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.
Recordings featured on the Mixed Bag Weekly Album Review (Wednesdays at 9:00 PM) are linked to the review on this website.
Artist |
Album Title |
Label |
Date First Featured |
Lorne Clarke * |
From My Window |
independent |
01/01/16 |
The Dawn Drapes |
Let’s Be Strangers |
independent |
01/04/16 |
Charm City Junction |
Charm City Junction |
Patuxent |
01/05/16 |
The Chapin Sisters |
Today’s Not Yesterday |
Lake Bottom |
01/07/16 |
Danny Paisley & Southern Grass |
Weary River |
Patuxent |
01/08/16 |
Tedeschi Trucks Band |
Fantasy |
01/12/16 |
|
War and Pierce |
War and Pierce |
independent |
01/12/16 |
Mariachi |
Flor de Toloache |
independent |
01/12/16 |
Paul Mark and the Van Dorens |
Stowaways |
Radiation |
01/13/16 |
Christian Lopez Band |
Onward |
independent |
01/14/16 |
Burning Bridget Cleary |
These Are the Days |
independent |
01/14/16 |
Tin Toy Cars |
Rust and Bones |
independent |
01/14/16 |
Baaba Maal |
The Traveller |
Palm |
01/15/16 |
Ian McFeron * |
Radio |
independent |
01/18/16 |
Bourbon Express * |
One Big Losin’ Streak |
independent |
01/18/16 |
Bruce Sudano & The Candyman Band |
The Burbank Session |
independent |
01/19/16 |
Buddy Miller & Friends |
Cayamo: Sessions at Sea |
New West |
01/21/16 |
Karsh Kale |
Up |
Six Degree |
01/21/16 |
Sweet Honey in the Rock |
Love In Evolution |
Appleseed |
01/25/16 |
Judy Kass |
Beyond Ash and Steel |
independent |
01/26/16 |
Good Co. * |
independent |
01/27/16 |
|
Sierra Hull |
Rounder |
01/28/16 |
|
Wynonna and the Big Noise |
Wynonna and the Big Noise |
Curb |
01/29/16 |
Simon Linsteadt |
Simon Linsteadt |
independent |
02/01/16 |
Honor Finnegan |
Roses and Victory |
independent |
02/01/16 |
James Hunter Six |
Hold On |
DapTone |
02/03/16 |
Idan Raichel |
At the Edge of the Beginning |
Cumbancha |
02/04/16 |
Rofo Audio * |
Now Broadcasting |
independent |
02/05/16 |
Jon Shain & Joe Newberry |
Crow the Dawn |
Flyin’ |
02/10/16 |
Solas |
All These Years |
THL |
02/10/16 |
Terri Hendrix |
Love You Strong |
independent |
02/11/16 |
Gary Lucas & Jann Klose |
Stereopticon |
independent |
02/12/16 |
Sultans of String * |
independent |
02/15/16 |
|
Wren |
Stitch on Dream |
independent |
02/19/16 |
The Pines |
Red House |
02/22/16 |
|
Sidestepper |
Realworld |
02/23/16 |
|
Toronzo Cannon |
The Chicago Way |
Alligator |
02/24/16 |
Mavis Staples |
Living on a High Note |
Anti- |
02/25/16 |
Janiva Magness |
Love Winds Again |
Blue Elan |
02/25/16 |
Balkun Brothers * |
Balkun Brothers |
independent |
02/25/16 |
Peter Karp |
The Arson’s Match |
independent |
02/26/16 |
Jay Smar * |
Giving Back: A Tribute to My Peers |
independent |
03/02/16 |
Eileen Ivers |
E-one |
03/02/16 |
|
Bonnie Raitt |
Dig In Deep |
Red Wing |
03/03/16 |
Snarky Puppy |
Universal Classics |
03/04/16 |
|
Esperanza Spalding |
Emily’s D+Evolution |
Concord |
03/07/16 |
Tim Hockenberry |
Tim Hockenberry |
Poignant |
03/07/16 |
Ben Abraham |
Secretly Canadian |
03/10/16 |
|
Willie Nile |
World War Willie |
independent |
03/10/16 |
Jocelyn and Chris Arndt * |
Edges |
independent |
03/11/16 |
The Currys * |
independent |
03/16/16 |
|
Goose |
Moon Cabin |
independent |
03/17/16 |
Graham Nash |
The Path Tonight |
Blue Castle |
03/18/16 |
The Rides |
Pierced Arrow |
429 Records |
03/18/16 |
Minotaurs |
Weird Waves |
independent |
03/21/16 |
Charles Bradley |
Changes |
Dunham |
03/22/16 |
Elizabeth Geyer |
independent |
03/23/16 |
|
Shotgun Wedding |
South of Somewhere |
independent |
03/24/16 |
Supersonic Blues Machine |
West of Flushing, South of Frisco |
Provogue |
03/25/16 |
Ronnie Spector |
English Heart |
429 Records |
03/28/16 |
Ceu |
Tropix |
Six Degrees |
03/28/16 |
Peter Wolf |
A Cure for Loneliness |
Concord |
03/29/16 |
Curtis Salgado |
The Beautiful Lowdown |
Alligator |
03/29/16 |
Ray LaMontagne |
Ouroboros |
RCA |
03/30/16 |
Cha Wa |
Funk 'n Feathers |
independent |
03/30/16 |
Teddy Thompson & Kelly Jones |
Little Windows |
Cooking Vinyl |
03/31/16 |
Jeff Buckley |
You and I |
Columbia Legacy |
04/01/16 |
Van Wagner * |
A Mountain Man's Dream |
independent |
04/04/16 |
Cosy Sheridan |
Sometimes I Feel Too Much |
independent |
04/04/16 |
Wilder Atkins |
Hope and Sorrow |
independent |
04/05/16 |
Acme Giants |
Acme Giants |
independent |
04/06/16 |
Noam Weinstein * |
On Waves |
independent |
04/08/16 |
Del McCoury |
Del and Woody |
independent |
04/12/16 |
Moreland and Arbuckle |
Promised Land or Bust |
Alligator |
04/13/16 |
Andrew Bird |
Are You Serious |
Lone Vista |
04/13/16 |
Roots of Creation |
Livin' Free |
independent |
04/14/16 |
Brother Sun |
Weights and Wings |
independent |
04/15/16 |
Notify |
Ropeadope |
04/18/16 |
|
Dave Nachmanoff |
Spinozza's Dream |
independent |
04/18/16 |
Rachael Sage |
Chronographic |
Mpress |
04/19/16 |
Carla Ulbrich * |
Totally Average Woman |
independent |
04/25/16 |
Anders Osborne |
Spacedust and Ocean Views |
independent |
04/25/16 |
Ziggy Marley |
Ziggy Marley |
Tuff Gong |
04/27/16 |
Clarence Bucaro * |
Pendulum |
20/20 |
04/28/16 |
Trashcan Sinatras |
independent |
05/02/16 |
|
Joe Giacoio * |
I Love Hamburgers |
independent |
05/02/16 |
Shoebox Letters |
Love Sick Town |
independent |
05/03/16 |
The Misty Mountain String Band |
Red Horizon |
independent |
05/04/16 |
Albert Castiglia |
Big Dog |
Ruf |
05/06/16 |
Corrine Bailey Rae |
The Heart Speaks Speaks in Whispers |
Virgin |
05/10/16 |
Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate |
Cumbancha |
05/11/16 |
|
Seaons |
independent |
05/13/16 |
|
Melodic Intersect * |
Looking Back |
Aimrec |
05/16/16 |
The Barefoot Movement |
Live In L.A. |
independent |
05/17/16 |
San Felix |
Fire Island |
independent |
05/17/16 |
Sloan Wainwright |
Uncovering |
independent |
05/18/16 |
The Regulators |
One of These Days |
independent |
05/18/16 |
Rob Heath |
The Key |
independent |
05/19/16 |
Michael Doucet & Tom Rigney |
Cajun Fandango |
independent |
05/19/16 |
William Bell |
Stax |
05/24/16 |
|
Bill Evans |
independent |
05/25/16 |
|
The Monkees |
Good Times |
Rhino |
05/27/16 |
Dave Murphy |
American Landscape |
independent |
05/27/16 |
Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle |
Colvin & Earle |
Fantasy |
05/31/16 |
Paul Simon |
Concord |
06/03/16 |
|
Alexis P. Suter Band * |
All for Loving for Loving You |
American Showplace |
06/06/16 |
Ana Popovic |
Trilogy |
independent |
06/06/16 |
Joel Zoss |
Lila |
independent |
06/07/16 |
Sara Watkins |
Young in All the Wrong Ways |
New West |
06/08/16 |
The Maxx |
Funkbox |
independent |
06/09/16 |
Roosevelt Dime |
Red Shoes |
independent |
06/09/16 |
Ivas John |
independent |
06/10/16 |
|
The Motet |
Totem |
independent |
06/13/16 |
Grant Farm |
Kiss the Ground |
independent |
06/13/16 |
Sarah Jarosz |
Sugar Hill |
06/14/16 |
|
Tanbark |
Write Soon |
independent |
06/16/16 |
Sam Bush |
Storyman |
Sugar Hill |
06/17/16 |
Saso Sandic |
Alley Raven |
independent |
06/20/16 |
Marley’s Ghost |
The Woodstock Sessions |
independent |
06/20/16 |
Joel Miller with Sienna Dahlen |
Origin |
06/23/16 |
|
Water Street |
Waiting for Martin |
independent |
06/23/16 |
The Broadcast |
independent |
06/27/16 |
|
JJ Thames |
Raw Sugar |
Malaco |
06/30/16 |
Jeff Beck |
Loud Hailer |
Atco |
07/22/16 |
Jacob Collier |
Membran |
08/01/16 |
|
Baked Potatoes |
Loaded |
independent |
08/01/16 |
Ryan Shupe |
We Rode On |
independent |
08/02/16 |
Luke Bulla |
Pure Music Nashville |
08/04/16 |
|
Greg Greenway |
20,000 Versions of the Sun |
independent |
08/11/16 |
The Belle Hollows |
Miller’s Creek |
independent |
08/12/16 |
Ryley Walker |
Dead Oceans |
08/15/16 |
|
Joanna Connor |
Six String Stories |
M.C. |
08/16/16 |
Project Grand Slam |
The Queen’s Carnival |
independent |
08/23/16 |
The Unknown New |
independent |
08/30/16 |
|
Throttle Elevator Music |
IV |
independent |
08/30/16 |
Hilton Park |
Moments |
independent |
08/31/16 |
Matt Miskie |
Rooms of Love |
independent |
08/31/16 |
Richard Shindell |
Careless |
independent |
09/01/16 |
Spiritual Rez |
Setting in the West |
independent |
09/05/16 |
Madeleine Peyroux |
Impulse |
09/06/16 |
|
Bruce Katz Band |
American Showplace |
09/07/16 |
|
Jim Kweskin & Geoff Muldaur |
Penny’s Farm |
independent |
09/09/16 |
Dawes |
We’re All Gonna Die |
Hub |
09/20/16 |
Doyle Bramhall II |
Rich Man |
Concord |
09/21/16 |
Rhythmic Statues |
independent |
09/22/16 |
|
The Furious Seaons |
Look West |
Stone Garden |
09/27/16 |
Cameron Mizell |
Destiny |
09/27/16 |
|
Cosmic American Derelicts * |
Whiskey and Blood |
independent |
09/29/16 |
Norah Jones |
Blue Note |
09/30/16 |
|
Sonny Knight & the Lakers |
Sooner or Later |
Secret Stash |
10/03/16 |
Bob Weir |
Blue Mountain |
Columbia |
10/05/16 |
Dwight Yoakam |
Swimmin’ Pools, Movis Stars… |
Sugar Hill |
10/05/16 |
David Crosby |
Verve |
10/06/16 |
|
various artists |
Dear Jerry: Celebrating the Music of Jerry Garcia |
independent |
10/10/16 |
Colin James |
Blue Highways |
True Nirth |
10/11/16 |
Suzanne Vega |
independent |
10/14/16 |
|
Eric Johnson |
EJ |
Provogue |
10/17/16 |
Lucy Woodward |
Til They Bang on the Door |
Ground Up |
10/18/16 |
Soul Basement |
What We Left Behind |
independent |
10/21/16 |
Kenny White |
independent |
10/24/16 |
|
Jordan Tice |
Horse County |
Patuxent |
10/24/16 |
C Duncan |
The Midnight Sun |
Fat Cat |
10/26/16 |
Devon Allman |
Ride or Die |
Ruf |
10/26/16 |
American Football |
Polyvinyl |
10/28/16 |
|
The Nth Power |
Live to Be Free |
Harmonized |
11/02/16 |
The Pretenders |
Alone |
BMG |
11/10/16 |
various artists |
Putumayo Presents African Rumba |
Putumayo |
11/11/16 |
Jonatha Brooke |
Midnight Hallelujah |
independent |
11/14/16 |
Van Morrison |
Keep Me Singing |
Caroline |
11/14/16 |
Matt Pond PA |
independent |
11/15/16 |
|
Josienne Clarke & Ben Weller |
Rough Trade |
11/16/16 |
|
Nico Muhly & Teitur |
Nonesuch |
11/22/16 |
|
various artists |
The Musical Mojo of Dr. John – Celebrating Mac and His Music |
Concord |
11/29/16 |
various artists |
The Life and Songs of Emmylou Harris |
Rounder |
11/30/16 |
Mickey Theis |
Range Songs |
independent |
12/02/16 |
Club D’Elf |
Live at Club Helsinki |
independent |
12/09/16 |
Gillian Welch |
Boots No. 1The Official Bootleg |
Acony |
12/13/16 |
Alexis P. Sutor * |
Live at Briggs Farm |
Briggs Farm |
12/15/16 |
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