KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, Aug. 30th, 2020

[As you may or may not know, i live in Canada, and for some reason KSHE doesn't stream their audio to here; i have to connect via a VPN, to spoof a non-Canadian address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was listening from Pittsburgh. I don't recall ever being there before, at least cybernautically. I have been there in "real life" (whatever that is).] 

Quotation Of The Week ~ Henry David Thoreau: If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. 

I won't say that this radio program is the only thing that makes my life worth living. I have my health, after all; food, shelter, a cat who loves me (albeit only because i feed her) and more money in the bank than i know what to do with. A show like this morning's, though, was definitely the highlight of an otherwise tedious week. I'm grading it an “A”. 

There's was nothing annoying – no, not even the Ted Nugent song! I could probably have lived without the 16½ minute piece by Nektar, but there was nothing wrong with it, it's just that there are so many better 16½ minute pieces. And yet again this week, no “deep track” by The Beatles? So much other great stuff, though, right from the opening track, and so much that i have in my own collection – which is one of my criteria for grading the show each week. 

The highlight? Although it wasn't the greatest song this morning, it was an enormous pleasure to hear Cheryl Dilcher. I'd never heard of her until i started listening to KSHE and somehow feel a personal connection to her. Alas, there's not much about her life on the Internet. She was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was mixed up with the son of the mayor of St Louis at one time – and was very popular there. She performed on a George Harrison album, George was a fan. She only made four albums (i have one of them, the others are very hard to find now) and she died in 2005 at the age of 58. 

Here's a nice picture of her, and the playlist: 

 

The Electric Light Orchestra – Mr Blue Sky 

Loggins & Messina – Pretty Princess 

The Kinks – Set Me Free 

Point Blank – Nicole 

Jo Jo Gunne – Run, Run, Run 

Jimi Hendrix – Red House 

The Rolling Stones – Mixed Emotions 

Jefferson Starship – Miracles 

Jonathan Edwards – Shanty 

Bryan Adams – One Night Love Affair 

Ted Nugent – Free For All 

The Greg Kihn Band – Remember 

Allan Clarke – Slipstream 

The Yardbirds – Shapes Of Things

 Nektar – Remember The Future 

The Guess Who – Share The Land 

Russ Ballard – Rene Didn't Do It 

Bill Quateman – Only Love 

Nite City – Nite City 

The Charlie Daniels Band – Orange Blossom Special 

Eric Clapton – No Alibis 

Foreigner – Rev On The Red Line 

Blues Image – Ride Captain Ride 

Steve Winwood – Holding On 

Queen – 39 

Bad Company – No Smoke Without A Fire 

Uriah Heep – That's The Way That It Is 

Peter Frampton – (I'll Give You) Money 

Michael Murphey – Geronimo's Cadillac 

The Souther, Hillman Furay Band – Fallin' In Love 

Batdorf & Rodney – Can You See Him 

Graham Nash – Chicago / Change The World 

George Harrison – Got My Mind Set On You 

Slade – How Does It Feel 

Cheryl Dilcher – Together 

Hammersmith – Late Night Lovin' Man 

Ian Hunter – Just Another Night 

Journey – Kohoutek Chilliwack – Something Better 

Lighthouse – One Fine Morning 

The double CDs on my personal playlist this week have been marked with a thorn (þ). Well, why not? Anyone can use an asterisk. Am i wrong to prefer and Old English / modern Icelandic letter, usually pronounced as a voiceless dental fricative (e.g., the “th” in “the”). Be grateful there were no triple or quadruple sets this time – i may have had to resort to Chinese ideograms! 

Camel – Breathless 

Steeleye Span – The Journey þ 

Yes – Tales From Topographic Oceans þ 

The Pointer Sisters – Jump: The Best Of The Pointer Sisters 

Levellers – Zeitgeist 

The Beatles – Let It Be ... Naked 

Various Artists – Rubáiyát: Elektra's 40th Anniversary þ 

Renaissance – Live At Carnegie Hall þ 

June Tabor – Rosa Mundi 

Joan Osborne – Pretty Little Stranger 

Runrig – The Stamping Ground 

The Beatles – The Beatles þ 

Dead Can Dance – Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun 

The Psychedelic Furs – Greatest Hits 

Various Artists – Crossing Jordan: Music From The NBC Television Series 

Eliza Carthy – Anglicana 

Jimi Hendrix & The Band Of Gypsys – Live At Fillmore East þ 

Dengue Fever – Cannibal Courtship 

The John Renbourn Group – Live In America 

The New Broadway Cast Recording -- “Guys And Dolls” 

Roy Wood – Music Book þ 

Van Morrison – The Healing Game 

Dixie Dregs – Night Of The Living Dregs 

Mama's Pride – Uptown And Lowdown 

Rory Gallagher – Big Guns: The Very Best Of Rory Gallagher þ 

Lindisfarne – The Very Best Of Lindisfarne 

Pete Townshend – White City: A Novel 

Various Artists – Motown Nuggets 

Outback – Baka 

Nik Kershaw – To Be Frank 

Jeff Beck – Wired 

Jon & Vangelis – Short Stories

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, Aug. 23rd, 2020

  [As you may or may not know, i live in Canada, and for some reason KSHE doesn't stream their audio to here; i have to connect via a VPN, to spoof a non-Canadian address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was somewhere in Reno County, Kansas. Strange: my location finder has never been so imprecise before...]

Quotation Of The Week ~ J.R.R. Tolkien: If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

I only have one word to say about today's show: holy meow! (OK, two words.) Definitely a grade of A+ and not only because Uman played Dan Fogelberg, either (It was one of Dan's most beautifullest songs, too – it nearly has me weeping with joy whenever i hear it.) Just look at that playlist! So much gorgeous music: particular favourites included Badfinger, The Moodies, Camel, Dylan, Blind Faith, Saga, Honeymoon Suite, The Sutherland Bros., and of course Bob Seger – whose song, i didn't know until this morning, includes his old pal from Michigan Glenn Frey on guitar and backing vocals. Sure, there was some pretty obscure music (Shoot? Tycoon?) but there was nothing annoying and a good amount of Canadian music, to boot. Alas, again there wasn't one of The Beatles' deeper tracks, but sometimes Uman's plans gang aft agley. A few months ago he suggested that he'd be playing more music by Renaissance and i haven't heard them since!

Some other schtuff i didn't know until today: Night Ranger was originally called Ranger but they didn't know that there was country band of that name and the country dudes threatened to sue. They added the “Night” to their name and thus screwed the lawyers out of their money, and that's always a bonus. Also, the great ska band The Beat is called “The English Beat” in the US because there was an American band called The Beat. I knew that, but i didn't know what the band was ... until today. I'd have to say i prefer the Limeys!

 

Rainbow – Man On The Silver Mountain

Badfinger – Baby Blue

Crawler – Stone Cold Sober

The Grateful Dead – Playing In The Band

Night Ranger – Sing Me Away

The Moody Blues – Watching And Waiting

John Mellencamp – Minutes To Memories

Krokus – Screaming In The Night

Les Dudek – Old Judge Jones

Dan Fogelberg – Nether Lands

The Rolling Stones – Dandelion

Bob Seger – Ramblin' Gamblin' Man

Blue Őyster Cult – Black Blade

Michael Bolton – Fool's Game

Queen – Dragon Attack

The Doors – Waiting For The Sun

Triumph – Young Enough To Cry

Bob Dylan – Subterranean Homesick Blues

Tommy Bolin – Post Toastee

Camel – Who We Are

Aldo Nova – Monkey On Your Back

Paul Collins & The Beat – On The Highway

Barclay James Harvest – See Me See You

The Fabulous Poodles – Roll Your Own

Vinegar Joe – Never Met A Dog

Ambrosia – Ready

Bachman-Turner Overdrive -- Blue Collar

Tycoon – Such A Woman

Blind Faith – Presence Of The Lord

Budgie – Sky High Percentage

Jessie Colin Young – Morning Sun

Shoot – Sepia Sister

Saga – On The Loose

John Mayall – Room To Move

Honeymoon Suite – New Girl Now

The Sutherland Brothers & Quiver – Real Love

My own personal playlist is not an overly long one this week. There was one 2-CD set (Talk Talk) and one 4-disc box (Genesis) but it's shorter than usual because personal business kept me pretty busy away from home after work.

FM – Black Noise

Chrissie Hynde – Stockholm

Sinéad O'Connor – Throw Down Your Arms

The Albion Band – Stella Maris

Jerry Douglas – Traveler

Brand X – Unorthodox Behaviour

Rhiannon Giddens – Factory Girl

Talk Talk – Asides Bsides

June Tabor & Oysterband – Fire And Fleet

10,000 Maniacs – In My Tribe

Alison Krauss – Essential Alison Krauss

Three Dog Night – Joy To The World: Their Greatest Hits

Paul Simon – In The Blue Light

Marc Jordan – Mannequin

Cat Stevens – Laughing Apple

Matchbox 20 – Yourself Or Someone Like You

Joan Osborne – Love And Hate

The Chambers Brothers – Time Has Come

Susan Tedeschi – Live From Austin, TX.

Wishbone Ash – Nouveau Calls

Bob Dylan – Blonde On Blonde

Peter Hammill – The Future Now

Alice Cooper – Killer

Genesis – Archive 1967-75

Bob Seger – Beautiful Loser

Rockpile – Seconds Of Pleasure

Free – Heartbreaker

Bill Bruford – Feels Good To Me

Dave Edmunds – The Collection

Jefferson Airplane – Volunteers

The Kinks – Sleepwalker

Wizzard – Wizzard Brew

Kim Mitchell – Shakin' Like A Human Being

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, Aug. 16th, 2020

 [As you may or may not know, i live in Canada, and for some reason KSHE doesn't stream their audio to here; i have to connect via a VPN, to spoof a non-Canadian address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was listening from San Francisco. It's been a while since i was on the left coast.]

Quotation Of The Week ~ Sonny Bono: “People have said to me, 'You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument.' But i've got ten gold records.”

Now that's more like it!

Last week's Klassics Show was, from a technical point of view, a miserable listening experience, and from a musical standpoint just a little more than adequate, but it was back to form this week with a program that unquestionably merits a grade of “A.” There was nothing annoying at all, and nothing too obscure plus a whole heap of legitimate classics (sorry, klassics), including several i can honestly say i love.

Probably this week's highlight for me was the track by FM. (Don't tell anyone, but it had me bouncing up and down in my chair and playing some pretty inept air mandolin alongside the late great Nash The Slash.) But there were so many wonderful songs: Bob Seger, The Moody Blues, The Animals, Wet Willie, Jackson Browne, Thin Lizzy and Nazareth are all such stuff as dreams are made on. Disappointingly, for the second week running, there was no “deep track” by The Beatles, and there was one technical glitch: the Eric Clapton song appeared on KSHE's home page as being “Don't Stop Me Now” by Queen.

In the “you learn something new every week” department, i've known (and loved) the song “Needles And Pins” since the mid-sixties, when i grew up with gorgeous versions by Jackie DeShannon and The Searchers. I discovered today that it was written by the former mayor of Palm Springs, Florida, Sonny Bono!

Incidentally, did you know that the radio station, in co-operation with the Goose Island Brewery of Chicago, is now marketing KSHE Classic Pale Ale? Apparently it has “a touch of biscuit malt character and a citrusy hop note.” According to the ad, though, you must be 21, so i guess i'll never find out, as i passed that particular milestone  years ago....

Here's the playlist: 

Z.Z. Top – Party On The Patio

Leon Russell – Lady Blue

The Who – Another Tricky Day

Bob Seger – Nutbush City Limits

Janis Joplin – Mercedes Benz

The Doors – Crystal Ship

Supertramp – Downstream

Zebra – Tell Me What You Want

Mountain – Nantucket Sleighride

The Moody Blues – Question

John Mellencamp – Justice And Independence '85

Blackjack – Heart Of Stone

Tonio K – Better Late Than Never

Runner – Fooling Myself

The Grateful Dead – St Stephen

Joe Walsh – County Fair

The Animals – Don't Bring Me Down

Kansas – The Wall

The Pure Prairie League – You're Between Me

Bob Dylan – Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts

Eric Clapton – Tulsa Time

The Hollies – Magic Woman Touch

Off Broadway – Stay In Time

FM – Phasors On Stun

Wet Willie – Baby Fat

Humble Pie – Shine On

The Pousette-Dart Band – What Can I Say

The James Gang – Midnight Man

Rik Emmett – Saved By Love

Thin Lizzy – Old Flame

Jefferson Starship – Lightning Rose

Jackson Browne – You Love The Thunder

Man – Kerosene

Tom Petty & Stevie Nicks – Needles And Pins

The Rolling Stones – Rock And A Hard Place

Santana – Dance Sister Dance

Nazareth – Razamanaz

Slave – Love It Or Leave It

Rod Stewart – Foolish Behaviour

The Fixx – Stand Or Fall

It was almost all 2-CD sets again for me this week, although there were a few exceptions: Cat Stevens' and Eric Bogle's were single albums (because they were new arrivals and i wanted to play them), and i just wanted to hear Amazing Blondel's lovely album. And then there was Donna Summer, with a 3-CD collection. (I loved her voice but a 2-disc “best of” would have been more than adequate.) King Crimson was a triple, too. Everything else was a double and, my word: some of them i hadn't played in a while and they were great!

Dan Fogelberg – The Innocent Age

Cat Stevens – Laughing Apple

Laurie Anderson – Live At Town Hall, New York City, September 19-20. 2001

Donovan – Troubadour: The Definitive Collection 1964-1976

Donna Summer – The Ultimate Collection

Amazing Blondel – Evensong

The Who – Quadrophenia

The Beatles – Live At The BBC

Pink Floyd – Pulse

Kate Bush – Aerial

Various Artists – Rattlesnake Guitar: The Music Of Peter Green

Eric Bogle – By Request

Various Artists – Bringing It All Back Home: Music From The BBC TV Series

The Allman Brothers Band – Eat A Peach (deluxe edition)

George Harrison – All Things Must Pass

King Crimson – Heavy ConstruKction

Peter Gabriel – Secret World Live

The Beach Boys – California Girls: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys

Caro Emerald – The Shocking Miss Emerald (deluxe edition)

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, Aug. 9th, 2020

 [As you may or may not know, i live in Canada, and for some reason KSHE doesn't stream their audio to here; i have to connect via a VPN, to spoof a non-Canadian address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was listening from Parsippany, New Jersey. I've been there once or twice before.]

Quotation Of The Week: George Carlin ~ Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

First, a public service announcement. At Frank Leta's Automotive Outlet (https://www.letacars.com/ ), 12101 St Charles Rock Road, Bridgeton, Missouri, if you take home $350 a week, you're eligible for $25,000 in credit. Wow!

This week's program made me regret my decision, some years ago, to automatically grade The Klassics Show as A+ if they played either Dan Fogelberg or Rory Gallagher, because this morning's installment was almost an unpleasant listening experience, barely worthy of a C. First, there were technical problems both with my local machine (not the program's fault, of course), and at KSHE's. I had a dreaded BSOD right at the start of the Jefferson Starship song and it took maybe five minutes to get up and running again. Fortunately, i don't think i missed much: when i reconnected it was towards the end of a commercial break.

KSHE's problem – a server glitch or something – made the morning just a little bit too much like work. (On a KSHE Facebook page, i learned that they weren't broadcasting at all for a while on Saturday. At least the engineers sorted that out.) There were a lot of obscure songs this morning – more than normal anyway – Tantrum? Automatic Man? -- and a lot that i didn't recognise and often the host, John Ulett, won't announce what he's playing. When this happens i go to the station's home page where it usually indicates what's on. Not today though: according to them, they were playing Sammy Hagar's “There's Only One Way To Rock” for four hours (minus commercials)! In quite a few instances i had to Google the lyrics, and in one case i failed, as you'll see. A lot of the obscure schtuff wasn't very interesting, which no doubt explains why it's obscure, and then there was REO Speedwagon, a group i can't stand. Plus i was somewhat disappointed that there wasn't the usual inclusion of a song by The Beatles.

Certainly there was some music i can legitimately say i love, although most of it didn't show up until the final hour, when the Pretenders, Robin Trower, Billy Joel and Deep Purple popped in to say hello. Scott McKenzie was a wonderful surprise, too. Surprising as well was the information that Bruce Springsteen was a big fan of Donna Summer (as am i – she had a gorgeous voice) and wrote “Cover Me” for her. He liked it so much he decided to record it himself and wrote something else for her. I don't know if she recorded it, but gosh, the things you learn....

 

The Chambers Brothers – Love, Peace And Happiness

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band – Til It Shines

Stu Nunnery – Isle Of Debris

The Moody Blues – Isn't Life Strange

Eric Clapton – Let It Grow

Jefferson Starhip – Love Too Good

Brownsville Station – Lady (Put The Light On Me)

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Kings Road

Automatic Man – My Pearl

The Babys – I'm Falling

Lou Reed – Rock 'N' Roll

Bruce Springsteen – Cover Me

Uriah Heep – Sweet Lorraine

Tantrum – Rather Be Rockin'

Rare Bird – Beautiful Scarlet

Santana – Flor D'Luna

Asia – Soul Survivor

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Sugarloaf – Don't Call Us We'll Call You

The Marshall Tucker Band – You Ain't Foolin' Me

The Band – The Shape I'm In

Phil Collins – Like China

Rush – Ghost Of A Chance

REO Speedwagon – How The Story Goes

Dan Fogelberg – Times Like These

Supertramp – Lover Boy

Tony Carey – I Won't Be Home Tonnight

David Bowie – Stay

Bob Dylan – Shelter From The Storm

Billy Joel – Billy The Kid

Gary Wright – Water Sign

The Allman Brothers Band – Angeline

Pretenders – Middle Of The Road

Robin Trower – Caledonia

Rod Stewart – Oh, No, Not My Baby

Scott McKenzie – San Francisco (Flowers In Your Hair)

Deep Purple – Lazy

Axe – Rock And Roll Party In The Street

My personal playlist is a very short one this week. No, business hasn't been booming and i'm not working a load of overtime. There has been no loss in music-listening time. The fact is, every one of the titles below is a 2-CD set. And it's been great! There are albums here that i hadn't listened to in years – it was especially nice to re-acquaint myself with Eliza Carthy, and i'd completely forgotten i had that ELO record! I may do this again next week....

The Beatles – Anthology 2

James Taylor – (Live)

The Kinks – To The Bone

Eliza Carthy – Red Rice

Marillion – Anaraknophobia

Fairport Convention -- 25^th Anniversary Concert

Free – Live At The BBC

The Albion Dance Band – Dancing Days Are Here Again

The Moody Blues – Gold

Electric Light Orchestra – The Lost Planet

Richard Thompson – You? Me? Us?

Yes – Keys To Ascension

Billy Joel – The Essential Billy Joel

Harmonium – L'Heptade

The Dixie Chicks – Top Of The World Tour Live

The Tragically Hip – Yer Favourites

Rory Gallagher – Notes From San Francisco

The Rolling Stones – Forty Licks

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, Aug. 2nd, 2020

[As you may or may not know, i live in Canada, and for some reason KSHE doesn't stream their audio to here; i have to connect via a VPN, to spoof a non-Canadian address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was listening from Campbellsville, Kentucky. I don't recall ever being there before.]

Quotation Of The Week: John Lennon ~ “George has done a great Indian one. We came along one night and he had about 400 Indian fellas playing there ... it was a great swinging evening, as they say.”

I hate to say it, but this morning's program was almost ... ordinary. I'm grading it “A+”.

I'll explain. The show got off to a very slow start with John O'Banion's song. I know, right? I had to look him up. He did actually have one hit single – if making it to #24 on the charts can be considered a hit, but it wasn't today's selection. He was the lead singer in Doc Severinson's band (which has never been played on KSHE) and won the Tokyo Music Festival Award in 1982, but was better known as an actor. Now you know.

After that (and after The Clash), there was some seriously mundane music – not much more than generic rock, really, with Widowmaker, Kayak (a band i've really liked at times), 38 Special, Louise Goffin (daughter of Gerry Goffin and Carole King), and Point Blank. At least the Ted Nugent song wasn't overly annoying. The Eric Clapton was probably the most boring item today, he's capable of so much better, and the track by Chicago shows a group well past its prime..

So, why the high marks (i hear you ask)? Well, Uman played Dan Fogelberg which automatically means an “A+” -- and it was a track from one of my favourites of his albums, “Nether Lands” -- but beyond that we had some of my very favourite songs by Strawbs, Bob Marley, Marillion, Brownsville Station, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, the Allmans, Billy Joel and my very favourite Steely Dan song!

While it's been great hearing deep tracks by The Beatles every week lately, “Within You Without You” is only just barely a Beatles' track. George Harrison is the only one of the Fab Four who appears on it. He sings on it, of course, and, along with Neil Aspinall plays tambura (pictured below), but otherwise the instrumentalists are all un-named Indian musicians. Here's the playlist:

John O'Banion – Love Is Blind

The Clash – London Calling
Strawbs – Lay Down
Eddie Money – Gimme Some Water
Dan Fogelberg – Love Gone By
Widowmaker – Leave The Kids Alone
The Babys – Every Time I Think Of You
The Beatles – Within You Without You
Manassas – It Doesn't Matter
Les Dudek – It Can Do
Crosby, Stills & Nash – Too Much Love To Hide
Ted Nugent – Just What The Doctor Ordered
The Moody Blues – Legend Of A Mind
Bob Marley – Jamming
Marillion – Kayleigh
Kayak – Keep The Change
Eric Clapton – I've Got A Rock 'N' Roll Heart
The Scorpions – Loving You Sunday Morning
Bob Dylan – Maggie's Farm
Brownsville Station – Martian Boogie
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Lend Your Love To Me Tonight
Deep Purple – Kentucky Woman
38 Special – If I'd Been The One
Louise Goffin – Kid Blue
Joe Walsh – Meadows
Jesse Colin Young – Light Shine
Billy Joel – I've Loved These Days
Point Blank – Mean To Your Queenie
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Letting You Go
Trooper – Knock 'Em Dead Kid
Journey – La Raza Del Sol
Streets – If Love Should Go
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – If 6 Was 9
The Allman Brothers Band – Statesboro Blues
Fleetwood Mac – Heroes Are Hard To Find
U2 – In God's Country
Procol Harum – Pandora's Box
The Tubes – She's A Beauty
Chicago – (I've Been) Searching So Long
Van Morrison – Wavelength
Moxy – Sail On Sail Away
Steely Dan -- Bodhisattva

We're well into phase three of the re-opening here now and i'm working a bit more – although still leaving the office earlier than i would like – so my week's playlist isn't as lengthy as some have been recently. This is partly because of one 2-CD set (Blodwyn Pig) and one 4-disc box (Emerson Lake & Palmer), though.

Blodwyn Pig – All Said And Done

Jethro Tull – Thick As A Brick

The Mahavishnu Orchestra – The Inner Mounting Flame

The Albion Country Band – Battle Of The Field

Wolfscote – Turn The Glass

Amazing Blondel – Evensong

The Beatles – Help!

Terje Rypdal – The Singles Collection

Peter Gabriel – Rated PG

Van der Graaf Generator – H To He Who Am The Only One

Norma Waterson – Norma Waterson

Various Artists – A Tribute To Dan Fogelberg

Electric Light Orchestra – Out Of The Blue

Annie Haslam – Annie Haslam

Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe -- Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe

The Soft Machine – Land Of Cockayne

The Mothers Of Invention – Freak Out!

The Doobie Brothers – Takin' It To The Streets

Emerson, Lake & Palmer – The Return Of The Manticore

The Waterboys – Room To Roam

Jefferson Starship – Red Octopus

Mary-Chapin Carpenter – Come On, Come On

The Beatles – Yellow Submarine

Jeff Beck – Wired

Various Artists – Joni 75: A Joni Mitchell Birthday Celebration

City Boy – Anthology

America – History: America's Greatest Hits

Dixie Dregs – Night Of The Living Dregs

Rhiannon Giddens – Freedom Highway

Sharon Shannon – Out The Gap

Laurie Anderson – The Ugly One With The Jewels

Jethro Tull – Songs From The Wood

Maddy Prior w. Hannah James & Giles Lewin – Shortwinger

Davy Spillane Band – Out Of The Air

Various Artists – A Tribute To Stevie Ray Vaughan

Afro-Celt Sound System – Volume 2: Release