December 2011 Listening List

Here are the CDs (yes, real legitimate discs and NOT downloads) that I’m listening to this month, just the sonic tonic to keep my spirits high amidst the depressing seasonal onslaught of Christmas nonsense.

Ry Cooder – Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down

Coldplay – Mylo Xloto

The Winstons – Color Him Father

Tony Joe White – The Heroines

Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues

Swamp Dogg – It’s All Good

Lindsey Buckingham – Seeds We Sow

Red Hot Chili Peppers – I’m With You

Jackie McLean – Bluesnik

Daryl Hall – Laughing Down Crying

Various Artists – Nigeria 70

Dan Fogelberg – Live: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, … and Some Blues

Art Farmer – Brass Shout/The Aztec Suite

Grant Green – Iron City

Lonnie Liston Smith – Cosmic Funk

Eddi Reader – The Songs of Robert Burns (Deluxe Edition)

Tony Rice – Sings Gordon Lightfoot

Blue Rodeo – Casino

Bob Mould – Body of Song

Ben Webster & Joe Zawinul – Soulmates

Various Artists – Carolina Funk: First in Funk 1968-1977

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds

The Black Keys – Attack & Release

The Coral – Singles Collection

Ray LaMontagne – Gossip in the Grain

Jim Ford – The Sounds of our Time

Danny and the Champions of the World – Streets of our Time

Tommy Stinson – One Man Mutiny

Kelley Stoltz – Circular Sounds

The Grid – Four Five Six

Dusty Springfield – The Complete BBC Sessions

The Red Button – As Far as Yesterday Goes

Booker T and the MGs – Play the Hip Hits

June Tabor and Oysterband – Ragged Kingdom

Hurrah! – The Sound of Philadelphia

Tinariwen – Tassili

Mekons – Fear and Whiskey

John Mellencamp – No Better Than This

Boston Spaceships – Let it Beard

The Originals – California Sunset