2007 stuff I liked the most Ike Reilly, We Belong to the Staggering Evening Kelly Willis, Translated from Love The Gourds, Noble Creatures Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez, Live at the Ruhr Triennale Toni Price, Talk Memphis Kings of Leon, Because the Times The Fall, Reformation Post TLC (“White Line Fever”) The Fall Box Set Sarah Borges & the Broken Singles, Diamonds in the Dark Eilen Jewell, Letter from Sinners and Strangers Dale Watson, From the Cradle to the Grave (the John Cash CD) Amy Winehouse, Back to Black The Detroit Cobras, Tied & True
2006 good stuff I could have sworn was 2007 stuff Eilen Jewell, Boundary County Solomon Burke, Nashville Van Morrison, Pay the Devil Cat Power, The Greatest Alejandro Escevedo, The Boxing Mirror (“Break This Time”) Tom Waits, Orphans Dead Moon, Echoes of the Past (“Poor Born”) William Elliott Whitmore, Song of the Blackbird (banjo revival never broke) Jessi Colter, Out of the Ashes Lucero, Rebels, Rogues & Sworn Brothers
2007 tributes to Buck Owens The Derailers, Under the Influence of Buck Dwight Yoakam, Dwight Sings Buck
Indispensable old stuff revived in 2007 Mudhoney, Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge The Beakers, 4 Steps Toward a Cultural Revolution Sandy Rodgers, Green Moon Country Joe & the Fish, Electric Music for the Mind and Body and I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Phil Ochs, I Ain’t Marching Anymore Vern Gosdin, Chiseled in Stone Van Morrison, Poetic Champions Compose Ry Cooder, Ry Cooder and Into the Purple Valley
One never stops listening to The Fall, Fugazi, Nirvana, Eleventh Dream Day, Camper Van Beethoven, Cracker, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, The Buzzcocks, The Clash, Marianne Faithfull, Steve Wynn, Kasey Chambers, Ann Peebles, Joe Tex, The Wicked Pickett, Rufus Thomas, Wire, surf guitar old and new, Van Morrison, Captain Beefheart, Mission of Burma, Gang of 4, Wild Strawberries, Television, Betty Harris, The Au Pairs, Burning Spear, Don Caballero
