Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Downey to Lubbock
Electric dustbowls
Nicki Bluhm, To Rise You Gotta Fall
San Francisco fine
David Byrne, American Utopia
After the river
Joachim Cooder, Fuchsia Machu Picchu
Playing magic box
Ry Cooder, The Prodigal Son
Music wanderer
Lamont Dozier, Reimagination
Motown song wizard
Beth McKee, Dreamwood Acres
Southern singer shines
John Prine, The Tree of Forgiveness
Wizened words of life
Sons of Kemet, Your Queen is a Reptile
Juju brass attack
Walter Wolfman Washington
Medallion Lounge nights
Ella Fitzgerald, Ella at Zardi's
The voice of heaven
Electric dustbowls
To Disneyland and beyond
Two troubadours soar
Nicki Bluhm, To Rise You Gotta FallSan Francisco fine
From Market Street to Marin
Bloom becomes a rose
David Byrne, American Utopia After the river
Into the great wild open
With dancing shoes on
Joachim Cooder, Fuchsia Machu PicchuPlaying magic box
Tall and strong and full of fire
The eternal lives
Ry Cooder, The Prodigal SonMusic wanderer
With a leopard-skin pick-guard
Sings endless soul strings
Lamont Dozier, ReimaginationMotown song wizard
Paving the yellow brick road
Up mountain of soul
Beth McKee, Dreamwood AcresSouthern singer shines
By the Mason-Dixon line
Bigger times ahead
John Prine, The Tree of ForgivenessWizened words of life
No punches pulled day or night
Prine's spine is still iron
Sons of Kemet, Your Queen is a ReptileJuju brass attack
From the land of the Zulu
In new London town
Walter Wolfman WashingtonMedallion Lounge nights
Born of Claiborne and Orleans
The Wolf reigns supreme
Reissue of the Year:
Reissue of the Year:
Ella Fitzgerald, Ella at Zardi'sThe voice of heaven
From the jazz lady supreme
Hollywood and Vine
