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George Graham's Best of 2013 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

Date featured

Kevin Fisher

Losing You

independent

01/01/13

Noel Paul Stookey

One and Many

independent

01/02/13

Colin Edward and Jon Durant

Burnt Belief

Alchemy

01/02/13

Buddy Guy

Live at Legends

RCA/Silvertone

01/04/13

Tim Chaisson

The Other Side

independent

01/11/13

Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite

Get Up

Stax

01/15/13

Rick Hornyak

Marigold

independent

01/15/13

Pi Jacobs

Urbanicana

independent

01/16/13

Summarily Dismissed

To Each

independent

01/17/13

Robben Ford

Bringing It Back Home

Provogue

01/18/13

Free Energy

Love Sign

independent

01/23/13

Chloe Albert

Dedicated State

independent

01/24/13

2Cellos

In2ition

Sony Masterworks

01/24/13

Richard Thompson

Electric

New West

01/29/13

Red Baraat

Shaggy Ji

Sinj

01/30/13

The Parson Red Heads

Yearling (Deluxe Version)

Second Motion

01/31/13

Stone Blind Valentine

Burn Like a Field

independent

02/07/13

Barnaby Bright

The Longest Day

Mishara

02/11/13

The Canal

Make a Mess

independent

02/13/13

Petra Haden

Petra Goes to the Movies

Anti-

02/14/13

Susan McKeown

Belong

independent

02/14/13

Ian McFeron

Time Will Take You

independent

02/20/13

The Waterboys

An Appointment with Mr. Yeats

Proper

02/21/13

Alfa

World Go Blue

independent

02/21/13

Tarmac Adam

The History Effect

independent

02/22/13

Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer

Child Ballads

independent

02/27/13

Taarka

Adventures in Vagabondia

independent

02/27/13

Heidi Happy

On the Hills

independent

03/01/13

Cahill

They Way It Should Be

independent

03/05/13

Son Volt

Honky Tonk

Rounder

03/07/13

Brother Sun

Some Part of the Truth

independent

03/08/13

Ballake Sissoko

At Peace

Sex Degrees

03/11/13

Freshlyground

Take Me to the Dance

independent

03/11/13

They Might Be Giants

Nanobots

Idlewild

03/12/13

Paris Combo

5

DRG

03/13/13

Spencer Day

The Mystery of You

Concord

03/13/13

Larry Coryell

The Lift

Wide Hive

03/14/13

Sena Ehrhardt

All In

Blind Pig

03/14/13

Steve Earle and the Dukes (and Duchesses)

The Low Highway

New West

03/19/13

Kenny Roby

Memories and Birds

independent

03/19/13

Petula Clark

Lost in You

The End/Sony

03/20/13

Madeleine Peyroux

The Blue Room

Decca

03/20/13

Dolly Varden

For a While

independent

03/21/13

Ben Sidran

Don't Cry for No Hipster

Nardis

03/26/13

Scott Krokoff

Realizations & Declarations

independent

03/26/13

The Greyboy Allstars

Inland Emperor

independent

03/27/13

The Proclaimers

Like Comedy

429 Records

03/28/13

Matt Macauley

Soft.Loud.Repeat

independent

04/02/13

Walk Off the Earth

R.E.V.O.

Columbia

04/05/13

Free Range Folk

444

independent

04/08/13

Laura Cortese

Into the Dark

independent

04/09/13

Clarence Bucaro

Dreaming from the Heart of New York

independent

04/10/13

The Steel Wheels

No More Rain

independent

04/12/13

Dawes

Stories Don't End

Hub

04/16/13

Naked Blue

Weightless

independent

04/16/13

Ana Popovic

Can You Stand the Heat

Artistexclusive

04/17/13

various artists

Way to Blue: The Songs of Nick Drake

Story Sound

04/18/13

Redtenbacher's Funkestra

The Cooker

independent

04/18/13

Patty Griffin

American Kid

New West

04/22/13

BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet

From Bamako to Caronco

Compass

04/23/13

Rob Heath

The Trick

independent

04/24/13

Leroy Justice

Above the Weather

independent

04/25/13

Jerry Miller

New Road Under My Wheels

Signature Sounds

04/30/13

Randall Bramblett

The Bright Spots

New West

04/30/13

Ruth Moody

These Wilder Things

Red House

05/02/13

The Gray Havens

Where Eyes Don't Go

independent

05/03/13

David Gelman

Undertow

independent

05/06/13

Bobby McFerrin

Spirit You All

Sony Masterworks

05/06/13

Peter Rowan

The Old School

Compass

05/07/13

Willie Nile

American Ride

River House

05/08/13

Le Percolateur

Pop Manouche

Chicago Sessions

05/08/13

Nellie McKay & Philippe Quint

Downtown Express

Roc-Elle

05/09/13

Denison Witmer

Denison Witmer

Asthmatic Kitty

05/09/13

Stephen Kellogg

Blunderstone Rookery

independent

05/10/13

Chester Bay

Changes with the Midwest Moon

independent

05/14/13

Dillon Hodges

Rumspringa

independent

05/14/13

Tauk

Homunculus

independent

05/15/13

Aaron Lebos

Reality

independent

05/15/13

various artists

Remembering Little Walter

Blind Pig

05/17/13

James Cotton

Cotton Mouth Man

Alligator

05/17/13

Jimmy Vivino and the Black Italians

13 Live

Blind Pig

05/20/13

Julian Lennon

Everything Changes

independent

05/20/13

Arthur Lee Land

Cracked Open

Perfect Groove

05/24/13

Deborah Holland

Vancouver

independent

05/27/13

Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa

See Saw

independent

05/27/13

Melissa Ferrick

The Truth Is

MPress

05/28/13

Round Mountain

The Goat

independent

05/29/13

Paul Guzzone

Chasing the Moon

Triple Z

05/31/13

Buddy Mondlock

The Memory Wall

independent

06/03/13

California Transit Authority

Sacred Ground

independent

06/03/13

Femi Kuti

No Place for My Dream

Knitting Factory

06/04/13

Delbert & Glen

Blind, Crippled and Crazy

New West

06/05/13

Burning Bridget Cleary

Pressed for Time

independent

06/06/13

Tommy Malone

Natural Born Days

M.C.

06/11/13

Smash Palace

Live at the Auction House

Zip

06/12/13

Steve Brosky

Grateful

independent

06/12/13

Putnam Smith

Kitchen, Love..

independent

06/13/13

Beat Funktion

Moon Town

Do Music

06/14/13

Robinson Treacher

Porch

independent

06/14/13

Rapidgrass Quintet

Rapidgrass Quintet

independent

06/17/13

Hillbilly Water

Forever Blue

independent

06/17/13

Roy Book Binder

The Good Book

Peg leg

06/27/13

Vieux Farka Toure

Mon Days

Six Degrees

07/01/13

Vieux Farka Toure

Mon Days

Six Degrees

07/01/13

Trampled Under Foot

Badlands

Telarc

07/03/13

Leftover Cuties

The Spark & the Fire

independent

07/05/13

Blake Morgan

Diamonds in the Dark

ECR

07/05/13

Lenka

Shadows

Shipalong/Fontana

07/12/13

Jon Fuller

Skipping Away from Dissonance

independent

07/15/13

Tedeschi Trucks Band

Made Up Mind

Masterworks

07/16/13

Arise Roots

Moving Forward

independent

07/17/13

various artists

Woody Guthrie at 100 Live at the Kennedy Center

Legacy

07/22/13

Moreland and Arbuckle

7Cities

Telarc

07/23/13

Alan Semerdjian

Quiet Songs for Loud Times

independent

07/26/13

KT Tunstall

Invisible Empire/Crescent Moon

Blue Note

07/29/13

56 Men

Landing Lights

Zip

07/31/13

Nosoyo

Just Before the Faint

independent

07/31/13

Jitterbug Vipers

Phoebe's Dream

independent

08/06/13

Mickey Hart Band

Superorganism

360 degrees

08/07/13

Roomful of Blues

45 Live

Alligator

08/08/13

Mark Knopfler

Privateering

Verve

08/09/13

Tin Bird Choir

Homesteady

independent

08/12/13

Acoustic Syndicate

Rooftop Garden

independent

08/16/13

John Mayer

Paradise Valley

Columbia

08/26/13

Who Hit John?

Whistle on the Rail

independent

08/29/13

Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott

Memories and Moments

independent

09/05/13

The Oak Creek Band

XI

independent

09/06/13

The Gipsy Kings

Savor Flamenco

Knitting Factory

09/10/13

Et Tu Brute

Suburban Sunshine

Sona Blast

09/12/13

Spuyten Duyvil

Temptation

independent

09/16/13

Patty Larkin

Still Green

Signature Sounds

09/16/13

Elvis Costello and the Roots

Wise Up Ghost

Blue Note

09/17/13

John Ginty

Bad News Travels

American Showplace

09/18/13

Sultans of String

Symphony!

independent

09/19/13

Patty Griffin

Silver Bell

A&M

09/19/13

Will Bauermeister

110 Objects

independent

09/20/13

Maniacal 4

Carry

Armored

09/20/13

Elton John

The Diving Board

Capitol

09/23/13

Blind Boys of Alabama

I'll Find a Way

Masterworks

09/25/13

Art Decade

Art Decade

independent

09/27/13

Jimmy Webb

Still within the Sound of My Voice

EOne

09/30/13

Amos Lee

Mountains of Sorrow, Rivers of Song

Blue Note

10/01/13

Hannah Bingman

Loam

independent

10/01/13

Los Lobos

Disconnected in New York City

429 Records

10/02/13

Eric Frisch

One Way to Find Out

independent

10/03/13

Gov't Mule

Shout!

Blue Note

10/03/13

Chris Kasper

Bagabones

independent

10/04/13

Allen Toussaint

Songbook

Rounder

10/07/13

The Devil Makes Three

I'm a Stranger Here

New West

10/08/13

The Parson Red Heads

Orb Weaver

Fiesta Red

10/10/13

Vienna Teng

Aims

independent

10/10/13

Howe Gelb

The Coincidentalist

New West

10/18/13

Andy Statman

Superstring Theory

Shefa

10/21/13

Jim Lauderdale

Old Time Angel

Smith Music

10/21/13

Midlake

Antiphon

ATO

10/22/13

The Melodic

Effin Parade

Anti-

10/23/13

Chaise Lounge

Dot Dot Dot

Modern Songbook

10/25/13

Intended Immigration

La Demoiselle du Fonque

independent

10/25/13

Scott Chasolen

Portrait

independent

10/29/13

Chase Gassaway

Certain Circles

independent

10/31/13

John McCutcheon

22 Days

Appalsongs

11/07/13

Ken Yates

Twenty Three

Mishara

11/08/13

Paul Benoit

Have You Seen Me

independent

11/13/13

Del McCoury Band

The Streets of Baltimore

McCoury Music

11/20/13

Carl Franklin

Been a While

independent

11/21/13

Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones

Foreverly

Reprise

11/22/13

High Highs

Open Season

independent

11/26/13

Wouter Kellerman

Mzonsi

independent

12/02/13

Big Tree Bonsai

Awoken

independent

12/03/13

Dave Keyes

Right Here Right Now

independent

12/04/13

Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen

Berrymania

Compass Rose

12/05/13

various artists

Inside Llewyn Davis soundtrack

Nonesuch

12/06/13


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