These albums were selected by Mixed host George Graham from the over 500 CDs featured during the year on the New Releases segments presented daily on Mixed Bag. The Mixed Bag musical styles include rock, folk, blues, reggae, world music, Celtic, electronic, and other varieties presented on the program. The emphasis is on records that received little or no attention in the commercial media. Selection criteria include originality, uniqueness of sound, and quality of musicianship.
The list is arranged chronologically. * designates Homegrown Music Artists.
Recordings featured on the on the Mixed Bag Weekly Album Review (Wednesdays at 9:00 PM) are linked to the review on this website.
Artist |
Album Title |
Label |
Add Date |
Van Wagner * |
Woolrich Coat |
independent |
01/04/10 |
Her |
independent |
01/05/10 |
|
Joel Raphael |
Songs of Woodie Guthrie, Vol. 1 & 2 |
Inside |
01/07/10 |
Vampire Weekend |
Contra |
XL |
01/12/10 |
Rain on the City |
Bar None |
01/15/10 |
|
Corinne Bailey Rae |
The Sea |
EMI |
01/19/10 |
David Via |
All Night Long |
independent |
01/20/10 |
Eric Bibb |
Booker's Guitar |
Telarc |
01/21/10 |
Joy Kills Sorrow |
Darkness Becomes This City |
Signature Sounds |
01/25/10 |
The Turning Tide |
Compass |
01/25/10 |
|
Brighton |
The Brighton |
independent |
01/27/10 |
Man of the World |
Brushfire |
01/27/10 |
|
Orchestrion |
Nonesuch |
01/28/10 |
|
Tim Farrell * |
Codas |
Magrathea |
02/01/10 |
Ellis Paul |
The Day Everything Changed |
Black Wolf |
02/03/10 |
Ben Sollee and David Martin Moore |
Dear Companion |
Sub Pop |
02/04/10 |
Honey Dewdrops |
If the Sun Will Shine |
independent |
02/05/10 |
Moreland and Arbuckle |
Flood |
Telarc |
02/09/10 |
AM |
Future Songs and Daughters |
Fontana |
02/10/10 |
Dreamers |
independent |
02/11/10 |
|
Sarah Holgate * |
Somewhere Past Distraction |
independent |
02/16/10 |
Holmes Brothers |
Feed My Soul |
Alligator |
02/17/10 |
Blind Chitlin' Kahunas * |
The Old Guitar |
independent |
02/17/10 |
Sade |
Soldier of Love |
Sony |
02/18/10 |
Exiles Return |
Compass |
02/23/10 |
|
Johnny Cash |
American VI: Ain't No Grave |
American Recordings |
02/24/10 |
Jamie Cullum |
The Pursuit |
Verve Forecast |
02/24/10 |
Ed Randazzo and Bret Alexander * |
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean |
independent |
02/26/10 |
Kathy Mattea |
Coal |
Captain Potato |
02/26/10 |
Garaj Mahal |
More Mr. Nice Guy |
Owl |
03/08/10 |
BoDeans |
Mr. Sad Clown |
429 Records |
03/09/10 |
John Hiatt |
The Open Road |
New West |
03/09/10 |
El Tourista |
Yep Roc |
03/10/10 |
|
Peter Gabriel |
Scratch My Back |
Real World |
03/10/10 |
Angelique Kidjo |
Oyo |
Razor & Tie |
03/11/10 |
Mark Egan |
Truth Be Told |
Wave Tone |
03/11/10 |
Brooks Williams |
Baby O |
Red Guitar Blue Music |
03/11/10 |
Red Molly |
James |
independent |
03/16/10 |
Contribution |
Which Way World |
SCI Fidelity |
03/17/10 |
Jason Masi |
Balance and Pull |
independent |
03/17/10 |
Jimi Hendrix |
Valleys of Neptune |
Legacy |
03/18/10 |
Emotion and Commotion |
Atco |
03/18/10 |
|
Peter Wolf |
Midnight Souvenirs |
Verve |
03/23/10 |
New York Funk Exchange |
Funkanomic Stimulus Plan |
independent |
03/23/10 |
Pieta Brown |
One and All |
Red House |
03/24/10 |
Birdsong at Morning |
Vigil |
Blue Gentian |
03/30/10 |
Joe Bonamassa |
Black Rock |
J&R Adventures |
04/01/10 |
Black Prairie |
Feast of the Hunter's Moon |
Sugar Hill |
04/01/10 |
Things That Fly |
Sugar Hill |
04/07/10 |
|
Janiva Magness |
The Devil Is an Angel Too |
Alligator |
04/09/10 |
Kellylee Evans |
The Good Girl |
Enliven |
04/12/10 |
Jakob Dylan |
Women and Country |
Columbia |
04/12/10 |
Jackson Browne and David Lindley |
Love Is Strange |
Inside |
04/14/10 |
Stanton Moore |
Groove Alchemy |
Telarc |
04/15/10 |
VOCAbuLarieS |
Emarcy |
04/20/10 |
|
Anders Osborne |
American Patchwork |
Alligator |
04/20/10 |
Solomon Burke |
Nothing's Impossible |
E1 |
04/21/10 |
Livingston Taylor |
Last Alaska Moon |
Coconut Bay |
04/22/10 |
Smash Palace * |
7 |
Zip |
04/22/10 |
Some Strange Country |
Signature Sounds |
04/23/10 |
|
Comfort in the Static |
Wildflower |
04/27/10 |
|
Jonny Lang |
Live at the Ryman |
Concord |
04/27/10 |
Darrell Scott |
A Crooked Road |
Full Light |
04/29/10 |
Loneliest Generation |
independent |
05/04/10 |
|
Tift Merritt |
See You on the Moon |
Fantasy |
05/04/10 |
Harper |
Stand Together |
Blind Pig |
05/05/10 |
John Nemeth |
Name the Day |
Blind Pig |
05/06/10 |
The Garden |
Red House |
05/07/10 |
|
Craig Werth |
The Spokes Man |
independent |
05/10/10 |
Nate Grower |
Nate Grower |
Patuxent |
05/11/10 |
Cherryholmes |
Common Threads |
Skaggs Family |
05/11/10 |
Harpeth Rising |
Harpeth Rising |
independent |
05/12/10 |
Andy Scott * |
Hope |
independent |
05/13/10 |
Carole King and James Taylor |
Live at the Troubadour |
Hear Music |
05/13/10 |
Justin Currie |
The Great War |
Ryko |
05/13/10 |
Otis Taylor |
Clovis People |
Telarc |
05/20/10 |
Good Old War |
Sargent House |
05/24/10 |
|
Keller and the Keels |
Thief |
SCI Fidelity |
05/25/10 |
Mint |
Everything All at Once |
independent |
05/26/10 |
Seth Swirsky |
Watercolor Day |
Grimble |
06/01/10 |
Le Pop |
Nettwerk |
06/02/10 |
|
Elvin Bishop |
Red Dog Speaks |
Delta Groove |
06/03/10 |
Jack Johnson |
To the Sea |
Brushfire |
06/03/10 |
Moe. |
Smash Hits Vol. 1 |
Farboy |
06/03/10 |
Pinetop Perkins and Willy “Big Eyes” Smith |
Joined at the Hip |
Telarc |
06/07/10 |
Timothy B. Schmidt |
Expando |
Lost Highway |
06/08/10 |
Clothesline Revival |
They Came from Somewhere |
Paleo Music |
06/08/10 |
Tribal |
429 Records |
06/09/10 |
|
Don Menzone |
Frost Bite |
independent |
06/10/10 |
Underground Saints * |
Broken Machines |
independent |
06/11/10 |
Antifogmatic |
Nonesuch |
06/16/10 |
|
Cyndi Lauper |
Memphis Blues |
Downtown |
06/22/10 |
Ernie Hendrickson |
Walking with Angels |
independent |
06/22/10 |
Derek Trucks Band |
Roadsongs |
Sony |
06/23/10 |
Steve Cropper and Felix Cavaliere |
Midnight Flyer |
Stax |
06/23/10 |
Sergio Mendes |
Bom Tempo |
Concord |
06/24/10 |
6 String Theory |
Concord |
06/24/10 |
|
Howard Jones |
Ordinary Heroes |
independent |
06/25/10 |
The Green |
The Green |
SHD |
06/25/10 |
Louie Setzer and the Appalachian Mountain Boys * |
Wish I Were There |
Ampersand |
06/28/10 |
Dr. Boondigga and the Big BW |
independent |
07/01/10 |
|
Stanley Clarke |
The Stanley Clarke Band |
Heads Up |
07/01/10 |
Chicken and Egg |
Howdy Skies |
07/02/10 |
|
Mollie O'Brien and Rich Moore |
Saints and Sinners |
Remington Road |
07/12/10 |
Steve Miller Band |
Bingo |
Roadrunner |
07/13/10 |
Walter Trout |
Common Ground |
Provogue |
07/13/10 |
Big Head Todd and the Monsters |
Rocksteady |
Big |
07/14/10 |
Mess Around |
E1 |
07/15/10 |
|
Wally and the Paupacks * |
Second Season |
independent |
07/16/10 |
Lucy Woodward |
Hooked |
Verve |
07/16/10 |
Mike and Ruthy |
Million to One |
Humble Abode |
07/19/10 |
Cas Haley |
Connection |
Easy Star |
07/20/10 |
Blitzen Trapper |
Destroyer of the Void |
Sub Pop |
07/20/10 |
Hot Club Sandwich |
And If Only |
independent |
07/22/10 |
Photograph |
independent |
07/27/10 |
|
Unpredictable |
independent |
07/27/10 |
|
Chris Kokesh |
October Valentines |
independent |
07/29/10 |
Herbie Hancock |
The Imagine Project |
Hancock |
08/03/10 |
Twangtown Paramours |
Twangtown Paramours |
Inside Edge |
08/04/10 |
Symphonicities |
Deutche Grammophon |
08/05/10 |
|
Years Between Us |
Primesound |
08/06/10 |
|
Earl Pickens and Family |
Gathering |
Yay! |
08/10/10 |
Albert Castiglia |
Keepin' On |
Blues Leaf |
08/16/10 |
The Orchard |
Barsuk |
08/19/10 |
|
Charlie Musselwhite |
The Well |
Alligator |
08/19/10 |
Ashleigh Caudill |
Fruit of the Vine |
independent |
08/23/10 |
All the Good Summers |
Great Bear |
08/23/10 |
|
Red Wine |
independent |
08/30/10 |
|
Alessandro Magnanini |
Someway Still I Do |
Schema |
08/31/10 |
Railroad Earth * |
Railroad Earth |
One Haven |
09/06/10 |
Bob Corritore and Friends |
Harmonica Blues |
Delta Groove |
09/08/10 |
Gary U.S. Bonds |
Let Them Talk |
GLA |
09/09/10 |
Jay Gaunt |
Harmonicopia |
independent |
09/13/10 |
Mavis Staples |
You Are Not Alone |
Anti- |
09/13/10 |
Ryan Montbleau Band |
Heavy on the Vine |
independent |
09/14/10 |
In Another Life |
independent |
09/15/10 |
|
Robin Rogers |
Back in the Fire |
Blind Pig |
09/15/10 |
YaYas |
Paper Boats |
independent |
09/16/10 |
Greg Klyma * |
PianoMandoNation |
independent |
09/16/10 |
James Cotton |
Giant |
Alligator |
09/20/10 |
Good Company |
independent |
09/23/10 |
|
Gin Blossoms |
No Chocolate Cake |
429 Records |
09/24/10 |
David Gray |
Foundling |
IHT |
09/27/10 |
Boulder Acoustic Society |
Champion of Disaster |
independent |
09/28/10 |
Abby Ahmad |
Curriculum |
independent |
09/29/10 |
As If You Had Wings |
independent |
10/04/10 |
|
Birdsong at Morning |
Lumens |
Blue Gentian |
10/04/10 |
Ronnie Wood |
I Feel Like Playing |
Eagle |
10/05/10 |
Guggenheim Grotto |
The Universe Is Laughing |
UFO Music |
10/06/10 |
Tom Chapin and John Forster |
Broadsides |
independent |
10/06/10 |
Atomic Square |
After It's All Said and Done |
independent |
10/07/10 |
Honey Dewdrops |
These Old Roots |
independent |
10/07/10 |
Johnny Clegg |
Human |
Appleseed |
10/12/10 |
Songs for a Sinking Ship |
independent |
10/12/10 |
|
Marc Jordan, Murray McLauchlan, Cindy Church, Ian Thomas |
More Lunch at Allen's |
Linus |
10/14/10 |
Maggie Sansone |
Wind Drift |
Maggie's Music |
10/15/10 |
Chris Cain |
So Many Miles |
Blue Rock' It |
10/19/10 |
Victoire |
Cathedral City |
independent |
10/20/10 |
Judy Collins |
Paradise |
Wildflower |
10/21/10 |
Evan Goodrow Band |
Say It |
independent |
10/22/10 |
Elizabeth and the Catapult |
The Other Side of Zero |
Verve |
10/26/10 |
Huey Lewis and the News |
Soulsville |
W.O.W. |
10/27/10 |
Brokedown King |
independent |
10/27/10 |
|
Bryan Ferry |
Olympia |
Astralwerks |
10/28/10 |
Ray Charles |
Rare Genius: The Undiscovered Masters |
Concord |
10/28/10 |
Pan.a.ce.a |
Bare Bones |
independent |
10/28/10 |
Living Proof |
Silvertone |
10/29/10 |
|
Mystic Roots Band |
Cali-HI |
Stay Positive |
10/29/10 |
B.D. Lenz * |
Five and Live |
independent |
11/01/10 |
Kellylee Evans |
Nina |
Plus Loin |
11/02/10 |
Mariage Blanc |
Mariage Blanc |
independent |
11/03/10 |
Jeremy dePrisco * |
Chaos Rising Up |
independent |
11/08/10 |
The Conjurer |
independent |
11/08/10 |
|
Country Funk |
independent |
11/10/10 |
|
Natasha Borzilova |
Balancing Act |
Hadley |
11/11/10 |
Norah Jones |
Featuring Norah Jones |
Blue Note |
11/16/10 |
Pappy * |
Pappy Time |
Prairie Queen |
11/16/10 |
Tom Prasado-Rao |
Goodnight Regret |
independent |
11/17/10 |
Carl Hauck |
Windjammer |
independent |
11/18/10 |
Up Close |
EMI |
11/22/10 |
|
Cahill |
Where We Go from Here |
independent |
11/23/10 |
Dar Williams |
Many Great Companions |
Razor & Tie |
11/23/10 |
Hooters |
Five by Five |
independent |
11/26/10 |
The Bookseller's House |
independent |
12/03/10 |
|
Giant Sand * |
Blurry Blue Mountain |
Fire |
12/03/10 |
Arthur Lee Land |
Dragonfly |
Perfect Groove |
12/03/10 |
Laura Mann |
Bow Tie and Rose Tattoo |
independent |
12/06/10 |
K.J. Denhert |
Album No. 9 |
Motema |
12/07/10 |
Once Around |
Yep Roc |
12/09/10 |