KBCS Our Saturday Tradition host Larry Lewin Picks Ten Albums From 2019
Longtime host of Our Saturday Tradition, Larry Lewin, brings a bit of focus to a wonderful year in music. Check out his favorite albums from the year!
Dave Gunning Up Against the Sky Wee House of Music
J Wagner A New Story Independent
Zoe Mulford Small Brown Birds Independent
Best of the High Kings Decade Celtic Collections
The Young ‘Uns The Ballad of Johnnie Longstaff Heretue Records
Joseph Huber Moondog Independent
Alexa Rose Medicine for Living Big Legal Mess Records
Martin Simpson Rooted Topic Records
Smoke Creek Range Fire Independent
Tim Grimm Heartland Again Independent
Honorable Mention (in no particular order):
John McCutcheon / To Everyone in the World; Marley’s Ghost / Travelin’ Shoes; Big Country Bluegrass / Mountains, Mamas and Mandolins; Dede Wyland / Urge for Going; Ed Miller and Rich Brotherton / Follow the Music; Dervish / The Great Irish Songbook; Bob Livingston / Up the Flatland Stairs; Ellis Paul / The Storyteller’s Suitcase; Tim Henderson / Among the Best; Trillium-239 / Rare Isotope; Ben Winship / Acorns; Tommy Sands / Fair Play to You All
Comments: Every year picking these selections is an agonizing process, which explains why there are so many Honorable Mentions.
KBCS Sunday Folks DJ Mike Biggins Picks Ten Albums From the Decade 2010-2019
Mike co-hosts Sunday Folks, one of KBCS’s longest running programs, Sunday mornings from 9:00 – 12:00 PM. Check out some of his favorite albums from the past decade!
Rhiannon Giddens Freedom Highway (2017) Nonesuch
John Prine The Tree of Forgiveness (2018) Oh Boy
Jason Isbell Southeastern (2013) Thirty Tigers
Mavis Staples One True Vine (2013) Anti
Leon Bridges Comin’ Home (2015) Columbia
Tift Merritt Travelin’ Alone (2012) Yep Roc
Pharis & Jason Romero A Wanderer I’ll Stay (2015) Lula
Zoe Muth & The Lost High Rollers Starlight Hotel (2011) Signature Sounds
John Moreland High On Tulsa Heat (2015) Old Omens
Various Artists: Roll Columbia: Woody Guthrie’s 26 Northwest Songs (2017) Smithsonian Folkways
Mike’s Comments:
ALMOST: Birds Of Chicago, James McMurtry, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Valerie June and Chuck Prophet.
KBCS Folksounds DJ Eric Hardee Picks Ten Albums From 2019
Eric Hardee co-hosts one of the best traditions in the Pacific Northwest – Folksounds! Tune in tonight at 7:00 PM on your radio or on the web for the best in acoustic music. Check out Eric’s favorite albums of 2019:
Martin Simpson Rooted Topic
Our Native Daughters Songs of our Native Daughters Smithsonian Folkways
The Small Glories Assiniboine and the Red Red House
Jeff Scroggins and CO Over the Line Patuxent
Le Vent du Nord Territoires Borealis
Lula Wiles What Will We Do Smithsonian Folkways
Michael Cleveland Tall Fiddler Compass
Tellico Woven Waters Organic Records
Che Apalache Rearrange my Heart Free Dirt Records
Bruce Cockburn Crowing Ignites True North Records
Eric’s Comments:
Martin-world class musician, Cara and JD -raw energy and intensity, Native Daughters- the most powerful roots music possible, Vent du Nord-wall of sound, Che -completely original fusion sound of mixed cultures, Bruce-understated brilliance, MC-astonishing musician heads above the pack, Anya Hinkle- an amazing songwriter yet to be properly recognized, Lula-Harmony angels with a message and JS/CO maybe the best mixed gender, multi generation band in folk/bg
KBCS Road Songs DJ Rustin Thompson Picks Ten Albums From 2019
Road Songs takes you on a journey down the highways of alternative country and folk, classic country, and country rock every Tuesday at 9:00 PM
Joseph Huber Moondog Self
Tim Grimm Heart Land Again Self
Hayes Carll What It Is Dualtone
Tanya Tucker While I’m Livin’ Fantasy
J Wagner A New Story Self
Ordinary Elephant Honest Berkalin Records
Tellico Woven Waters Organic Records
Rachel Harrington Hush The Wild Horses Skinny Dennis Records
Ryan Bingham American Love Song Axster Bingham Records
Ian Noe Between the Country National Treasury Recordings
KBCS Folksounds DJ Jean Geiger Picks Ten Albums From 2019
Folksounds every Tuesday at 7:00 PM:
A blend of acoustic American folk, featuring fiddle tunes, dance music, contemporary songs, as well as a few acoustic surprises from other parts of the world.
John McCutcheon To Everyone In All the World Appalseed
Small Glories Assiniboine & The Red Red House Records
Michael Cleveland Tall Fiddler Compass Records
Ben Winship Toolshed Snake River Records
Molsky’s Mountain Drifters Closing The Gap Tree Frog Music
Joel Mabus Time & Truth Fossil Records
Martin Simpson Rooted Topic Records
Kate Rusby Philosophers, Poets & Kings Pure Records
Si Kahn & The Looping Bros It’s A Dog’s Life Strictly Country
Wes Weddell Somewhere in the Middle Dusty Shadows Music
Honorable Mentions:
Our Native Daughters / Songs of Our Native Daughters
Che Apalache / Rearrange My Heart
Rising Appalachia / Leylines
Ben Winship / Acorns
Matthew Byrne / Horizon Lines
Le Vent du Nord / Territoires
KBCS Weekday Afternoon DJ and Music Director Iaan Hughes Picks Favorites from 2019
Brittany Howard Jaime ATO
Big Thief U.F.O.F / Two Hands 4AD
Alexa Rose Medicine for Living BLM
Jake Xerxes Fussell Out of Sight Paradise of Bachelors
Purple Mountains Purple Mountains Drag City
Hayes Carll What It Is Dualtone
Faye Webster Atlanta Millionaires Club Secretly Canadian
Tre Burt Caught It From the Rye Oh Boy
Charley Crockett The Valley Son of Davy
The Delines The Imperial El Cortez Records
And a few extras: Our Native Daughters, Yola, Kassi Valazza, Charlie Marie, Emily Scott Robinson, Charlie Parr, Aldous Harding, T Bone Burnett, Michael Kiwanuka, Chuck Mead, Jim Lauderdale
KBCS Flotation Device DJ John Seman Picks Ten Albums from 2019
Matana Roberts Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis Constellation
Bill Orcutt Odds Against Tomorrow Palilalia
Fay Victor Barn Songs Northern Spy
Anthony Braxton GTM (Syntax) 2017 New Braxton House
Tomeka Reid Quartet Old New Cuneiform
The Flying Luttenbachers Shattered Dimension ugEXPLODE
Dead Neanderthals Ghosts Utech
Kris Davis Diatom Ribbons Pyroclastic
Bloor Drolleries Astral Spirits
William Parker Shapeshifter Live AUM Fidelity
Also…
Taylor Ho Bynum, Phillip Thomas, Brandon Lopez, Become Desert, Paal Nillson-Love, Marker, Arrington de Dionyso, Joshua Abrams, Matt Mitchell, Jessica Pavone, a buncha Zappa…
KBCS Mostly Acoustic DJ Gordon Todd Picks Twenty Favorite Albums from the Decade: 2010-2019
Gordon Todd – Sunday Evenings 6PM-7PM; Weekday Afternoons
Leon Bridges Good Thing Columbia
Chastity Brown Silhouette of Sirens Red House
Sera Cahoone From Where I Started Lady Muleskinner
Frazey Ford Indian Ocean Nettwerk
Margaret Glaspy Emotions and Math ATO
Jesca Hoop Stonechild Memphis Institute
Hurray For the Riff Raff The Navigator ATO
Ibeyi Ibeyi XL
Iron & Wine Beast Epic Sub Pop
Michael Kiwanuka Home Again Interscope
Lianne La Havas Blood Nonesuch
Bettye LaVette Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook Anti-
Laura Marling Semper Femina More Alarming
Whitney Mongé Stone self
Meshell Ndegeocello Ventriloquism Naive
Jenny O. Automechanic Holy Trinity
Our Native Daughters Songs Of Our Native Daughters Smithsonian Folkways
Maggie Rogers Heard It In A Past Life Capitol
This Is The Kit Moonshine Freeze Rough Trade
Gillian Welch The Harrow & The Harvest Acony
KBCS Sunday’s Hornpipe DJ John Gibaut Picks Twelve Albums from 2019
John Gibaut – Sunday’s Hornpipe
Kevin Burke Sligo Made Loftus Music
Dylan Carlos, Cein Sweeney & John McCartin Irish Traditional Music self
Kevin Crawford, Colin Farrell & Patrick Doocey Music & Mischief self
Dervish The Great Irish Song Book Rounder
Eabhal This Is How The Ladies Dance self
Flook Ancora Flatfish Records
Dick Gaughan Definitive Concert 1982 Greentrax Recordings
The Gloaming 3 Real World Records
Goitse Ur self
Martin Hayes & Brooklyn Rider Butterfly In A Circle Records
Andy Irvine Old Dog Long Road Vol. 1 self
Sumaia Jackson Mobius Trip self
KBCS Sunday Folks DJ Aunt Mama Picks Eleven Albums from 2019
Mavis Staples We Get By Anti-
Andrew Bird My Finest Work Yet Wegawan
Leyla McCalla The Capitalist Blues Self
Rising Appalachia Leylines Self
Che Apalache Rearrange My Heart Free Dirt Records
Our Native Daughters Songs of Our Native Daughters Smithsonian Folkways
Lula Wiles What Will We Do Smithsonian Folkways
Rhiannon Giddens & Frencesco Turrisi There Is No Other Nonesuch
The Avett Brothers Closer Than Together American Recordings
The Small Glories Assiniboine & The Red Red House Records
Martin Simpson Rooted Topic Records