These albums were selected by Mixed host George Graham from hundreds of 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.
Laura Zucker |
Lifeline |
independent |
01/09/23 |
Matthew and the Mainstream |
Rom Core |
independent |
01/10/23 |
The Ruta Beggars |
Ever-Changing |
independent |
01/10/23 |
Clarence Bucaro * |
Hardest Parts |
2020 Records |
01/13/23 |
The Burnt Pines |
Don’t Look Down |
independent |
01/17/23 |
Anna Tivel |
Outsiders |
Mama Bird |
01/17/23 |
Volume Five |
Karma |
Mountain Fever |
01/18/23 |
Benny Lee |
Chickens Are a Gateway Drug |
independent |
01/24/23 |
David Cullen * |
Revival |
independent |
01/24/23 |
Bog Bodies |
Reclaim the Ritual |
Invocation |
01/27/23 |
Joe Louis Walker |
Weight of the World |
Forty Below |
02/03/23 |
Electric Beethoven |
Hear No Evil |
Color Red |
02/03/23 |
Last Charge of the Light Horse |
Octet |
independent EP |
02/10/23 |
Sunny War |
Anarchist Gospel |
New West |
02/13/23 |
Tim Stafford & Thomm Jutz |
Lost Voices |
Mountain Fever |
02/14/23 |
Damon Fowler & Friends |
Live at the Palladium |
Landslide |
02/16/23 |
Aberdeen |
Held Together |
independent |
02/20/23 |
Phil Pilorz |
Happytown |
independent |
02/27/23 |
Karan Casey |
Nine Apples of Gold |
Crow Valley |
02/28/23 |
The Zombies |
Difrerent Now |
Cooking Vinyl |
03/01/23 |
Kingsley Durant |
Convertible |
independent |
03/02/23 |
Alice Howe |
Circumstance |
independent |
03/03/23 |
Eric Bibb |
Ridin’ |
Stony Plain |
03/06/23 |
Rhythm Krewe |
Unfinished Business |
Rhombus |
03/13/23 |
King Tuff |
Smalltown Stardust |
Sub Pop |
03/14/23 |
James Houlihan |
Beyond the Borders |
independent |
03/16/23 |
Mike Miz * |
Only Human |
independent |
03/17/23 |
Nickel Creek |
Celebrants |
independent |
03/28/23 |
Professor Louie and the Crowmatix * |
Rockin’ Legacy Vol. 1 |
Woodstock |
03/29/23 |
Van Morrison |
Moving on Skiffle |
Exile/Virgin |
03/31/23 |
Air Traffic Controller |
Dash |
independent |
03/31/23 |
Greg Greenway |
Between Hello and Goodbye |
Sheen of Heat |
04/03/23 |
Bruce Katz Band |
Connections |
Dancing Rooster |
04/05/23 |
Williams Tyler & the Impossible Truth |
Secret Stratosphere |
Merge |
04/06/23 |
Alice Howe |
Circumstance |
Know Howe |
04/10/23 |
Joe Krown |
Tribute |
Sledgehammer Blues |
04/10/23 |
The Drawbars |
One Finger Only |
Color Red |
04/11/23 |
Ana Popovic |
Power |
ArtisteXclusive |
04/12/23 |
Robbie Fulks |
Bluegrass Vacation |
Compass |
04/18/23 |
Lynn Miles |
Toumbleweedy World |
independent |
04/18/23 |
Fruit Bats |
A River Running to Your Heart |
Merge |
04/27/23 |
Jimmy Bennett |
Sunday Morning Sessions |
Junkyard Dog |
04/28/23 |
Tim O’Brien |
Cup of Sugar |
Howdy Skies |
05/01/23 |
Zuco 103 |
Telenova |
Six Degrees |
05/02/23 |
Morgan Heritage |
The Homeland |
CTBC |
05/02/23 |
Vance Gilbert |
The Mother of Trouble |
Disismye |
05/03/23 |
Cosmic American Derelicts * |
Bergenfield Blues |
independent |
05/04/23 |
Peter Case |
Doctor Moan |
Sunset Blvd. |
05/08/23 |
Brooklyn Funk Essentials |
Intuition |
Dorado |
05/08/23 |
Michael Whalen |
Our April Tigers |
independent |
05/09/23 |
The Album Leaf |
Future Falling |
independent |
05/09/23 |
Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius * |
Behind the Curtain – Live at Progstock |
independent |
05/10/23 |
Leftover Salmon |
Grass Roots |
Compass |
05/11/23 |
Betty LaVette |
LaVette! |
Jay-Vee |
05/11/23 |
Bruce Cockburn |
O Sun O Moon |
independent |
05/15/23 |
Keturah |
Keturah |
independent |
05/16/23 |
Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer, Zakir Hussain, Rakesh Chariasia |
As We Speak |
independent |
05/17/23 |
Nick Waterhouse |
The Fooler |
Pres |
05/18/23 |
Graham Nash |
Now |
BMG |
05/19/23 |
Positive Vibrations |
Country Goes Reggae |
independent |
05/23/23 |
Rick Hornyak * |
Dandelion |
independent |
05/30/23 |
Braids |
Euphonic Recall |
independent |
05/30/23 |
Marc Ciprut |
Blue House |
independent |
06/01/23 |
Ellis Paul |
55 |
Rosella |
06/02/23 |
Joanna Connor |
Best of Me |
Gulf Coast |
06/02/23 |
Mike Gouldin and Rollin’ & Tumblin’ * |
The Franklin Sessions |
Blue Heart |
06/05/23 |
Arlen Roth and Jerry Jemmott |
Super Soul Session |
Blue Heart |
06/05/23 |
American Beauties |
Sound of Mind |
independent |
06/06/23 |
Ben Harper |
Wide Open Light |
Chrysalis |
06/08/23 |
Mishell Ndegeocello |
The Omnichord Real Book |
Blue Note |
06/09/23 |
Cowboy Junkies |
Such Ferocious Beauty |
Cooking Vinyl |
06/12/23 |
Great Lake Swimmers |
Uncertain Country |
Harbor Songs.Fontana |
06/12/23 |
Dren McDonald |
Pterous |
Appearing |
06/16/23 |
Ben Folds |
What Matters Most |
New West |
06/26/23 |
Hammertowne |
You Can Learn a Lot from a Song |
Mountain Fever |
06/29/23 |
TAUK Moore |
TAUK Moore |
independent |
07/03/23 |
Bombadils, The |
Dear Friend |
independent |
07/06/23 |
David Gelman * |
Dusty Highway |
independent |
07/07/23 |
Steeltown Horns |
5 Years of Funk |
Alley Time |
07/14/23 |
Last Charge of the Light Horse |
Vestiges (EP) |
independent |
07/14/23 |
Floki Sessions (feat. George Porter) |
Boots in Place |
Color Red |
07/17/23 |
Michael Whalen |
Walk in Beauty, Like the Night |
independent |
07/19/23 |
Rachel Garlin |
The Ballad of Madelyn & Therese |
independent |
07/21/23 |
Duane Betts Band |
Wild & Precious Life |
Royal Potato Family |
07/24/23 |
Rachael Sage |
The Other Side |
Mpress |
07/28/23 |
Andy Lowe |
Nervous Energy |
Mountain Fever |
07/31/23 |
Alan Munde |
Excelsior! |
Patuxent |
07/31/23 |
Darlingside |
Everything Is Alive |
Thirty Tigers |
08/07/23 |
Minor Gold |
Minor Gold |
independent |
08/14/23 |
Kiltro |
Kiltro |
independent |
08/14/23 |
Maia Sharp |
Reckless Thoughts |
Crooked Crown |
08/17/23 |
The Blues Project |
Evolution |
independent |
08/18/23 |
Guitar Jack Wargo * |
The New Normal |
Wargod |
08/24/23 |
Bobby Rush |
All My Love for You |
Deep Rush/Thirty Tigers |
09/01/23 |
Ringo Starr |
Rewind Forward (EP) |
independent |
09/05/23 |
Hiss Golden Messenger |
Jump for Joy |
Merge |
09/11/23 |
The Kennedys |
Headwinds |
independent |
09/12/23 |
Nellie McKay |
Hey Guys Watch This |
Hungry Mouse |
09/14/23 |
Willie Nelson |
Bluegrass |
Sony |
09/15/23 |
EG Kight * |
Sticks and Strings |
Blue South |
09/15/23 |
The Furious Seasons |
Every Morning at Five |
independent |
09/18/23 |
Paper Kites |
At the Roadhouse |
independent |
09/18/23 |
Organ Fairchild |
Leisure Suit |
Organ Fairchild |
09/21/23 |
Joan Osborne |
Nobody Owns Me |
Womanly Hips |
09/21/23 |
Cory Walter |
School Project |
Mountain Fever |
09/25/23 |
Nothin’ Fancy |
Here We Go Again |
Mountain Fever |
09/25/23 |
Joyann Parker |
Roots |
Hopeless Romantics |
09/29/23 |
Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon |
Together |
folkmusic.com |
10/02/23 |
The Mommyheads * |
Coney Island Kid |
independent |
10/05/23 |
Stephen Marley |
Old Soul |
independent |
10/09/23 |
Krasno Moore Project |
Book of Queens |
Concord |
10/12/23 |
Sufjan Stevens |
Javelin |
Acthmatic Kitty |
10/13/23 |
The Pretenders |
Relentless |
Barcoom |
10/13/23 |
various artists |
A Song for Leon |
Primary Wave |
10/17/23 |
Teenage Fanclub |
Nothing Lasts Forever |
Merge |
10/19/23 |
The Lowlies |
The Lowlies |
Airloom |
10/23/23 |
Shred Kelly |
Blurry Vision |
independent |
10/27/23 |
Van Wagner |
Government Man |
independent |
10/30/23 |
Marcus Rezak |
Guitar Head |
independent |
11/16/23 |
Van Morrison |
Accentuate the Positive |
Exile |
11/20/23 |
Barbaro |
About the Winter |
independent |
12/04/23 |
Anton du Preez |
Songs of Feeling |
Black Labs |
12/04/23 |
Mountain Goats, The |
Jenny from Thebes |
Merge |
12/07/23 |
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