George Graham's Best of 2019 Albums List

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George Graham's Best of 2019 Albums List

These albums were selected by Mixed host George Graham from the over 500 albums and EPs 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 Name	Album Title	Label	Add Date
The Currys *	This Side of the Glass	independent	01/03/19
Gingermon *	Baked to Perfection	independent	01/07/19
Chris O’Leary	7 Minutes Late	American Showplace	01/09/19
Way Down Wanderers	Illusions	independent	01/11/19
Nell Robinson & Jim Nunally Band	Steel	independent	01/11/19
Rebecca Loebe	Give Up Your Ghosts	Blue Corn	01/15/19
The Chordaes	What We Breathe In	Riverine EP	01/17/19
Upstate	Healing	Royal Potato Family	01/21/19
The Sweet Coleens	10 Mona Lisas	Independent	01/18/19
Greg Jaquin *	Clocks Slow Down	independent	01/21/19
Matt Ellis	Rambler Pacifico	independent	01/24/19
Jocelyn & Chris Arndt *	The Fun in the Fight	independent	01/24/19
Eric Gales	The Bookends	Provogue	01/25/19
William Tyler	Goes West	Merge	01/28/19
Cancion Franklin *	Stone for Stone (EP)	independent	01/29/19
Eddie Arjun	Transition	independent	01/29/19
Walter Trout	Survivor	Provogue	01/30/19
Rachael Sage	Pseudomyopia	Mpress	02/01/19
Skyfoot	Blindly On Through	independent	02/04/19
Lotus	Frames per Second	independent	02/04/19
Cheryl Deseree	Dreamy	independent	02/07/19
Tedeschi Trucks Band	Signs	Fantasy	02/12/19
Sonia Disappear Fear	By My Silence	independent	02/12/19
Birdsong at Morning	Signs and Wonders	Blue Gentian	02/13/19
Hannah’s Field *	Revolutionary Soldier	independent	02/15/19
John Mayall	Nobody Told Me	Forty Below	02/18/19
Dan Bubien and the Delta Struts	Thieves & Yesterdays	independent	02/20/19
Jenna and the Charmers	Everyone I Love Is Here	independent	02/26/19
The Cuckoo Bees	Weeping Willow	independent	03/01/19
Billy Vera	Timeless	Vera Cruz	03/04/19
Jackson Grimm	The Bull Moose Party	independent	03/04/19
George Jackson	Time and Place	independent	03/07/19
International Orange	A Man and His Dog	independent	03/08/19
Tim O’Brien Band	Tim O’Brein Band	independent	03/11/19
Empty Pockets *	Tanglewoods	independent	03/13/19
The Infamous Stringdusters	Rise Sun	independent	03/18/19
Rob Heath	Ticket to Everywhere	independent	03/18/19
The Brother Brothers	Some People I Know	Compass	03/21/19
Andrew Bird	My Finest Work Yet	Loma Vista/Concord	03/22/19
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe	Gnomes and Badgers	independent	03/25/19
American Football	American Football (LP3)	Polyvinyl	03/26/19
Gabe Stillman Band *	The Grind (EP)	independent	03/26/19
Lake Minnetonka	Melbourneapolis	independent	03/27/19
Native Harrow	Happier Now	independent	03/28/19
Rogers and Butler	Diana Dors	Zip EP	03/29/19
Grupo Fantasma	American Music Vol. III	Blue Corn	03/29/19
The Bobbleheads	Myths and Fables	independent	04/02/19
The Nickel Slots	Pack Up All Regrets	independent	04/02/19
Alexis P. Suter *	Be Love	Hipbone	04/05/19
various artists	Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration	Decca	04/08/19
Norah Jones	Begin Again	Blue Note EP	04/09/19
Andrew Adkins	Who I Am	independent	04/09/19
Nashville Celts	Sons of Sailors	independent	04/10/19
Luke Sital-Singh	A Golden State	Raygun	04/11/19
Isaac Gracie	(Extended Edition)	independent	04/16/19
The Breakfast	Phanstasmagoria	Horizon	04/16/19
Aberdeen	Downpour	independent	04/18/19
The Lee Boys	Live on the East Coast	M.C.	04/18/19
Aretha Franklin	Amazing Grace: The Complete Recordings	Atlantic	04/19/19
Bruce Hornsby	Absolute Zero	independent	04/22/19
Lonely Heartstring Band	Smoke & Ashes	Rounder	04/23/19
Mile Twelve	City on a Hill	independent	04/23/19
George Benson	Walking to New Orleans	Provogue	04/25/19
Claude Fontaine	Claude Fontaine	Innovative Leisure	04/25/19
Andrew Synowiec	Second Story	independent	04/26/19
Angelique Kidjo	Celia	Verve Forecast	04/29/19
J.J. Cale	Stay Around	Because Music	04/30/19
John Michael Hersey *	Casting Shadows	independent	04/30/19
Vivian Sessoms	Life II	Ropeadope	05/01/19
Heathcote Hill	Save the Ones You Love	independent EP	05/01/19
Della Mae	The Butcher Shoppe EP	Rounder	05/02/19
Ordinary Elephant	Honest	independent	05/03/19
Spook Handy	Dedicated to the Proposition	independent	05/03/19
Rodrigo y Gabriela	Metavolution	ATO	05/06/19
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram	Kingfish	Alligator	05/08/19
The Lark and the Loon	2	independent	05/10/19
Nils Lofgren	Blue with Lou	independent	05/15/19
Root Cellar Xtract	Lonesome Miles	independent	05/15/19
Dervish	The Great Irish Songbook	Rounder	05/16/19
Coral Creek	Free Dog	independent	05/16/19
Das Funk Haus	Pot Salad	independent	05/17/19
The Levins	Caravan of Dawn	independent	05/20/19
David Gelman *	Last Surviving Son	independent	05/22/19
Tanbark	Tanbark	independent	05/24/19
Keller Williams	Add	independent	05/28/19
Steel Pulse	Mass Manipulation	independent	05/29/19
Greg Schatz	Amoebotics	independent	05/30/19
Mavis Staples	We Get By	Anti-	05/31/19
Rising Appalachia	Leylines	independent	06/03/19
Red Steppes	Arcs	independent	06/05/19
Ellis Paul	The Storyteller’s Suitcase	independent	06/06/19
The National	I Am Am Easy to Find	4AD	06/06/19
Shadowfields	Festival for One	independent	06/10/19
Santana	Africa Speaks	Concord	06/10/19
The BB King Blues Band	The Soul of the King	Ruf	06/11/19
Kenny “Beedy Eyes” Smith & House Bumpers	Drop the Hammer	BigEye	06/11/19
Gov’ Mule	Bring On the Music	Provogue	06/12/19
DeepC Divers	We’re All Americans	independent EP	06/12/19
Heather Kropf *	Light	independent	06/13/19
Willie Nelson	Ride Me Back Home	Legacy	06/13/19
Kishi Bashi	Omoiyari	Joyful Noise	06/14/19
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real	Turn Off the News Build a Garden	Fantasy	06/14/19
Bad Books	III	Loma Vista	06/20/19
Fruit Bats	Gold Past Life	Merge	06/21/19
Keb’ Mo’	Oklahoma	Concord	06/24/19
ESOEBO	VI	independent	06/25/19
Barton Hartshorn	I Died of Boredom and Came Back as Me	BFD	06/27/19
The Movement	Way of the World	Ineffable	07/01/19
Van Wagner *	Shortleaf Pine	independent	07/05/19
Kenner	8 Ball City	independent	07/09/19
William DuVall	One Alone	DVL	07/12/19
Neal Francis	Changes	Colemine	07/12/19
Tommy and June	Tommy and June	Fat Wreck Chords	07/16/19
Katchafire	Legacy	independent	07/16/19
Brenda Fernandes *	Float Away	independent	07/22/19
Okan Ersan	Nibiru	independent	07/25/19
Tim Grimm	Heart Land Again	Vault	07/25/19
Nick Moss Band	Lucky Guy!	Alligator	07/29/19
Coco Montoya	Coming in Hot	Alligator	08/02/19
Griffin House	Rising Star	independent	08/02/19
Robert Randolph & the Family Band	Brighter Day	Provogue	08/07/19
Bobby Rush	Sitting on Top of the Blues	Deep Rush	08/07/19
Mindi Abair & the Boneshakers	No Good Deed	Pretty Goof for a Girl	08/09/19
The Sons of Hachaliah Bailey *	The Sons of Hachaliah Bailey	Tracktour	08/09/19
Ernie Hendrickson	Roll On	independent	08/12/19
Cej	Adobe Road	independent	08/15/19
The Dead South	Sugar and Joy	Six Shooter	08/16/19
The Bros. Landreth	87	Birthday Cake	08/19/19
Allman-Betts Band	Down to the River	BMG	08/23/19
Luba Dvorak	American Sin	independent	08/28/19
Gann Brewer *	Absolution	independent	08/29/19
Violent Femmes	Hotel Last Resort	PIAS	08/29/19
Flip Rushmore	Big, If True	independent	08/29/19
Annie and Rod Capps	When They Fall	independent	08/30/19
Shannon Marsyala *	Oceans	independent	09/02/19
Rick Estrin and the Nightcats	Contemporary	Alligator	09/03/19
Giles Robson	Don’t Give Up on the Blues	American Showplace	09/03/19
Surefire Sweat	Surefire Sweat	independent	09/04/19
Sons of the East	Burn Right Through (EP)	independent	09/05/19
Toronzo Cannon	The Preacher, the Politician or the Pimp	Alligator	09/06/19
Mean Mary	Cold	independent	09/09/19
Allison Lupton	Words of Love	independent	09/09/19
Bruce Cockburn	Crowing Ignites	True North	09/11/19
Altered Five Blues Band	Ten Thousand Watts	Blind Pig	09/13/19
The Rubinoos	From Home	Yep Roc	09/13/19
The Gossamer Strings	Due to the Darkness	independent	09/16/19
Del Barber	Easy Keeper	independent	09/16/19
Marc Cohn & the Blind Boys of Alabama	Work to Do	independent	09/17/19
Catfish Keith	Catfish Crawl	Fishtail	09/19/19
Ella Harp	Who Asked You Back	independent	09/20/19
Sarah Rogo	Smoke and Water	independent	09/24/19
Belle and Sebastian	Days of Bagnold Summer		09/25/19
Beth Hart	War in My Mind	Provogue	09/27/19
Annie Gallup	Bookish	independent	09/27/19
Ghost Town Blues Band	Shine	independent	10/01/19
Brothers Lazaroff	Sisters and Brothers	independent	10/01/19
Young Mister	Sudden Swoon	Refresh	10/02/19
Stick Figure	World on Fire	Ruffwood	10/03/19
Myles Goodwyn	Friends of the Blues 2	Linus	10/04/19
Clint Alphin	Straight to Marrow	ind	10/04/19
Jon Regen	Higher Ground	Ropeadope	10/08/19
Alex Cuba	Sublime	Caracol	10/10/19
Junior Toots	A Little Bit of Love	independent	10/14/19
Circus of the West	Ring	independent	10/22/19
Andrew VanNorstrand	That We Could Find a Way to Be	independent	10/24/19
Daniel Martin Moore	Never Look Away	independent	10/25/19
Keller Williams & the Keels	Speed	independent	10/28/19
Zac Harmon	Mississippi BarBQ	Catfood	10/29/19
Chris Wilson	One Hallelujah	independent	10/31/19
The Early Risers	Making Life Sweet	Itchy Sabot	11/01/19
Turnover	Altogether	Run for Cover	11/07/19
Paula Cole	Revolution	675 Records	11/11/19
Mike Zito & Friends	Rock ‘n’ Roll: A Tribute to Chuck Berry	Ruf	11/13/19
Ronnie Wood with his Wild Five	Mad Lad: A Live Tribute to Chuck Berry	BMG	11/13/19
Heathcote Hill	Fight Another Day	independent	11/14/19
Sonia Johnson	Chrysalis	independent	11/15/19
Stolen Jars	A Reminder	independent	11/21/19
The Drunken Hearts	Wheels of the City	independent	11/21/19
Kinky Friedman	Resurrection	Echo Hill	11/21/19
Hiss Golden Messenger	Terms of Surrender	Merge	11/22/19
Joe Kopicki *	Innocent Joe	independent	11/26/19
The Long Ryders	Psychedelic Country Soul	Omnivore	12/10/19
Square Peg Round Hole	Branches	National Sawdust	12/10/19
Heather Pierson	Lines and Spaces	Vessel	12/12/19
Judy Collins & Jonas Fjeld	Winter Stories	Cleopatra	12/13/19

Other 2019 Year-End Material

The 2019 Graham Awards
The 2019 Musical Obituaries

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