Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys

Sugarcane Collins

Tom Waits

NEKO CASE

Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra

Doug Wamble on vocals

Alice Russell

Fauxliage

The Accident That Led Me to the World

Glen Campbell

Mike Farris

Peter Mayer

Good Old War

Citizen Cope

Eastern Blok

Bitter-Sweet

The Mickeys

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Joel Mabus

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The Red Stick Ramblers

Aretha Franklin

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Antje Duvekot

Natalia Clavier

Dwight Yoakam

Covering the Glen Campbell tune, written by Jimmy Webb

Eddy Clearwater

Bob Dylan

Dedicated to Ed Markoski

Sonny Smith

Zach Gill

Andy Scott

Isaac Freeman

Isaac Freeman will be best known to most as one of the deeper-than-the-bottom-of-the-well voiced gravediggers near the end of the film O Brother Where Art Thou?

Rachel Zylstra

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Dirty Three

The music here keeps all tempos reigned in and all instrumental flurries to a minimum, creating the feeling of waves lapping and pouring into and out of one another. It's as if the D3 were on a vessel, playing to the ocean itself. There are hints in guitarist Mick Turner's gorgeous cover painting, which shows a tranquil mermaid on one side, a near tidal wave over a red boat on the back sleeve, and both in deep blue against a light blue background, seemingly under the ocean. On the tentative opener, "Sirena," Warren Ellis plays two- and three-notes lines, held interminably against Turner's pastoral and minimal guitar flourishes while Jim White's rhythmic constructs glisten and shimmer through the middle, offering it all more room to drift rather than create a frame. On "Distant Shore," a tune built on three chords and a fragment, Ellis puts the album's tentative nature forth in the elegantly twisting lilt of his violin, creating a melody that is simply a chant, as Turner and White slip around his center, creating a view of the shore and the ground, mirage-like and ephemeral, and presented through a watery prism, as mournful, left behind, turned away from. - AMG

Inara George with Van Dyke Parks

Yael Naim

Vassar Clements

Elvin Bishop on vox / produced by David Grisman with Norton Buffalo

Eddie Palmieri