Too many items of note to make my TOP 10 of 2008 list, so here’s all my HONORABLE MENTIONS for the year:
MOST INTERESTING FOREIGN RE-RELEASE STATESIDE:
> POOR BILLY – Moonlight Stranger
MOST WELCOME JAZZ RELEASE:
> STANTON MOORE TRIO – Emphasis! On Parenthesis
MOST AMAZING GUITAR LICKS THIS SIDE OF SRV:
> WALTER TROUT – The Outsider
MOST BIZARRE EXPERIMENT I’M STILL NOT SURE I LIKE:
> PUNCH BROTHERS – Punch
BEST INDICATOR THAT REGGAE IS NOT A DEAD GENRE:
> JOHN BROWN’S BODY – Amplify
BEST ISSUE OF ARCHIVAL MATERIAL, STUDIO:
> GOOSE CREEK SYMPHONY – The Same Thing Again
BEST ISSUE OF ARCHIVAL MATERIAL, LIVE:
> PHISH – At the Roxy (Atlanta, 2/19-21/1993)
BEST “UNOFFICIAL” LIVE RECORDING
> INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS – 4/15/08 Fox Theater, Boulder, CO
BEST LIVE SHOW “EVERYBODY” SAW:
> WIDESPREAD PANIC – 6/28/08 Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, CO
BEST LIVE SHOW “NOBODY” SAW:
> GRACE POTTER & the NOCTURNALS – 11/10/08 Santa Fe Brewing Company, Santa Fe, NM
BEST ALBUMS FROM PERFORMERS I’D NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE:
> ZACH DEPUTY – Out of the Water
> FREEKBASS – Grooveyard, Junkyard Waltz
> ACORN PROJECT – We’ll Be Fine
> RAINMAKER – Long Slow Fade
> THE MACPODZ - Orcastrate
> POOR BILLY – Moonlight Stranger
(TIP - Check out homegrownmusic.net if you can’t find these tasty nugs.)
WORST RELEASE OF MATERIAL TO RADIO:
> MIKE GORDON – The Green Sparrow
(I’ve never been so excited and insulted at the same time. This otherwise fantastic release was received in a plain wrapper with no liner notes and a bold declaration that, if copied, the powers-that-be would find out and make my program director’s life a living hell, due to amazing digital watermarking technology. Screw you guys. We played the hell out of this disc and our reward was a disc which will no longer even cue up in most players. Not as bad as Sony’s infamous “rootkit,” but close.)
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