DJs’ Favorites for 2018
December 17, 2018 - 2:13 pm
There are top ten lists and best of lists and then there’s the KBCS DJ Favorite’s list: check out over 200 of the best albums released in 2018! Find your favorite KBCS DJ’s list here.
Abde Elshafei – Bluegrass Ramble
Town Mountain New Freedom Blues Self
The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys Back to the Mountains Random Records
Danny Barnes Stove Up Wendell Records
The Wooks Glorybound Gnar Vector Records
Barry Abernathy & Darrell Webb Appalachian Road Show Billy Blue
Jim Hurst Trio Jht-1 Independent
Roland White Tribute to Kentucky Colonels Mountain Home Music
The Price Sisters A Heart Never Knows Rebel
Wood and Wire North of Despair Blue Corn Music
Missy Raines Royal Traveller Compass Records
DJ Notes: Top 5 are my favorite!
Andrew Stauffer – Grateful dead Hour and Backtracks
Colter Wall Songs of the Plains Thirty Tigers
George St. Clair Ballads of Captivity and Freedom St Clair Music
The Grateful Dead Pacific Northwest ’73-’74: The Complete Recordings Rhino
Joe Craven & the Sometimes Garcia Songbook Blender Logic
John Prine The Tree of Forgiveness Oh Boy
Mary Gauthier Rifles and Rosary Beads Thirty Tigers
Bob Dylan Bootleg Series Vol 14 More Blood… Columbia Legacy
Jerry Garcia Band Live Vol 10 5/20/90 Hilo, HI ATO Records
The Cowboy Junkies All That Reckoning Latent
Neil Young Roxy Tonight’s the Night Live Reprise Records
Brandi Carlile By The Way I Forgive You Unknown Label/Low Country Sound
Ahi In Our Time 22nd Sentry
Molly Tuttle Rise Self
I’m With Her See You Around Rounder
Birds of Chicago Love in Wartime Signature Sounds
Gregory Allen Isakov Evening Machine Dualtone
Mary Gauthier Rifles and Rosary Beads Thirty Tigers
The Wood Brothers One Drop of Truth Honey Jar Records
Cat Power Wanderer Domino
Mavis Staples If All I Was Was Black Anti
DJ Notes: “There were a lot of artist giving us their best. It’s always hard to narrow it down as I’d like to thank all of them for making life a little better. Gotta mention: First Aid Kit, “”Ruins””, Birds ofChicago, “”American Flowers”” and what a Shook treat! Sarah Shook & The Disarmers, Years on Bloodshot Records. Thanks to all our listeners for tuning in and suppporting these music makers.”
Casey Martin – Walkin’ The Floor; Our Saturday Tradition
Janelle Monáe Dirty Computer Bad Boy Records
Leon Bridges Good Thing Columbia Records
Paul Cauthen Have Mercy EP Lightning Rod
Carolina Story Lay Your Head Down Black River Americana
Rhyan Sinclair Barnstormer Little Haunted Girl Music
Colter Wall Songs of the Plains Young Mary’s Record Co.
Jamie Lin Wilson Jumping over Rocks self-released
Western Centuries Western Centuries Free Dirt Records
Joshua Hedley Mr. Jukebox Third Man Records
I’m With Her See You Around Concord Records
David Utevsky – Straight, No Chaser
Don Byron & Aruan Ortiz Random Dances and (A)tonalities Intakt
John Coltrane Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album Verve
Caroline Davis Heart Tonic Sunnyside
Bill Frisell Music IS Okeh
Yuko Fujiyama Night Wave Innova
Mary Halvorson The Maid with the Flaxen Hair Tzadik
Jeremy Pelt Rouge et Noir: Live in Paris Highnote
Charles Pillow Large Ensemble Electric Miles MAMA
Matthew Shipp Zero ESP-Disk’
Fay Victor SoundNoise Funk Wet Robots ESP-Disk’
Snail Mail Lush Matador
Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel Mom + Pop
The Breeders All Nerve 4AD
Tracey Thorn Record Merge
Titus Andronicus A Productive Cough Merge
Mudhoney Digital Garbage Sub Pop
Wussy What Heaven Is Like Shake It!
Melvins Pinkus Abortion Technician Ipecac
Jack White Boarding House Reach Third Man
Sloan 12 Yep Rock
DJ Notes: 2018 was a GREAT year, both for artists who got their start in the 90s alternative heyday (Breeders, Melvins, Sloan, Mudhoney, Tracey Thorn, etc.) and for newer indie artists keeping the 90s spirit alive (Snail Mail, Courtney Barnett, Jack White, etc.). Honorable mention to two reissues I loved that don’t fit either of those categories: Bob Dylan’s “More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 14” and Guns ‘n Roses’ “Appetite for Destruction (Super Deluxe).”
ROSALIA El Mal Querer Sony Music Entertainment Espana S.L.
Aterciopelados Claroscura Sony Music Entertainment Colombia SA
Monsieur Perine Encanto Tropical Sony Music Entertainment Colombia SA
J Balvin Vibras Universal Music Latino: p 2018 UMG Recordings, Inc
Mon Laferte Norma Universal Music Mexico SA de C.V.
Natalia Lafourcade Musas – Un Homenaje al Folclore Latinoamericano Sony Music Entertainment Mexico, SA de C.V.
Multon Salcedo Swing 80 MAS Music Productions
Orquesta Akokán Orquesta Akokán Daptone Records
Alfredo Rodriguez The Little Dream Mack Avenue Records II, LLC
La Dona Nada Me Pertenece La Dona – Independent
Lonesome Ace Stringband When The Sun Comes Up Canada Council for the Arts
Pharis & Jason Romero Sweet Old Religion Lula Records
Scott Cook Further down the Line Factor
Kathy Mattea Pretty Bird Thirty Tigers
Childsplay The Bloom of Youth Self
Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer & Sam Gleaves Shout and Shine Community Music Inc.
Keith Murphy Land of Fish and Seals Black Isle Music
Joan Baez Whistle Down the Wind Proper Records
Open the Door for Three The Joyful Hour Self
John McCutcheon Ghost Light Self
DJ Notes: For my best of list, I try to pick from the acoustic folk centered music that we mostly showcase on Folksounds. For that reason I usually don’t include Bluegrass or Celtic but there are sometimes albums like Childsplay that cross all genres and find their way into my heavy listening list. I’ll leave the Bluegrass and Celtic picks to the knowledgeable hosts of Bluegrass Ramble and Sunday’s Hornpipe. Enjoy the music!!
Gordon Todd – Sunday Evenings 6PM-7PM; Weekday Afternoons
Sunny War With The Sun Hen House Studios
Ry Cooder The Prodigal Son Fantasy
Meshell Ndegeocello Ventriloquism Naive
Iron & Wine Weed Garden Sub Pop
Elvis Costello & The Imposters Look Now Concord
Whitney Monge Carry On Whitney Monge Music
Caroline Rose Loner New West Records
Leon Bridges Good Thing Columbia
Adrianne Lenker abysskiss Saddle Creek
John Coltrane Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album Impulse!
DJ Notes: Top Reissue: The Beatles The White Album – Esher Demos, Top Singles: Frazey Ford – Can You Get To That, Chastity Brown – Mad Love
Iaan Hughes – Weekday Afternoon 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM; Walkin’ the Floor
Brandi Carlile By the Way I Forgive You Elektra Records
Sunny War With the Sun Hen House
Adrianne Lenker Abysskiss Saddle Creek
Kamasi Washington Heaven and Earth Shoto Mas Inc.
Western Centuries Songs from the Deluge Free Dirt
Phosphorescent C’est La Vie Dead Oceans
Carson McHone Carousel Carson McHone Music
Birds of Chicago Love in Wartime Signature Sounds
Jim Lauderdale Time Flies Yep Roc
Molly Burch First Flower Captured Tracks
DJ Notes: Also loved: Tekla Waterfield’s The Curtain Falls, Adrian Quesada’s Look At My Soul: The Latin Shade of Texas Soul, Liam Fitzgerald’s The Fool / Dr. Jekyl, Mr. Hyde, Damien Jurado’s The Horizon Just Laughed, Elvis Costello’s Look Now, John Prine’s The Tree of Forgiveness, First Aid Kit’s Ruins, JP Harris’s Sometimes Dogs Bark at Nothing, Sam Morrow’s Concrete & Mud
John Prine The Tree of Forgiveness Oh Boy Records
Pharis & Jason Romero Sweet Old Religion Lula Records
Kathy Kallick Band Horrible World Live Oak Records
Tommy Emmanuel Accomplice One Thirty Tigers
Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer & Sam Gleaves Shout and Shine Community Music
Tret Fure Roses in November Tomboy Girl Records
We Banjo 3 Haven self
Tannahill Weavers Órach: The Golden Anniverary Album Compass
Downtown Mountain Boys Hey John self
Roe Family Singers Songs of the Mountains, Songs of the Plains Pinecastle
Ammar 808 Mahgreb United Glitterbeat
Bokante and Metropole Orkest That Heat Real World
Dawda Jobarteh I Met Het by the River Stern’s Africa
Fatoumata Diawara Fenfo Shanachie
Lucibela Laco Umbilical Lusafrica
Ry Cooder The Prodigal Son Fantasy
Seun Kuti & Egypt -80 Black Times Strut
3MA-Ballake Sissoko/Driss El Maloumi/Rajery Anarouz Six Degrees
Toko Telo Daviola Anio Records
Various Artists/Tim Cole Small Island, Big Song smallislandbigsong
Dan Weiss Starebaby Pi
Harriet Tubman The Terror End of Beauty Early Future
Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog YRU Still Here? Northern Spy
Imperial Triumphant Vile Luxury Gilead Media
Triptet Slowly, Away Engine Studios
Vicky Chow Sonatra Cantaloupe
Seattle Symphony Berio: Sinfonia SSM
John Zorn The Book Beriah Tzadik
Henry Threadgill Dirt… And More Dirt Pi
Frank Zappa The Roxy Performances Zappa
DJ Notes: Also Tyshawn Sorey, Barre Phillips, Sons of Kemet, Brandon Lopez, Brandon Seabrook, Chad Taylor, Luke Stewart, William Parker, Old Time Relijun!
Jonathan Lawson – Flotation Device
James Brandon Lewis/Chad Taylor Radiant Imprints Off
Jeremiah Cymerman Decay of the Angel 5049
Tyshawn Sorey Pillars Firehouse 12
Miles Okazaki Work: the Complete Compositions of Thelonious Monk
Ellen Fullman and David Gamper w/ Stuart Dempster Pink Sea Thrift fo’c’sle
Black Spirituals Black Access/Black Axe SIGE
Sylvie Courvoisier D’Agala Intakt
Bad Luck Four Origin
Okkyung Lee Dahl-Tah-Ghi Pica
Bob Bellerue Music of Liberation Elevator Bath
Judy Lindsay – Weekday Afternoons 4-7PM
The Jellyman’s Daughter Dead Reckoning Boat Duck Records
Sunny War With the Sun Hen House Studios
Durand Jones & The Indications Smile Dead Oceans
Adrian Quesada Look at My Soul: The Latin Shade of Texas Soul Nacional Records
Leon Bridges Good Thing Columbia Records
Birds Of Chicago Love In Wartime Signature Sounds Recordings
First Aid Kit Ruins Columbia Records
Neko Case Hell-On ANTI-
Phosphorescent C’est La Vie Dead Oceans
Macy Gray Ruby Artistry Music
DJ Notes: Some Honorable Mentions; Amos Lee – My New Moon, Erin Costelo – Sweet Marie, Angela Soffe – Second Wind, Tom Freund – East of Lincoln, Ethan Parker – Sailing to Beverly, Trampled By Turtles – Life Is Good On The Open Road, Charles Bradley – Black Velvet, The Milk Carton Kids – All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn’t Do, The Watson Twins – Duo, The Decemberists – I’ll Be Your Girl, Adrianne Lenker – abysskiss
Kevin O’Connor – Sunday’s Hornpipe
Usher’s Island Usher’s Island Compass
Daimh The Hebridean Sessions Self
Dylan Foley Deliriously Happy Self
Danu Ten Thousands Miles Self
Colleen Raney Standing In Doorways Self
Kevin Burke An evening with Loftus Music
Matt Molloy Back To The Island Matt Molloy
Steph Geremia Up She Flew Self
We Banjo 3 Haven Self
Altan The Gap of Dreams Compass
DJ Notes: Another great year for Celtic Music, Slainte!
Larry Lewin – Our Saturday Tradition
Monica Brennan Timeless Self
Various Artists Appleseed’s 21st Anniversary: Roots and Branches Appleseed Recordings
Jason Eady I Travel On Old Guitar Records`
The Appalucians Bright Hills Self
Eliza Gilkyson Secularia Red House Records
Various Artists A Tribute to John D. Loudermilk BFD
Various Artists Epilogue: A Tribute to John Duffey Unknown Label
Peter Rowan Carter Stanley’s Eyes Rebel
The Tannahill Weavers Orach: The Golden Anniversary Album Self
Mary Gauthier Rifles and Rosary Beads Thirty Tigers
DJ Notes: Some painful choices here. Honorable Mention: John McCutcheon / Ghost Light; Joan Baez / Whistle Down the Wind; Doc Watson / Live at Club 47; Roe Family Singers / Songs of the Mountains, Songs of the Plains; Chuck Brodsky / Them and Us; Zoe Speaks / Wings; John Gorka / True in Time
John Prine The Tree Of Foregiveness Oh Boy
Cowboy Junkies All That Reckoning Latent
Ry Cooder The Prodigal Son Fantasy
Olivia Chaney Shelter Nonesuch
Sunny War With The Sun Hen House
Pharis And Jason Romero Sweet Old Religion Lula
Leon Bridges Good Thing Columbia
Carolina Story Lay Your Head Down Black River Americana
Colter Wall Songs Of The Plains Thirty Tigers
Charley Crockett Lonesome As A Shadow Thirty Tigers
DJ Notes: Here’s this year’s snapshot in time. Top Ten lists have a way of maturing … Almost: Courtney Marie Andrews, Rod Picott, The War & Treaty, Carson McHone, Kaia Kater, Damian Jurado, Szlachetka, Mipso and Western Centuries.It’s a total Joy to be able to program “”Sunday Folks”” for you every third Sunday. Thanks as always for listening. Happy Holidays!
Patty Fong – Musica de la Raza
Bola Suriana Canciones Urgentes Para Mi Pais Bola Suriana
Gina Chavez Lightbeam Gina Chavez
Jackson Brown feat. Los Cenzontles The Dreamer Inside Recordings (2017)
Juan y Armando Tejeda, Raiz XicanX independent
Los Cenzontles, A La Mar, Los Cenzontles Mexican Culture Center
La Santa Cecilia Gritenme Piedras del Campo Rebeleon, inc.
Leti Garza El Unico Para Mi Leti Garza (2017)
Look at My Soul: The Latin Shade of Texas Soul , Nacional Records
Los Texmaniacs Cruzando Borders Smithsonian Folkways
Mariachi Mestizo XX Anniversario Mariachi Mestizo Little Village Foundation
DJ Notes: Honorable Mentions; Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles – Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles , Ozomatli – Nonstop Mexico to Jamaica, , Santana and the Isley Brothers – Power of Peace , Teodoro ‘Ted’ Ramirez – SW Folk Collection, Vol. 1
Pete Goodall – Bluegrass Ramble
Peter Rowan Carter Stanley’s Eyes Rebel
The Slocan Ramblers Queen City Jubilee Self
The Del McCoury Band Still Sings Bluegrass McCoury Music
Wood And Wire North Of Despair Blue Corn Music
Town Mountain New Freedom Blues Town Mountain Entertainment
High Fidelity Hills And Home Rebel
Po Ramblin’ Boys Back To The Mountains Random Records
Dave Adkins Right Or Wrong Mountain Fever
The Wooks Glory Bound Self
The Travelin’ McCourys The Travelin’ McCourys McCoury Music
DJ Notes: Another great year for bluegrass music!
Rankin Mark – The Reggae Party
Etana Reggae Forever Tads Records
Alpheus Light of Day Liquidator Music
Groundation The Next Generation Baco Records
Mo’Kalamity with Sly and Robbie One Love Vibration Sofia Thea Records
Protoje A Matter of Time Mr. Bongo / Easy Star Records
Black Roots Take It Nubian Records
The Dubbeez Peace, Love and Dub Tuff Gong
Vibronics with Various Artists Woman on a Mission Scoops
Alborosie Alborosie Meets the Wailers United – Unbreakable Greensleeves
King Kong Repatriation Irie Ites Records
DJ Notes: So much great REGGAE…here are a few more: Koffee – Raggamuffin (Frankie Music), Kabaka Pyramid – Kontraband (Ghetto Youth Int.), The Crucialites – Lalibela (Lion Ridge Records),Various Artists – King Jammy Presents Dennis Browns: Tracks of Life (Greensleeves)”
Lori McKenna The Tree Thirty Tigers
George St Clair Ballads of Captivity and Freedom Self
Colter Wall Songs of the Plains Young Marys Recorc Co.
Nathan Bell I Don’t Do This For Love, I Do this For Love Stone Barn Records
Rod Picott Out Past The Wires Welding Rod
Sarah Shook and the Disarmers Years Bloodshot
Rodney Crowell Acoustic Classics RC1 Records
Old Crow Medicine Show Volunteer Sony
Western Centuries Songs From The Deluge Free Dirt
Sera Cahoone Flora String Sessions Galaxy Dog Music
Scott Farley – Neon Interstate
Paul Simon In The Blue Light Legacy
Loretta Lynn Wouldn’t It Be Great Legacy
Bob Seger & The Last Heard Heavy Music Abkco
Nazz Fungo Bat Acetates Rockbeat Records
Neko Case Hell-On ANTI-
Jackie De Shannon Stone Cold Soul Capitol / Real Gone Music / Universal Music Special Markets
Wipers Live at The Met Jackpot
Dead Moon Book + vinyl Mississippi Records
Jimi Hendrix Both Sides Of The Sky Experience Hendrix / Legacy
John Coltrane Both Directions At Once Impulse / Verve / UMe
DJ Notes: “Concert of 2018: 1. Robert Plant & The Sensational Shape Shifters @ Marymoor Park, 2. Utopia @ Moore, 3. Pearl Jam Home Shows (nite 2), 4. Sub Pop SPF30 @ Alki.
Double A-side single of the year: “”Come On To Me”” Paul McCartney.
On my wish list: The White Album aka The Beatles: The Beatles Super Deluxe Edition.”
Sean Donovan – Weekday Afternoon 12:00PM – 4:00PM
Curtis Salgado | Alan Hager Rough Cut Alligator Records
Mike Farris Silver & Stone Compass Records
Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real Fantasy
Nick Lowe Tokyo Bay / Crying Inside [EP] yep ROC
Western Centuries Songs From The Deluge Free Dirt
Sam Lewis Loversity Loversity Records
Ural Thomas & The Pain The Right Time Tender Loving Empire
Leon Bridges Good Thing Columbia Records
Yola Carter Orphan Offering [EP] Ear Trumpet Music
Birch Pereira & The Gin Joints Western Soul (self)
Antonio Adolfo Encontros – Orquestra Atlantica AAM
Mauricio Zottarelli Upside Down Looking Up Self
Lica Cecato Quero Querer Self
Daniel Santiago Union Adventure Music
Léa Freire e Amilton Godoy A Mil Tons Maritaca
Gabriel Santiago Traveler Self
EntreMundos Quarteto O Caminho Do Bem Self
Hermeto Pascoal No Mundo Dos Sons SESC
Itiberê Zwarg & Grupo Intuitivo SESC
Compania Cabelo de Maria Cantos de Trabalho II SESC
High Fidelity Hills and Home Rebel
Slocan Ramblers Queen City Jubilee Self
David Davis & the Warrior River Boys He Rambled, Didn’t He Rounder
Jim Lauderdale Time Flies Yep Roc
The Wooks Glory Bound Self www.wookoutamerica.com
Del McCoury Band Del McCoury Still Sings Bluegrass McCoury Music
Special Consensus Rivers & Roads Compass
Missy Raines Royal Traveler Compass
Sister Sadie Sister Sadie II Pinecastle
Appalachian Road Appalachian Road Billy Blue
Amanda Shires To the Sunset Silver Knife
I’m With Her See You Around Rounder
Janelle Monae Dirty Computer Wondaland
Neko Case Hell-On Anti/Epitaph
Meshell Ndegeocello Ventriloquism Naive
Lucy Dacus Historian Matador
Fatoumata Diawara Fenfo Shanachie
Lori McKenna The Tree CN Records
Caroline Rose Loner New West
Rosanne Cash She Remembers Everything Blue Note
DJ Notes: Other albums I really liked: Brandi Carlile, Kacey Musgraves, Shemekia Copeland, Mary Gauthier, Courtney Barnett, Courtney Marie Andrews, Cat Power, Alela Diane, Lykke Li, Bettye LaVette, Adrianne Lenker, First Aid Kit, Olivia Chaney, and Amy Helm. It’s an honor to play music for you on KBCS. Thanks for listening!
Winona Hollins Hauge – Gospel Highway
Josephine Howell Josephine self/Josephine Howell
Paula Boggs Elixir/ Soulgrass Sessions www.paulaboggsmedia.com
WOW Gospel WOW GOSPEL 2018 www.wowgospel.com
Travis Greene Peterson Jehovah is your name ( NARAEKELEMO) Gospel Music of Africa
Shirley Caesar UNSUNG_-Shirley Caesar lark
Terrance J Dooley & Testimony TESTIMONY self terrance.j.dooley
Tori Kelly/Kirk Franklin Never Alone/ Hiding Place torikellymusic.com
Blind Boys of Alabama Amazing Grace youtube.tellirude.com
Rance Allen Group Something about the Name Jesus Tyscott
Patrinell Wright/Total Experience Finale/Pat Wright/Total Experience Choir totalexperiencechoir.com
DJ Notes: Gospel Highway hosts Cathy Gaylord, Oneda Harris, Kevin Morris and myself Winona Hollins Hauge are grateful for your support of our every Saturday morning 7am to 9am ( inspirational wake up call) We are celebrating 13 years 2018; thanks to you and KBCS.FM/ 91.3fm on your dial.
Winona Hollins Hauge – Living the Blues
Blind Boys of Alabama/Wynton Marsalis United we swing blue engine records
Robert Cray& Hi Rhythm Robert Cray and Hi Rhythm Jay Vee
Josephine Howell Josephine self /josephine
Doyle Bramhall III Shades Provogue
CT Thompson CT Thompson/CruisinBill self CT Thompson
Erykah Badu Erykah Badu/Didn’t Cha Know? Vevo
Travis Greene Peterson Nara Ekele MO GMA
Pat Wright/Total Experience Choir Finale 2018 www.totalexperiencechoir.com/youtube
Vivian Reed Vivian Reed self/ vivian reed
Billy F. Gibbons The Big Bad Blues Concord
DJ Notes: On behalf of Oneda Harris, Kevin Morris and myself Winona Hollins Hauge; We send you greeting for the year and thank you for your support every Saturday night 8pm to 10pm. We are happy to be celebrating our 6th year at www.kbcs.fm
