2021 Playlists
December 26
1. Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi | Black As Crow | They’re Calling Me Home | Nonesuch
2. Anya Hinkle | I Belong To the Band | Eden and Her Borderlands | Organic
3. Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan | The Quiet joys Of Brotherhood | Still As Your Sleeping | Hudson
4. Robert Plant & Alison Kraus | It Don’t Bother Me | Raise the Roof | Rounder
5. Rodney Crowell | One Little Bird | Triage | RC1 Records
6. Sean McConnell | The Wonder Years | A Horrible Beautiful Dream | Soundly Music
7. Ross Cooper | Flatland | Chasing Old Highs |
8. Will Stewart | All Over Again | Way Gone [EP] |
9. Chrissie Hynde | Blind Willie McTell | Standing In the Doorway : …Sings Bob Dylan | BMG
10. North Mississippi Allstars | Call That Gone [with Sharde Thomas] | Up and Rolling | New West
11. Cristina Vane | Badlands | Nowhere Sounds Lovely | Blue Tip
12. Markus James | Candyland Refugee | Head For the Hills | Firenze
13. Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi | Niwel Goes To Town | They’re Calling Me Home | Nonesuch
December 19
1. Hannah Aldridge | Oh Come, Oh Come Emmanuel | [single] |
2. Blind Boys Of Alabama | Go Tell It On the Mountain [Tom Waits, lead vocal] | Go Tell It On the Mountain | Real World
3. Allison Moorer | Oh Holy Night | Five Holiday Favorites [EP] |
4. Carrie Rodriguez, Erin Ivey, Billy Crockett | Bright Morning Star | A Very Blue Rock Christmas, Vol. 2 | Blue Rock Artists
5. Billy Crockett | God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen | A Very Blue Rock Christmas, Vol. 2 | Blue Rock Artists
6. Crowes Pasture [ Monique Byrne, Andy Rogovin] | Come Thou Font Of Every Blessing | [single] | Urban Campfire
7. Terry Kitchen | Do You Hear What I Hear | [single] |
8. The Staple Singers | The Last Month Of the Year | The 25th Day Of December | Concord
9. Jean Ritchie | Children Go Where I Send Thee | Carols For All Seasons | Tradition
10. Pete Seeger | What Child Is This | Traditional Christmas Carols | Smithsonian Folkways
11. Odetta | Go Tell It On the Mountain | Christmas Spirituals | Vanguard
12. John Kirkpatrick and Friends | The Twelve Days Of Christmas | Wassail! | Fellside
13. Márta Sebestyén | Betlehem, Betlehem | Apocrypha | Hannibal
14. Marlon Williams and the Dhungala Children’s Choir | Tapu te Pō (O Holy Night) | Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train |
15. Lior, Alice Keath, Emily Lubitz | Shalom Aleichem | Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train |
16. Loreena McKennitt | Emmanuel | A Midwinter Night’s Dream | Quinlan Road
17. Anonymous 4 | Hymn Intonent Hodie | Legends Of St. Nicholas : Medieval Chant & Polyphony | Harmoni Mundi
18. Hanneke Cassel | O Come, O Come Emmanuel / Star of Wonder | O Come Emmanuel |
December 12
1. Dar Williams | Magical Thinking | I’ll Meet You Here | BMG
2. Dar Williams | Time, Be My Friend | I’ll Meet You Here | BMG
3. Peter Keane | Diamond Joe | Blues, Ballads, Cowboy Songs |
4. Peter Keane | Dry Bread | Blues, Ballads, Cowboy Songs |
5. Peter Keane | Cool Water | Blues, Ballads, Cowboy Songs |
6. Andrea von Kampen | That Spell | That Spell | Fantasy
7. Andrea von Kampen | Magdalene | That Spell | Fantasy
8. Andrea von Kampen | Celilo | That Spell | Fantasy
9. Over the Moon [Suzanne Levesque, Craig Bignell] | Lonesome Bluebird | Chinook Waltz | Borealis
10. Over the Moon [Suzanne Levesque, Craig Bignell] | When She Rides | Chinook Waltz | Borealis
11. Malcolm MacWatt | Ghosts Of Caledonia | Settler | Need To Know
12. Malcolm MacWatt | Letter From San Francisco | Settler | Need To Know
13. Mala Oreen | Soldier On | Awake | Tourbo/Motherwest
14. Mala Oreen | Breathing Hope | Awake | Tourbo/Motherwest
15. Robert Plant & Alison Kraus | You Led Me To the Wrong | Raise the Roof | Rounder
16. John Renbourn | My Johnny Was a Shoemaker | The Lady and the Unicorn | Reprise
December 5
1. George Mann | Let the Healing Begin | A World Like This | Running Scared
2. Kristi Flagg | Red Sun [with Tracy Walton] | The Other Side |
3. Trevor Tchir | Lemon Dream | Sun & Moon |
4. Laura Love | Gentle | Uppity | Octoroon Biography
5. Brooksie Wells | Early Morning Rain | Stops Time | Down Home Dive
6. Chris Lavancher | Long Black Veil | After the Flood |
7. Valerie Smith | Unchained | Renaissance | Bell Buckle
8. Monica Heldal | Prairie | Ravensdale | Drabant Music
9. Ross Cooper | South Of the Angels | Chasing Old Highs |
10. Sarah McQuaid | If We Dig Any Deeper | The St. Buryan Sessions |
11. Courtney Patton | Take Your Shoes Off, Moses | A Southern Gospel Revival | Modern Trade
12. Ben Hester | In the Sweet By and By | A Southern Gospel Revival | Modern Trade
13. Jamie Wilson | Ain’t No Grave | A Southern Gospel Revival | Modern Trade
14. Ben and Micah Hester | By the Riverside | A Southern Gospel Revival | Modern Trade
15. Doc Watson | Windy and Warm | Foundation : Doc Watson Guitar Instrumental Collection, 1964-1998 | Sugar Hill
November 28
1. Hayes Carll | She’ll Come Back To Me | You Get It All | Dualtone
2. Natalie Hemby | New Madrid | Pins and Needles | Fantasy
3. Ruston Kelly | Changes | Shape & Destroy | Rounder
4. Linda Marks | Kindness | Monuments Of Love |
5. Rob Kneisler | Lift Me Up | Lift Me Up | Beserk Lion
6. Anne D. | I Could | Two Words |
7. Ray Lambiase | I Need You | The Road Ahead | Raytone
8. Efrat | We Just Need Love | We Just Need Love [EP] |
9. Bruce T. Carroll | Dragonfly In a Jar | First Bird To Sing |
10. Mary Lou Fulton | Silvy | We’ll Tell Stories | Infinidad
11. Stan Rogers | The Witch Of Westmorland | Between the Breaks…Live [Remastered] | Borealis
12. Stan Rogers | Barrett’s Privateers | Between the Breaks…Live [Remastered] | Borealis
13. Stan Rogers | The Mary Ellen Carter | Between the Breaks…Live [Remastered] | Borealis
14. Christina Smith & Jean Hewson | Scotty Macmillan’s G Minor Jig | Like Ducks! | Borealis
November 21
1. The Band Of Heathens | Up On the Hill Where They Do the Boogie | On the Road : a Tribute To John Hartford | LoHi
2. John Carter Cash and Jamie Hartford | In Tall Buildings | On the Road : a Tribute To John Hartford | LoHi
3. The High Hawks | Waugh Paugh | On the Road : a Tribute To John Hartford | LoHi
4. The Infamous Stringdusters | Gentle On My Mind | On the Road : a Tribute To John Hartford | LoHi
5. Brandi Carlile | I Remember Everything | Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows : Songs Of John Prine Vol. 2 | Oh Boy
6. Nathaniel Rateliff | Pretty Good | Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows : Songs Of John Prine Vol. 2 | Oh Boy
7. Margo Price | Sweet Revenge | Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows : Songs Of John Prine Vol. 2 | Oh Boy
8. Sturgill Simpson | Paradise | Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows : Songs Of John Prine Vol. 2 | Oh Boy
9. Lee Ann Womack | Dusty, Old Dirt | Home In This World : Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads | Elektra
10. Lost Dog Street Band | I Ain’t Got No Home In This World | Home In This World : Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads | Elektra
11. Mark Lanegan | Dust Pneumonia Blues | Home In This World : Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads | Elektra
12. Watkins Family Hour | Blowin’ Down This Road | Home In This World : Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads | Elektra
13. Iris DeMent | Let the Mystery Be | Infamous Angel | Philo
14. Greg Brown | Walking the Beans | Iowa Waltz | Red House
15. Iris DeMent | Sweet Is the Melody | My Life | WB
16. Greg Brown | If You Don’t Get It At Home | Further In | Sky Ranch
November 14
1. Ana Egge | Don’t Come Around | Between Us | StorySound
2. Mike McKenna Jr. | High Ground | At the Edge Of the World |
3. Alexa Rose | Big Sky | Headwaters |
4. Watchhouse [Andrew Marlin, Emily Frantz] | New Star | [self-titled] | Tiptoe Tiger
5. Gordie Tentrees | Mean Old World | Mean Old World | Buckaroo
6. Bett Padgett | Masks | Turning Over Stones |
7. Nathan Bell | Folding Money (You Better Move Along) | Red, White and American Blues (It Couldn’t Happen Here | Need To Know
8. Mala Oreen | Ragged Queen | Awake | TOURBO
9. Roseanne Reid | Fly High | Horticulture [EP] |
10. The Sea The Sea [Chuck E. Costa, Mira Costa] | A Thousand Years | Stumbling Home |
11. Mel Parsons | End Of the Day | Red Grey Blue |
12. Monica Heldal | Silly Willy | Boy From the North | Warner Music Norway
13. Pete Morton | The Little Boy’s Room | One Big Joke | Green Linnet/Harbourtown
14. Pete Morton | Mad World Blues | Mad World Blues | Harbourtown
15. Pete Morton | Courage, Love and Grace | Courage, Love and Grace | Harbourtown
16. Shane Cook & the Woodchippers | Crossing the Avon | Be There For a While |
November 7
1. John McCutcheon | Peekaboo | Bucket List | Appalsongs
2. John McCutcheon | Art | Bucket List | Appalsongs
3. Michael Gay | Good Enough | Make It Right | Roadside Pie
4. Abby Posner | Wishing Well | Kisbee Ring |
5. Scott Fab | Someday Soon Somehow | Someday Soon Somehow |
6. Ina May Wool | Out Past Yesterday | Rewrite the Ending |
7. George Mann | Maybe Next Year | A World Like This | Running Scared |
8. Cosy Sheridan | Where Have You Gone Bluebird? | A Beautiful Sound | Cosyng
9. Ray Lambiase | I Miss Everyone | The Road Ahead | Raytone
10. Jim Lauderdale | Sister Horizon | Hope | Yep Roc
11. Valerie Smith | I Found | Renaissance | Bell Buckle
12. Jim Lauderdale | The Brighty Side Of Lonely | Hope | Yep Roc
13. Valerie Smith | The River Whispers | Renaissance | Bell Buckle
14. Steve Earle | The Gringo’s Tale | The Revolution Starts Now | E-Squared/Artemis
15. Kelsey Waldon | Sam Stone | They’ll Never Keep Us Down [EP] | Oh Boy
16. Ray Wylie Hubbard | Red Badge Of Courage | The Grifter’s Hymnal | Bordello
October 31
1. Adia Victoria | Deep Water Blues | A Southern Gothic | Atlantic
2. Cerny Brothers | Million Miles | Looking For the Good Land | Cleveland International
3. Alexa Rose | Borders (God Is a River) | Headwaters | Big Legal Mess
4. Mike McKenna Jr. | Caught In the Middle | At the Edge Of the World |
5. Felice Brothers | Poor Blind Birds | Undress | Yep Roc
6. Kate Vargas | Church Of the Misdirection | Rumpumpo | Bandaloop
7. Colin Linden | When I Get To Galilee | bLow | Thirty Tigers
8. Kele Fleming | Vanishing Of Bees | Vanishing Of Bees [EP] |
9. Roseanne Reid | Passing Through | Horticulture [EP] |
10. Sean McConnell | Leave the Light On | A Horrible Beautiful Dream |
11. Runaway Horse [Mari Tirsa] | Diamond Through Stone | [single] |
12. Luke LeBlanc | Same Blues | Only Human |
13. Valerie June | Why the Bright Stars Glow | The Moon And Stars : Prescriptions For Dreamers | Fantasy
14. Lauren MacColl | Pentland Hills | Landskein | Make Believe
October 24
1. Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi | Waterbound | They’re Calling Me Home | Nonesuch
2. Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi | I’m On My Way | There Is No Other | Nonesuch
3. Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi | I Shall Not Be Moved | They’re Calling Me Home | Nonesuch
4. Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi | Brown Baby | There Is No Other | Nonesuch
5. Steel Wheels | Time Is All I Need | Everyone a Song Vol. 2 | Big Ring
6. Barefoot Movement | Easy | Pressing Onward |
7. Anya Hinkle | Hills Of Swannanoa | Eden and Her Borderlands |
8. Della Mae | The End | Family Reunion |
9. Zoe and Cloyd | Where Do You Stand | Rebuild | Organic
10. Colter Wall | Do Re Mi | Home In This World : Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads | Elektra
11. Waxahatchee | Talking Dust Bowl Blues | Home In This World : Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads | Elektra
12. John Paul White | Pretty Boy Floyd | Home In This World : Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads | Elektra
13. Secret Sisters | Dust Cain’t Kill Me | Home In This World : Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads | Elektra
14. Parker Milsap | Vigilante Man | Home In This World : Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads
| Elektra
15. Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi | Briggs’ Forró | There Is No Other | Nonesuch
October 17
1. BeauSoliel avec Michael Doucet | Two Step de Port Arthur | From Bamako To Carencro | Compass
2. BeauSoliel avec Michael Doucet | Bunk’s Blues | Bayou Cadilac | Zensor
3. BeauSoliel avec Michael Doucet | Roulez et Tournez | Alligator Purse | Yep Roc
4. Paul Benoit | Arrow | Lost Days Long Nights | Zehadiah
5. Sierra Ferrell | The Sea | Long Time Coming | Rounder
6. Rob Lutes | Work Of Art | Come Around | Lucky Bear
7. Lydia Luce | Something To Say | Dark River |
8. This Frontier Needs Heroes | Weak | Go With the Flow |
9. Mary Lou Fulton | Come Along | We’ll Tell Stories | Infinidad
10. Gordonville U.S.A. | US In the U.S. | US In the U.S. |
11. Cosy Sheridan | It’s Gonna Get Better | A Beautiful Sound | Cosyng
12. Reggie Harris | It’s Who We Are | On Solid Ground |
13. Nathan Bell | Angola Prison | Red, White and American Blues (It Couldn’t Happen Here) | Need To Know
14. Nathan Bell | When You’re Dead | Red, White and American Blues (It Couldn’t Happen Here) | Need To Know
15. Nathan Bell | A Lucky Man [with Patty Griffin] | Red, White and American Blues (It Couldn’t Happen Here) | Need To Know
16. Sarah Jarosz | Interlude 1 | Blue Heron Suite | Rounder
October 10
1. Andy Cohen | Seldom Seen Slim | Road Be Kind | Earwig
2. Joan Crane | Foothills | Foothills |
3. Andy Cohen | More Wood | Road Be Kind | Earwig
4. Joan Crane | Doc’s Guitar | Foothills |
5. Andy Cohen | Cairo Blues | Built Right On the Ground | Earwig
6. Ray Lambiase | The Road Ahead | The Road Ahead | Raytone
7. Anne D. | Empty | Two Words |
8. Tas Cru | Turn On the Light | Broke Down Busted Up | Subcat
9. Margaret McDuffie | Twenty Feet Of Muddy Water | Dreamers Of Atlantis |
10. Mark Dvorak | This Train Ain’t Bound For Glory | Let Love Go On | Ten Fingers
11. Efrat | Which Side Are You On? | We Just Need Love |
12. Paul Kaplan | Little Boxes (2020) | We Shall Stay Here | Old Coat
13. Cosy Sheridan | Ramblin’ Round | A Beautiful Sound | Cosyng
14. Quartette | The Circle | [self-titled] |
15. Quartette | Who’s Foolin’ Who | Down At the Fair |
16. Quartette | Wilderness | Rocks and Roses |
17. Quartette | No Place Like Home | Work Of the Heart |
18. Shane Cook & the Woodchippers | The Cottonwoods | Be Here For a While |
October 3
1. Si Kahn | Just a Lie | Been a Long Time | Sliced Bread
2. Si Kahn | Grandma | Been a Long Time | Sliced Bread
3. Si Kahn | Hear That Sound | Been a Long Time | Sliced Bread
4. Jesse Palidofsky | One Candle | Our Better Angels | Azalea City
5. Erin Ash Sullivan | Ducks In a Row | We Can Hear Each Other | Willoughby
6. Tom Bocci | Speaking Mumbo Jumbo | Connections | El Dorado
7. Joy Zimmerman | Beware the Short Story | The Canvas Before Us |
8. Ron Israel | Hope | These Times |
9. Karine Polwart & Dave Milligan | Heaven’s Hound | Still As Your Sleeping | Hudson
10. Watchhouse [Andrew Marlin, Emily Frantz] | Upside Down | [self-titled] | Thirty Tigers
11. Sofia Talvik & Stiko Per Larson | Take Me Home | [single] |
12. Andrea von Kampen | Water Flowing Downward | That Spell | Fantasy
13. John Hurlbut & Jorma Kaukonen | Knocking On Heaven’s Door | The River Flows Vol. 2 | Culture Factory
14. John Hurlbut & Jorma Kaukonen | Seems Like a Long Time | The River Flows Vol. 2 | Culture Factory
15. John Hurlbut & Jorma Kaukonen | All Along the Watchtower | The River Flows Vol. 2 | Culture Factory
September 26
1. Bruce T. Carroll | Nobody Knows | First Bird To Sing |
2. Rigby Summer | Rear View Mirror | Geography |
3. Gord Tentrees | Twice As Nice | Mean Old World | Buckaroo
4. Sierra Ferrell | Jeremiah | Long Time Coming | Rounder
5. Doc Carter | Sunshine | High Tide For Low Times | Blowing Sand
6. Laney Lou and the Bird Dogs | Up For Air | Through the Smoke |
7. Ana Egge | Lie Lie Lie | Between Us | StorySound
8. Rod Picott | Sinner’s Prayer | Wood, Steel, Dust and Dreams | Welding Rod
9. Kristine St-Pierre | La Refuguie | Call Me Crazy |
10. Malcolm Holcombe | Tricks Of the Trade | Tricks Of the Trade | Need To Know
11. Adia Victoria | Magnolia Blues | A Southern Gothic | Atlantic
12. Nathan Bell | American Gun [with Patty Griffin] | Red White and American Blues (It Couldn’t Happen Here) |
13. Eliza Gilkyson | Easy Rider | Lost and Found | Red House
14. Eliza Gilkyson | Slouching Towards Bethlehem | Roses At the End Of Time | Red House
15. Anne Harris | Maxwell Street | Roots | Rugged Road
September 19
1. Garrett Wieland | Resolutions | What Keeps the Heart Afloat |
2. Andrea von Kampen | The Wait | That Spell | Fantasy/Concord
3. John R. Miller | Borrowed Time | Depreciated | Rounder
4. Lula Wiles [Eleanor Buckland, Mali Obomsawin, Isa Burke] | Wake Up | Shame and Sedition | Smithsonian Folkways
5. Samantha Crain | Pastime | A Small Death | Rainsem/Thirty Tigers
6. Yola | If I Had To Do It All Again | Diamond Studded Shoes | Easy Eye Sound/Concord
7. Leela Gilday | We Are Here | North Star Calling |
8. Laura Love | Bayou | Uppity | Octoroon Biography
9. Trevor Tchir | Starting Clean | Sun & Moon |
10. Rigby Summer | Hold On | Geography |
11. Gordie Tentrees | Train Is Gone | Mean Old World | Buckaroo
12. Elly Wininger | Let That Liar Alone | The Blues Never End | Earwig
13. John McCutcheon | Medicine Game | Bucket List | Appalsongs
14. John McCutcheon | The Other | Bucket List | Appalsongs
15. John McCutcheon | Be Still | Bucket List | Appalsongs
16. Brad Kolodner | Ants In the Honey Jar | Chimney Swifts |
September 12
1. Los Lobos | Native Son | Native Sons | New West
2. Lili Añel | Family Affair | Better Days (remastered) |
3. Colin Hay | Many Rivers To Cross | I Don’t Know What To Do With Myself | Compass
4. Kate Taylor | Don’t Knock | Why Wait! | Red House
5. Alisa Amador | Timing | Narratives [EP] |
6. Kate Howard | Notes From a Friend [with Pat Byrne] | The Best Medicine |
7. Sloan Wainwright | Bright Side Of a Rainy Day | Bright Side Of a Rainy Day |
8. Tracy Walton | Soul Survivor [with Julia Autumn Ford] | Small Town America |
9. Charlie Parr | Anaconda | Last Of the Better Days | Smithsonian Folkways
10. Valerie Smith | A Dollar Looked Mighty Good | Renaissance | Bell Buckle
11. Malcolm Holcombe | Higher Ground | Tricks Of the Trade | Need To Know
12. Karan Casey | When Will We All Be Free | Chasing the Sun | Shanachie
13. Solas | Ghost Of Tom Joad [Karan Casey, vocal] | The Turning Tide | Compass
14. Solas | Pasture Of Plenty [Karan Casey, vocal] | The Words That Remain | Shanachie
15. Karan Casey | Ballad Of Accounting | Songlines | Shanachie
September 5
1. Sturgill Simpson | Ol Dood (Part 1) | The Ballad Of Dood & Juanita | High Top Mountain
2. Sturgill Simpson | One In the Saddle, One On the Ground | The Ballad Of Dood & Juanita | High Top Mountain
3. Sturgill Simpson | Shamrock | The Ballad Of Dood & Juanita | High Top Mountain
4. Watchhouse [Andrew Marlin, Emily Frantz] | Belly Of the Beast | [self-titled] | Thirty Tigers
5. Wandering Hearts | Change For the Good | Wild Silence | Decca
6. Ida Mae [Chris Turpin, Stephanie Jean] | Heartworn Traders | Click Click Domino | Vow Road
7. Laney Lou and the Bird Dogs | Paradise | Through the Smoke |
8. Linda McRae | The L&N [Don’t Stop Here Anymore] | Fifty Shades Of Red | Borealis
9. Slaid Cleaves | Welding Burns | Still Fighting the War | Music Road
10. Maria Dunn | Troublemaker | We Were Good People |
11. Jon Brooks & the Outskirts Of Approval | What’s Within Us | Moth Nor Rust II | Fallen Tree
12. Eilen Jewell | Rich Man’s World | Letters From Sinners and Strangers | Signature Sounds |
13. Gordon Lightfoot | Sit Down Young Stranger | Sit Down Young Stranger | Reprise
14. Gordon Lightfoot | The Way I Feel | Lightfoot | UA
15. Corner House | Woolwich | Caribou Party [EP] |
August 29
1. David Lafleche | Lonely Fire | Everyday Son |
2. David Lafleche | Better Run [with Marie-Mai Bouchard] | Everyday Son |
3. David Lafleche | Oklahoma Rain | Everyday Son |
4. Andy & Judy [Daigle] | Like a Tree | Let Us Sing |
5. David Potts-Dupre | Harmony | Vladimir & Irene |
6. Joy Zimmerman | Mosaic | The Canvas Before Us |
7. Steve Erikson | It Would Have Been You | [single] |
8. Kalinec & KJ | Let’s Get Away | Let’s Get Away |
9. Leah Blevins | Little Bird | First Time Feeling | Crabtree
10. Charley Crockett | I Won’t Cry | Music City USA | Sony Of Davy
11. Leah Blevins | Magnolias | First Time Feeling | Crabtree
12. Charley Crockett | Round This World | Music City USA | Son Of Davy
13. Odetta | If I Had a Hammer | Best Of the Vanguard Years | Vanguard
14. Odetta | Midnight Special | Best Of the Vanguard Years | Vanguard
15. Odetta | Pastures Of Plenty | Sings the Ballad For Americans and Other American Ballads | Vanguard
16. Odetta | Down On Me | Best Of the Vanguard Years | Vanguard
17. Allman Brothers Band | Revival | Idlewild South | Atco
August 22
1. Yola | Be My Friend | Stand For Myself | Easy Eye Sound/Concord
2. Yola | Stand For Myself | Stand For Myself | Easy Eye Sound/Concord
3. Ina May Wool | Out Past Yesterday | Rewrite the Ending |
4. Dave Richardson | Garden House | Palms To Pines |
5. Trevor Tchir | Patech Of Green | Sun & Moon |
6. Kalinec & KJ | Where Do Old Lovers Go | Let’s Get Away | Berkalin
7. Rob Lutes | Knives | Come Around | Lucky Bear
8. Kelly’s Lot | Heaven | Where and When | Blind Raccoon
9. Jon Shain & FJ Ventre | Never Found a Way To Tame the Blues | Never Found a Way To Tame the Blues | Flyin’
10. Colin Hay | Waterloo Sunset | I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself | Compass
11. Kate Taylor | Crystal Blue Persuasion | Why Wait! | Red House/Compass
12. Los Lobos | Sail On, Sailor | Native Sons | New West
13. Richard Thompson | Gethsemane | The Old Kit Bag | spinArt
14. Richard Thompson | Hand Of Kindness | Hand Of Kindness | Hannibal
15. Andy Cohen | Planxty: Miss Joanne Swanson | Tryin’ To Get Home | Earwig
August 15
1. Charlie Parr | Walking Back From Willmar | Last Of the Better Days Ahead | Smithsonian Folkways
2. Charlie Parr | 817 Oakland Avenue | Last Of the Better Days Ahead | Smithsonian Folkways
3. Rod Picott | River Runs | Wood, Steel, Dust and Dreams | Welding Rod
4. Leah Blevins | Beautiful Disaster | First Time Feeling | Thirty Tigers/Crabtree
5. David Lafleche | We Collided | Everyday Son |
6. Allison Russell | Montreal | Outside Child | Fantasy
7. Hanna Enlöf | Sifted Like Chaff | BareBones | Manus
8. Katherine Priddy | About Rosie | The Eternal Rocks Beneath | Navigator
9. Valerie June | Why the Bright Stars Glow | The Moon and Stars : Prescriptions For Dreamers | Fantasy
10. Catherine MacLellan | Coyote | Coyote |
11. Malcolm Holcombe | Into the Sunlight | Tricks Of the Trade | Need To Know
12. Malcolm Holcombe | Money Train | Tricks Of the Trade | Need To Know
13. Lucinda Williams | Stand Right By Each Other | Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone | Highway 20
14. Lucinda Williams | God Don’t Never Change | God Don’t Never Change : the Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson [compilation] | Alligator
15. Ed Sweeney & Yang Wei | Please Stay With Me Friend From Far Away | What Lies Ahead | Trespass Music
August 8
1. Peggy Seeger | Lullabies For Strangers | First Farewell | Red Grape
2. Peggy Seeger | All In the Mind [with Colum MacColl] | First Farewell | Red Grape
3. Laney Lou and the Bird Dogs | Feed the Beast | Through the Smoke |
4. Jared Rabin | Most Any Daimond | Cold Rain and Snow | Golden Twine
5. Jesse Brock | Too Much Life To Let Fall Down [Greg Blake, lead vocal] | Streamliner |
6. Miles Gannett | Give and Take | Meridian |
7. Anya Hinkle | That’s How Every Empire Falls | Eden and Her Borderlands |
8. Ida Mae [Chris Turpin, Stephanie Jean] | Raining For You | Raining For You [EP] | Thirty Tigers
9. Rachel Sermanni | Swallow Me | Swallow Me [EP] |
10. Ira Wolf | Great Divide | The Closest Thing To Home |
11. Justin Rutledge | Weight Of the World | Passage | Outside Music
12. Rachel Garlin | The State That We Are In | The State That We Are In [EP] |
13. James McMurtry | Canola Fields | The Horses and the Hounds | New West/ Short Trip
14. James McMurtry | If It Don’t Bleed | The Horses and the Hounds | New West/Short Trip
15. James McMurtry | Too Long In the Wasteland | Too Long In the Wasteland | Columbia
16. Jared Rabin | Whiskey For Breakfast | Cold Rain and Snow | Golden Twine
August 1
1. Jackson Browne | Still Looking For Something | Downhill From Everywhere | Inside Recordings
2. Jackson Browne | A Little Soon To Say | Downhill From Everywhere | Inside Recordings
3. Michael Gay | Enjoy the Ride | Make It Right | Roadside Pie
4. Kate Howard | Down the Road | The Best Medicine |
5. Marc Black | Path Of Love | Everybody Wants My Hat | Suma
6. Mandy Rowden | Peace Where I Used To Have None | Parachute | Howling Dog
7. Murray McLauchlan | Hourglass | Hourglass | True North
8. Murray McLauchlan | The One Percent | Hourglass | True North
9. Bob Dylan | Man Of Constant Sorrow | [self-titled] | Columbia
10. Carolyn Hester | She Moves Through the Fair | [self-titled] | Tradition
11. Odetta | Bull Jine Run | It’s a Mighty World | RCA Victor
12. Dan Van Ronk | Motherless Children | Folksinger | Prestige Folklore
13. Joan Baez | Silver Dagger | [self-titled] | Vanguard
14. Barbara Dane | Little Maggie | When I Was a Young Girl | Horizon
15. Vince Martin & Fred Neil | Lonesome Valley | Tear Down the Walls | Elektra
16. Judy Collins | Tim Evans | A Maid Of Constant Sorrow | Elektra
17. Ian & Sylvia | Long Lonesome Road | Four Strong Winds | Vanguard
18. Bill Monroe & Kenny Baker | Jerusalem Ridge | High Lonesome : The Story of Bluegrass Music | CMH Records
July 25
1. Jesse Palidofsky | Last One Standing | Our Better Angels | Azalea City
2. Jesse Palidofsky | Angels All Around | Our Better Angels | Azalea City
3. Cliff Eberhardt | The Things I Left Behind | Knew Things |
4. Kelly’s Lot | Stronger | Where and When |
5. Jon Shain & FJ Ventre | Lord Have Mercy | Never Found a Way To Tame the Blues | Flyin’
6. Andrew D. Huber | Better Days Ahead | Chasing Time | North Light
7. Carolyn Shulman | Across the Borderline | Grenadine & Kerosene |
8. Christopher Mark Jones | Slippin’ | Looking For the Light |
9. Brigitte DeMeyer | Seeker | Seeker |
10. Ellis Paul | If I Only Had a Brain | Traveling Medicine Show Vol. 1 | Rosella
11. Johnsmith | This Land Is Your Land | [single] |
12. Tom Prasado-Rao | For What It’s Worth | [single] |
13. Ani DiFranco | Revolutionary Love | Revolutionary Love | Righteous Babe
14. Frank Evans & Ben Plotnick | Riverside Marshes | Madison Archives |
July 18
1. Katherine Priddy | Indigo | The Eternal Rocks Beneath | Navigator
2. Katherine Priddy | Wolf | The Eternal Rocks Beneath | Navigator
3. Kalinec & KJ | I Don’t Know | Let’s Get Away | Berkalin
4. Michelle and Jason Hannan | Everything I’ve Got’s In Tennessee | Cheater’s Waltz |
5. Andy & Judy [Daigle] The Well’s Run Dry | Let Us Sing |
6. Cornbread & Tortillas [Carla Gover] | Home | [single] |
7. Diana Jones | Ask a Woman | Song To a Refugee | Goldmine
8. Diana Jones | The Sea Is My Mother | Song To a Refugee | Goldmine
9. Chris Ronald | City Girl | Light & Dark | Borealis
10. Lisa Bastoni | Hidden In the Song | Backyard Birds |
11. Rob Kneisler | Waiting For My Ship | Lift Me Up | Beserk Lion
12. Anne Harris | Waves [with Otis Taylor] | Come Hither |
13. Anne Harris | Come Hither [with Chuck Campbell] | Come Hither |
14. Anne Harris | Over [with Markus James] | [single] |
15. Family | 93s OK J | A Song For Me | Reprise
July 11
1. Tim LaBorie | Living In the Woods | Just Where You Are | Interstellar
2. Erin Ash Sullivan | Wind Around You | We Can Hear Each Other |
3. Craig Cardiff | Decorated | All This Time Running | True North
4. Lisa Bastoni | If Not Today | Backyard Birds |
5. Jaspar LePak | The Road Fades | Desert Ghosts |
6. Mark Rubin | My Resting Place | The Triumph Of Assimilation | Rubinchik
7. Wren | The Sun Is Going Down | Pink Stones : Songs From Moose Lodge | Swimming Rabbit
8. Michael J. Miles | When Things Go wrong [with Jackie Allen] | New Century Suite | Right Turn On Red
9. Murray McLauchlan | Pandemic Blues | Hourglass | True North
10. Maria Dunn | Joyful Banner Blazing | Joyful Banner Blazing | Outside Music
11. Jon Shain & FJ Ventre | Keep Your Head Above the Water [with Rissi Palmer] | Never Found a Way To Tame the Blues | Flyin’
12. Diana Jones | I Wait For You [with Richard Thompson] | Song To a Refugee | Goldmine
13. Fairport Convention | Bring ‘Em Down [Trevor Lucas, vocal] | Nine | A&M
14. Sandy Denny | One More Chance | I’ve Always Kept a Unicorn | Island
15. Family | Burning Your Bridges [Roger Chapman, vocal] | Fearless | UA
July 4
1. Shannon McNally | Memory Of a Ghost | Western Ballad | Sacred Sumac
2. David Olney | Little Bit Of Poison | Through a Glass Darkly | Philo
3. Emmylou Harris | Kern River | All I Intended To Be | Nonesuch
4. Guy Clark | Come From the Heart | Old Friends | Sugar Hill
5. Mavis Staples | This Little Light Of Mine | We’ll Never Turn Back | Anti-
6. Emmylou Harris | The Pearl | Red Dirt Girl | Nonesuch
7. Guy Clark | Indian Head Penny | Cold Dog Soup | Sugar Hill
8. Shannon McNally | Banshee Moan | Black Irish | Compass
9. David Olney | Speak Memory | Migration | Loudhouse
10. Mavis Staples | Your Good Fortune | Your Good Fortune [EP] | Anti-
11. David Olney | Lay Down Your Kingdom | Through a Glass Darkly | Philo
12. Mavis Staples | Eyes On the Prize | We’ll Never Turn Back | Anti-
13. Shannon McNally | I Ain’t Living Long Like This | The Waylon Sessions | Compass
14. Emmylou Harris | Deeper Well | Wrecking Ball | Nonesuch
15. Guy Clark | Mud | The Dark | Sugar Hill
June 27
1. Kelly’s Lot [Kelly Zirbes, Perry Robertson, Doug Pettibone] | Somebody In My Home | Where and When |
2. Kelly’s Lot [Kelly Zirbes, Perry Robertson, Doug Pettibone] | Nature | Where and When |
3. Dan Cunningham | Deep River Blues | Simple Gifts |
4. Frank Evans & Ben Plotnick | Golden Slippers | Madison Archives |
5. Mark Schatz & Bryan McDowell | Muskrat | Grit & Polish | Patuxent
6. Adeline | Evening Prayer Blues | [self-titled] | Owl
7. J.P. Harris’ Dreadful Wind and Rain | Country Blues | Don’t You Marry the Railroad Man | Free Dirt
8. The Reverend Shawn Amos | Baby Please Don’t Go [with Chris “Doctor” Roberts] | The Cause Of It All | Blind Raccoon/Put Together Music
9. The Reverend Shawn Amos | Color and Kind [with Chris “Doctor” Roberts] | The Cause Of It All | Blind Raccoon/Put Together Music
10. Rosanne Cash | Motherless Children | The List | Manhattan
11. Valerie June | Trials, Troubles, Tribulations | Pushin’ Against a Stone | Concord
12. Patty Griffin | House Of Gold | Downtown Church | Credential
13. Rhiannon Giddens | Shake Sugaree | Tomorrow Is My Turn | Nonesuch
14. The Third Mind | Morning Dew [vocal, Jesse Sykes] | [self-titled] | Yep Roc
15. Sinikka Langeland | Poldanse From Finnskogen | Wolf Rune | ECM
June 20
1. Amy Speace with the Orphan Brigade | Father’s Day | There Used To Be Horses Here | Windbone
2. Amy Speace with the Orphan Brigade | Hallelujah Train | There Used To Be Horses Here | Windbone
3. Jasper LePak | Fever Tree | Desert Ghosts |
4. Dave Richardson | Honey Leaf | Palms To Pines |
5. Sloan Wainwright | Red Maple Tree | Red Maple Tree |
6. Chris Ronald | Pacific Time [with Natalie Ramsay] | Light & Dark | Borealis
7. Chris Ronald | Sunshine | Light & Dark | Borealis
8. Lula Wiles [Eleanor Buckland, Mali Obomsawin, Isa Burke] | Do You Really Want the World To End | Shame and Sedition | Smithsonian Folkways
9. Lula Wiles [Eleanor Buckland, Mali Obomsawin, Isa Burke] | Oh My God | Shame and Sedition | Smithsonian Folkways
10. Tim Grimm | Cadillac Hearse | Gone | Vault
11. Tim Grimm | Laurel Pearl | Gone | Vault
12. Diana Jones | Better Times Will Come | Better Times Will Come | Proper
13. Ana Egge | Ballad Of the Poor Child [with Iris DeMent] | Is It the Kiss | StorySound |
14. Kate Campbell | Visions Of Plenty | The Portable Kate Campbell | Compadre
June 13
1. The Honey Dewdrops [Laura Wortman, Kagey Parrish] | Silver Lining | Silver Lining | Randm
2. The Honey Dewdrops [Laura Wortman, Kagey Parrish] | Ramblin’ Man | Anyone Can See |
3. The Honey Dewdrops [Laura Wortman, Kagey Parrish] | Horses | Tangled Country | Randm
4. Peter Case | This Wheel’s On Fire | Midnight Broadcast | Bandaloop
5. Mandy Rowden | After the Goldrush | Parachute | Howling dog
6. Ellis Paul | Cat’s In the Cradle | …Traveling Medicine Show Vol. 1 | Rosella
7. Kate McDonnell | Long As I Can See the Light | Ballad Of a Bad Girl |
Dog-Eared Discs
8. Lula Wiles [Eleanor Buckland, Mali Obomsawin, Ira Burke] | Television | Shame and Sedition | Smithsonian Folkways
9. Izzy Heltai | The Stranger You’ve Become | Father |
10. The Accidentals [Sav Buist, Katie Larson, Michael Dause] | Might As Well Be Gold | Time Out Session #1 [EP] |
11. Allison Russell | All Of the Women | Outside Child | Fantasy
12. Rachel Baiman | Cycles | Cycles | Signature Sounds
13. Hanna Enlöf | Pale Farewell | BareBones | Manus
14. Grant Maloy Smith | By and By the Way | Appalachia American Stories | Suburban Cowboy
June 6
1. Shannon McNally | Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys | The Waylon Sessions | Compass
2. Shannon McNally | Black Rose | The Waylon Sessions | Compass
3. The Accidentals [Sav Buist, Katie Larson, Michael Dause] | Wildfire | Time Out Session #1 [EP] |
4. Britton Patrick Morgan | Woven | I Wanna Start a Band |
5. Carolyn Shulman | Grenadine & Kerosene | Grenadine & Kerosene |
6. Christopher Mark Jones | Your Healing Grace | Looking For the Light |
7. Rachel Baiman | The Distance | Cycles | Signature Sounds
8. Bob Sima | Good Words, Good Thoughts, Good Deeds | Good Words, Good Thoughts, Good Deeds |
9. Linda Sussman | Join Hands | These Walls | Sing Out Proud
10. Len Seligman | True, Helpful and Kind | Our Turn Now | Emerging Light
11. Kate McDonnell | If I Knew | Ballad Of a Bad Girl | Dog-Eared Discs
12. Dennis Warner | Potter’s Wheel | Pilot Me |
13. Mary Gauthier | Prayer Without Words | Mercy Now | Lost Highway
14. Mary Gauthier | Last Of the Hobo Kings | Between Daylight and Dark | Lost Highway
15. Dave Alvin | (Variations On Earl Robinson’s) Guitar Rumba | From an Old Guitar : Rare and Unreleased Recordings | Yep Roc
May 30
1. Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road | Down the Hill | Roots | Trailhead
2. Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno | On Account Of You | [self-titled] |
3. Olivia Ellen Lloyd | High and Lonesome | Loose Cannon |
4. Miles Gannett | Long Burning Bridge | Meridian |
5. Jimbo Mathers & Andrew Bird | Poor Lost Souls | These 13 | Thirty Tigers
6. Brigitte DeMeyer | All the Blue | Seeker |
7. Craig Cardiff | Wrong Place, Wrong Time | All This Time Running | True North
8. Kim Edgar | Baby Steps | Held |
9. Luke Concannon | The Hummingbird (Kieran’s Jig) | Ecstatic Birds In the Burning | The Movement
10. Hanna Enlöf | Tick Tick Tock | BareBones | Manus
11. John Smith | Friends | The Fray | Commoner/Thirty Tigers
12. Catherine MacLellan | The Tempest | Coyote |
13. Shannon McNally | Out Among the Stars | The Waylon Sessions | Compass
14. Elton John | Madman Across the Water | Madman Across the Water | UNI
15. Elton John | The King Must Die | [self-titled] | UNI
16. Nightnoise | Mind the Dresser | A Different Shore | Windham Hill
May 23
1. Leela Gilday | Hard Ground | North Star Calling | Diva Sound
2. Crys Matthews | For the Women With Steel In Their Bones | Changemakers |
3. Leela Gilday | K’eintah Natse Ju | North Star Calling | Diva Sound
4. Crys Matthews | Hope Revolution | Changemakers |
5. Donna Adler | We Will Meet Again | Remebering Butterflies |
6. Dan Cunningham | Smile | Simple Gifts |
7. Linda Sussman | Cocoon | These Walls |
8. Rod MacDonald | Train I’m On | Boulevard | Blue Flute
9. Craig Cardiff | All This Time Running | All This Time Running | True North
10. Amy Speace with the Orphan Brigade | One Year | There Used To Be Horses Here |
11. Cliff Eberhardt | Make Sure That It’s Real | Knew Things |
12. Sloan Wainwright | We Are the People | Red Maple Tree |
13. Jack Cade | It Ain’t Easy | The Death Throes Of a Jaded Empire |
14. Cat Stevens | Where Do the Children Play? | Tea For the Tillerman | A&M
15. Cat Stevens | Ruins | Catch Bull At Four | A&M
16. Bourne & MacLeod | Riding Mountain/Hare O’ the Dug | Dance & Celebrate | Attic World
May 16
1. Langhorn Slim | Something Higher | Strawberry Mansion | Dualtone
2. Rachel Baiman | Ships In the Night | Cycles | Signature Sounds
3. John Smith | To the Shore | The Fray | Commoner/Thirty Tigers
4. Miles Gannet | The Lucky Ones | Meridian |
5. Sloan Wainwright | When I Have Nothing | Red Maple Tree |
6. Justin Farren | A Little Less Time | Pretty Free |
7. Anna Elizabeth Laube | Please Let It Rain In California Tonight | Annamania |
8. Dave Richardson | Keep Tryin’ | Palms To Pines |
9. Carolyn Shulman | The Other Side | Grenadine & Kerosene |
10. Christopher Mark Jones | Call Back Your Soldiers | Looking For the Light |
11. Kate McDonnell | Pilgrim | Ballad Of a Bad Girl | Dog Eared Discs
12. Clive Gregson | The World Is a Beautiful Place | Poorville |
13. Grant Maloy Smith | Sometimes You’re the Holler | Appalachia American Stories | Suburban Cowboy
14. Grant Maloy Smith | The Red-Haired Girl From Hazard | Appalachia American Stories | Suburban Cowboy
15. Grant Maloy Smith | The Coal Comes Up | Appalachia American Stories | Suburban Cowboy
16. Langhorn Slim | Strawberry Mansion | Strawberry Mansion | Dualtone
May 9
1. Anna Elizabeth Laube | Jardim da Estrela | Annamania |
2. Anna Elizabeth Laube | Already There | Annamania |
3. Dan Cunningham | Breeze At Eventide | Simple Gifts |
4. Glenn D. Metzger | Tipping Point | Cumberland Wind | Loose Gravel
5. Georgie Jessup | Green Man | My Work Here Ain’t Yet Done | Winkte
6. Donna Adler | A Delicate Balance | Remembering Butterflies |
7. Chris Wilhelm | I’m Still Praying For a Miracle | This Too Shall Pass |
8. Linda Sussman | Pass It On Down | Pass It On Down |
9. Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno | Will You | [self-titled] |
10. Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno | Red Hen | [self-titled] |
11. Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno | Good and Gone | [self-titled] |
12. Kim Edgar | Lower | Held |
13. John Smith | Deserving | The Fray | Commoner/Thirty Tigers
14. Emily Barker | Geography | A Dark Murmuration Of Words |
15. Seamus Egan | Welcome To Orwell | Early Bright |
May 2
1. Tim Grimm | 25 Trees | Gone | Vault
2. Tim Grimm | Gone | Gone | Vault
3. Amy Speace with the Orphan Brigade | River Rise | There Used To Be Horses Here | Windbone
4. Amy Speace with the Orphan Brigade | There Used To Be Horses Here | There Used To Be Horses Here | Windbone
5. Andy Cohen | Bad Dream Blues | Tryin’ To Get Home | Earwig
6. Andy Cohen | Reverend Gary Rag | Tryin’ To Get Home | Earwig
7. Andy Cohen | One Monkey Don’t Stop the Show | Tryin’ To Get Home | Earwig
8. Peggy Seeger | The Invisible Woman | First Farewell | Red Grape
9. Peggy Seeger | We Are Here [with Colum MacColl] | First Farewell | Red Grape
10. Noel Paul Stookey | In These Times | Just Causes | Neworld Multimedia
11. Noel Paul Stookey | Revolution (One By One) | Just Causes | Neworld Multimedia
12. Sue Jeffers | Song For the Wage Slave | Up With the Masses | FBI Records
13. Sue Jeffers | The Last Word | Up With the Masses | FBI Records
14. Reggie Harris | My Working Bones | On Solid Ground |
15. Reggie Harris | Rise Up/March On | On Solid Ground |
April 25
1. Jimbo Mathus and Andrew Bird | Sweet Oblivion | These 13 | Thirty Tigers
2. Jimbo Mathus and Andrew Bird | Encircle My Love | These 13 | Thirty Tigers
3. Jasper Lepak | Ever Gonna Fly | Desert Ghosts |
4. Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road | That’s the Way the World Works Son | Roots | Trailhead
5. Vivian Leva & Riley Calcagno | You Don’t See Me | [self-titled] |
6. Jake Blount | Boll Weevil | Spider Tales | Free Dirt
7. Friction Farm [Aidan Quinn, Christine Stay] | Rosalinda | Evidence Of Hope |
8. Bob Wright | Daddy’s Alamo | Gingerbread Whiskerchin |
9. Tret Fure | Old Tin Cup | Stone By Stone |
10. Rod MacDonald | The King | Boulevard | Blue Flute
11. Laura Smith | On the Road To Glory [with Dave Gunning] | As Long As I’m Dreaming | Borealis
12. Reggis Harris | On Solid Ground | On Solid Ground |
13. Peggy Seeger | How I Long For Peace | First Farewell | Red Grape
14, Crys Matthews | Call Them In | Changemakers |
15. Jake Blount | Beyond This Wall | Spider Tales | Free Dirt
April 18
1. Ron Sexsmith | Gold In Them Hills | Cobblestone Runway | Ronboy
2. Kristine St-Pierre | Break In the Sky | [single] |
3. Jessica Pearson & the East Wind | Think Of Me | Grave and Garden Songs [EP] | Willow Sound
4. Kate Weekes | Great Expectations [with James Stephens] | Taken By Suprise |
5. Leela Gilday | Falling Stars | North Star Calling | Diva Sound
6. Will Sexton | Don’t Walk the Darkness (Through the Day) | Don’t Walk the Darkness | Big Legal Mess
7. Sarah Siskind | A Little Bit Troubled | Modern Appalachia | Red Request
8. Curtis McMurtry | Toothless Messiah | Toothless Messiah |
9. Janet Simpson | Wrecked | Safe Distance | Cornelius Chapel
10. Lynn Miles | Three Chords and the Truth | Fall For Beauty | True North
11. James Keelaghan | My Skies | My Skies | Tranquilla
12. Lynn Miles | Main St. | We’ll Look For Stars |
13. James Keelaghan | House Of Cards | House Of Cards | Borealis
14. Lynn Miles | Little Bird | Fall For Beauty | True North
15. James Keelaghan | Cold Missouri Waters | A Recent Future | Tranquilla
16. Curtis McMurtry | Saltwood | Toothless Messiah |
April 11
1. Langhorne Slim | High-Class | Strawberry Mansion | Dualtone
2. Zoe Fitzgerald Carter | These Words | Waterlines |
3. Andrew Lorand | Running Scared | Potsticker Rodeo | Trough
4. Susan Ellenton | Wide Open | Learning To Listen |
5. Jeremy Ivey | Movies | Waiting Out the Storm |
6. Ward Davis | Black Cats and Crows | Black Cats and Crows |
7. Brigitte DeMeyer | Wishbone | Seeker |
8. Will Sexton | Fell In Straight View | Don’t Walk the Darkness | Big Legal Mess
9. Karen Jonas | Maybe You’d Hear Me Then | The Southwest Sky and Other Dreams |
10. Will Hoge | Even the River Runs Out Of This Town | Tiny Little Movies | Thirty Tiger
11. Sarah Siskind | Rest In the River | Modern Appalachia | Red Request
12. Chris Pierce | The Bridge Of John | American Silence |
13. Maria Dunn | Beautiful Fools | Joyful Banner Blazing | Outside Music
14. Marcus King | No Pain | El Dorado | Fantasy/Concord
15. Crys Matthews | Exactly Where You Are | Changemakers |
April 4
1. Randy Casey | Deep End | Record Time |
2. Randy Casey | That Train | Record Time |
3. Georgie Jessup | This Old Body (Has Carried Me) | My Work Here Ain’t Yet Done | Winkte
4. Dave Rudolf | The Ebb & Flow | The Ebb & Flow | Moneytree
5. The Squirrel Hillbillies [Gary Crouth, Jenny Wolsk] | On the Loose |
6. Jeff and Teresa Davidsmeyer | Hold On To Faith | Songs From the Cabin |
7. Rich Krueger | Love Is Gonna Break the Fall | The Troth Sessions |
8. Lisa Jeanette | Sky Don’t Fall | Jellyfish On the Moon |
9. Terry Kitchen | She Never Looks Out the Window | Lost Songs | Urban Campfire
10. Jaime Michaels | In My Home | [single] |
11. Lizanne Knott | This Old World | [single] |
12. Cliff Eberhardt | Because We Need You Now | Knew Things | Tin Pan Alley
13. Ellis Paul | Angel From Montgomery | Traveling Medicine Show Vol. 1 | Rosella
14. Peter Case | Early Roman Kings | Midnight Broadcast | Bandaloop
15. Loretta Lynn | I Saw the Light | Still Woman Enough | Legacy
16. Loretta Lynn | I Don’t Feel At Home Anymore | Still Woman Enough | Legacy
17. Loretta Lynn | Keep On the Sunny Side | Still Woman Enough | Legacy
18. Randy Casey | Graceland Kiss | Record Time |
March 28
1. Friction Farm [Aidan Quinn, Christine Stay] | Scarecrows | Evidence Of Hope |
2. Friction Farm [Aidan Quinn, Christine Stay] | Work | Evidence Of Hope |
3. This Frontier Needs Heroes [Brad Lauretti] | When the Muse Comes | Go With the Flow |
4. Zoe Fitzgerald Carter | Like a Dream | Waterline |
5. John Shipe | Cozmic Repo Blues | The Beast Is Back | Involushin
6. Karen Bella | San Andreas | [self-titled] [EP] |
7. Garrett Owen | These Modern Times | Quiet Lives |
8. Olivia Ellen Lloyd | River Run | Loose Cannon |
9. Erin Ivey | Jealousy | Solace In the Wild |
10. Janet Simpson | Ain’t Nobody Lookin’ | Safe Distance | Cornelius Chapel
11. Megan Lacy | Salvation | Salvation [EP] |
12. Catherine MacLellan | The Road Is Divided | Coyote |
13. The War and Treaty [Michael Trotter, Jr., Tanya Blount-Trotter] | Take Me In | Hearts Town |
14. The War and Treaty [Michael Trotter, Jr., Tanya Blount-Trotter] | Jubilee | Hearts Town |
15. Kim Edgar | Held | Held |
March 21
1. Terry Kitchen | Walk Around the Block | Lost Songs | Urban Campfire
2. Lisa Jeanette | Top Of the Ferris Wheel | Jellyfish On the Moon |
3. Jeff and Teresa Davidsmeyer | As the Sun Goes Down | Songs From the Cabin |
4. The Staves | Next Year, Next Time | Good Woman | Nonesuch/Atlantic
5. Rupert Wates | Many Miles To Morning | Lamentations |
6. Wren | Come Back River | Pink Stone : Songs From Moose Lodge |
7. Crys Matthews | This Kind Of War | Changemakers |
8. Sunny War | Got No Ride | Shell Of a Girl |
9. Kyshona Armstrong | My Own Grave | Listen |
10. Emily Barker | Machine | A Dark Murmuration Of Words |
11. Jeffrey Foucault | Geese Fly By |Deadstock | Blueblade
12. Megan Lacy | Don’t Rest | Salvation [EP] |
13. Jeffrey Foucault | Ghost Repeater | Deadstock | Blueblade
14. Megan Lacy | Carolina | Salvation [EP] |
March 14
1. Maria Dunn | Heart In Hand | Joyful Banner Blazing |
2. Jez Lowe | Farmer Sun | Crazy Pagan |
3. Karen Matheson | The Glory Demon | Still Time | Compass/Vertical
4. Padraig Jack | Fighting Irish | Making Sand | Good Deeds
5. Kim Edgar | Powerless | Held |
6. Ben Harper and the Blind Boys Of Alabama | Well, Well, Well | There Will Be a Light | EMI/Virgin
7. Ben Harper and the Blind Boys Of Alabama | Satisfied Mind | There Will Be a Light | EMI/Virgin
8. Ben Harper and the Blind Boys Of Alabama | There Will Be a Light | There Will Be a Light | EMI/Virgin
9. Will Kimbrough | All Fall Down | Spring Break |
10. Karen Jonas | Better Days | The Southwest Sky and Other Dreams |
11. Will Sexton | The Whole Story | Don’t Walk the Darkness | Big Legal Mess
12. Jimmy MacCarthy | No Frontiers | The Song Of the Singing Horseman | Mulligan
13. Mary Coughlan | Double Cross | Tired and Emotional | Mystery
14. Noel Brazil | Straight As a Die | The Land Of Love | Dara
15. Mary Black | Columbus | No Frontiers | Gifthorse
March 7
1. William Prince | When He Cometh | Gospel First Nation | Six Shooter
2. William Prince | Send the Light | Gospel First Nation | Six Shooter
3. Jasper Lepak | Chasing Ground | Desert Ghosts |
4. The Squirrel Hillbillies [Gary Crouth, Jenny Wolsk] | Old Dry Bones | On the Loose |
5. Lizzy Plotkin & Natalie Spears | Tennessee | Just Over the Ridge [EP] |
6. Rupert Wates | Waiting For a Friend | Lamentations | Bite
7. Amy Speace | Icicle King | Me and the Ghost Of Charlemagne |
8. Michael Fracasso | Laughing Boy | Big Top | Lucky Hound
9. Lisa Bastoni | Silver Line | How We Want To Live | Sweet Ondine
10. Mercury Rev | Okolona River Bottom Band [Norah Jones, vocal] | Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisted | Partisan/Knitting Factory
11. Mercury Rev | Big Boss Man [Hope Sandoval, vocal] | Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisted | Partisan/Knitting Factory
12. Mercury Rev | Parchman Farm [Carice van Houten, vocal] | Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisted | Partisan/Knitting Factory
13. Mercury Rev | Sermon [Margo Price, vocal] | Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete Revisted | Partisan/Knitting Factory
14. Jeffrey Foucault | There’s a Destructiuon On This Land | Deadstock | Blueblade
15. Michael Fracasso | Natural Selection | Big Top | Lucky Hound
February 28
1. Andy & Judy [Daigle] | There’s Freedom In Hope | [single] |
2. Emma’s Revolution [Pat Humphries, Sandy O] | Our People Gonna Rise [with Reggie Harris] | [single]
3. Brooklyn Women’s Choir (directed by Bev Grant) | Harriet Tubman | I Will Sing |
4. Rod Abernethy | Birds In the Chimney | Normal Isn’t Normal Anymore | Songs From Downstairs
5. Rod Abernethy | It’s Always Something | Normal Isn’t Normal Anymore | Songs From Downstairs
6. Tiffany Williams | If It Wasn’t [with Jonathan Dean] | I’ll Be Back Soon [EP] |
7. Lizzy Plotkin & Natalie Spears | Carry Me With You | Just Over the Ridge [EP] |
8. Katie Dahl | I Already Knew | [single] |
9. The Magpies | No More Tears | Tidings | Corvus
10. Sam Brookes | Into the Night | Black Feathers |
11. Karen Matheson | Still Time | Still Time | Compass/Vertical
12. Sam Brookes | Granite | Black Feathers |
13. Karen Matheson | Cassiopeia Coming Through | Still Time | Compass/Vertical
14. Kim and Reggie Harris | Do What I Have To Do | Resurrection Day | Appleseed
15. Kim and Reggie Harris | Look ‘Em In the Eye | Resurrection Day | Appleseed
February 21
1. Chris Pierce | Bring the Old Man Home | American Silence |
2. Chris Pierce | American Silence | American Silence |
3. Karen Matheson | Aragon Mill | Still Time | Compass/Vertical
4. Katie Oates | Luray Women | We Go On : Si Kahn’s Songs Of Hope In Hard Times |
5. Jim Stanard | Arkansas | Color Outside the Lines |
6. Jim Stanard | The Opium Wars | Color Outside the Lines |
7. Lizzy Plotkin & Natalie Spears | Seasons Change | Just Over the Ridge [EP] |
8. Braden Gates | Indecision | Kitchen Days | Borealis
9. Mama Said String Band | Good Company | Mariah [EP] | Gold Paint
10. Laura Smith | Jordy | As Long As I’m Dreaming | Borealis
11. Rod Abernethy | Normal Isn’t Normal Anymore | Normal Isn’t Normal Anymore | Songs From Downstairs
12. Laura Smith | Four Letter Word (For Lonesome) | As Long As I’m Dreaming | Borealis
13. Rod Abernethy | My Father Was a Quiet Man | Normal Isn’t Normal Anymore | Songs From Downstairs
14. Laura Smith | The Blues and I | As Long As I’m Dreaming | Borealis
February 14
1. Kyshona Armstrong | Try | Listen |
2. Kyshona Armstrong | Fallen People | Listen |
3. Jessica Smucker | Tumbleweeds | Lucid Stories, Tentative Lies |
4. Jerry Joseph | Bone Towers | The Beautiful Madness |
5. Sarah Siskind | Danny | Modern Appalachia | Red Request
6. Marcus King | Young Man’s Dream | El Dorado | Fantasy/Concord
7. Luke Concannon | Coventry | Estatic Bird In the Burning | The Movement
8. The Staves | Failure | Good Woman | Nonesuch/Atlantic
9. Paidrag Jack | Minnie | Making Sand | Good Deeds
10. Billy Bragg & Wilco | The Jolly Banker | Mermaid Avenue Vol. 3 | Nonesuch
11. Billy Bragg & Wilco | Union Prayer | Mermaid Avenue Vol. 3 | Nonesuch
12. Billy Bragg & Wilco | Blood Of the Lamb | Mermaid Avenue Vol. 2 | Elektra
13. Billy Bragg & Wilco | Aginst Th’ Law [Corey Harris, vocal] | Mermaid Avenue Vol. 2 | Elektra
14. Billy Bragg & Wilco | The Unwelcome Guest | Mermaid Avenue Vol. 1 | Elektra
15. Sally Anne Morgan | Sheep Shaped | Thread | Thrill Jockey
February 7
1. Mipso | Shelter | [self-titled] | Rounder
2. Mipso | Your Body | [self-titled] | Rounder
3. Len Seligman | I Say Yes | Our Turn Now | Emerging Light
4. Katie Oates | When the Morning Breaks | We Go On : Si Kahn’s Songs Of Hope In Hard Times | Hollow Reed Arts
5. Jim Stanard | Color Outside the Lines | Color Outside the Lines |
6. Crowes Pasture [Monique Byrne, Andy Rogovin] | Quarantine | [single] |
7. Erin Ivey | Dust Bowl | Solace In the Wild |
8. Arlo McKinley | Die Midwestern | Die Midwestern | Oh Boy/Thirty Tigers
9. Tiffany Williams | You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive [with Darrell Scott] | I’ll Be Back Soon [EP] |
10. Rod Abernethy | When Tobacco Was King | Normal Isn’t Normal Anymore | Songs From Downstairs
11. Ani DiFranco | Simultaneously | Revolutionary Love | Righteous Babe
12. Samantha Crain | Reunion | A Small Death | Ramseur/Thirty Tigers
13. Becky Warren | Tired Of Sick | The Sick Season |
14. Adia Victoria | Devil Is a Lie | Silences | Atlantic
15. Len Seligman | On the Caravan | Our Turn Now | Emerging Light
January 31
1. Katie Oates | Sail Away | We Go On : Si Kahn’s Songs Of Hope In Hard Times |
2. Katie Oates | By the Side Of the Road | We Go On : Si Kahn’s Songs Of Hope In Hard Times |
3. Justin Farren | Fixer Upper | Pretty Free |
4. Erin Ivey | Honest Man | Solace In the Wild |
5. Chris Wilhelm | It Won’t Be As Long As It’s Been | This Too Shall Pass |
6. Beth Nielsen Chapman | Old Church Hymns and Nursery Rhymes | Hearts Of Glass |
7. Clive Gregson | Borderline | Poorville |
8. Tret Fure | Stone By Stone | Stone By Stone | Tomboy girl
9. Nanci Griffith | Banks Of Pontchartrain | The Last Of the True Believers | Philo
10. Robert Earl Keen | Love’s a Word I Never Throw Around | West Textures | Sugar Hill
11. Nanci Griffith | I Wish It Would Rain | Little Love Affairs | MCA
12. Robert Earl Keen | Black Baldy Stallion | Ready For Confetti | Lost Highway
13. Nanci Griffith | It’s a Hard Life Wherever You Go | Storms | MCA
14. Robert Earl Keen | Shades Of Gray | Picnic | Arista
January 24
1. Kip Winter [and] Dan Wilson | Weary Traveller | Ashes & Dust |
2. Kip Winter [and] Dan Wilson | Austerity | Ashes & Dust |
3. Bob Wright | Hope Rising | Gingerbread Whiskerchin |
4. Tret Fure | Afterlife | Stone By Stone | Tomboy girl
5. Randy Casey | Back On the Blues | Record Time |
6. Colleen Kattau | The Root | [single] |
7. Donal Hinely | Cover Your Ears | Diary Of a Snowflake | ATOM/Scuffletown
8. Emma Hill | The World Is On Fire | How Could I Have Been So Wrong? [EP] | Kuskokwin
9. John Flynn | There’s No Them There (Nomoreu’s Anthem) | Two Wolves | MettaFour
10. John Stewart | California Bloodlines | California Bloodlines | Capitol
11. Kate Wolf | Poet’s Heart | Poet’s Heart | Kaleidoscope
12. John Stewart | Daydream Believer | Lonesome Picker Rides Again | WB
13. Kate Wolf | The Trumpet Vine | Lines On the Paper | Owl
14. John Stewart | Chilly Winds | Cannons In the Rain | RCA
15. Kate Wolf | Across the Great Divide | Close To You | Kaleidoscope
January 17
1. Becky Buller | Tell the Truth (Shame the Devil) [with The Fairfield Four] | Distance and Time | Dark Shadow
2. Becky Buller | Salt and Light [with The Isaacs] | Distance and Time | Dark Shadow
3. Dave Rudolf | Simple Life | The Ebb & Flow | Moneytree
4. Susan Ellenton | Deep Waters | Learning To Listen |
5. George Mann| One Day You Just Wake Up and You’re Old | The Coronavirus Sessions | Running Scared
6. Ilse Delange | No Man’s Land | Gravel & Dust |
7. Patty Griffin | Little Fire [with Emmylou Harris] | Downtown Church | Credential
8. Slaid Cleaves | Wishbones | Wishbones | Philo
9. Patty Griffin | Making Pies | 1000 Kisses | ATO
10. Slaid Cleaves | Breakfast In Hell | Broke Down | Philo
11. Patty Griffin | Shine a Different Way | Servant Of Love | Thirty Tigers
12. Slaid Cleaves | Beautiful Thing | Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away |
13. Kyshona Armstrong | More In Common | Listen |
14. Kyshona Armstrong | Marching On | Listen |
15. Doc & Merle Watson | Below Freezing | Songs Doc Didn’t Sing | FLI Records
January 10
1. Mac McAnally | Changing Channels | Once In a Lifetime |
2. Jessica Smucker | The Sea | Lucid Stories, Tentative Lies |
3. Aaron Nathans & Micheal G. Ronstadt | Ghost Writer | Shadow Of the Cyclone |
4. Krista Flagg | Brave New View | Brave New View |
5. Graeme James | Fire In the Pines | Old Storms In New Places [EP] | Nettwerk
6. Ruby Mack | Black Hills | Devil Told Me [EP] | Nine Athens
7. Darlingside | Time Will Be | Fish Pond Fish | More Doug
8. Fay Hield | Call the Storm | Wrackline |
9. Philip Scott Poli | Iron Into Gold | One Sky |
10. Last Chance [Jack Scott, Ingrid Rosenback] Magic Of the Ride | Summer Again |
11. Braden Gates | New In Town | Kitchen Days | Borealis
12. Joni Mitchell | Chelsea Morning | Clouds | Reprise
13. Joni Mitchell | River | Blue | Reprise
14. Joni Mitchell | Court and Spark | Court and Spark | Asylum
15. George Mann | Seventy Miles From the Border | The Coronavirus Sessions | Running Scared
January 3
1. Richard Thompson | As Soon As You Hear the Bell | Bloody Noses [EP] |
2. Richard Thompson | What’s Up With You | Bloody Noses [EP] |
3, Storyhill [Chris Cunningham, John Hermanson] | Seen a Light | Bethlehem |
4. Sara Thomsen and Paula Pedersen | Longest Night | Winter Wanderings | Harmony Works
5. Padraig Jack | Let It Shine | Making Sand | Good Deeds
6. Kate Rusby | Everglow | Hand Me Down | Pure
7. Jefferson Berry & the UAC | Everyone’s Got Their Stuff | Double Deadbolt Logic |
8. Braden Gates | Employee Of the Month | Kitchen Days | Borealis
9. PK Dwyer | Trouble | Music To Dance To |
10. Randy Casey | Dead Wrong | Record Time |
11. Townes Van Zandt | If I Needed You | The Very Best Of… | Metro Doubles/Union Square
12. Townes Van Zandt | To Live Is To Fly | The Very Best Of… | Metro Doubles/Union Square
13. Townes Van Zandt | Snowin’ On Raton | At My Window | A&M
14. Townes Van Zandt | Pancho and Lefty | The Very Best Of… | Metro Doubles/Union Square
15. Mike Glick with Lindsey Wilson & Aleksi Glick | 15 An Hour | Alternative Facts & Other White Lies |
16. Windborne | The Song Of Hard Times | Of Hard Times & Harmony [upcoming release] |