These albums were selected by Mixed host George Graham from the over 500 albums and EPs 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 Mixed Bag Weekly Album Review (Wednesdays at 9:00 PM) are linked to the review on this website.
Artist Name |
Album Title |
Label |
Add Date |
Sturgill Simpson |
Cuttin’ Grass – The Butcher Shoppe Sessions |
High Top Mountain |
01/01/21 |
Terry Draper |
Lost |
independent |
01/05/21 |
Luka Kuplowski |
Stardust |
independent |
01/05/21 |
Justin Moses |
Mountain Fever |
01/06/21 |
|
Paul McCartney |
McCartney III |
Capitol |
01/07/21 |
Eric Bikales |
Mandala |
independent |
01/11/21 |
Christel Veraart |
Celestial Musings on the Seven Sisters |
independent |
01/11/21 |
DiCosimo / Pagan |
SubCat |
01/20/21 |
|
Rick Sal |
School Bus |
01/21/21 |
|
Strange Jazz Universe |
The LA Sound |
01/22/21 |
|
The Burnt Pines |
Adraela |
01/25/21 |
|
The Bossa Nova Beatniks * |
The Bossa Nova Beatniks Show |
independent |
01/29/21 |
The Watters * |
Intuition |
independent |
02/01/21 |
Ani Di Franco |
Revolutionary Love |
Righteous Babe |
02/04/21 |
The Staves |
Good Woman |
Nonesuch |
02/08/21 |
Erin Ivey |
Solace in the Wild |
independent |
02/09/21 |
Rachel Efron |
independent |
02/10/21 |
|
Nick Waterhouse |
Promenade Blue |
Innovative Leisure |
02/11/21 |
Ryland Moranz |
Tonic |
02/12/21 |
|
The Weather Station |
Fat Possom |
02/15/21 |
|
Lyle Workman |
independent |
02/16/21 |
|
The Mommyheads |
Coming Into Beauty |
independent |
02/16/21 |
Rob Kovacs |
Let Go |
Head Bitch |
03/01/21 |
Eric Bazilian |
Bazilian |
independent |
03/02/21 |
Tautologic |
Wheels Fall Off |
independent |
03/05/21 |
Elska |
independent |
03/11/21 |
|
Kolotov Mocktails |
Ivy Hall |
Three Coasts |
03/11/21 |
Boot Juice |
independent |
03/11/21 |
|
Damon Fowler |
Alafia Moon |
Landslide |
03/12/21 |
The Paper Kites |
Nettwerk |
03/15/21 |
|
STR4TA |
Aspects |
Brownwood |
03/16/21 |
Hash Cabbage |
The Gospel According to Hash Cabbage |
independent |
03/16/21 |
Mia Doy Todd |
Music Life |
City Zen |
03/17/21 |
Longboat |
Album 21 |
AchduliebeZeit! |
03/17/21 |
Loretta Lynn |
Still Woman Enough |
Sony Legacy |
03/18/21 |
Craig Cummings * |
The Gulf Between Us |
Azalea City EP |
03/18/21 |
Cory Coffman |
Canvas and Color |
independent |
03/19/21 |
Jesse Terry * |
When We Wander |
independent |
03/22/21 |
Brenda Fernandes * |
As I Am |
independent |
03/23/21 |
Steve Cropper |
Fire It Up |
Provogue |
03/24/21 |
Dutch Falconi |
Bloom & Brimstone |
Aurore |
03/25/21 |
Sturgill Simpson |
Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 2: The Cowboy Arms Sessions |
High Top Mountain |
03/26/21 |
The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc |
Bonfrost |
independent |
04/01/21 |
The City Champs |
Luna ‘68 |
Big Legal Mess |
04/05/21 |
Amanda Cook |
Mountain Fever |
04/06/21 |
|
Dulcie Taylor |
Rediscovered (EP) |
Mesa Bluemoon |
04/06/21 |
Michael Johnathon |
The Painter |
Poetman |
04/07/21 |
Dumpstaphunk |
Mascot |
04/14/21 |
|
Gary Moore |
How Blue Can You Get |
Provogue |
04/15/21 |
Thornton Creek |
Maybe Key Lime |
independent |
04/16/21 |
Norah Jones |
Til We Meet Again |
Blue Note |
04/19/21 |
AO Music |
Abbywood |
04/21/21 |
|
Jefferson Berry & the UAC |
Soon! |
independent |
04/23/21 |
Kane Mathis |
Geminus |
independent |
04/23/21 |
Ringo Starr |
Zoom In (EP) |
independent |
04/26/21 |
The Contraptionists |
Workingman’s Dread |
independent |
04/26/21 |
Kevin Fisher |
Pop Rocks |
independent |
04/27/21 |
Clarence Spady |
Surrender |
independent |
05/03/21 |
Jon Batiste |
We Are |
Verve |
05/04/21 |
Flock of Dimes |
Head of Roses |
independent |
05/04/21 |
Sunny War |
Henhouse |
05/06/21 |
|
Michael Whalen |
independent |
05/07/21 |
|
Beams |
Ego Death |
Be My Sibling |
05/07/21 |
Barton Hartshorn |
Suxeed |
05/10/21 |
|
The 456 |
independent |
05/13/21 |
|
Bob Malone * |
Good People |
Delta Moon |
05/13/21 |
Manchester Orchestra |
The Million Masks of God |
Loma Vista |
05/17/21 |
The Wallflowers |
Exit Wounds |
independent |
05/18/21 |
Quinn Sullivan |
Provogue |
05/21/21 |
|
Bocephus King |
The Infinte and the Autogrill Vol. 1 |
Tonic |
05/21/21 |
Cliff Hillis |
Life Gets Strange |
Tallboy |
05/26/21 |
Lord Huron |
Long Lost Album |
Republic |
06/01/21 |
Trapper Schoepp |
May Day |
Grandphony |
06/02/21 |
John Hall |
Reclaiming My Time |
Sunset Blvd. |
06/09/21 |
Will Stratton |
Bella Union/PIAS |
06/14/21 |
|
Richard X. Heyman |
Turn-Up |
06/16/21 |
|
Dan Dean |
Fanfare for the Common Man |
Origin |
06/17/21 |
Keeton Coffman |
Hard Times |
independent |
06/18/21 |
Chad Elliot |
independent |
06/21/21 |
|
Jared Feinman |
West of Philly |
06/28/21 |
|
Hiss Golden Messenger |
Quietly Blowing It |
Merge |
07/01/21 |
Frank Evans & Ben Plotnick |
Madison Archives |
independent |
07/01/21 |
Gretchen Parlato |
Edition |
07/06/21 |
|
Smash Palace * |
21 |
In the Pocket |
07/07/21 |
Lanterna |
Hidden Drives |
Badman |
07/13/21 |
Drew Kelly * |
From a Deep Abyss |
independent |
07/14/21 |
John Flynn * |
Wild Beat the Wings |
independent |
07/15/21 |
Alborosie |
For the Culture |
VP |
07/20/21 |
Bryan Away |
independent |
07/28/21 |
|
Umphrey’s McGee |
You Walked Up Shaking in Your Boots But You Stood Tall and Left a Raging Bull |
Nothin; Fancy |
08/02/21 |
Rorie Kelly * |
Shadow Work |
independent |
08/02/21 |
Anna Tivel |
Blue World |
Fluff & Gravy |
08/03/21 |
The Furious Seasons |
independent |
08/12/21 |
|
John Reischman |
New Time & Old Acoustic |
Corvus |
08/12/21 |
The Elovaters |
independent |
08/13/21 |
|
Jackson Browne |
Downhill from Everywhere |
Inside |
08/16/21 |
Jah Sun & The Rising Tide |
Running Through Walls |
independent |
08/17/21 |
Tito Jackson |
Under Your Spell |
Gulf Coast |
08/18/21 |
Ericson Holt |
99 Degrees |
Conch Town Music |
08/20/21 |
2B3 |
Jimi |
independent |
08/25/21 |
One Earth Alliance |
Maginus |
08/27/21 |
|
Willie Nile |
The Day the World Stood Still |
River House |
08/30/21 |
Jordana Talsky |
Zahava |
independent EP |
09/01/21 |
Rachel Garlin |
The State We Are In |
independent EP |
09/03/21 |
John McCutcheon |
Appalsongs |
09/07/21 |
|
Bela Fleck |
My Bluegrass Heart |
independent |
09/14/21 |
Eric Bibb |
Provogue |
09/16/21 |
|
Dar Williams |
I’ll Meet You Here |
Renew |
09/16/21 |
Colin Linden |
bLOW |
Thirty Tigers |
09/17/21 |
The Mommyheads |
Age of Isolation |
independent |
09/21/21 |
Paula Standing |
independent |
09/23/21 |
|
Ronnie Wood Band |
Mr. Luck a Tribute to Jimmy Reed Live at the Royal Albert Hall |
independent |
10/01/21 |
L.A. Cowboy |
Reconcile |
10/01/21 |
|
Altered Five Blues Band |
Holler If You Hear Me |
Blind Pig |
10/04/21 |
Laura Love |
Uppity |
Octaroon Biography |
10/05/21 |
Teitur |
Cazador de Ostras |
Arlo & Betty |
10/05/21 |
Ilana Katz Katz |
Regina Royale |
10/07/21 |
|
The Wilderness of Manitoba |
Popguru |
10/08/21 |
|
Women Artists Cover Neil Young for Charity |
various artists |
American Laundromat |
10/11/21 |
Alphanaut |
On Some Planets This is Pop |
independent |
10/11/21 |
Paul Carrack |
One on One |
Carrack-UK |
10/13/21 |
Ireesh Lal |
Journey through the Chakras |
independent |
10/14/21 |
Scott Kinsey / Mer Sal |
Blue Canoe |
10/15/21 |
|
Colin James |
Stony Plain |
10/21/21 |
|
Ricci/Krown |
City > Country > City |
Gulf Coast |
10/21/21 |
Sarah McQuaid |
The St. Buryan Sessions |
Shovel and a Spade |
10/25/21 |
Jay Smar * |
Smar Guitar |
independent EP |
10/26/21 |
They Might Be Giants |
Book |
Idlewild |
10/27/21 |
Dean Friedman |
American Lullaby |
independent |
10/28/21 |
Burnt Belief |
Mutual Isolation |
independent |
11/01/21 |
Malcolm MacWatt |
Need to Know |
11/02/21 |
|
Yo-Yo Ma |
Notes for the Future |
Sony Classical |
11/08/21 |
Brooks Williams and Aaron Catlow |
Ghost Owl |
Red Guitar Blue Music |
11/08/21 |
EllaHarp |
Screaming into the Void |
independent EP |
11/11/21 |
Frank Viele * |
Time Is a Thief |
independent EP |
11/11/21 |
Dion |
Stomping Ground |
Keeping the Blues Alive |
11/12/21 |
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats |
The Future |
independent |
11/15/21 |
Ceu |
Um Gosto de Sol |
Urban Jungle |
11/16/21 |
Quote the Raven |
independent |
11/17/21 |
|
Tori Amos |
Ocean to Ocean |
Decca |
11/17/21 |
Ringo Starr |
Change the World (EP) |
Uma |
11/18/21 |
Jake Shimabukuro |
Music Theories |
11/19/21 |
|
Willie Nelson |
The Willie Nelson Family |
Sony Legacy |
11/26/21 |
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss |
Raise the Roof |
Rounder |
11/29/21 |
Chillingsworth |
Surfingham |
independent |
11/29/21 |
Mars Lasar |
Coastal Escape |
independent |
11/30/21 |
Terry Draper |
The Other Side |
independent |
12/01/21 |
Buffalo Nichols |
Buffalo Nichols |
Fat Possom |
12/02/21 |
The Connells |
Steadman’s Wake |
independent |
12/07/21 |
Neal Francis |
In Plain Sight |
ATO |
12/09/21 |
Norah Jones |
I Dream of Christmas |
Blue Note |
12/10/21 |
Joanne Shaw Taylor |
The Blues Album |
Keeping the Blues Alive |
12/13/21 |
Curtis Harding |
If Words Were Flowers |
independent |
12/13/21 |
David Singley |
The Long, Slow Fuse of Night |
independent |
12/14/21 |
Peter Keane |
Blues, Ballads and Cowboy Songs |
independent |
12/14/21 |
House of Hamill * |
Folk Hero |
independent |
12/15/21 |
Allen Stone |
ATO |
12/17/21 |
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