Happy New Year!
I wanted to celebrate the start of a new year by looking back at some of the great music that came out last year. In the next few weeks, we’ll continue to mix in some great flavors of the past year in our show. Here’s what you heard this weekend. Your comments and requests are welcome. Either make them here or comment on Facebook. Thanks.
Song/Artist/Album
Best of 2011 Playlist
Keep Me Tonight The Open Sea Little Apple – EP
French Exit The Antlers Burst Apart
Houdini Foster the People Torches Alternative
Baby The Phenomenal Handclap Friendly Fire Recordings 2011 Sampler
Nightwatch Acrylics Friendly Fire Recordings 2011 Sampler
Four Days Straight Scattered Trees Sympathy
Somehow Joss Stone (Single 2011)
Calgary Bon Iver Calgary / I Can’t Make You Love Me / Nick of Time
Hear the Noise That Moves So Soft and Low James Vincent McMorrow Early In the Morning (Bonus Version)
I Was Born To Love Her Ivan & Alyosha Fathers Be Kind EP
Sunshine The Little Bear Bridges EP
Indeed I Will David Gray Foundling [Disc 2]
The Wake The Albertans One Track Mind: May 2011 MP3 Rewind
Booth Love Umphrey’s McGee Death By Stereo
Who Are You? Kathryn Calder Bright and Vivid
Impossible Katie Thompson Impossible – Single
We covered A LOT of music this past year, some from people you know and more from people you don’t. As always, it was a lot of fun.
What did you think was the best from what we featured? You can let your voice be heard by voting in the ">Golden Fork Awards.
Closing out the year this weekend, I’m going to feature some fantastic music that came out this year. Some of it, I have to admit, I discovered a bit late. But as the old adage goes, better late than never.
If you are fans of acoustic folk, then you know the names Rosi Golan and Ari Hest. What you might not know, is that this year that teamed up and put out an EP as a duet, calling themselves The Open Sea. The album is full of richly crafted folk music and the way their two voices blend together is quite remarkable. That’s one feature I’ll present in our upcoming presentation.
I don’t want to give away much more. Be sure to check out Facebook page to see more of the artists we’ll be featuring.
We wish you a very merry Christmas.
Our annual Christmas special program this year took some traditional Christmas songs and applied them to a more modern context. We hope you enjoyed.
Here is a full playlist of all the music we featured.
The Killers-Joseph, Better You Than Me (feat. Elton John & Neil Tennant) (Single)
The Rocketboys-Happy Christmas (War Is Over) (from the album 20,000 Ghosts of Christmas)
Copeland-Do You Hear What I Hear? (from the album Maybe This Christmas Tree)
Relient K-12 Days of Christmas;Handel’s Messiah (from the album Let It Snow Baby… Let It Reindeer)
Emmylou Harris-Light Of The Stable
Maura Jensen-Christmas Reverie (from the album A Merry Mixtape Compilation)
Pedro the Lion-I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day (from the album Maybe This Christmas Tree)
The Bird And The Bee-Carol Of The Bells (iTunes Single of the Week)
Katie Herzig- Silent Night (from Ten Out of Tenn – Christmas)
The Civil Wars-O Come O Come Emmanuel (from the Tracks In the Snow – Single)
Zach Williams & The Bellow-It Came Upon A Midnight Clear (from the album A Little Christmas Cheer)
Ryan Flanigan-Glory In The Heights (from the album Merry Christmas. Good Night.)
Kris MacQueen-Hear Oh Hear (from the album Merry Christmas. Good Night.)
Beta Radio-The Song The Season Brings (from the album The Songs the Season Brings)
Dunn & Wilt-Hope For Everyone (from the album Merry Christmas. Good Night.)