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2005 Favorites

Dan Ferguson, host of The Boudin Barndance (Thursday 6-9pm)

10 of the more memorable new releases of 2005:
 
Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives - Soul's Chapel (Superlatone/Universal South)
Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys - Empty House (Bloodshot Records)
Frank Black - Honeycomb (Back Porch Records)
The Magnolia Electric Company - What Comes After the Blues (Secretly Canadian)
Bettye LaVette - I've Got My Own Hell To Raise (Anti)
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy (Jagjaguwar Records)
James McMurtry - Childish Things (Compadre Records)
The Hacienda Brothers - self-titled (Koch-Nashville)
Robbie Fulks - Georgia Hard (Yep Roc)
Dave Knudsen - The Weeping City (Boronda Records)

10 of my favorite reissues, in order:
 
1 Doug Sahm and the Sir Douglas Quintet - The Complete Mercury Masters (Hip-O Select)
2 David Allan Coe - Penitentiary Blues (Hacktone)
3 June Carter Cash - Keep On The Sunny Side: Her Life In Music (Columbia/Legacy)
4 Doug Sahm, Groover's Paradise (Collector's Choice Music)
5 Various Artists, Night Train To Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues, 1945 - 1970, Volume 2 (CMF/Lost Highway)
6 Roky Erickson, I Have Always Been Here Before: The Roky Erickson Anthology (Shout Factory)
7 Johnny Paycheck, The Little Darlin' Sound of Johnny Paycheck: The Gospel Truth (Koch-Nashville)
8 Bob Dylan, No Direction Home: The Soundtrack - The Bootleg Series Volume 7 (Columbia/Legacy)
9 James Burton & Ralph Mooney, Corn Pickin' & Slick Slidin' (Sundazed)
10 Speedy West, Steel Guitar (Sundazed)

 
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