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April 2012 *NEW*
Artist 

  

Album    

Label 

YARN Almost Home self-released
MATT HARLAN & THE SENTIMENTALS Bow & Be Simple Berkalin
MELODY WALKER Gold Rush Goddess self-released
KATYA CHOROVER Big Big Love Cat and the Moon
KANE WELCH KAPLAN Kane Welch Kaplan Live At The Bluebird Dead Reckoning
NANCI GRIFFITH Intersection Hell No
HANK WILLIAMS III Long Gone Daddy Curb
MOOT DAVIS Man About Town Highway Kind
TOM ARMSTRONG Wine Stained Heart Carswell
JASON EADY AM Country Heaven Underground Sound
JAY FARRAR, WILL JOHNSON, ANDERS PARKER, YIM YAMES New Multitudes Rounder
JD MCPHERSON Signs & Signifiers Rounder
TREASA LEVASSEUR Broad Slim Chicken
44s Americana Rip Cat
CURTIS SALGADO Soul Shot Alligator
PETER KARP & SUE FOLEY Beyond The Crossroads Blind Pig
     
LEROY THOMAS Jewel Of The Bayou Maison de Soul

March 2012
Artist 

  

Album    

Label 

OTIS GIBBS Harder Than Hammered Hell Wanamaker

LYLE LOVETT

Release Me Lost Highway
SISTERS MORALES Viva Luna
RAY WYLIE HUBBARD The Grifter's Hymnal Bordello
STEEL WHEELS Lay Down Lay Low self-released
JODY NIX Bright Lights & Country Music Hillside
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Nothing's Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now Bloodshot

TOMMY WOMACK

Now What! Cedar Creek Music

SHAWN NELSON

San Juan Street self-released

TODD SNIDER

Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables Aimless
SAM LEWIS Sam Lewis self-released
KRAYOLAS Tex-Mex 21st Century Box
HARMONIOUS FIVE Wanna Hear You Say "Yeah!" Haywire
FREDDIE STEADY 5 1000 Miles Steady Boy
CONTINO Back Porch Dogma Blind Pig
JOAN OSBORNE Bring It On Home Saguaro Road
SUGAR RAY & THE BLUETONES Evening Severn

VOLKER STRIFLER

Let The Music Rise VizzTone

ROB LUTES & ROB MACDONALD

Live self-released
JANIVA MAGNESS Stronger For It Alligator
     
HIGH PERFORMANCE Live From Breaux Bridge Swallow


February 2012
Artist 

  

Album    

Label 

DREW NELSON Tilt-A-Whirl Red House
The JAMES LOW WESTERN FRONT Whiskey Farmer Union Made
JASON ARNOLD & THE STEPSIDERS Crazy Things self
GRETCHEN PETERS Hello Cruel World Scarlet Letter
HALDEN WOFFORD & THE HI-BEAMS Live At Hodi's self
ANGELO M. From Steel To Strings Creative & Dreams Music Network
KEVIN GORDON Gloryland Crowville Media
RANDY THOMPSON Collected Jackpot
GREAT UNKNOWNS Homefront self
SUGAR & THE HI-LOWS Sugar & the Hi-Lows Ready Set
CHUCK MEAD Back At The Quonset Hut Ramseur
BAND OF HEATHENS Double Down EP 2-Pack BOH
BETH MCKEE Next To Nowhere Swampgirl Music
MAC ARNOLD'S BLUES REVIVAL Live At The Grey Eagle Vizztone
SHAWN STARSKI Shawn Starski Cookitup Music
     
VARIOUS Best of Festivals Acadiens et Creoles 2002 Valcour


January 2012
Artist 

  

Album    

Label 

FAR WEST

The Far West Light Fighter

NATE LATTA

Broken Glass self

RECKLESS KELLY

Good Luck & True Love No Big Deal

CHARLIE FAYE

Travels With Charlie Wine & Nut

MIKE ETHAN MESSICK

Only Easy Day Was Yesterday Mucho Bucho

ORBO & THE LONGSHOTS

Prarie Moon Blue Mood

WOOD BROTHERS

Smoke Ring Halo Southern Ground

DARRELL SCOTT

Long Ride Home Full Light

LINCOLN DURHAM

The Shovel (vs) The Howling Bones self
CHRIS CASTLE Last Bird Home Dirtsandwich Music Co.
BROCK ZEMAN Me Then You Mud/Busted Flat
DEADMAN Take Up Your Mat & Walk Rootsy
RUTHIE FOSTER Let It Burn Blue Corn Music
     
WAYNE TOUPS, STEVE RILEY & WILSON SAVOY The Band Courtbouillon Valcour
VARIOUS En Francais: Cajun 'n' Creole Rock 'n' Roll Bayou Teche


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Regarding the colored bars: The library is color-coded.
Orange = singer/songwriter and real-deal country
Red = rock 'n' roll, rockabilly
Blue = blues
Green = Louisiana music: Cajun, zydeco, brass bands, swamp pop
White = compilations and music that doesn't conveniently fit in other categories, i.e., conjunto, Gospel, Brave Combo

While there's always room for some quibbling about who goes in what category, that's part of the fun. Also, we allegedly use a color wheel, a wheel that's divided into library color-coded segments to correspond with the divisions of the hour so we don't do an entire show of, say, orange songs. That works better with some jocks than others.

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