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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



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