This Year's Music
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National Releases for 2009
Blues
- BECK, JEFF - Performing This Week...Live at Ronnie Scott's (Dec 8, 2008)
- LADY DOTTIE AND THE DIAMONDS - Lady Dottie and the Diamonds (Dec 8, 2008)
- VARIOUS - Delmark 55 Years of Blues (Dec 8, 2008)
- REV. JIMMIE BRATCHER, THE - The Electric Rev. (Dec 15, 2008)
- SCHERMER, MIGHTY MIKE - Right Hand Man (Jan 5)
- GARRETT, AMOS - Get Way Back (Jan 5)
- SOUL OF JOHN BLACK, THE - Black John (Jan 5)
Folk
- POLENZANI, ROSE - When the River Hits the Sea (Dec 15, 2008)
- BISCUIT BURNERS, THE - Fiery Mountain Music (Dec 15, 2008)
- TRUCKSTOP HONEYMOON - Great Big Family (Dec 15, 2008)
- LANG, PETER - Testament (Jan 5)
- MACLELLAN, CATHERINE - Church Bell Blues (Jan 5)
- PETTIS, PIERCE - That Kind of Love (Jan 5)
Jazz
- LAKE STREET DIVE - Promises, Promises (Dec 8, 2008)
- DARK CHOCOLATE - Island Gypsy (Dec 8, 2008)
- BODE, ERIN - The Little Garden (Dec 8, 2008)
- VARIOUS - 55 Years of Jazz: Delmark (Dec 8, 2008)
- DELOATCH, LOIS - Hymn to Freedom (Dec 15, 2008)
- MICROSCOPIC SEPTET, THE - Lobster Leaps In (Dec 15, 2008)
- Q-TIP - The Renaissance (Jan 5)
- JAMES MOODY AND HANK JONES QUARTET, THE - Our Delight (Jan 5)
- GREYBOY - 15 Years of West Coast Cool (Jan 5)
Rock
- TRAVIS - Ode to J. Smith (Dec 8, 2008)
- BLITZEN TRAPPER - Furr (Dec 8, 2008)
- MICHAELSON, INGRID - Be OK (Dec 8, 2008)
- YAMAGATA, RACHAEL - Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart (Dec 8, 2008)
- ALLEN, ASHTON - Wellspring (Dec 15, 2008)
- HAYDEN - In Field & Town (Dec 15, 2008)
- Average White Band - Soul of the City (late 2005)
- Chaka Khan - Funk This (late 2005)
- MARGOT & THE NUCLEAR SO AND SO'S - Not Animal (Jan 5)
- BELLE AND SEBASTIAN - The BBC Sessions (Jan 5)
- OF MONTREAL - Skeletal Lamping (Jan 5)
World
- DUBE, LUCKY - Retrospective (Dec 8, 2008)
- MO' HORIZONS - Come Touch The Sun (late 2005)
- MANRIQUEZ, RAFAEL - Songs of Chile (Jan 5)
- DEAD CAN DANCE - 2008 Sampler (Jan 5)
- GIZZAE - Roots Like a Lion (Jan 5)
- KUTI, FEMI - Day By Day (Jan 5)
Local/Regional Releases for 2009
Blues
- THIRSTY PERCH BLUES BAND - DEMO CD 2008 (Jan 5)
Folk
- HAZLETT, DAN - Just a Guitar (Dec 3, 2008)
- GREENSKY BLUEGRASS - Five Interstates (Dec 3, 2008)
- JELLEMA, BERNIE - Lions & Clowns (Dec 15, 2008)
- MUSTARD'S RETREAT - With Relish (Dec 15, 2008)
- VARIOUS - A Winter's Tune 2008 (Dec 17, 2008)
- RILEY, MICHAEL - Michael Riley (Jan 5)
- ZYLSTRA, RACHEL - Before You Could Decide (Jan 5)
- WILLIAMS, LARE - Directionally Challenged (Jan 5)
- MABUS, JOEL - Omnibus (Jan 5)
Jazz
- RADEMACHER, MARY & RICK REUTHER - Two Of A Kind (Dec 8, 2008)
- GROOVE MERCHANT - Groove Merchant (Jan 5)
Rock
- NEON GRAFFITI - From the Street to the Road (Dec 3, 2008)
- MONTANA BOYS, THE - Travoltas EP (Dec 3, 2008)
- MIGHTY NARWHALE, THE - A Ship Without a Country A Mast Without a Sail (Dec 3, 2008)
- VARIOUS - Unsigned (Dec 3, 2008)