A tour of some of the music that caught my attention, sometimes belatedly, in 2012.
Strange Days: The Doors Thievery Corporation - Versions - ESI '06 |
Shining Face The Bills - Yes Please - self '12 |
Foolish You Alison Lupton - Fly Like Swallows - self '07 |
The Man I Love Gregoire Maret - Gregoire Maret - eOne '12 |
Soon Fraser MawcPherson - Justin Time Retrospective 1983-98 - Justin Time k'98 |
Heart Like a Wheel Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Tell My Sister - Nonesuch '11 |
Cornbread & Butterbeans Carolina Chocolate Drops - Sing Out 60 (Various) - Sing Out '10 |
The Loving Kind Nancy Griffith - Songs From Sing Out (v) - Sing Out '10 |
Thomas and Nancy Finest Kind - Songs From Sing Out (v) - Sing Out '11 |
Yes, Maria, Yes David Wax Museum - Songs From Sing Out (v) - Sing Out '11 |
No Banker Left Behind Ry Cooder - Songs From Sing Out (v) - Sing Out '12 |
Double Lifetime Louden Wainwright III - Songs From Sing Out (v) - Sing Out '12 |
The Diplomat Maria Muldaur - & Her Garden of Joy - Stony Plain '09 |
A Florida Cracker The Ragtime Skedaddlers - Mandolins at the Cakewalk - Mandophone '12 |
Delia & Wilhelmina Old Man Luedecke & Lake Effect - Sing All About It - self '11 |
Icy Mountain Sheesham and Lotus - Five Miles From Town - Sepiaphone '10 |
Mighty Storm The Duhks - Fast Paced World - sugar Hill '08 |
Daniel and the Sacred Harp Chris Coole - Old Dog - self ?? |
Ramblin' On My Mind Lucinda Williams - Ramblin' On My Mind - Smithsonian Folkways '79/09 |
Oh Death Dock Boggs - Dock Boggs - Smithsonian Folkways '64/09 |
Coal Mining Blues Matt Anderson - Coal Mining Blues - Busted Flat '11 |
Manteau D'Hiver Le Vent du Nord - Tromper Le Temps - Borealis '12 |
The Blackleg Miner Aengus Finnan - Fool's Gold - Shelter Valley '99 |
She Can Rock Little Ike - Champion Records (v) - Blue Label '11 |
The Dawning of the Day Gordon Quinton - A Guitar's Story - Woodnight '12 |
Mark the Hard Earth Kris Drever - Mark The Hard Earth - Navigator '09 |
Spike Drivers Moan Dave Van Ronk - Van Ronk Sings - Smithsonian Folkways '61/07 |
Graves In Spain Eileen Penman - Scots In The Spanish Civil War - Greentrax '12 |
Love Is a Velvet Noose Trembling Bells & Bonnie Prince Billy - The Marble Downs - Honest Jon's '12 |
Little Maggie Snakefarm - My Halo at Half-Light - Fledg'ling '11 |
John Henry Michael Cooney - The Cheese Stands Alone - Folk-Legacy '68/02 |
Cutthroats, Crooks & Conmen Little Johnny England - Tournament of Shadows - Talking Elephant '09 |
It Didn't Work Out Michael Chapman - Rainmaker - Light In the Attic'12 |
Someone Somewhere Oysterband - Meet You There - Westpark '08 |
Crazy Man Michael Natalie Merchant - The House Carpenter's Daughter - Myth America '03 |
Invisible Boy John Smith - Map or Direction - self '09 |
In The Pines Martin Simpson - Purpose + Grace - Topic '11 |
50 Dollar Bill Brock Zeman - Songs From the Mud - Audio Valley '04 |
In Derby Cathedral Sarah McQuaid - The Plum Tree and the Rose - Waterbug '12 |
Come Not When I Am Dead Joseph Topping - Ghosts In The Shadows - Fellside '10 |
Filling in for Al this morning with music that took my fancy in 2012.
7:14 AM, January 5th, 2013