George Graham's Best of 2012 CDs List

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George Graham's Best of 2012 Albums List

These albums were selected by Mixed host George Graham from the over 500 CDs featured during the year on the New Releases segments presented daily on Mixed Bag. The Mixed Bag musical styles include rock, folk, blues, reggae, world music, Celtic, electronic, and other varieties presented on the program. The emphasis is on records that received little or no attention in the commercial media. Selection criteria include originality, uniqueness of sound, and quality of musicianship.

The list is arranged chronologically.

* designates Homegrown Music Artists.

Artist	Album Title	Label	Add Date
Sultans of String *	Move	independent	01/05/12
Marty Dread	It Sometimes Rains in Paradise	Five Corners	01/10/12
John Flynn	The End of the Beginning	independent	01/10/12
Ruthie Foster	Let It Burn	independent	01/11/12
Soul Rebels	Unlock Your Mind	Rounder	01/16/12
Dion	Tank Full of Blues	Blue Harmony	01/17/12
Dunwells	Blind Sighted Faith	Playing in Traffic	01/17/12
Nils Lofgren	Old School	Vision Music	01/18/12
Barbara Kessler	What You Keep	independent	01/18/12
Weaver at the Loom	Before Now, Was Then	independent	01/20/12
Joe Louis Walker	Hellfire	Alligator	01/20/12
Winterpills	All My Lonely Goners	Signature Sounds	01/27/12
Ringo Starr	2012	Hip-O	01/27/12
Leonard Cohen	Old Ideas	Columbia	01/30/12
Big James and the Chicago Playboys	The Big Payback	Blind Pig	01/31/12
Dave McGraw and Mandy Fer	Seed of a Pine	independent	02/01/12
Clarence Bucaro	Walls of the World	2020 Records	02/01/12
Refugees	Three	Wabuho	02/02/12
Wendell Kimbrough	Things That Can't Be Taught	independent	02/02/12
Wiyos	Twist	independent	02/02/12
Triosence and Sara Gazarek	Where Time Stands Still	Charlestown Square	02/07/12
Dennis Warner	Seeds	independent	02/07/12
Contino	Backporch Dogma	Blind Pig	02/07/12
Ladysmith Black Mambazo	Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Friends	Razor & Tie	02/09/12
Midwest Hype	Dayglow	independent	02/10/12
Rob Morsberger	Ghosts Before Breakfast	Heiroglyph	02/10/12
Chieftains	Voice of Ages	Here Music	02/16/12
Noam Weinstein *	Clocked	independent	02/21/12
Galactic	Carnivale Electicos	Anti-	02/21/12
Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer	Little Blue Egg	Red House	02/22/12
Busby Marou	Busby Barou	Footstep Music	02/23/12
Cowboy Junkies	The Wilderness	Razor & Tie	02/24/12
Amy Ray	Lung Of Love	Daemon	02/27/12
Good Old War	Come Back As Rain	Sargent House	02/28/12
The Funk Ark	High Noon	ESL	02/29/12
Nikhil Korula Band	Music of the New Day	independent	03/02/12
Ed Randazzo	Show and Tell	independent	03/05/12
George Milton	Scream and Shout	independent	03/05/12
Ministers of Cool	Ministers of Cool	independent	03/06/12
Sarah McQuaid	The Plum Tree and the Rose	Waterbug	03/07/12
England in 1819	Alma	independent	03/08/12
McEuen Sessions	For All the Good	independent	03/09/12
Bruce Springsteen	Wrecking Ball	Columbia	03/12/12
Bill Evans (saxophonist)	Dragonfly	independent	03/13/12
My Body Sings Electric	Changing Color	independent	03/13/12
Denison Witmer	The Ones Who Wait	Mono vs. Stereo	03/14/12
Peter Mulvey	The Good Stuff	Signature Sounds	03/15/12
Smash Palace *	Do It Again	Zip	03/15/12
Ceu	Caravana Sereia Bloom	Six Degrees	03/16/12
Hugh Masekela	Jabulani	independent	03/19/12
various artists	Putumayo Presents African Blues	Putumayo	03/19/12
Molasses Creek	An Island Out of Time	independent	03/21/12
Watussi	1000% Guapo	MGM	03/22/12
Rodrigo y Gabriela and C.U.B.A.	Area 52	ATO	03/22/12
Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart	Dedication	independent	03/28/12
Dar Williams	In the Time of the Gods	Razor and Tie	03/28/12
Papa Grows Funk	Needle in the Groove	independent	03/30/12
Michi *	Where Your Heart Is	independent	03/30/12
Dr. John	Locked Down	Nonesuch	04/02/12
The Right Now	Gets Over You	independent	04/03/12
Unthanks	Diversions Vol. 1	Rough Trade	04/04/12
Jon Cleary	Occapella	independent	04/05/12
American Dollar	Awake in the City	independent	04/05/12
Curtis Salgado	Soul Shot	Alligator	04/05/12
Clara Ponty	Into the Light	Eden	04/06/12
Andrew Bird	Break It Yourself	independent	04/06/12
Bonnie Raitt	Slipstream	Redwing	04/10/12
Neal Casal *	Sweeten the Distance	Royal Potato Family	04/11/12
Wishbone Ash	Elegant Stealth	independent	04/12/12
Pinetop Perkins	Heaven	Blind Pig	04/17/12
Cathy Jordan	All the Way Home	Blix Street	04/18/12
Punch Brothers	Who's Feeling Young Now	Nonesuch	04/18/12
Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem	Some Bright Morning	Signature Sounds	04/19/12
Peter Karp and Sue Foley	Beyond the Crossroads	Blind Pig	04/19/12
Dirty Dozen Brass Band	Twenty Dozen	Savoy	04/23/12
Infamous Stringdusters	Silver Sky	High Country	04/24/12
Sarah Donner *	Fossil of a Girl	independent	04/26/12
Otis Taylor	Otis Taylor's Contraband	Telarc	04/27/12
Anders Osborne	Black Eye Galaxy	Alligator	04/30/12
Brown Out	Oozy	Nat Geo	04/30/12
Drew Kelly *	Running Time	independent	05/01/12
ALO	Sounds Like This	Brushfire	05/02/12
Mystix	Mighty Tone	independent	05/03/12
Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson	Thick as a Brick 2	Chrysalis	05/03/12
Bill Evans (banjo player)	In Good Company	Native and Free	05/04/12
Sugarman 3	What the World Needs Now	Daptone	05/07/12
Andrew and Noah Band	Andrew and Noah Band	independent	05/08/12
Blues Traveler	Suzie Cracks the Whip	429 Records	05/09/12
Chuck Leavell	Back to the Woods	Evergreen Arts	05/09/12
Ryan Montbleau	For Higher	independent	05/10/12
Tedeschi-Trucks Band	Everybody's Talkin'	Masterworks	05/10/12
Walter Trout	Blues for the Modern Daze	Provogue	05/11/12
Sonny Landreth	Elemental Journey	Landfall	05/16/12
John Mayer	Born and Raised	Columbia	05/21/12
Mickey Hart Band	Mysterium Tremendum	independent	05/22/12
Heidi Happy	Hiding with Wolves	independent	05/22/12
Jerry Douglas	Traveler	E1	05/23/12
True Spokes	The True Spokes	independent	05/28/12
O'Brien Party of 7	Reincarnation: The Songs of Roger Miller	Howdy Skies	05/29/12
Warren Haynes	Live at the Moody Theater	Stax	05/30/12
Zaz	Zaz	SIN/France	05/31/12
Bap Kennedy	The Sailor's Revenge	Proper	06/01/12
Love on a Real Train	Love on a Real Train	Aeronaut	06/04/12
Cary Cooper	Pink Umbrella	independent	06/04/12
Jazz Punks	Smashups	independent	06/05/12
Joe Guido Welsh	Nothing Left to Say	independent	06/05/12
Jill Barber	Mischievous Moon	Outside	06/05/12
Beach Boys	That's Why God Made the Radio	Capitol	06/07/12
Lake Street Dive	Fun Machine	Signature Sounds	06/07/12
Mike Stern	All Over the Place	Heads Up	06/07/12
Paul Mark and the Van Dorens *	Smartest Man in the Room	Radiation	06/08/12
Curtis Stigers	Let's Go Out Tonight	Concord	06/08/12
Joe Bonamassa	Driving Towards the Daylight	J and R Adventures	06/11/12
Jimmy Fallon	Blow Your Pants Off	Warner Bros.	06/11/12
Brandi Carlile	Brear Creek	Columbia	06/12/12
Bobby Womack	The Bravest Man in the Universe	XL	06/13/12
Giant Giant Sand	Tuscon	Fire	06/14/12
Albert Castigila	Living in a Dream	Blues Leaf	06/14/12
Tom Flannery *	Teen Angst and the Green Flannel	independent	06/18/12
Blackberry Smoke	The Whippoorwill	independent	06/19/12
Chris Smither	Hundred Dollar Valentine	Signature Sounds	06/20/12
Anna Dagmar *	Satellite	independent	06/25/12
Keller Williams and the Traveling McCourys	Pick	SCI Fidelity	06/27/12
Harper Blynn	Busy Hands	independent	06/29/12
Stratospheerius *	The Next World	independent	07/03/12
Husky	Forever So	Sub Pop	07/04/12
Archives	The Archives	ESL	07/06/12
Van Wagner *	The Flood Sessions: Four Days of Rain	independent	07/09/12
Jesse Harris	Sub Rosa	Dangerbird	07/10/12
Jim Ivins Band *	Everything We Wanted	independent	07/10/12
Rick Estrin and the Nightcats	One Wrong Turn	Alligator	07/11/12
Rachael Sage	Haunted by You	Mpress	07/12/12
Otis *	Music Elevator	independent	07/12/12
Sublunar Minds *	The Last of the Natural Light	independent	07/13/12
George Wesley *	Old Lion	Joy and Happiness	07/16/12
Jimmy Cliff	Rebirth	Universal	07/18/12
Kati Mac *	Save Me from Myself	Baby Munsta	07/18/12
Beachwood Sparks	The Tarnished Gold	Sub Pop	07/19/12
Woodpecker	Thanks Anyway	independent	07/24/12
Tauk *	Pull Factors	independent	07/24/12
Allen Stone	Allen Stone	ATO	07/27/12
The Kennedys	Closer Than You Know	independent	07/30/12
Gaelic Storm	Chicken Boxer	Lost Again	07/31/12
Marcus Miller	Renaissance	Concord	08/02/12
Dave Fields	Detonation	independent	08/02/12
Susannah Hoffs	Someday	Baroque Folk	08/08/12
Antje Duvekot	New Siberia	independent	08/09/12
Robert Cray Band	Nothin' But Love	Provogue	08/14/12
Antibalas	Antibalas	Daptone	08/15/12
Banyaro	The Cover EP	independent	08/16/12
Carrousel	27 Rue de Mi'chelle	independent	08/17/12
Good Co	Electro Swing for the Masses	independent	08/17/12
Steve Forbert	Over with You	Blue Corn	08/20/12
Michael Burks	Show of Strength	Alligator	08/21/12
John Lee Hooker, Jr.	All Hooked Up	independent	08/24/12
Shemekia Copeland	33 1/3	Telarc	08/27/12
Deanna Bogart	Pianoland	Blind Pig	08/31/12
The Well Pennies	The Well Pennies	independent	09/10/12
Bob Dylan	Tempest	Columbia	09/11/12
Rickie Lee Jones	Devil You Know	Concord	09/12/12
The Olllam	The Olllam	Compass	09/17/12
Dave Matthews Band	Away from the World	RCA	09/18/12
Paul Simon	Live from New York City	Hear Music	09/19/12
Courrier	Cathedrals of Color	independent	09/20/12
Bettye LaVette	Thankful and Thoughtful	Anti-	09/21/12
Lee Ritenour	Rhythm Session	Concord	09/21/12
The Stray Birds	The Stray Birds	independent	09/24/12
Poor Moon	Poor Moon	Sub Pop	10/01/12
Birds of Chicago	Birds of Chicago	independent	10/03/12
Van Morrison	Born to Sing: No Plan B	Exile	10/03/12
Patrick Fitzsimmons	Hope Is	independent	10/04/12
Field Report	Field Report	Partisan	10/04/12
John Hiatt	Mystic Pinball	New West	10/04/12
Larry Graham & Graham Central Station	Raise Up	Razor & Tie	10/05/12
Ben Folds Five	The Sound of the Life of Your Mind	ImaVeePee	10/05/12
Graham Parker and the Rumour	Three Chords Good	Primary Wave	10/09/12
Beth Orton	Sugaring Season	Anti-	10/12/12
Mumford and Sons	Babel	Glassnote	10/12/12
Sons of the Never Wrong	King Fisher King	Waterbug	10/15/12
The Lee Boys	Testify	Evin Teen	10/16/12
Jesse Cook	The Blue Guitar Session	E-One	10/16/12
Lord Huron	Lonesome Dreams	independent	10/18/12
Jeff Lynne	Long Wave	Frontiers	10/18/12
Hatcheck Girl	Road to Red Point	Waterbug	10/18/12
Danielia Cotton	The Gun In Your Hand	independent	10/18/12
Craig Chaquico	Fire Red Moon	Blind Pig	10/19/12
Rebecca Loebe	Circus Heart	independent	10/19/12
American Beauties	Too Worn to Mend	independent	10/22/12
Luka Bloom	This New Morning	Compass	10/22/12
Martha Redbone Roots Project	The Garden of Love – Songs of William Blake	independent	10/23/12
Benjamin Gibbard	Former Lives	Barsuk	10/23/12
Jesse Terry	Empty Seat on a Plane	independent	10/24/12
Sam Sliva and the Good	And the People Say	independent	10/29/12
Kait Lawson	Until We Drown	Mad Jack	10/30/12
The Levellers	Static on the Radio	OTF	11/07/12
Roses and Revolutions	Earth and Everything (EP)	independent	11/08/12
Lindi Ortega	Cigarettes & Truckstops	Last Gang	11/09/12
New Primitives	American Nomad	independent	11/14/12
Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale	Buddy and Jim	New West	11/19/12
Three Imaginary Boys	People Wearing Masks	independent	11/20/12
Sutton Sorensen	Long, Long Time	independent	11/22/12
Freelance Whales	Diluvia	Mom + Pop	11/23/12
Jay Poole *	Almost Eleven	independent	11/26/12
Snowgoose	Harmony Springs	Ba Ba Ding	12/04/12
Bongos Ikwue and Double X	Wulu Wulu	independent	12/06/12
Tracorum	Tricked	independent	12/10/12
Foxtails Brigade	Time Is Passed	independent	12/10/12

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