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OLD 97'S Blame It On Gravity... (New West) (4½ stars)
HAYES CARLL Trouble In Mind... (Lost Highway) (5 stars)
PATRICK BLOOM Moses... (Mud Dauber) (4 stars)
HOLLY LONG Leaving Kansas... (Skim Milk) (4 stars)
THE WOOD BROTHERS Loaded... (Blue Note) (4½ stars)
CHATHAM COUNTY LINE IV... (Yep Roc) (4½ stars)
FRED EAGLESMITH Tinderbox ... (A Major Label) (5 stars)
JAMES McMURTRY Just Us Kids... (Lightning Rod) (4½ stars)
ROBIN DEAN SALMON Come On Home... (self released) (4½ stars)
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE The Good Life… (Bloodshot) (4 stars)
KATHLEEN EDWARDS Asking for Flowers... (Zoe/Rounder) (4½ stars)
JIM LAUDERDALE & THE DREAM PLAYERS Honey Songs... (Yep Roc) (3 stars)
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Brighter Than Creation’s Dark… (New West) (4 stars)
CARLENE CARTER Stronger… (Yep Roc) (4 stars)
JOE FOURNIER dirt road joy ride ... (Junkyard Dog) (5 stars)
GARY LOURIS Vagabonds... (Rykodisc) (4½ stars)
THE DOC MARSHALLS Honest for Once... (self released) (5 stars)
ROBERT HAZARD Troubadour... (Rykodisc) (4 stars)
MATTHEW BALLARD Time... (self produced) (4 stars)
CAROLINE HERRING Lantana... (Signature Sounds) (5 stars)
RIDLEY BENT Buckles & Boots... (Open Road Music) (3½ stars)
SARA COX Crowded is the New Lonely... (self-released) (4 stars)
THE WHIPSAWS 60 Watt Avenue... (Shuteye) (3½ stars)
DOUG JAYNE Voices In The Wind... (Jackalope) (3½ stars)
TIFT MERRITT Another Country... (Fantasy) (5 stars)
MALCOLM HOLCOMBE Gamblin' House... (self-released) (4 stars)
AMERICAN MARS Western Sides... (Gangplank) (5 stars)
WILL KING Come on in from the Cold... (self-released) (4 stars)
SAL VALENTINO Every Now And Then… (Dig) (3½ stars)
RHONDA VINCENT Good Thing Going… (Rounder) (4½ stars)
BILL KELLY Bread On The Waters... (self released) (4½ stars)
THE STEELDRIVERS The SteelDrivers ... (Rounder) (4½ stars)
WILL HOGE Draw the Curtains... (Rykodisc) (4 stars)
KRISTA DETOR Cover Their Eyes... (Corazong) (4½ stars)
WILL KIMBROUGH (EP)… (Daphne/Thirty Tigers) (4½ stars)
JESSE DAYTON & BRENNEN LEIGH "Holdin' Our Own"...and other Country Gold Duets ... (Stag) (4½ stars)
ROD PICOTT Summerbirds... (Welding Rod) (4½ stars)
SUSAN WERNER The Gospel Truth... (Sleeve Dog) (5 stars)
FLETCHER HARRINGTON Under the Shadow of the San Gabriel... (Lopie) (4 stars)
DWIGHT YOAKAM Dwight Sings Buck ... (New West) (4 stars)
LEVON HELM Dirt Farmer… (Vanguard) (4½ stars)
ROGER WALLACE It's About Time... (Natchez Street) (4 stars)
THE SADIES New Seasons... (Yep Roc) (4 stars)
CORB LUND Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier!... (Stony Plain) (4 stars)
MERLE HAGGARD The Bluegrass Sessions... (McCoury Music) (4 stars)
DOUG KWARTLER all sides… (Hollow Body) (4½ stars)
MIKE FARRIS Salvation In Lights... (INO) (4½ stars)
STEVE EARLE Washington Square Serenade… (New West) (4½ stars)
DAVID SERBY Another Sleepless Night... (Harbor Grove) (3 stars)
DOUG SPARTZ & FRIENDS The One Who's Leavin'... (Great North Music) (5 stars)
Various Artists Song Of America... (Split Rock/31 Tigers) (4 stars)
TERRI HENDRIX The Spiritual Kind... (Wilory) (5 stars)
CORINNE WEST Second Sight... (Make Records) (5 stars)
KIERAN KANE, KEVIN WELCH & FATS KAPLIN Kane Welch Kaplin... (Compass) (4½ stars)
BLACKIE & THE RODEO KINGS Let's Frolic... (True North)(4 stars)
WALT WILKINS & THE MYSTIQUEROS Diamonds In The Sun... (Palo Duro) (4½ stars)
ELLSWORTH American Compost (self-released) (4 stars)
PETER CASE Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John ... (Yep Roc) (5 stars)
EILEN JEWELL Letters From Sinners & Strangers… (Signature Sounds) (4½ stars)
MAVIS STAPLES We'll Never Turn Back... (Anti -) (4 stars)
SAM BAKER Pretty World... (BlueLimeStone) (5 stars)
TEDDY THOMPSON Up Front and Down Low ... (Verve Forecast) (5 stars)
SARAH BORGES and the BROKEN SINGLES Diamonds In The Dark… (Sugar Hill) (4 stars)
DAN JANISCH Medicine Man... (Green Door) (4 stars)
JEN SYGIT Leaving Marshall Street... (Earthworks) (4 stars)
KELLY WILLIS Translated From Love... (Rykodisc) (4½ stars)
Various Artists Anchored In Love: A Tribute To June Carter Cash... (Dualtone) (4 stars)
KING WILKIE Low Country Suite… (Zoe/Rounder) (4 stars)
DAVID OLNEY One Tough Town… (Red Parlor) (5 stars)
BRIGITTE LONDON Like a Phoenix... (self-released) (4 stars)
JOHN PRINE & MAC WISEMAN Standard Songs for Average People (3½ stars)
RICHARD SHINDELL South of Delia… (Signature Sounds) (4½ stars)
JENNIE ARNAU Mt. Pleasant... (Spectra) (4 stars)
PETER WALSH Forbidden Road... (Appaloosa Records) (3½ stars)
KELLY FLINT Drive All Night... (BePop) (5 stars)
ELIZABETH COOK Balls… (Thirty Tigers) (4½ stars)
GINA VILLALOBOS Miles Away... (Face West) (4½ stars)
VAN MORRISON Live At Austin City Limits Festival 2006... (Limited Edition) (4½ stars)
PETER ROWAN & TONY RICE Quartet ... (Rounder) (4½ stars)
NEIL YOUNG Live At Massey Hall 1971... (Reprise) (5 stars)
THE GREENCARDS Veridian... (Dualtone) (4 stars)
SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS Countrypolitan Favorites… (Yep Roc) (4½ stars)
MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER The Calling... (Zoe/Rounder) (5 stars)
PO' GIRL Home To You... (Nettwerk) (4½ stars)
LUCINDA WILLIAMS West… (Lost Highway) (4 stars)
AUDREY AULD MEZERA Lost Men and Angry Girls… (Reckless) (4 stars)
BILL KIRCHEN Hammer Of The Honky-Tonk Gods… (Proper) (4½ stars)
JIMMY BALDWIN Somebody's Nobody... (Jimmy B Music) (5 stars)
THE HIDEAWAYS The Whiskey Tango Sessions... (Big Bender/Den) (3½ stars)
HONKY TONK DISCIPLES Kickin' Up Dust... (self-released) (4 stars)
ED PETTERSEN The New Punk Blues... (Split Rock) (3½ stars)
RAMSAY MIDWOOD Popular Delusions & the Madness of Cows... (Farmwire) (4½ stars)
GRAYSON CAPPS Wail & Ride... (Hyena) (4½ stars)
LUKE DOUCET Broken (and other rogue states)... (Six Shooter) (3 stars)
BUCKSWORTH Thingsfoundwalkinwithyerheaddown…(Silent John) (4 stars)
MARSHALL RHODES Marshall Rhodes... (Big River) (4 stars)
LOOMER Songs of the Wild West Island... (Newtone) (5 stars)
SUNNY SWEENEY Heartbreaker's Hall Of Fame… (self released) (4½ stars)
BOB CLENDENEN Informed Gutbucket... (Mountain Shack) (3 stars)
JIM LAUDERDALE Bluegrass... (Yep Roc) (3½ stars)
MIKE THERIEAU Living From A Suitcase... (Well Worn) (4 stars)
MIKE BECK & THE BOHEMIAN SAINTS Rooted... (Reata) (4 stars)
TRANSISTOR RODEO Goin' Out In Style... (Air) (3 stars)
SPADY The Long Way Around and Other Short Stories... (Post Script) (3 stars)
THE GOLDBRICKERS Heaven... (Artisan) (3½ stars)
TONY JOE WHITE Uncovered... (Swamp) (4 stars)
BORIS GARCIA Mother's Finest... (Porchwerk) (4 stars)
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS A Blessing and a Curse… (New West) (4½ stars)
THE SKYLIGHTERS The Skylighters… (Red Beet) (4 stars)
TRENT SUMMAR Horseshoes & Hand Grenades… (Palo Duro) (3 stars)
BOB FRANK & JOHN MURRY World Without End... (Bowstring) (5 stars)
SOLOMON BURKE Nashville… (Shout! Factory) (5 stars)
THE TEXAS SAPPHIRES Valley So Steep… (Lowe Farm) (4½ stars)
Various Artists Why The Hell Not...The Songs of Kinky Friedman... (Sustain) (5 stars)
MERLE JAGGER Rancho Los Angeles... (Ranch Party) (3 stars)
EVAN PHILLIPS chickaloon... (Skip Tooth) (4½ stars)
WAYNE "The Train" HANCOCK Tulsa… (Bloodshot) (4 stars)
DOUG SPARTZ & FRIENDS American Stories, Lies & Tales... (Phono) (5 stars)
THE WHIPSAWS Ten Day Bender... (Shut Eye) (4 stars)
SHERRY AUSTIN Drive On Back ... (Barking Topiary) (4½ stars)
CHRIS THILE How To Grow A Woman From The Ground … (Sugar Hill) (4½ stars)
GUY CLARK Workbench Songs... (Dualtone) (4½ stars)
PAUL BURCH East To West… (Bloodshot) (4½ stars)
CHRIS KNIGHT Enough Rope... (Emergent / 92e) (4½ stars)
CHIP TAYLOR Unglorious Hallelujah/Red Red Rose... (Back Porch) (3½ stars)
THE BLIND ROBINS Panorama Valley... (Rolling Blackout) (4 stars)
THE DERAILERS Soldiers of Love... (Palo Duro) (4 stars)
TODD SNIDER The Devil You Know… (New Door) (3½ stars)

 
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