pop/Electronica
Homeless Balloon/Ancient City/24 Chillout Music/Electronica
Bon Iver/Bon Iver/Jajaguwar/Rock*
Pat Matheny/What’s It All About/Nonesuch/Jazz
Ocote Soul Sounds/Taurus/ESL Music/Latin-Electronica*
Brad Shepik Quartet/Across the Way/Songlines/Jazz
David Wax Museum/Everything Is Saved/Great North Sound Society/Folk
When Saints Go Machine/Konkylie/!K7/Electronica
Neil Young/International Harvester/Reprise/Rock-Country
BIG SURPRISE: Cody Canada & the Departed
BIGGEST SURPRISE: David Wax Museum, Homeless Balloon
HALL OF FAME: Ocote Soul Sounds, Bon Iver, Grayson Capps
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing):
BEST REVISITED CD: Various Artists- Rave On Buddy Holly
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Hey Mavis- Red Wine; Junior Boys- It’s All True
AND DON'T FORGET: Christian McBride- Live at Tonic
COMING SOON: Thievery Corporation, Kate Bush, The Real Tuesday Weld
June 10, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Arctic Monkeys/Suck It & See/Domino/Rock
Bobby/Bobby/Partisan/Rock
City & Colour/Little Hell/Vagrant/Rock
Corea, Clarke & White/Forever/Forever Limited/Jazz
Dawes/Nothing Is Wrong/ATO/Rock
Death Cab for Cutie/Codes & Keys/Atlantic/Rock
Gabe Dixon/One Spark/Concord/Rock
Gregory Douglass/Lucid/Emotorecords/Rock
Joe Ely/Satisfied at Last/Rock ‘Em Records/Rock
Marianne Faithfull/Horses & High Heels/Naïve Records/Rock
Ruthie Foster/Live at Antones/Self/Rock
Fran-Zick/Feed Them With Music/Self/Rock
Stefon Harris, David Sanchez, Christian Scott/Ninety Miles/Concord/Jazz
Heavy Tin/Space Cats/Concinnity Records/Jazz
Eilen Jewell/Queen of the Minor Key/Signature Sounds/Rock*
Sean Anikulapo Kuti & Egypt 80/From Africa with Fury: Rise/Knitting Factory
Jim Lauderdale/Reason & Rhyme/Sugar Hill/Bluegrass
Cheikh Lo/Jamm/World Circuit-Nonesuch/World*
Rod Piazza & Mighty Flyers/Almighty Dollar/Delta Groove/Blues
Lipbone Redding/Unbroken/Citizen One Music/Rock
STS9/When the Dust Settles EP/1320 Records/Electronica
Tedeschi Trucks Band/Revelator/Sony/Rock-Blues
Twilite Broadcasters/The Trail of Time/Self/Folk
Natalie Walker/Spark/Dorado Music/Electronica
Wilders/The Wilders/Trade Root Music Group/Bluegrass
Various/David Lynch Foundation: Music that Changes the World Vol. 1/DLF/Rock/Electronica-World
BIG SURPRISE: Twilite Broadcasters,
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Bobby, Gabe Dixon
HALL OF FAME: Ruthie Foster, Eilen Jewell, Cheikh Lo
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Arabian Travels 2 from Six Degrees
BEST REVISITED CD: The Trishas- They Call Us the Trishas; Farewell Drifters- Echo Boom
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Motopony- Motopony
AND DON'T FORGET: Toubab Krewe- TK2
COMING SOON: John Hiatt, Kasey Chambers
June 3, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Cody Beebe & the Crooks/Friends of the Old Mill/Self/Rock
Bellboys/I’ll Be Here All Night/Self/Folk
Mike Bloom/King of Circles/Self/Rock
Paul Brady/Hooba Dooba/Abirgreen Ltd/Rock
Barnaby Bright/Gravity/Self/Folk
Gary Burton Quartet/Common Ground/Mack Avenue/Jazz
Deleon/Casata/JDub/World
Liam Finn/Fomo/YepRoc/Rock
Flogging Molly/Speed of Darkness/Borstal Beat Records/Rock-Celtic
Rory Gallagher/Notes from San Francisco/Strange Music/Blues
Ben Harper/Give Till It’s Gone/Self/Rock
Hey Mavis/Red Wine/Stellada Music/Folk
Dan Hubbard & the Humadors/The Love Show/Self/Rock
Freddie Hubbard/Pinnacle/Resonance Records/Jazz
Junior Boys/It’s All True/Domino/Electronica-Rock
Guthrie Kennard/Unmade Beds/New Tex Records/Country
Branford Marsalis & Joey Calderazzo/Songs of Mirth & Melancholy/Marsalis Music/Jazz
Youssou Ndour/Dakar-Kingston/Universal/World
Old 97s/The Grand Theatre Vol 2/New West/Rock
Madeleine Peyroux/Standing on the Rooftop/Decca Records/Rock
Roy Roberts/Strange Love/Ocean Beach Records/Blues
Soul of John Black/Good Thang/Yellow Dog/Funk-Soul-R&B
JD Souther/Natural History/Entertainment One/Rock
Vampire Weekend/The iTunes Sessions/XL Recordings/Rock
Vetiver/The Errant Charm/SubPop/Folk
Victor Wainwright & the Wildroots/Lit Up!/Wildroot Records/Blues
Various Artist/Daptone Singles/Daptone Records/Funk-Soul-R&B
BIG SURPRISE: Cody Beebe & the Crooks
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Junior Boys
HALL OF FAME: Soul of John Black, JD Souther, Youssou N’dour, Daptone Singles
HALL OF SHAME (latest CD turned up missing): Cheb i Sabbah- Maha Maya
BEST REVISITED CD: Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi- Rome; Shawn Pittman- Edge of the World
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Five Points Band- Family; Cass McCombs- Wit’s End
AND DON'T FORGET: Ben Sollee- Inclusions; Stevie Ray Vaughan- Floodin’ Down in Texas
COMING SOON: Amy LaVere, Cheikh Lo, Thievery Corporation
May 27, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Bedouin Soundclash/Light the Horizon/Pirates Blend Records/Reggae-World
Black Lips/Arabia Mountain/Vice Music/Rock
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins/Diamond Mine/Domino/Folk-Electronica
Eliane Elias/Light My Fire/Concord/Jazz-Latin*
Hiromi/Voice/Telarc/Jazz
Coty Hogue/To the West/Cello Room/Folk
Garland Jeffreys/King of In-Between/Luna/Rock
Legendary Rhythm & Blues Revue/Legendary Rhythm & Blues Revue/Alligator/Blues
Jessica Long/Painted/Self/Rock
Ray Manzarek & Roy Rogers/Translucent Blues/Savoy Music/Rock-Blues*
Ziggy Marley/Wild and Free/Tuff Gong/Reggae
My Morning Jacket/Circuital/ATO/Rock
John Reischman & Jaybirds/Corvus Records/Bluegrass
Sebadoh/Bake Sale/Sub Pop/ Rock
Stevie J/The Diversity Project/Chell Enterprises/Funk-R&B
Wooden Birds/Two Matchsticks/Barsuk/Rock
Amon Tobin/Isam/Ninja Tune/Electronica
Various/Rave On Buddy Holly/MPL Communications/Rock*
BIG SURPRISE: Wooden Birds
BIGGEST SURPRISE: King Creosote & Jon Hopkins
HALL OF FAME: Ray Manzarek & Roy Rogers, King Creosote & Jon Hopkins
HALL OF SHAME (latest cd turned up missing): Various- Island Records Reggae compilation Vol 5 1972-1995: Reggae Roots. !!!!!This is a real loss to the library. Please bring it back!!!!!
BEST REVISITED CD: Levon Helm-Ramble at the Ryman; Bela & Flecktones-Rocket Science
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Black Swans- Don’t Blame the Stars;
AND DON'T FORGET: Moody Blues- Tuesday Afternoon
COMING SOON: Imelda May, Eilen Jewell, Joe Ely
May 20, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Bombino/Agadez/Cumbancha/World *
Greg Brown/Freak Flag/Yep Roc/Folk
Carrie Elkin/Call It My Garden/Red House
Mary Fahl/From the Dark Side of the Moon/Self/Rock
Bela Fleck & Flecktones/Rocket Science/Self/Folk-Bluegrass
Sergent Garcia/Una y Otra Vez/Cumbancha/Latin-Reggae
Greencards/Brick Album/Darling Street/Bluegrass
Levon Helm/Ramble at the Ryman/Dirt Farmer Music/Rock
Hey Rosetta/Seeds/HR Music/Rock
Imaginary Cities/Temporary Resident/Hidden Pony/Rock
Matt the Electrician/Accidental Thief/Self/Folk
Gaby Moreno/Illustrated Songs/Paisley Records/Latin-Rock
Motopony/Motopony/Tiny Ogre/Rock
Queens of the Stone Age/Queens of the Stone Age/Rekords Records/Rock
Beth Quist/New Moon/Self/World-NAC
Kiki Sanchez/Two Worlds/Self/Jazz
Wadada Leo Smith’s Organic/Heart’s Reflections/Cuneiform/Jazz
Sophistafunk/Twenty Eleven/Self/Funk
Sweetback Sisters/Looking for a Fight/Self/Country
Chip Taylor/Rock n Roll Joe: A Tribute to the Unsung Heroes of Rock/Train Wreck Records/Folk
Tea Leaf Green/Radio Tragedy/Self/Rock
They Might Be Giants/Join Us EP/Idlewild/Rock
Vieux Farka Toure/Secret/Six Degrees/World*
BIG SURPRISE: Hey Rosetta, Sergent Garcia, Chip Taylor
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Mary Fahl, Sophistafunk,
HALL OF FAME: Vieux Farka Toure, Bombino, Sweetback Sisters
HALL OF SHAME (latest cd turned up missing): Gorillaz- Plastic Beach; Band of Heathens- Live at Momo’s; Chancha Via Circuito- Rio Arriba
BEST REVISITED CD: Shawn Pittman- Edge of the World; Man Man- Life Fantastic; Bill Frisell & 858 Quartet- Sign of Life; Xavier Rudd- Koonyum Sun; Hazmat Modine- Cicadas.
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Loga Ramin Torkian- Mehraab; Chancha Via Circuito- Rio Arriba
AND DON'T FORGET: Tradi-Mods vs Rockers: Alternative Takes on Congotronics
COMING SOON: Imelda May, Eilen Jewell, Bedouin Soundclash.
May 13, 2011
Name/Album/ Label/ KDNK Library Genre * = added to DAD
Beastie Boys/Hot Sauce Committee Part 2/Capitol/HipHop
Elvin Bishop/Raisin’ Hell Revue/Delta Groove/Blues
Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi/Rome EP/Capitol/Rock
Farewell Drifters/Echo Boom/Self/Bluegrass
Michael Grimm/Michael Grimm/Sony BMG/Rock
Warren Haynes/Man in Motion/Self/Blues
Jolly Boys feat. Albert Minott/Great Expectation/Shamrock Solutions/World
Manchester Orchestra/Simple Math/Sony BMG/Rock
Moby/Destroyed/Little Idiot/Electronica-Rock
Randy Newman/Randy Newman Songbook Vol 2/Nonesuch/Folk
David Olney/Film Noir/Deadbeat Records/Folk-Blues
Shawn Pittman/Edge of the World/Delta Groove/Blues
Raphael Saadiq/Stone Rollin’/Sony BMG/Soul-R&B
Chris Thile & Michael Daves/Sleep with One Eye Open/Nonesuch/Bluegrass
The Trishas/They Call Us the Trishas/Self/Folk
Wombats/This Modern Glitch/Warner Brothers/Rock
Various Artists/Fania: 1963-1980 Sound of Latin New York/Strut/Latin
Various Artists/Nigeria 70: Sweet Life, Afrofunk, Highlife and Juju Music/Strut/World
BIG SURPRISE: Michael Grimm
BIGGEST SURPRISE: The Trishas
HALL OF FAME: Nigeria 70, Raphael Saadiq,
HALL OF SHAME (latest cd turned up missing): Marc Cohn- Listening Booth 1970
BEST REVISITED CD: Hazmat Modine- Cicada; Blackie & Rodeo Kings- Dramatico
BEST OVERLOOKED CD: Yael Naim- She Was a Boy
AND DON'T FORGET: Emmylou Harris- Hard Bargain.
COMING SOON: Madeleine Peyroux, The Buddy Holly Project, Bon Iver.