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.
Elbow |
Polydor |
01/03/22 |
Jill Haley * |
Wrapped in Light |
independent |
01/05/22 |
Furrows |
independent |
01/07/22 |
|
Aoife O’Donovan |
independent |
01/18/22 |
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Fleet Foxes |
A Very Lonely Solstice |
Anti- |
01/18/22 |
Janis Ian |
Rude Girl |
01/24/22 |
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Eric Gales |
Crown |
Provogue |
01/26/22 |
Elvis Costello & the Imposters |
The Boy Named If |
Capitol |
01/27/22 |
Matt Hannah |
independent |
01/31/22 |
|
Anais Mitchell |
Anais Mitchell |
BMG |
02/01/22 |
Cosmic American Derelicts |
The Twain Shall Meet |
Soundkeeper |
02/02/22 |
The Sully Band |
Let’s Straighten It Out! |
Blue Elan |
02/03/22 |
John Mayall |
The Sun Is Shining Down |
Forty Below |
02/04/22 |
Slambovian Circus of Dreams |
A Very Unusal Head |
Storm King |
02/04/22 |
Rupert Wates |
independent |
02/07/22 |
|
Dana Cooper |
Dog Eared |
02/07/22 |
|
Duke Robillard |
Stony Plain |
02/08/22 |
|
Rob Heath |
Biggest Moments |
independent |
02/09/22 |
Keller Williams |
independent |
02/14/22 |
|
The Gravel Project |
Many Miles Ahead |
independent |
02/15/22 |
Alan Walker * |
Something Up My Sleeve |
Aunt Mimi’s |
02/22/22 |
Sugaray Rayford |
In Too Deep |
Forty Below |
02/23/22 |
Shred Kelly |
Like a Rising Sun |
Devil Duck |
02/23/22 |
Daniel Walzer |
independent |
02/24/22 |
|
Ajay Mathur |
Talking Loud |
Yakketeeyak |
03/03/22 |
The Other Favorites |
independent |
03/04/22 |
|
Carla Ulbrich * |
Twang |
independent |
03/07/22 |
Judy Collins |
Spellbound |
independent |
03/07/22 |
The Weather Station |
How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars |
independent |
03/08/22 |
Danielia Cotton |
Good Day |
independent |
03/18/22 |
Club D’Elf |
You Never Know |
independent |
03/21/22 |
Andy Rothstein Band |
independent |
03/25/22 |
|
The Weight Band |
Shines Like Gold |
independent |
03/30/22 |
Larry McCray |
Blues without You |
Keep the Blues Alive |
03/30/22 |
Hoodoo Gurus |
Chariots of the Gods |
Universal |
03/30/22 |
James Kahn |
>By the Risin’ of the Sea – Shanties for Our Time |
independent |
04/01/22 |
Midlake |
For the Sake of Bethel Woods |
ATO |
04/11/22 |
Jon Fuller * |
When Did you Get So Damn Scared |
independent |
04/11/22 |
100 Mile House |
Fallen Tree |
04/12/22 |
|
Ian McFeron |
West Wind |
independent |
04/13/22 |
Water Street |
All We Tried to Be |
independent |
04/13/22 |
Dana Fuchs |
Borrowed Time |
Ruff Shod |
04/14/22 |
Matt Andersen |
independent |
04/19/22 |
|
Robin Trower |
No More Worlds to Conquer |
Provogue |
04/21/22 |
Trombone Shorty |
Blue Note |
04/22/22 |
|
The String Cheese Incident |
Into the Blue (EP) |
SCI Fidelity |
04/25/22 |
Michael Whalen |
Imaginary Trains |
independent |
04/26/22 |
Flock of Dimes |
Head of Roses: Phantom Limb |
Sub Pop |
04/26/22 |
Willie Stratton |
Drugstore Dreamin’ |
independent |
04/27/22 |
Seth Swirsky |
Lolipop |
04/28/22 |
|
Mike Stevens |
Stony Plain |
05/04/22 |
|
Edgar Winter |
Brother Johnny |
Quarto Valley |
05/04/22 |
Paris Combo |
Quesaco? |
Six Degrees |
05/09/22 |
Charlie Musselwhite |
Mississippi Son |
Alligator EP |
05/10/22 |
Kenny Neal |
Straight from the Heart |
Ruf |
05/10/22 |
Abbie Gardner |
Dobrosinger |
independent |
05/12/22 |
Jeverson |
Jeverson |
FGM |
05/13/22 |
Lyle Lovett |
Verve |
05/16/22 |
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Bonnie Raitt |
Redwing |
05/18/22 |
|
Alonzo Spirit Band |
Aloha Blvd |
Di-Tone |
05/18/22 |
Chicago Soul Jazz Collective Meets Dee Alexander |
Jmarq |
05/19/22 |
|
C.Duncan |
Alluvium |
Bella Union |
05/24/22 |
Janiva Magness |
Hard to Kill |
Fathead |
06/07/22 |
Johnny Sansone |
Into Your Blues |
independent |
06/07/22 |
Railroad Earth * |
All for the Song |
independent |
06/10/22 |
Andrew Bird |
Inside Problems |
Loma Vista |
06/14/22 |
Debbie Deane |
Ropeadope |
06/16/22 |
|
Steve Wood |
independent |
06/17/22 |
|
Dream Syndicate |
Untraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions |
Fire |
06/21/22 |
Mapache |
Roscoe’s Dream |
independent |
06/21/22 |
Pharis and Jason Romero |
Tell ‘em You Were Gold |
Smithsonian Folkways |
06/28/22 |
Skunk Baxter |
Renew |
07/01/22 |
|
Big Little Lions |
Fallen Tree |
07/05/22 |
|
Rogers and Butler |
Brighter Day |
Think Like a Day |
07/05/22 |
Brooks Williams and Aaron Catlow |
Ready for the Times |
independent |
07/06/22 |
Umphrey’s McGee |
Nothing Too Fancy |
07/11/22 |
|
Ballroom Thieves |
Clouds |
Nettwerk |
07/12/22 |
Lucy Kaplansky |
Last Days of Summer |
independent |
07/12/22 |
Xander and the Peace Pirates |
BFD |
07/15/22 |
|
Lettuce |
independent |
07/18/22 |
|
Dan Navarro |
Horizon Line |
independent |
07/20/22 |
Nolen Sellwood |
New Folk |
07/22/22 |
|
Lera Lynn |
Something More Than Love |
Ruby Range |
07/22/22 |
New Potato Caboose |
It Ain’t a Thing |
independent |
07/25/22 |
Shemekia Copeland |
Alligator |
08/01/22 |
|
Ben Harper |
Bloodline Maintenance |
Chrysalis |
08/05/22 |
Gilbert O’Sullivan |
Driven |
BMG |
08/10/22 |
Alan Williams |
Blue Gentian |
08/12/22 |
|
Joe Jencks |
The Coming of the Years |
Turtle Bear |
08/12/22 |
Empty Pockets * |
Outside Spectrum |
independent |
08/17/22 |
Ian Lake |
What It Is |
independent |
08/17/22 |
Joe Marcinek Band |
Vintage Legacy |
08/18/22 |
|
Loudon Wainwright III |
independent |
08/22/22 |
|
Mason Via |
New Horizon |
Mountain Fever |
08/23/22 |
Tyler Edwards |
A Falling Sky |
independent |
09/01/22 |
Freedy Johnston |
Forty Below |
09/14/22 |
|
Anthony Arya |
independent |
09/21/22 |
|
Mommyheads |
independent |
09/23/22 |
|
Jimmy Hall |
Ready Now |
Keeping the Blues Alive |
09/23/22 |
Jesca Hoop |
Memphis Industries |
09/26/22 |
|
Ringo Starr |
EP3 |
independent EP |
09/26/22 |
Todd Rundgren |
Space Force |
Cleopatra |
10/10/22 |
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings |
O Glory |
independent |
10/11/22 |
King of Foxes |
Twilight of the Empire |
Crystal Baby |
10/13/22 |
Rory Block |
Ain’t Nobody Worried |
Stony Plain |
10/17/22 |
Amanda Cook |
Changes |
Mountain Fever |
10/19/22 |
Seth Mulder & Midnight Run |
In Dreams I Go Back |
Mountain Fever |
10/19/22 |
Richard X. Heyman |
67,000 Miles an Album |
Turn Up |
10/20/22 |
Sloan |
Steady |
Yep Roc |
10/21/22 |
Jake Blount |
Smithsonian Folkways |
10/24/22 |
|
Acute Inflections |
Let Go |
independent |
10/26/22 |
Crystal Shawanda |
Midnight Blues |
True North |
10/28/22 |
Sam Bush |
Songs of John Hartford |
independent |
10/31/22 |
Julian Taylor |
Beyond the Reservoir |
Howling Turtle |
10/31/22 |
David Ogilvy |
independent |
11/01/22 |
|
Jared Rabin |
Chasing the Light |
independent |
11/01/22 |
Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen |
various artists |
Blue Note |
11/02/22 |
3 Pairs of Boots |
Mighty Love |
independent |
11/02/22 |
Greg Hatza & Enayet Hossain * |
Talking Hands |
Aimrec |
11/03/22 |
Vieux Farka Toure et Khruangbin |
Ali |
Dead Oceans |
11/03/22 |
Duncan Sheik |
Anti-Fragile |
11/07/22 |
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Euforquestra |
Color Red |
11/11/22 |
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Rose’s Pawn Shop |
Punch Drunk Life |
KZZ |
11/14/22 |
Lee Fields |
Sentimental Fool |
Daptone |
11/17/22 |
The Foreign Landers |
independent |
11/21/22 |
|
Billy Strings |
Me and Dad |
independent |
11/25/22 |
Vanessa Collier |
Live at Power Station |
Phenix Fire |
11/29/22 |
RJ LeBlanc |
Bent River |
12/2/22 |
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