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Dan Wilson, Rusty Willoughby, Sheryl Crow, Grady Champion, Kim Beggs Headling New Music Tuesday, 7/20/10

I’ve skimmed the new releases for the week and there are some high profile releases.  I’m planning to ignore those to focus on a couple of titles that will likely escape mainstream attention.  You are cordially invited as always to scan the list and offer up the titles on your radar.  With that, here are my targets for the week:

Dan Wilson
Live At The Pantages

Depending on your age, you’ll remember Dan Wilson for one of his two bands (Trip Shakespeare, Semisonic) or you might not know him at all.  You should, though.  He’s a terrific songwriter who has written great songs for those two bands, for a solo album far too know about, and also collaborated with Dixie Chicks, Carole King, and many others.  I had the privilege of interviewing Dan a couple years ago about that solo record Free Life as well as his work with Dixie Chicks on their Grammy-winning album.  He was gracious with his time and offered much insight into his work.

Live At The Pantages is a digital double-live album.  Wilson opens the show solo acoustic and is joined by former Trip Shakespeare/Semisonic bassist Jon Munson and others for the second, offering a more rock-oriented sound.  The set list draws from his entire career, making it something of an unofficial retrospective.

Rusty Willoughby
Cobirds Unite

I previewed a track from this record not long ago and now at long last the album is available!  Seattle-based singer/songwriter Rusty Willoughby has crafted a terrific batch of new songs and then put out the call to some very talented friends (Barrett Martin, Rachel Flotard among them) to help give those songs to life.

Grady Champion
Back In Mississippi Live At The 930 Blues Café

One of this year’s International Blues Challenge winners, Grady Champion, has secured distribution for his live album and this marks his move to capitalize on last year’s win.  It’s fitting that his introduction to many blues fans will come in the form of a live record as it was live performance that earned him first place in the band category at IBC in Memphis.

 

12 Stones – The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday
Above & Beyond – Anjunabeats Volume 8
Asleep At The Wheel And Leon Rausch – It’s A Good Day
Barbieri, Joe – Maison Maravilha
Benjamim Taubkin – Piano Masters Series, Vol I
Big Head Todd & The Monsters – Rocksteady
Black River – Black N’ Roll
Black Veil Brides – We Switch These Wounds
Books, The – Way Out, The
Boris – Believe In The Music
Brian Culbertson – XII
Casper Loma Da-Wa – Honor The People
Charlie Louvin – Hickory Wind : Live At The Gram Parsons Guitar Pull, Waycross GA
Clayton, Jay – In And Out Of Love
Clutch – From Beale Street To Oblivion (Deluxe)
Dan Wilson – Live At The Pantages
David Brewer And Rebecca Lomnicky – Inspired
David Garrett – Rock Symphonies
David Vest – Rock A While
Debney, John – Original Motion Picture Score Iron Man 2
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – A Time And A Place
Endless Boogie – Full House Head
Fernandez, Vicente – Un Mexicano En La México – Vicente Fernández
Floater – Stone By Stone
Floater – Wake
Ford, Frazey – Obadiah
Gnecco, Jimmy – The Heart
Grady Champion – Back In Mississippi Live At The 930 Blues Café
Green, Howard – Cafe Amore
Gyptian – Hold You
Hart, Kevin – Seriously Funny
Hillstomp – Darker The Night
Honor Bright – Action! Drama! Suspense!
Irish Rovers – Still Rovin’ After All These Years
Jo Stafford – The Best Of Jo Stafford
Kidz Bop Kids – Kidz Bop 18
Kim Beggs – Blue Bones
Lawler, Paul – Tibetan Journey
Lee, Shawn – Sing A Song
Lena Horne – Performance
Leon Rosselson & Robb Johnson – The Liberty Tree: A Celebration Of The Life And Writngs Of Thomas Paine
Leroy Bell – Traces
M.I.A. – XXXO – The Remixes
Magica – Dark Diary
Mahjongg – Long Shadow Of The Paper Tiger
Marc Cohn – Listening Booth: 1970
Micki Free – American Horse
Mountain Man – Made The Harbor
Paul Hardcastle – Jazzmasters VI
Piebald – Volume III
Plan B – House Of Pleasure
Portland Cello Project – Thousand Words
Richter, Max – Infra
Rick Ross – Teflon Don
Rusty Willoughby – Cobirds Unite
Sally Tomato – Toy Room
Sapient – Make More
Secret Cities – Pink Graffiti
Setzer, Brian Orchestra – Don’t Mess With A Big Band
Sheryl Crow – 100 Miles From Memphis
Soundtrack – Degrassi Takes Manhattan: The Heat Is On
Soundtrack – Jersey Shore
Soundtrack – Jonas L.A.
Stephens, Shannon – Stephens, Shannon
Stereo Skyline – Stuck On Repeat
Stitchie – Serious Message
The Acacia Strain – Wormwood
The Franco Proietti Morph-Tet – Live! A Weekend Ar Centre St. Ambroise
The Paul Mckenna Band – Between Two Worlds
The Probe – You Know You Want It
Thibideau, Kenseth – Repetition
Tokio Hotel – Humanoid City Live
Triffids, The – Wide Open Road
Various Artists – This Is The Blues, Volume 3
Various Artists – This Is The Blues, Volume 4
Western Aerial – Try To Keep Up
Zero 7 – Record

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