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LAURA CANTRELL
Trains And Boats And Planes
... (Diesel Only)
RY COODER
I, Flathead
... (Nonesuch)
(
4
stars)
BEN SOLLEE
Learning To Bend
... (sonaBlast!/Thirty Tigers)
(4
½
stars)
ALABAMA3
Hits and Exit Wounds
...
(One Little Indian)
(
4
stars)
DONAL HINELY
Blue State Boy
...
(Scuffletown)
(5 stars)
ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO
Real Animal
... (Back Porch/Manhattan)
(4
½
stars)
HEYBALE
The Last Country Album
... (Shuffle 5)
(3
½
stars)
EMMYLOU HARRIS
All I Intended To Be
… (Nonesuch)
(4
½
stars)
ARLAN FEILES
Come Sunday Morning
... (Not-Pop Records)
(5 stars)
CROOKED STILL
Still Crooked
...
(Signature Sounds)
(
4
stars)
ALUN PIGGINS
At War With the Elephants
(Moldy Floor Records)
THE BAND OF HEATHENS
The Band Of Heathens
... (BOH)
(
4
stars)
ELIZA GILKYSON
Beautiful World
… (Red House)
(5 stars)
GWIL OWEN
Gravy
...
(Rambler)
(
4
stars)
FAYSSOUX
Early
...
(Red Beet)
(
4
stars)
RANDY THOMPSON
Further On
...
(Jackpot)
(4
½
stars)
PETER COOPER
Mission Door
... (Red Beet)
(4
½
stars)
ROY DAVIS + THE DREGS
Deadweight
... (Milltown)
(
4
stars)
THE WILDERS
Someone's Got To Pay
... (Free Dirt)
(
4
stars)
OLD 97'S
Blame It On Gravity
... (New West)
(4
½
stars)
HAYES CARLL
Trouble In Mind
... (Lost Highway)
(5 stars)
PATRICK BLOOM
Moses
...
(Mud Dauber)
(
4
stars)
HOLLY LONG
Leaving Kansas
...
(Skim Milk)
(
4
stars)
THE WOOD BROTHERS
Loaded
... (Blue Note)
(4
½
stars)
CHATHAM COUNTY LINE
IV
... (Yep Roc)
(4
½
stars)
FRED EAGLESMITH
Tinderbox
... (A Major Label)
(5 stars)
JAMES McMURTRY
Just Us Kids
... (Lightning Rod)
(4
½
stars)
ROBIN DEAN SALMON
Come On Home
... (self released)
(4
½
stars)
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE
The Good Life
… (Bloodshot)
(
4
stars)
KATHLEEN EDWARDS
Asking for Flowers
...
(Zoe/Rounder)
(4
½
stars)
JIM LAUDERDALE & THE DREAM PLAYERS
Honey Songs
... (Yep Roc)
(
3
stars)
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS
Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
… (New West)
(
4
stars)
CARLENE CARTER
Stronger
… (Yep Roc)
(
4
stars)
JOE FOURNIER
dirt road joy ride
...
(Junkyard Dog)
(5 stars)
GARY LOURIS
Vagabonds
... (Rykodisc)
(4
½
stars)
THE DOC MARSHALLS
Honest for Once
... (self released)
(5 stars)
ROBERT HAZARD
Troubadour
...
(Rykodisc)
(
4
stars)
MATTHEW BALLARD
Time
...
(self produced)
(
4
stars)
CAROLINE HERRING
Lantana
... (Signature Sounds)
(5 stars)
RIDLEY BENT
Buckles & Boots
... (Open Road Music)
(
3
½
stars)
SARA COX
Crowded is the New Lonely
...
(self-released)
(
4
stars)
THE WHIPSAWS
60 Watt Avenue
... (Shuteye)
(
3
½
stars)
DOUG JAYNE
Voices In The Wind
...
(Jackalope)
(
3
½
stars)
TIFT MERRITT
Another Country
...
(Fantasy)
(5 stars)
MALCOLM HOLCOMBE
Gamblin' House
... (self-released)
(
4
stars)
AMERICAN MARS
Western Sides
... (Gangplank)
(5 stars)
WILL KING
Come on in from the Cold
...
(self-released)
(4 stars)
SAL VALENTINO
Every Now And Then
… (Dig)
(
3
½
stars)
RHONDA VINCENT
Good Thing Going
… (Rounder)
(4
½
stars)
BILL KELLY
Bread On The Waters
... (self released)
(4
½
stars)
THE STEELDRIVERS
The SteelDrivers
... (Rounder)
(4
½
stars)
WILL HOGE
Draw the Curtains
... (Rykodisc)
(4 stars)
KRISTA DETOR
Cover Their Eyes
... (Corazong)
(4
½
stars)
WILL KIMBROUGH
(EP)
… (Daphne/Thirty Tigers)
(4
½
stars)
JESSE DAYTON & BRENNEN LEIGH
"Holdin' Our Own"...and other Country Gold Duets
... (Stag)
(4
½
stars)
ROD PICOTT
Summerbirds
... (Welding Rod)
(4
½
stars)
SUSAN WERNER
The Gospel Truth
... (Sleeve Dog)
(5 stars)
FLETCHER HARRINGTON
Under the Shadow of the San Gabriel
... (Lopie)
(4 stars)
DWIGHT YOAKAM
Dwight Sings Buck
... (New West)
(4 stars)
LEVON HELM
Dirt Farmer
… (Vanguard)
(4
½
stars)
ROGER WALLACE
It's About Time
... (Natchez Street)
(4 stars)
THE SADIES
New Seasons
... (Yep Roc)
(4 stars)
CORB LUND
Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier!
... (Stony Plain)
(4 stars)
MERLE HAGGARD
The Bluegrass Sessions
... (McCoury Music)
(4 stars)
DOUG KWARTLER
all sides
… (Hollow Body)
(4
½
stars)
MIKE FARRIS
Salvation In Lights
... (INO)
(4
½
stars)
STEVE EARLE
Washington Square Serenade
… (New West)
(4
½
stars)
DAVID SERBY
Another Sleepless Night
... (Harbor Grove)
(3 stars)
DOUG SPARTZ & FRIENDS
The One Who's Leavin'
... (Great North Music)
(5 stars)
Various Artists
Song Of America
... (Split Rock/31 Tigers)
(4 stars)
TERRI HENDRIX
The Spiritual Kind
... (Wilory)
(5 stars)
CORINNE WEST
Second Sight
... (Make Records)
(5 stars)
KIERAN KANE, KEVIN WELCH & FATS KAPLIN
Kane Welch Kaplin
... (Compass)
(4
½
stars)
BLACKIE & THE RODEO KINGS
Let's Frolic
... (True North)
(4 stars)
WALT WILKINS & THE MYSTIQUEROS
Diamonds In The Sun
... (Palo Duro)
(4
½
stars)
ELLSWORTH
American Compost
(self-released)
(4 stars)
PETER CASE
Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John
... (Yep Roc)
(5 stars)
EILEN JEWELL
Letters From Sinners & Strangers
… (Signature Sounds)
(4
½
stars)
MAVIS STAPLES
We'll Never Turn Back
... (Anti -)
(4 stars)
SAM BAKER
Pretty World
... (BlueLimeStone)
(5 stars)
TEDDY THOMPSON
Up Front and Down Low
... (Verve Forecast)
(5 stars)
SARAH BORGES and the BROKEN SINGLES
Diamonds In The Dark
… (Sugar Hill)
(4 stars)
DAN JANISCH
Medicine Man
... (Green Door)
(4 stars)
JEN SYGIT
Leaving Marshall Street
... (Earthworks)
(4 stars)
KELLY WILLIS
Translated From Love
... (Rykodisc)
(4
½
stars)
Various Artists
Anchored In Love: A Tribute To June Carter Cash
... (Dualtone)
(4 stars)
KING WILKIE
Low Country Suite
… (Zoe/Rounder)
(4 stars)
DAVID OLNEY
One Tough Town
… (Red Parlor)
(5 stars)
BRIGITTE LONDON
Like a Phoenix
...
(self-released)
(4 stars)
JOHN PRINE & MAC WISEMAN
Standard Songs for Average People
(3
½
stars)
RICHARD SHINDELL
South of Delia
… (Signature Sounds)
(4
½
stars)
JENNIE ARNAU
Mt. Pleasant
... (Spectra)
(4 stars)
PETER WALSH
Forbidden Road
... (Appaloosa Records)
(3
½
stars)
KELLY FLINT
Drive All Night
... (BePop)
(5 stars)
ELIZABETH COOK
Balls
… (Thirty Tigers)
(4
½
stars)
GINA VILLALOBOS
Miles Away
... (Face West)
(4
½
stars)
VAN MORRISON
Live At Austin City Limits Festival 2006
... (Limited Edition)
(4
½
stars)
PETER ROWAN & TONY RICE
Quartet
... (Rounder) (4
½
stars)
NEIL YOUNG
Live At Massey Hall 1971
... (Reprise)
(5 stars)
THE GREENCARDS
Veridian
... (Dualtone)
(4 stars)
SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS
Countrypolitan Favorites
… (Yep Roc)
(4
½
stars)
MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER
The Calling
... (Zoe/Rounder)
(5 stars)
PO' GIRL
Home To You
... (Nettwerk)
(4
½
stars)
LUCINDA WILLIAMS
West
… (Lost Highway)
(4 stars)
AUDREY AULD MEZERA
Lost Men and Angry Girls
… (Reckless)
(4 stars)
BILL KIRCHEN
Hammer Of The Honky-Tonk Gods
… (Proper)
(4
½
stars)
JIMMY BALDWIN
Somebody's Nobody
... (Jimmy B Music)
(5 stars)
THE HIDEAWAYS
The Whiskey Tango Sessions
... (Big Bender/Den)
(3
½
stars)
HONKY TONK DISCIPLES
Kickin' Up Dust
... (self-released)
(4 stars)
ED PETTERSEN
The New Punk Blues
... (Split Rock)
(3
½
stars)
RAMSAY MIDWOOD
Popular Delusions & the Madness of Cows
... (Farmwire) (4
½
stars)
GRAYSON CAPPS
Wail & Ride
... (Hyena)
(4
½
stars)
LUKE DOUCET
Broken (and other rogue states)
... (Six Shooter)
(3 stars)
BUCKSWORTH
Thingsfoundwalkinwithyerheaddown
…(Silent John)
(4 stars)
MARSHALL RHODES
Marshall Rhodes
... (Big River)
(4 stars)
LOOMER
Songs of the Wild West Island
... (Newtone)
(5 stars)
SUNNY SWEENEY
Heartbreaker's Hall Of Fame
… (self released)
(4
½
stars)
BOB CLENDENEN
Informed Gutbucket
...
(Mountain Shack)
(3 stars)
JIM LAUDERDALE
Bluegrass
... (Yep Roc)
(3
½
stars)
MIKE THERIEAU
Living From A Suitcase
... (Well Worn)
(4 stars)
MIKE BECK & THE BOHEMIAN SAINTS
Rooted
... (Reata)
(4 stars)
TRANSISTOR RODEO
Goin' Out In Style
... (Air) (3 stars)
SPADY
The Long Way Around and Other Short Stories
...
(Post Script)
(3 stars)
THE GOLDBRICKERS
Heaven
...
(Artisan)
(3
½
stars)
TONY JOE WHITE
Uncovered
... (Swamp)
(4 stars)
BORIS GARCIA
Mother's Finest
...
(Porchwerk)
(4 stars)
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS
A Blessing and a Curse
… (New West)
(4
½
stars)
THE SKYLIGHTERS
The Skylighters
… (Red Beet)
(4 stars)
TRENT SUMMAR
Horseshoes & Hand Grenades
… (Palo Duro)
(3 stars)
BOB FRANK & JOHN MURRY
World Without End
... (Bowstring)
(5 stars)
SOLOMON BURKE
Nashville
… (Shout! Factory)
(5 stars)
THE TEXAS SAPPHIRES
Valley So Steep
… (Lowe Farm)
(4
½
stars)
Various Artists
Why The Hell Not...The Songs of Kinky Friedman
... (Sustain) (5 stars)
MERLE JAGGER
Rancho Los Angeles
...
(Ranch Party)
(3 stars)
EVAN PHILLIPS
chickaloon
... (Skip Tooth)
(4
½
stars)
WAYNE "The Train" HANCOCK
Tulsa
… (Bloodshot)
(4 stars)
DOUG SPARTZ & FRIENDS
American Stories, Lies & Tales
... (Phono)
(5 stars)
THE WHIPSAWS
Ten Day Bender
... (Shut Eye)
(4 stars)
SHERRY AUSTIN
Drive On Back
... (Barking Topiary)
(4
½
stars)
CHRIS THILE
How To Grow A Woman From The Ground
… (Sugar Hill)
(4
½
stars)
GUY CLARK
Workbench Songs
... (Dualtone) (4
½
stars)
PAUL BURCH
East To West
… (Bloodshot) (4
½
stars)
CHRIS KNIGHT
Enough Rope
... (Emergent / 92e)
(4
½
stars)
CHIP TAYLOR
Unglorious Hallelujah/Red Red Rose
...
(Back Porch)
(3
½
stars)
THE BLIND ROBINS
Panorama Valley
... (Rolling Blackout) (4 stars)
THE DERAILERS
Soldiers of Love
... (Palo Duro)
(4 stars)
TODD SNIDER
The Devil You Know
… (New Door)
(3
½
stars)
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