DJs’ Favorites for 2015
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December 14, 2015 - 7:38 pm
It just might be the most contentious list of the year. That’s right, your KBCS hosts bring you their favorite recordings of 2015. Enjoy!
Abde Elshafei – Bluegrass Ramble
Russell Moore and IIIrd Tyme Out It’s About Tyme (Break A String)
Flatt Lonesome Runaway Train (Mountain Home)
Trout Steak Revival Brighter Everyday (Self)
Della Mae Take One Day (Rounder)
Dale Ann Bradley Pocket Full of Keys (Pinecastle)
Donna Ulisse Hard Cry Moon (Hadley)
Slocan Ramblers Coffee Creek (Self)
Annie Staninec Annie Staninec (Self)
Kathy Kallick Foxhounds (Live Oak)
Gold Heart Places I’ve Been (Mountain Fever)
Ash Odedra – Waveform Transmission
Shinichi Atobe Ship-Scope (DDS)
Laurel Halo In-Situ (Honest Jon’s Records)
Errorsmith & Mark Fell Protogravity EP (PAN)
Abul Mogard Circular Forms (Ecstatic)
Ron Morelli A Gathering Together (Hospital Productions)
FIS The Blue Quicksand Is Going Now (Loopy)
Arca Mutant (Mute)
Gesloten Cirkel M-011 / M-012 (Murder Capital)
Holly Herndon Platform (4AD)
Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force Yermande (Ndagga)
“In no particular order…Peace!”
Braddah Gomes – Hawai`i Radio Connection
Kuana Torres Kahele Music for the Hawaiian Islands Vol 4 Manookalanipo Kaua`I (Unknown)
Keali`i Reichel Kawaiokalena (Punahele Production)
Kunewa Mook Oia Ka Manawa
Amy & Willie K Reunion
Maunalua He Ino (Unknown)
Anuhea Inside Me
Jeff Peterson O’ahu (Peterson Productions)
Kohala Mana Road (Palm Records)
Sean Olanui Robbins Olanui
Natalie Ai Kamau La La La La (Unknown)
“It was a nice year for ono Hawaiian music. Mahalo for tuning into KBCS. A hui hou!”
Casey Martin – Our Saturday Tradition, The Morning Blend
Leon Bridges Coming Home (Columbia)
The Deslondes The Deslondes (New West)
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats (Stax)
Bhi Bhiman Rhythm & Reason (Thirty Tigers)
The Milk Carton Kids Monterey (ANTI-)
Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)
Jose Gonzalez Vestiges & Claws (Mute)
Andrew Combs All These Dreams (Coin)
Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Mom + Pop)
Alabama Shakes Sound & Color (ATO)
Chelan Lippincott – Music + Ideas
Adele 25 (XL Recordings)
Andra Day Cheers to the Fall (Warner Bros)
Brandi Carlile The Firewatcher’s Daughter (ATO)
D’Angelo and the Vanguard Black Messiah (RCA)
Jill Scott Woman (Blues Babe)
Kacey Musgraves Pageant Material (Mercury Nashville)
Leon Bridges Coming Home (Columbia)
Nicki Minaj The Pinkprint (Republic)
Nikki Hill Heavy Hearts Hard Fists (Deep Fryed Records)
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings It’s A Holiday Soul Party (Daptone)
“This top ten is in alphabetical order because, come on, it’s impossible to order your top ten. Also, my “year” runs like the Grammy schedule. December/November 2014 releases are considered.”
Belle & Sebastian Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance (Matador)
Twerps Range Anxiety (Merge)
Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell (Asthmatic Kitty)
Passion Pit Kindred (Columbia)
The Wombats Glitterbug (Bright Antenna)
Deerhunter Fading Frontier (4AD)
Sleater-Kinney No Cities to Love (Sub Pop)
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin The High Country (Polyvinyl)
Yo La Tengo Stuff Like That There (Matador)
Telekinesis Ad Infinitum (Merge)
David Utevsky – Straight, No Chaser
Rez Abassi Acoustic Quartet Intents and Purposes (Enja)
J D Allen Graffiti (Savant)
Larry Coryell Heavy Feel (Wide Hive)
Stanley Cowell Juneteenth (Vision Fugitive)
Liberty Ellman Radiate (Pi)
Vijay Iyer Trio Break Stuff (ECM)
Rudresh Mahanthappa Bird Calls (ACT)
Myra Melford Snowy Egret (Enja)
Gary Peacock Trio Now This (ECM)
Ashley Monroe The Blade (Warner Music Nashville)
Angela Easterling Common Law Wife (De L’est)
Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard Django & Jimmie (Sony)
Eilen Jewell Sundown Over Ghost Town (Signature Sounds)
Ryan Adams Ten Songs From Live at Carnegie Hall (Blue Note)
Kasey Chambers Bittersweet (Sugarhill)
Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams (Red House)
Brandi Carlile The Firewatcher’s Daughter (ATO)
Asleep at the Wheel Still the King: Celebrating the Music of Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (Bismeaux)
Lilly Hiatt Royal Blue (Normal Town)
DJ Niko – Away from the Numbers
Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Mom + Pop)
Wilco Star Wars (dBpm)
The Hate My Day Jobs Mouth on Fire (Self-released)
Girlpool Before The World Was Big (Wichita)
Colleen Green I Want to Grow Up (Hardly Art)
Sleater Kinney No Cities To Love (Sub Pop)
Mike Krol Turkey (Merge)
Ryan Adams 1989 (Blue Note)
The Worriers Imaginary Life (Don Giovanni)
Waxahatchee Ivy Tripp (Merge)
Doug Paterson – Music of Africa
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba Ba Power (Glitterbeat)
Various Malagasy Artists Feedback Madagascar (ARC Music)
Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band (Strut)
Seckou Keita 22 Strings (ARC Music)
Kandia Kouyaté Renascence (Stern’s Africa)
Various Artists Highlife on the Move (Soundway)
Ballake Sissoko, Vincent Sega Musique de Nuit (No Format!)
Amara Toure Amara Toure 1973 to 1980 (Analog Africa)
Various Somali Artists Light & Sound of Mogadishu (Afro7 Records)
Makadem Koko Rio (One World Records)
“There are many fine African releases for 2015. These are just the first 10 to cross my mind among the many.”
Duffy Graham – Away from the Numbers
Dilly Dally Sore (Partisan)
FIDLAR Too (Mom & Pop)
The Fratellis Eyes Wide Tongue Tied (Cooking Vinyl)
Grip Weeds How I Won the War (Jem)
Potty Mouth Potty Mouth EP (Planet Whatever)
Ricked Wicky I Sell the Circus (Guided by Voices)
Royal Headache High (What’s Your Rupture)
Three Hour Tour Action and Heroes (Martian)
Western Settings Yes It Is (Dying Scene)
Young Guv Ripe 4 Luv (Slumberland)
Anna & Elizabeth Anna & Elizabeth (Free Dirt)
Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting, Nancy Kerr Murmurs (Topic Records)
Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem Violets are Blue (Signature Sounds)
Tellico Relics and Roses (Self)
Lisa Ornstein and Dan Compton The Magic Paintbrush (Self)
Pharis and Jason Romero A Wanderer I’ll Stay (Lula Records)
Adrianna Cicone The Back of Winter (Self)
Breabach Urlar (Self)
Kathy Kallick Band Foxhounds (Live Oak Records)
The Onlies Long Before Light (Self)
Nocturnal Sunshine Nocturnal Sunshine (I/AM/ME)
Lapalux Lustmore (Ninja Tune)
Kodak to Graph Isa (Family)
Monokle Rings (Ki Records)
Fritz Kalkbrenner Ways Over Water (Suol Studios)
HeCTA The Diet (Merge Records)
Bob Moses Days Gone By (Domino Records)
Manatee Commune Brush (Manatee Commune)
Howling Sacred Ground (Ninja Tune)
A Path Untold Secret Subtle Light (Aligning Minds Recordings)
“These are just a bit of the select top for 2015 from VARIATIONs. So much good music each year. Thanks for the support and tuning in!!”
Gus Denhard – Early Music Northwest
Hesperion XXI El Nuevo Mundo (AliaVox)
Agave Baroque Queen of Heaven (VGo)
La Grande Chapelle Juan Hidalgo (Lauda)
La Venexiana Sigismondo D’India (Glossa)
Masaaki Suzuki Bach Organ Works (BIS)
Sin Fronteras Galopa (Self)
RumBarroco Latin-Baroque Fusion (La Donna Musicale)
Musica Ficta Musicas Viajeras (Enchiriades)
Project Ars Nova Unseen Rain (New Albion)
Chanticleer Mysteria (Teldec)
“Enjoy! And thanks for your support.”
Iaan Hughes – Walkin’ the Floor
The Honeycutters Me Oh My (Organic)
Dave Rawlings Machine Nashville Obsolete (Acony)
Joan Shelley Over and Even (No Quarter)
The Deslondes The Deslondes (New West)
John Moreland High on Tulsa Heat (Old Omens)
Rhiannon Giddens Tomorrow Is My Turn (Nonesuch)
Brennen Leigh Sings Lefty Frizzell (Self)
Kirk Reese Rush Lake (Self)
Eilen Jewell Sundown Over Ghost Town (Signature Sounds)
Leon Bridges Coming Home (Columbia)
Honorable Mention: Jeff Lynne, Silverhands, La Luz, Sarah Gayle Meech, Nikki Hill, Max Stalling, Brandi Carlile.
Floating Points Elaenia (Luaka Bop)
Haitus Kaiyote Choose Your Weapon (Flying Buddha)
The Internet Ego Death (Odd Future)
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly (Top Dog Entertainment)
Kamasi Washington The Epic (Brainfeeder)
Jamie XX In Colour (Young Turks)
Tuxedo Tuxedo (Stones Throw)
Hudson Mohawke Lantern (Warp)
Bilal In Another Life (eOne)
Slime Company (Weird Wide Record Company)
“In no particular order”
Tim O’Brien Pompadour (Howdy Skies)
Donna Ulisse Hard Cry Moon (Hadley)
Kathy Kallick Band Foxhounds (Live Oak)
The Steel Wheels Leave Some Things Behind (Independent)
Joel Mabus A Bird In This World (Fossil)
Grant Dermody Sun Might Shine on Me (Independent)
Jesse Milnes & Emily Miller Deep End Sessions Vol. II (Deep End Sessions)
Fiddle & Banjo (Karrnnel Sawitsky & Daniel Koulack) Tunes From the North, Songs From the South (Independent)
John Lilly Thinking About the Weather (JaveJena)
Lydom, Bugge & Høirup Gangspil (GO Danish)
Lianne La Havas Blood (Nonesuch)
Leon Bridges Coming Home (Columbia)
D’Angelo and the Vanguard Black Messiah (RCA)
Tad Britton Cicada (Origin)
Industrial Revelation Liberation & The Kingdom of NRI (Self)
Pops Staples Dont Lose This (Anti/Epitaph)
Nneka My Fairy Tales (BushQueen)
Terence Blanchard Breathless (Blue Note)
Vijay Iyer Trio Break Stuff (ECM)
Vieux Farka Touré & Julia Easterlin Touristes (Six Degrees)
John Midgley – Shape of Modern Jazz
Charles Lloyd Wild Man Dance Blue Note
Erik Friedlander Oscalypso Skipstone
Jack DeJohnette Made in Chicago ECM
Maria Schneider Orchestra The Thompson Fields (artistShare)
Myra Melford Snowy Egret (Enja)
Rudresh Mahanthappa Bird Songs (ACT)
Steve Coleman and the Council of Balance Synovial Joints (Pi)
Vijay Iyer Trio Break Stuff (ECM)
“These 8 in alpha order by first name are the best I heard this year.”
Paul Kikuchi Bat Of No Bird Island (Prefecture)
Wally Shoup, Greg Campbell, Greg Kelley, and Bill Nace One End To The Other (OM)
Ludovic Morlot and the Seattle Symphony Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 / Varèse: Amériques (Seattle Symphony Media)
Pascal Niggenkemper solo ‘look with thine ears’ (Clean Feed)
Thurston Moore and John Moloney Full Bleed (Northern Spy)
Peter Brötzmann, Keiji Haino, and Jim O´Rourke Two City Blues 2 (Trost)
John Zorn The True Discoveries of Witches and Demons (Tzadik)
Jack DeJohnette Made In Chicago (ECM)
William Parker For Those Who Are, Still (Aum Fidelity)
Frank Zappa Dance Me This (Zappa)
Amadou Balake In Conclusion (Stern’s Africa)
Bamba Wassoulou Groove Farima (Label Bleu)
Bixiga ’70 III (Glitterbeat)
Damily Very Aomby (Helico)
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba Ba Power (Glitterbeat)
Lura Heranca (Lusafrica)
Souad Massi El Mutakallimun (Wrasse)
Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal Musique de Nuit (Six Degrees/No Format)
Songhoy Blues Music In Exile (Transgressive/Atlantic)
Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band (Strut)
“In alphabetical order.”
Jonathan Lawson – Flotation Device
Jessika Kenney Atria (SIGE)
Morton Feldman Clarinet and String Quartet (Saltern)
William Parker For Those Who Are, Still (Aum Fidelity)
Matana Roberts Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee (Constellation)
Steven M. Miller Between Noise and Silence (Innova)
Chuck Johnson Blood Moon Boulder (Scissor Tail)
Mary Havlorson Meltframe (Firehouse 12)
Miguel Isaza Tempiternidad (Dragon’s Eye)
Merzbow, Mats Gustafsson, Balázs Pándi, Thurston Moore Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper (Rare Noise)
Africa Express Presents Terry Riley’s In C Mali (Transgressive)
“Visit our Facebook page for playlists and more top releases from 2015: www.facebook.com/flotationdevicekbcs”
Kevin Rodgers – Grateful Dead Hour & Backtracks
Widespread Panic Street Dogs (Vanguard)
Phish Amsterdam (JEMP)
Warren Haynes & Railroad Earth Ashes & Dust (Concord)
JJ Grey & Mofro Ol’ Glory (Mascot Music)
Burley Mountain Songs From The Night Before (Burley Mountain)
Bob Dylan Shadows In The Night (Columbia)
Neil Young & Promise of the Real The Monsanto Years (Reprise)
Billy Gibbons & The BFG’s Perfectamundo (Concord)
Mike Gordon The Last Step EP (Megaplum)
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings It’s A Holiday Soul Party (Daptone)
Alabama Shakes Sound & Color (ATO)
Terence Blanchard Breathless (Blue Note)
Gary Clark, Jr. The Story of Sonny Boy Slim (Warner Brothers)
Flavia Coelho Mundo Meu (Flowfish)
Leonard Cohen Can’t Forget: A Souvenir of The Grand Tour (Sony Legacy)
Andra Day Cheers to the Fall (Warner Bros)
Natalia Lafourcade Hasta La Raiz (Sony)
Lianne La Havas Blood (Nonesuch)
Pops Staples Don’t Lose This (Anti / Epitaph)
The Very Best Makes a King (Pias America)
Larry Lewin – Our Saturday Tradition
Iris Dement The Trackless Woods (FlanElla Records)
Greg Trooper Live at the Rock Room (52 Shakes Records)
Lucinda Williams Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone (Highway 20 Records)
Sam Lewis Waiting on You (Brash Music)
Pharis and Jason Romero A Wanderer I’ll Stay (Lula Records)
Chuck Hawthorne Silver Line (Independent / 3 Notches Music)
Squirrel Butter Chestnuts (Independent)
Jonathan Edwards Tomorrow’s Child (Rising Records)
Joe Ely Panhandle Rambler (Rack ‘Em Records)
Big Country Bluegrass Country Livin’ (Rebel Records)
Honorable Mention: Band of Ruhks, Mandolin Orange, Springfield Exit, Pete Rubens
Mary Kelly – Sunday’s Hornpipe
Nathan Gourley & Laura Feddersen Like Is All Checkered (Self)
Tríona Marshall Between Two Ways (Self)
Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh & Danny O’Mahony As It Happened (Self)
Altan The Widening Gyre (Compass)
Seamus Begley The Bold Kerryman (Independent Records Limited)
Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting, Nancy Kerr Murmurs (Topic Records)
Lindsay Straw My Mind From Love Being Free (Self)
Open The Door For Three The Penny Wager (Self)
Adam Agee & Jon Sousa Suantraí (Self)
Gráinne Holland Gaelré (Claddagh Records)
Patrick Whalen
Los Hijos de la Montaña Los Hijos de la Montaña (Cosmica)
Lianne La Havas Blood (Nonesuch)
Hiatus Kaiyote Choose Your Weapon (Sony)
Natalia Lafourcade Hasta La Raiz (Sony)
Holly Herndon Platform (4AD)
The Internet Ego Death (Odd Future)
Romulo Fróes Por Elas, Sem Elas (YB Music)
Kamasi Washington The Epic (Brainfeeder)
Ibebyi Ibebyi (XL)
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly (Aftermath/Interscope)
Patty Fong – Musica de la Raza
Los Cenzontles Shades of Brown (Los Cenzontles Mexican Culture Center)
Los Cenzontles Alma Capirana (Los Cenzontles Mexican Culture Center)
Ersi Arvizu Madre Consentida (Self)
Lila Downs Balas y Chocolate (Sony Latin)
La Santa Cecilia I Won’t Cry For You (Universal)
Natalia Lafourcade Hasta La Raiz (Sony)
Banda de Los Muertos Banda de los Muertos (Barbes)
Rana Santacruz Por Ahi (Chicavasco)
Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano Tradicion, Arte y Pasion (Smithsonian Folkways)
Los Lobos Gates of Gold (Savoy)
“Congratulations to all the new, emerging and established Mexican and Mexican American artists whose contributions have established the long overdue place for this music on the world stage!”
Pete Goodall – Bluegrass Ramble
Greg Blake Songs Of Heart And Home (Self)
Cody Shuler Cody Shuler (Rural Rhythm)
The Gibson Brothers Brotherhood (Rounder)
The Kathy Kallick Band Foxhounds (Live Oak)
Sideline Session II (Mountain Fever)
Johnny Williams Going My Way (Mountain Home)
The Steeldrivers The Muscle Shoals Recordings (Rounder)
Donna Hughes From The Heart (Self)
Band Of Ruhks Band Of Ruhks (101 Ranch)
Dale Ann Bradley Pocket Full Of Keys (Pinecastle)
“2015 was a great year for Bluegrass!”
Jason Isbell Something More Than Free (Southeastern)
The Honeycutters Me Oh My (Organic)
Mandolin Orange Such Jubilee (Yep Roc Records)
James McMurtry Complicated Game (Complicated Game)
Jackson Browne Standing in the Breach (Inside Recordings)
Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear Skeleton Crew (Glassnote Entertainment Group)
Patty Griffin Servant of Love (PGM)
Eilen Jewell Sundown Over Ghost Town (Signature Sounds)
Silverhands Three in the Foot (Silverhands)
John Moreland High on Tulsa Heat (Old Omens)
Catina DeLuna Lado B Brazilian Project (Independent)
Antonio Adolfo Tema (AAM)
Jurandir Santana Um Segundo (Temps Record)
Luis Muñoz Voz (Pellin Music)
Ivan Lins América Brasil (Sony Music)
Dorival Caymmi The Essential Dorival Caymmi (DRG)
Nilze Carvalho Verde Amarelo Negro Aníl (Rob Digital)
Arlindo Cruz Herança Popular (Sony Music)
Stephan Oberhoff Applauding The Sunset (Independent)
Diogo Nogueira & Hamilton de Holanda Bossa Negra (Independent)
“Catina DeLuna, Lado B Brazilian Project, features Otmar Ruiz; Dorival Caymmi, The Essential Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian title is Caymmi Centenario, produced by Mario Adnet & Dori Caymmi”
Sharon Stevens – Raízes Brazilian Radio
Carol Saboya, Antonio Adolfo & Hendrik Meurkens Copa Village (AAM)
Eliane Elias Made In Brazil (Concord Jazz)
Catina DeLuna Lado B Brazilian Project (Independent)
Ivan Lins America, Brasil (BMG Sony)
Romero Lubambo Só Brazilian Essence (Sunnyside Communications)
Sarah Cabral Sarah Cabral (Independent)
Fabiana Passoni Inner Bossa (Wilbur Music)
Fabio Cadore Acto 1 (Indies Japan)
Criolo Convoque Seu Buda (Oloko Records)
Antonio Adolfo Tema (AAM)
“Other releases of note-Rafael Pondé-Afrikabahia, En Canto-Solto Por Jeri, Sorry Drummer & Friends Vol. 1, Samuel Calixto-Nossa Verdade, Hamilton de Holanda-World of Pixinguinha,CéU-Live.”
Steve Ramsey – Hawai’i Radio Connection, Music + Ideas
Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting, Nancy Kerr Murmurs (Topic Records)
Kasey Chambers Bittersweet (Sugar Hill)
Jeff Peterson O’ahu (Peterson Productions)
Richard Thompson Still (Fantasy)
Ashley Monroe The Blade (Warner Music Nashville)
Mark Knopfler Tracker (Verve)
Bob Dylan Shadows in the Night (Columbia)
Tim May & Tim Roberts Tenor Guitar EP (timmaymusic.net)
Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz & Aofie O’Donovan Crossing Muddy Waters (imwithherband.com)
Niyaz The Fourth Light (Six Degrees)
Slocan Ramblers Coffee Creek (Self)
Johnny Warren & Charlie Cushman Purely Instrumental (Unknown)
Gibson Brothers Brotherhood (Rounder)
Earls of Leicester Earls of Leicester (Rounder)
Chris Stapleton Traveller (Mercury)
Flatt Lonesome Runaway Train (Mountain Home)
The Cox Family Gone like the Cotton (Rounder)
Dale Ann Bradley Pocket Full of Keys (Pinecastle)
Hot Rize When I’m Free (Ten In Hand)
Jeremy Garrett The RV Sessions (Self)
Tom Killorin – Music + Ideas
Amazing Picture You (Patrisan)
Buffalo Brothers Fresh From the Horn (Self)
Darlingside Birds Say (Thirty Tigers)
Decemberists What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World (Capitol)
Jason Isbell Something More Than Free (Southeastern)
JD McPherson Let The Good Times Roll (Rounder)
Lord Huron Strange Tales (IAMSound)
Kacey Musgraves Pageant Material (Mercury Nashville)
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats (Stax)
Baxter Rayland Imaginary Man (ATO)
“Alphabetical by artist.”
Alabama Shakes Sound & Color (ATO)
Anna Egge Bright Shadow (Grace/Parkinsong)
Anna & Elizabeth Anna & Elizabeth (Free Dirt)
Bomba Estereo Amanecer (Sony US Latin)
Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Just Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit (Mom + Pop)
The Honeycutters Me Oh My (Organic)
Joan Shelley Over and Even (No Quarter)
Joanna Newsom Divers (Drag City)
Kacey Musgraves Pageant Material (Mercury Nashville)
Laura Marling Short Movie (Ribbon)
“Honorable Mentions: Dana Sipos, Pharis & Jason Romero, Rhiannon Giddens and Patty Griffin. Favorite non-Womanotes release: Jason Isbell, Something More Than Free.”
Winona Hollins-Hauge – Gospel Highway
Mahalia Jackson Essential Mahalia Jackson (Columbia Records)
Sharon Jones & The Dapkings What is This? (Daptone)
Blind Boys of Alabama & Taj Mahal Talkin Christmas (Sony)
Lizz Wright Freedom & Surrender (Concord)
The Sounds of the Northwest Notes to Carnegie Hall (The Sounds of the Northwest)
Ricky Dillard & Andre Crouch Black History Month 2015 (Malaco)
CeCe Winans & Kirk Franklin WOW 2014/2015 (www.wowgospelonline.com)
Dorothy Norwood Lord is Wonder (Malaco)
Rev Samuel Berry McKinney & Pastor Pat Wright Black Nativity (www.totalexperiencechoir.com)
Crystal Aiken & Bishop Morton Crystal Aiken (www. crystal aiken.com)
“We are celebrating our 10th Year hosting the Gospel Highway; Winona Hollins Hauge, Cathy Gaylord, Carlotta Spears & Kevin Morris, Thanks to KBCS.FM”
Winona Hollins-Hauge (aka Lady Blue) – Living the Blues
Eric Bibb Blues People (Stony Plan)
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings It’s a Holiday Party (Daptone)
Lizz Wright Freedom & Surrender (Concord)
Shemekia Copeland Outskirts of Love (Alligator)
Pops Staples Don’t Lose This (Anti/Epitah)
Bettye Lavette Worthy (Cherry Red)
Ruthie Foster Promise of a Brand New Day (Blue Corn)
Keb’ Mo’ Blues Americana (Kinda Blue Music)
Blind Boys of Alabama & Taj Mahal Talkin’ Christmas (Sony)
Ray Baldwin Day after Day (www.raybaldwin.com)
“Check it out #3 Hosts , #3 years of bringing you the “Best Blues & Chilling in the Evening Sounds, Courtesy of WH, OH and KM”
