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NPR faves, KLCC faves, and YOUR faves!
NPR Listeners Pick the Year's Best Music
Send us your "Best of 2008" and we'll post your list here. Email your list to music@klcc.org
KLCC staff and volunteers choose their favorite music of 2008: Liz Wise, host of Fresh Tracks Michael Canning, KLCC Music Director Tiffany Kimmel, KLCC News Reporter Kobi Lucas, host of Friends & Neighbors
1. Tim O'Brien - "Chameleon"
2. Cosy Sheridan - "Eros"
3. Rosalie Sorrels - "Strangers In Another Country"
4. Kathy Mattea - "Coal"
5. Chris Vallillo - "Abraham Lincoln In Song"
6. Robin & Linda Williams - "Buena Vista"
Leslie Hildreth, host of Mist Covered Mountain
Capercaille- "Roses and Tears"
Karan Casey- "Ships in the Forest" Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill- "Welcome Here Again" Celtic Fiddle Festival- "Equinoxe" Lunasa- "The Story So Far" Frank Gosar, host of Saturday Cafe
Chuck Brodsky - TWO SETS/Waterbug Terry Burns - TERRY BURNS/terryburns.biz Joe Crookston - ABLE BAKER CHARLIE & DOG/joecrookston.com Lowen & Navarro - LEARNING TO FALL/Red Hen Ellis Paul - THE DRAGONFLY RACES/ellispaul.com Dana & Susan Robinson - 'ROUND MY DOOR/robinsongs.com Rupa & the April Fishes - EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION/theaprilfishes.com We're About 9 - PAPERDUST::STARDUST/we9.org Erica Wheeler - GOOD SUMMER RAIN/ericawheeler.com Cris Williamson - FRINGE/criswilliamson.com Also two holiday releases of note: Mary Chapin Carpenter - COME DARKNESS, COME LIGHT/Zoe Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer - AMERICAN NOEL/Signature For some also-rans, see the Dec. 13 Saturday Cafe playlist... David Gizara, host of Night Jazz
The Mary Halvorson Trio, "Dragon's Head", Firehouse 12 Records
Land Of Talk, "Some Are Lakes", Saddle Creek Margaret Slovak Quartet, ""for the moment", slovakmusic Idit Shner, "Tuesday's Blues", OA2 Records Kate McGarry, "If Less Is More, Nothing Is Everything, Palmetto Travis Sullivan's Bjorkestra, "Enjoy!", Koch.
Wayne Escoffery, "Hopes and Dreams", Savant.
Ahmad Jamal, "It's Magic", Dreyfus.
Gust Spenos Quartet, "Swing Theory", swingtheory.com.
Rosa Passos, Romance, Telarc.
Poetry Pick:
Susan Stewart, Red Rover, The University of Chicago Press. Tom Krumm, host of Fresh Tracks
Taj Mahal - Maestro Emmylou Harris - All I Intended To Be
Ray Bonneville - Goin' By Feel
k.d. lang - Watershed
David Jacobs-Strain - Liar's Day
Michael Franti And Spearhead - All Rebel Rockers
Lizz Wright - The Orchard
BB King - One Kind Favor
Vance Gilbert - Up On Rockfield
Ladysmith Black Mambazo -Ilembe:Honoring Shaka Zulu
Mark Lundgren, a "KLCC Desciple" from Portland OR JONATHA BROOKE "THE WORKS"
KARAN CASEY "SHIPS IN THE FOREST" PAT METHENY & ANNA MARIA JOPEK "UPOGENIE" STEPHAN MICUS "SNOW" BOBO STENSON TRIO "CANTANDO" KARRIN ALLYSON "IMAGINA-SONGS OF BRAZIL" MARIA SCHNEIDER ORCHESTRA-"SKY BLUE" VINCE MENDOZA-"BLAUKLANG" ULF WAKENIUS "LOVE IS REAL'" Andy Small, host of Tropical Beat
Buika - Nina de Fuego
Rootz Underground - Movement Various - Think Global: Fiesta Latina Chiwoniso - Rebel Woman Orchestra Baobab - Made in Dakar Seun Kuti - Seun Kuti + Fela's Egypt 80 Various - What's Happening in Pernambuco Various - The Biggest Reggae One Drop Anthems 2008 Kal - Kal Gamelan X - SATU Steve Helwig, host of Straight Street Steve Gilmore, web listener in Charlotte, NC USA Doug Anders, host of Continental Drift
David Gilmour - "Live in Gdansk"
John McLaughlin - "Floating Point"
Chick Corea & Gary Burton - "The New Crystal Silence"
David Byrne & Brian Eno - "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today"
Anat Cohen - "Notes From The Village"
Radiohead - "In Rainbows"
Elbow - "The Seldom Seen Kid"
Cassandra Wilson - "Loverly"
Marian McPartland - "Twilight World"
REM - "Accelarate"
Honorable mention also goes to:
Steve Turre's "Rainbow People" The Mars Volta's "The Bedlam in Goliath" Wave Mechanics Union's - "Second Season" Jeff Beck's - "Performing This Week... Live at Ronnie Scott's"
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
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