Sunday, January 18, 2009

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

WFHB Top 100 of 2008











1. Blind Boys of Alabama / Down in New Orleans / TimeLife
 2. Bob Dylan / Tell Tale Signs / Columbia
 3. Cat Power / Jukebox / Merge
 4. Carrie Newcomer / The Geography of Light / Philo
 5. Taj Mahal / Maestro / Kan Du
 6. Jim White / Transnormal Skiperoo / Luaka Bop
 7. Bon Iver / For Emma, Forever Ago / Jagjaguwar
 8. Catherine Russel / Sentimental Streak / World Village
 9. Sia / Some People Have Real Problems / Sia Music
10. Krista Detor / Cover Their Eyes / Corazong
11. Randy Newman / Harps and Angels / Nonesuch
12. Lucinda Williams / Little Honey / Lost Highway
13. Mavis Staples / Live Hope at The Hideout / Anti
14. Dengue Fever / Venus on Earth / M80
15. Calexico / Carried to Dust / Quarterstick
16. Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs / Dirt Don't Hurt / Transdreamer
17. Lizz Wright / The Orchard / Verve Forecast
18. George Clinton / and his Gangsters of Love / Shanachie
19. Ani DiFranco / Red Letter Year / Righteous Babe
20. The Helio Sequence / Keep Your Eyes Ahead / Sub Pop
21. Eli "Paperboy" Reed / Roll With You / Q Division
22. Vampire Weekend / Vampire Weekend / XL
23. John Mellencamp / Life Death Love and Freedom / Hear Music
24. My Morning Jacket / Evil Urges / ATO
25. TV on the Radio / Dear Science / DGC
26. Greg Brown / Yellow Dog / Earthwork Music
27. Thievery Corporation / Radio Retaliation / ESL
28. Cowboy Junkies / Trinity Revisited / Zoe
29. British Sea Power / Do You Like Rock Music? / Rough Trade
30. Dr. John / The City That Care Forgot / 429
31. Various Artists / The Harlem Experiment / Ropeadope
32. Kentucky Nightmare / Take Her Favour / Kentucky Nightmare
33. Juliana Hatfield / How to Walk Away / Ye Olde
34. Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis / Two Men with the Blues / Blue Note
35. Arlen Roth / Toolin' Around Woodstock / Aquinnah
36. Maceo Parker / Roots & Grooves / Heads Up
37. David Byrne/Brian Eno / Everything That Happens.. / Todomundo/Opal
38. Ray Davies / Working Man's Cafe / New West
39. Solas / For Love and Laughter / Compass
40. Neil Halstead / Oh! Mighty Engine / Brushfire
41. Chicha Libre / Sonido Amazonico / Barbes
42. Rory Block / Blues Walkin' Like a Man / Stony Plain
43. Rodney Crowell / Sex & Gasoline / Work Song/Yep Roc
44. Michael Franti & Spearhead / All Rebel Rockers / Anti
45. Galactic / From the Corner to the Block / Anti
46. Amp Fiddler / Afro Strut / PIAS
47. Tim O'Brien / Chameleon / Proper American
48. Ben Solee / Learning to Bend / Sonablast
49. Hot Chip / Made in the Dark / Astralwerks
50. Thea Gilmore / Liejacker / Rykodisc
51. Ry Cooder / I, Flathead / Nonesuch
52. Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere / Nudge It Up a Notch / Stax
53. Amos Lee / Last Days at the Lodge / Blue Note
54. Richie Havens / Nobody Left to Crown / Verve
55. Alejandro Escovedo / Real Animal / Back Porch
56. Drive-By Truckers / Brighter Than Creation's Dark / New West
57. Mysteries of Life / Great Lakes / Musical Family Tree
58. Amp Fiddler/Sly&Robbie / Inspiration Information / Strut
59. BB King / One Kind Favor / Geffen
60. Lambchop / OH (Ohio) / Merge
61. Black Mountain / In the Future / Jagjaguwar
62. Blue Sky Back / Blue Sky Back / Upstairs Ape
63. Basia Bulat / Oh, My Darling / Rough Trade
64. James Combs / To Know You Is To Save You / James Combs Music
65. Jerry Douglas / Glide / Koch
66. The Watson Twins / Fire Songs / Vanguard
67. Tim Grimm / Holding Up the World / Vault
68. The Stairwell Sisters / Get Off Your Money / Yodel-Ay-Hee
69. Evangelicals / The Evening Descends / Dead Oceans
70. The Waybacks / Loaded / Compass
71. Abigail Washburn / and The Sparrow Quartet / Nettwerk
72. Herbie Hancock / River: The Joni Letters / Verve
73. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals / Cardinology / Lost Highway
74. James Jackson Toth / Waiting in Vain / Rykodisc
75. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks / Real Emotional Trash / Matador
76. The Breeders / Mountain Battles / 4AD
77. Mia Doi Todd / Gea / City Zen
78. Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile / s/t / Nonesuch
79. The Sacred Shakers / The Sacred Shakers / Signature Sound
80. Al Green / Lay It Down / Blue Note
81. Sam Phillips / Don't Do Anything / Nonesuch
82. Of Montreal / Skeletal Lamping / Polyvinyl
83. Devotchka / A Mad & Faithful Telling / Anti
84. Rebecca Martin / The Growing Season / Sunnyside
85. The Horse Flies / Until the Ocean / Pest Control
86. The Black Keys / Attack & Release / Nonesuch
87. Otis Taylor / Recapturing the Banjo / Telarc
88. Wyclef Jean / Carnival Vol II / Columbia
89. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! / Anti
90. Mason Jennings / In the Ever / Brushfire
91. Elf Power / In a Cave / Rykodisc
92. Giant Sand / proVISIONS / Yep Roc
93. Beck / Modern Guilt / DGC
94. Stanton Moore / Emphasis! on Parentesis / Telarc
95. Throw Me the Statue / Moondreams / Secretly Canadian
96. Marcia Ball / Peace, Love & BBQ / Alligator
97. Moby / Last Night / Mute
98. Medeski Martin & Wood / Radiolarians I / Indirecto
99. Menahan Street Band / Make the Road By Walking / Dunham/Daptone
100. Dan Tyminski / Wheels / Rounder

Friday, January 9, 2009

Hopedaddy on the Air: WFHB Morning Music Mix 1/7/09

Aqualung, "Slip Slidin' Away," Words & Music *
Ron Sexsmith, "Hands of Time," Time Being *
Jason Collett, "We All Lose One Another," Idols of Exile *
Fleet Foxes, "He Doesn't Know Why," Fleet Foxes *
Grant Lee Phillips, "Soft Asylum," Strangelet *
Peter Bradley Adams, "I'll Forget You," Leavetalking *
Glenn Tilbrook, "Untouchable," Transatlantic Ping-Pong *
Josh Rouse, "Under Cold Blue Stars," Under Cold Blue Stars *
Abigail Washburn, "Banjo-Pickin' Girl," Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet *
Leo Kottke, "Snorkel," One Guitar, No Vocal *
Tom Morello/The Nightwatchman, "The Fabled City," The Fabled City *
Jim White, "Static on the Radio," Drill a Hole in that Substrate and Tell Me What You See *
R.E.M., "Half a World Away," Out of Time *
Truckstop Honeymoon, "He Ain't Out of Date," Great Big Family *
Cowboy Junkies, "Anniversary Song," Great Big Family *
Luke Doucet, "Bomb's Away," Blood's Too Rich *
Sun Kil Moon, "Neverending Math Equation," Tiny Cities *
Los Super 7, "The El Burro Song," Heard it on the X *
Nil Lara, "Fighting for My Love," Nil Lara *
David Byrne & Brian Eno, "Strange Overtones," Everything that Happens Will Happen Today *
Of Montreal, "An Eluardian Instance," Skeletal Lamping *
Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile, "Ham & Cheese," Meyer/Thile *
Parts & Labor, "Nowheres Nigh," Receivers *
Anthony Smith's Trunk Fulla Funk, "Freaky Revelation," Life as We Know It *

Hopedaddy on the Air: WFHB Morning Music Mix 12/31/08

Scud Mountain Boys, "Massachusetts," In a Ditch *
Pretenders, "Chill Factor," Isle of View *
Pernice Brothers, "Talk of the Town," Nobody's Watching *
Chrissie Hynde & Emmylou Harris, "She," Return of the Grievous Angel *
Neil Young, "Mr. Soul," Sugar Mountain, Live 1968 *
Radiohead, "Faust Arp," In Rainbows *
Spoon, "My Japanese Cigarette Case," Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga *
Blonde Redhead, "Falling Man," 23 *
Wilco, "Impossible Germany," Sky Blue Sky *
Jenny Lewis, "Black Sand," Acid Tongue *
Crowded House, "Lester," Afterglow *
Jeff Buckley, "Forget Her," Grace (Legacy Edition) *
Antony & the Johnsons, "Another World," Another World *
Dungen, "Det Tar Did," 4 *
Bruce Cockburn, "When You Give it Away," Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu *
Joseph Arthur & the Lonely Astronauts, "Look Into the Sky," Temporary People *
Love Psychedelico, "Everybody Needs Somebody," This is Love Psychedelico *
M. Ward, "Chinese Translation," Post-War *
Ben Sollee, "Built for This," Learning to Bend *
SMV, "Tutu," Thunder *
Jose Gonzalez, "Killing for Love," In Our Nature *
Beth Orton, Concrete Sky, Daybreaker *
Luke Doucet, "Long Haul Driver," Blood's Too Rich *
Mark Erelli, "Baltimore," Delivered *
The Postmarks, "7-11," 1-12 by the Numbers *
Medeski, Marin, & Wood, "Cloud Wars," Radiolarians I *