April 22, 2008
2007 Release Schedule Archive
An archive of 2007 releases (going back to August 21, when we began archiving our weekly schedules). Listed by week, from newest to oldest. (Artists have been alphabetized by their first names.)
DECEMBER 18, 2007
YARROWS, Plum (Empyrean)
DECEMBER 11, 2007
DIMES, The Silent Generation (Pet Marmoset)
OST, The Great Debaters: Music Recorded For The Motion Picture With Vintage Tracks (Atlantic) New recordings from Sharon Jones, Alvin Youngblood Hart, and the Carolina Chocolate Drops
DECEMBER 4, 2007
BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, American X: Baby 81 Sessions (RCA)
BLACK TIE, Goodbye, Farewell (Socyermom)
LEE HAZLEWOOD, Strung Out On Something New: The Reprise Recordings (Rhino Handmade)
MARSHALL TUCKER BAND, Carolina Dreams Tour '77 (Shout! Factory)
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, Rufus Does Judy At Carnegie Hall (Geffen)
WRECKERS, Way Back Home: Live From New York (Warner Bros.)
VARIOUS ARTISTS, Thrill Jockey 15th anniversary celebration (Thrill Jockey) Nine 7-inch singles in a box, all covers by and of label artists
NOVEMBER 27, 2007
JESSE DAYTON & BRENNEN LEIGH, Holdin' Our Own & Other Country Gold Duets (Stag)
VARIOUS ARTISTS, Causes I (Waxploitation) Darfur benefit with rare/exclusive tracks from the Black Keys, the Cure, Death Cab For Cutie, the Shins, Spoon, etc.
NOVEMBER 20, 2007
ED HARCOURT, Until Tomorrow Then:The Best Of (Astralwerks)
PHANTOM BLUES BAND, Footprints (Delta Groove)
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE, Shelter From The Ash (Drag City)
VARIOUS ARTISTS, Celtic Dreamland (Putumayo Kids) Celtic children's compilation with Susan McKeown, Dougie MacLean, etc.
NOVEMBER 13, 2007
ANA EGGE, Lazy Days (Grace/Parkinsong)
BETH WHITNEY, Leave Your Shoes (Malamute)
GEORGE STRAIT, 22 More Hits (MCA)
JIMMY REED, At Carnegie Hall (Shout! Factory)
JOHN LEE HOOKER, I'm John Lee Hooker (Shout! Factory)
LURRIE BELL, Let's Talk About Love (Aria B.G.)
PAM TILLIS, Just In Time For Christmas (Stellar Cat)
TRISHA YEARWOOD, Heaven, Heartache & The Power Of Love (Big Machine)
NOVEMBER 6, 2007
BILL STAINES, Old Dogs (Red House)
BOOKER T. JONES WITH JOLIE HOLLAND, "What A Wonderful World" digital single (Anti-)
CONWAY TWITTY, A Twismas Story (conwaytwitty.com)
DION DIMUCCI, Son Of Skip James (Verve Forecast) Yes, that Dion
JOHN SEBASTIAN & DAVID GRISMAN, Satisfied (Acoustic Disc)
LITTLE BIG TOWN, A Place To Land (Equity)
LOU RAWLS, The Essential (Philadelphia International/Legacy)
LUCINDA BLACK BEAR, 'Capo My Heart' And Other Bear Songs (Eastern Spurs) The latest from Christian Gibbs
NICK DRAKE, Fruit Tree (UME/Fontana) Box set including Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter, Pink Moon, a 108-page book, and a biographical DVD
PINE HILL HAINTS, Ghost Dance (K)
ROBIN & LINDA WILLIAMS, Radio Songs (Red House)
ROMAN CARTER, Never Slow Down (Bong Load)
RONNIE EARL & THE BROADCASTERS, Hope Radio (Stony Plain)
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN, Solos, Sessions & Encores (Epic/Legacy)
TRIPWIRES, Makes You Look Around (Paisley Pop)
TEDDY PENDERGRASS, The Essential (Philadelphia International/Legacy)
VAN MORRISON, Still On Top: The Greatest Hits (Hip-O)
OCTOBER 30, 2007
BLUE RODEO, Small Miracles (TeleSoul)
CARRIE AKRE, Last The Evening (Loveless)
CHAMBERS BROTHERS, Feelin' The Blues, People Get Ready, Shout! and Live (Collector's Choice)
DAVID BOWIE, David Bowie Box (ISO/Columbia) 10-CD box, previously a Japanese import, including Outside, Earthling, Hours, Heathen, and Reality, and a disc of outtakes from each
GENE CLARK WITH CARLA OLSON, In Concert (Collector's Choice)
IAN BALL, Who Goes There (Dispensary) He's in Gomez
JOSH TURNER, Everything Is Fine (MCA)
KAREN DALTON, Cotton Eyed Joe: Live In Boulder 1962 (Delmore)
LEVON HELM, Dirt Farmer (Vanguard)
LOU RAWLS, The Essential (Philadelphia International/Legacy)
NICOLE ATKINS, Neptune City (Columbia)
SUNSHONE STILL, Ten Cent American Novels (Potato Eater)
TEDDY PENDERGRASS, The Essential (Philadelphia International/Legacy)
TIM CARROLL, The Devil Is A Busy Man (self)
VARIOUS ARTISTS, The Harlem Experiment (Ropeadope)
OCTOBER 23, 2007
ALISON KRAUSS & ROBERT PLANT, Raising Sand (Rounder) Produced by T Bone Burnett
BLANCHE, Little Amber Bottles (Original Signal) Digital release was August 21
BRIDGE, self-titled (Hyena)
CARRIE UNDERWOOD, Carnival Ride (Arista-Nashville)
DAMIEN RICE, Live At Fingerprints, Warts And All (Heffa/Vector/Warner Bros.)
DWIGHT YOAKAM, Dwight Sings Buck (New West)
GARY ALLAN, Living Hard (MCA)
GRAYSON CAPPS, Songbones (Hyena) Limited edition live acoustic album, recorded at the 9th Street Picking Parlor in New Orleans in 2002
LISA O'KANE, It Don't Hurt (New Light)
NEIL YOUNG, Chrome Dreams II (Reprise)
MOUNTAIN HEART, Road That Never Ends: The Live Album (Rural Rhythm)
REDWALLS, self-titled (Mad Dragon)
RINGO STARR, Live At Soundstage (Koch)
ROY ORBISON, King Of Hearts (Orbison/Legacy)
ROY ORBISON, Mystery Girl (Orbison/Legacy)
RYAN ADAMS & THE CARDINALS, Follow The Lights EP (Lost Highway)
SCOTLAND YARD GOSPEL CHOIR, self-titled (Bloodshot)
SHOOTER JENNINGS, The Wolf (Universal South)
THRILLS, Teenager (Capitol)
TOM BROSSEAU, Cavalier (FatCat) produced by John Parish
OCTOBER 16, 2007
ANGIE STONE, The Art Of Love And War (Stax)
CAKE SALE, self-titled (Yep Roc) Oxfam benefit album featuring Josh Ritter, Glen Hansard (Frames), Gary Lightbody (Snowpatrol), Nina Persson (Cardigans), Lisa Hannigan, Gemma Hayes, Divine Comedy, Thrills, Bell X1, etc.
DAN WILSON, Free Life (American/Columbia) former member of Trip Shakespeare and Semisonic, with contributions from Sheryl Crow and Sean Watkins
EUROS CHILDS, The Miracle Inn (Wichita) Third solo outing by one of the chaps from Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
GARRISON STARR, The Girl That Killed September (Media Creature)
GOUGERS, A Long Day For The Weathervane (Weathervane) Austin alt-country quartet, formerly the Sidehill Gougers, with guests Brad Rice, Ken Coomer, Taras Prodanuik, Rami Jaffe, Brian Standefer
JUSTIN CURRIE, What Is Love For (Ryko) Solo debut from the lead singer of Del Amitri
PYLON, Gyrate Plus (DFA)
ROBYN HITCHCOCK, I Wanna Go Backwards (Yep Roc) Box set reprising Black Snake Diamond Role, I Often Dream Of Train, and Eye, plus While Thatcher Mauled Britain Parts I And II, two discs of B-sides, demos and such
SOULSAVERS, It's Not How Far You Fall, It's The Way You Land (Columbia) With Mark Lanegan now on vocals
VARIOUS ARTISTS, City Of Dreams: A Collection Of New Orleans Music (Rounder) 4-disc retrospective
VASHTI BUNYAN, Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind: Singles And Demos 1964 To 1967 (DiCristina Stair Builders/Spinney)
OCTOBER 9, 2007
BAND OF HORSES, Cease To Begin (Sub Pop)
CHARLIE DANIELS BAND, Deuces (Blue Hat) Duets album with Brad Paisley, Del McCoury Band, Gretchen Wilson, Marty Stuart, Brooks & Dunn, etc.
CLAIRE LYNCH, Crowd Favorites (Rounder)
CLARENCE "GATEMOUTH" BROWN, Bogaloosa Boogie Man (Sunnyside/Maison de Blues)
DEADSTRING BROTHERS, Silver Mountain (Bloodshot)
DIAMOND RIO, The Star Still Shines (Word/Curb)
EDDY MITCHELL, Jambalaya (Sunnyside/Maison de Blues)
FIERY FURNACES, Widow City (Thrill Jockey)
JAPANCAKES, Giving Machines (Darla)
MEMPHIS SLIM, Boogie Woogie (Sunnyside/Maison de Blues)
MEMPHIS SLIM & ROOSEVELT SYKES, Double-Barreled Boogie (Sunnyside/Maison de Blues)
MINDY SMITH, My Holiday (Vanguard) Six new Christmas songs plus standards, includes Alison Krauss, Chely Wright, and Thad Cockrell harmonies
NICK MOSS & THE FLIP TOPS, Play It 'Til Tomorrow (Blue Bella)
ROBERT HAZARD, Troubadour (Rykodisc) He wrote "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"
SARA EVANS, Greatest Hits (RCA Nashville)
SCOUT NIBLETT, This Fool Can Die Now (Too Pure)
VAN ZANT, My Kind Of Country (Columbia Nashville)
VARIOUS ARTISTS, The Gift: A Tribute To Ian Tyson (Stony Plain) tracks by Gordon Lightfoot, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Blue Rodeo, Chris Hillman, Jennifer Warnes, etc.
WILL HOGE, Draw The Curtains (Ryko)
WILLIE NELSON & DON CHERRY, It's Magic (Diamond Disc)
OCTOBER 2, 2007
ARETHA FRANKLIN, Rare & Unreleased Recordings From The Golden Reign Of The Queen Of Soul (Rhino) Two-disc rarities set
BOB DYLAN, Dylan (Columbia/Legacy) 3-CD retrospective.
BROOKS & DUNN, Cowboy Town (Arista-Nashville)
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND, Magic (Columbia)
CHIP TAYL0R & CARRIE RODRIGUEZ, Live From The Ruhr Triennale -- October 2005 (Train Wreck) With Bill Frisell, Greg Liesz, and a Buddy Miller guest appearance.
CHUCK PROPHET, Soap And Water (Yep Roc)
CROSS CANADIAN RAGWEED, Mission California (Universal South)
DARLENE LOVE, It's Christmas, Of Course (Shout! Factory)
JJ CALE, Rewind: Unreleased Recordings (Time-Life)
JOHN FOGERTY, Revival (Fantasy)
LIZ TORMES, Go To The Light That You Want To Be Lime (Velour)
MERLE HAGGARD, The Bluegrass Sessions (McCoury Music)
MICKEY HART & ZAKIR HUSSAIN, Global Drum Project (Shout! Factory)
RICHARD HAWLEY, Lady's Bridge (Mute)
ROBIN TROWER, Bridge Of Sighs (Capitol/EMI) Expanded and remastered.
RYAN BINGHAM, Mescalito (Lost Highway)
SADIES, New Seasons (Yep Roc)
TONI PRICE, Talk Memphis (Antone's)
VARIOUS ARTISTS, Hear Something Country Christmas (BNA) Includes Montgomery Gentry's cover of the Robert Earl Keen chestnut "Merry Christmas From The Family."
VARIOUS ARTISTS, Oh Santa! (Yep Roc) Includes new tracks from Jason Ringenbeerg, Apples In Stereo, Marah, Chatham County Line, Minus 5, etc.
WUSSY, Left For Dead (Shake It)
SEPTEMBER 25, 2007
ANDERS OSBORNE, Coming Down (M.C.)
ARTHUR ALEXANDER, Lonely Just Like Me: The Final Chapter (Hacktone) reissued with live tracks and demos
BETTYE LAVETTE, The Scene Of The Crime (Anti-) with the Drive-By Truckers and Spooner Oldham
BILL MEDLEY, Damn Near Righteous (Westlake) Solo debut from the surviving Righteous Brother
BILLIE HOLIDAY, Lady Day: The Master Takes And Singles (Columbia/Legacy) 4-CD box
BILLY JOE SHAVER, Everybody's Brother (Compadre)
BIRDIE BUSCH, Penny Arcade (Bar/None)
BOBBIE NELSON, Audiobiography (Justice) Debut from Willie Nelson's sister.
BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA, Wolfgang's Big Night Out (Surfdog)
CAVE SINGERS, Invitation Songs (Matador)
CHAKA KHAN, Funk This (Burgundy)
DELLS, Best Of The Vee-Jay Years (Shout! Factory)
DEVENDRA BANHART, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon (XL)
ERIN MCKEOWN, Lafayette (Signature Sounds) live album
FRANK SINATRA, A Voice In Time (1939-1952) (Columbia/RCA Victor/Legacy) 4-CD box
GENE WATSON, In A Perfect World (Shanachie) Duets with Vince Gill, Lee Ann Womack, Joe Nichols, Connie Smith & Rhonda Vincent
IRON & WINE, The Shepherd's Dog (Sub Pop)
JERRY BUTLER, Best Of The Vee-Jay Years (Shout! Factory)
JIMMY REED, Best Of The Vee-Jay Years (Shout! Factory)
JONI MITCHELL, Shine (Hear)
KEVIN FOWLER, Bring It On (Equity)
LUCA, Fractions (Funzalo)
MALCOLM HOLCOMBE, Wager EP (self-released)
MATT POND PA, Last Light (Altitude)
MESHELL NDEGEONCELLO, The World Has Made Me The Man Of My Dreams (Emarcy)
MILES DAVIS, The Complete On The Corner Sessions (Legacy) 6-CD box.
NELLIE MCKAY, Obligatory Villagers (Hungry Mouse)
NEW AMSTERDAMS, At The Foot Of My Rival (Curb Appeal)
PIETA BROWN, Remember The Sun (One Little Indian)
PJ HARVEY, White Chalk (Island)
RICKY SKAGGS WITH THE WHITES, Salt Of The Earth (Skaggs Family)
SHARON JONES & THE DAP KINGS, 100 Days, 100 Nights (Daptone/World's Fair)
STAPLE SINGERS, Best Of The Vee-Jay Years (Shout! Factory)
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK, Experiences...101 (Appleseed)
TWO GALLANTS, self-titled (Saddle Creek)
VARIOUS ARTISTS, People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Songs Of Disaster 1913-1938 (Tompkins Square) 3-CD box
WEAKERTHANS, Reunion Tour (Anti-)
SEPTEMBER 18, 2007
BADFINGER, self-titled and Wish You Were Here (Collector's Choice)
BEN LEE, Ripe (New West)
CARLA THOMAS, Live At The Bohemian Caverns (Stax) 1967 concert finally released on its 50th anniversary.
CAROLYN MARK, Nothing Is Free (Mint)
CHRIS KENNER, Land Of 1000 Dances (Collector's Choice)
CLYDE MCPHATTER & THE DRIFTERS, Rock & Roll (Collector's Choice)
DOYLE BRAMHALL, Is It News (Yep Roc)
DRIFTERS, I'll Take You Where The Music's Playing (Collector's Choice)
EMMYLOU HARRIS, Songbird: Rare Tracks And Forgotten Gems (Rhino) 5-disc boxed set, including one track from her first album
JAMES BLUNT, All The Lost Souls (Custard/Atlantic)
JAMES LUTHER DICKINSON, Killers From Space (Memphis International)
JIM LAUDERDALE, The Bluegrass Diaries (Yep Roc)
KENNY "BABYFACE" EDMONDS, Playlist (Mercury) Mostly covers, including "Please Come To Boston," "Fire & Rain," "Knockin' On Heaven's Door," etc.
LARRY CORDLE & LONESOME STANDARD TIME, Took Down And Put Up (Lonesome Day)
LEGENDARY SHACKSHAKERS, Swampblood (Yep Roc)
MARK KNOPFLER, Kill To Get Crimson (Warner Bros.)
MARTIN STEPHENSON, Hell's Half Acre: The Soundfield Sessions (Ramseur)
MARY GAUTHIER, Between Daylight And Dark (Lost Highway)
MICHAEL HURLEY, The Ancestral Swamp (Gnomonsong)
MICHELLE SHOCKED, ToHEAVEnuRIDE (Mighty Sound/Megaforce)
OST, Across The Universe (Interscope) Soundtrack to a movie musical written around Beatles songs, performed by actors Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood, Bon, Joe Cocker, and others. Produced, in part, by T Bone Burnett.
REBA MCENTIRE, Reba Duets (MCA-Nashville)
SIMON & GARFUNKEL, Live 1969 (Sony/Legacy)
STEVE EARLE, Washington Square Serenade (New West/Ammal)
TIM KREKEL, Soul Season (Natchez Trace)
VARIOUS ARTISTS, Song Of America (31 Tigers/Split Rock) 3-disc set executive-produced by former U.S. Atty Gen. Janet Reno, featuring Blind Boys Of Alabama, BR549, Del McCoury Band, Old Crow Medicine Show, Danielson, Bettye LaVette, many others
SEPTEMBER 11, 2007
ANI DIFRANCO, Canon (Righteous Babe) double-album studio career retrospective
ANN WILSON, Hope & Glory (Zoe/Rounder) The Heart singer, not the gospel legend
BILLY JOE SHAVER, Storyteller: Live At The Bluebird (Sugar Hill)
BLACK FRANCIS, Bluefinger (Cooking Vinyl) 11 songs in homage to Herman Brood
EMMA POLLOCK, Watch The Fireworks (4AD) From the Delgados
ERIC BIBB, An Evening With Eric Bibb (M.C.)
GOOD LIFE, Help Wanted Nights (Saddle Creek)
HA HA TONKA, Buckle In The Bible Belt (Bloodshot) previously known as Amsterband
HOT HOT HEAT, Happiness LTD (Sire)
JOE HENRY, Civilians (Anti-) with Van Dyke Parks, Bill Frisell, Greg Leisz
KANE/WELCH/KAPLIN, self-titled (Compass/Dead Reckoning)
KASEY ANDERSON, The Reckoning (Terra Soul)
KENNY CHESNEY, Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates (BNA) Ronnie Bowman, Dwight Yoakam, and Jon Randall will, at least, enjoy their cuts.
LUCKY TOMBLIN BAND, Red Hot From Blue Rock (Texas World)
OAKLEY HALL, I'll Follow You (Merge)
RED STICK RAMBLERS, Made In The Shade (Sugar Hill)
TOM GILLAM, Never Look Back (Treehouse)
VARIOUS ARTISTS, Four Decades Of Folk Rock (Time-Life)
VARIOUS ARTISTS, Sowing Seeds: The 10th Anniversary (Appleseed) Two-disc set includes an exclusive Bruce Springsteen-Pete Seeger duet on "Ghost Of Tom Joad" along with exclusive tracks from Ani DiFranco, Donovan, etc.
VIC CHESNUTT, North Star Deserter (Constellation)
WOODY GUTHRIE, The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie In Performance 1949 (Woody Guthrie Publications Inc.)
SEPTEMBER 4, 2007
HEAVY TRASH, Going Way Out With Heavy Trash (Yep Roc) Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray's second album under this name
KILL HENRY SUGAR, Swing Back And Down (Surprise Truck)
PETER HIMMELMAN, The Pigeons Couldn't Sleep (Himmasongs)
SUZY BOGGUSS, Sweet Danger (self)
AUGUST 28, 2007
BRANDI SHEARER, Close To Dark (Amoeba)
CRYSTAL GAYLE, Greatest Hits (Capitol-Nashville/EMI)
LYLE LOVETT & HIS LARGE BAND, It's Not Big It's Large (Lost Highway)
MICHAEL MCDERMOTT, Noise From Words (One Little Indian)
RASCALS, The Young Rascals; Collections; Groovin'; Once Upon A Dream; Freedom Suite; See; Search And Nearness (Collector's Choice) In both mono and stereo mixes
SUBDUDES, Street Symphony (Back Porch)
TERRI HENDRIX, The Spiritual Kind (Wilory)
VARIOUS ARTISTS, Wattstax (Stax/Concord) Expanded three-disc soundtrack
VHS OR BETA, Bring On The Comets (Astralwerks)
AUGUST 21, 2007
DAX RIGGS, We Sing Only Of Blood Or Love (Fat Possum)
EVERYBODYFIELDS, Nothing Is Okay (Ramseur)
GREG BROWN, Yellow Dog (Earthwork Music) Live August 2005 show, proceeds benefit the Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve
JOE NICHOLS, Real Things (Universal South)
JOSH RITTER, The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter (Sony)
MEKONS, Natural (Quarterstick)
NATHANIAL MAYER, Why Don't You Give It To Me? (Alive)
NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, Challengers (Matador)
OMAR KENT DYKES & JIMMIE VAUGHAN, On The Jimmy Reed Highway (New Ruf) Tribute disc featuring contributions from Delbert McClinton, James Cotton, Kim Wilson and Lou Ann Barton
OVER THE RHINE, The Trumpet Child (Great Speckled Dog)
PATRICK PARK, Everyone's In Everyone (Curb Appeal)
PETER HIMMELMAN, The Pigeons Couldn't Sleep (Himmasongs/Thirty Tigers)
RILO KILEY, Under The Blacklight (Warner Bros.)
RONNIE MCCOURY & THE DEL MCCOURY BAND, Little Mo' McCoury (McCoury Music) a bluegrass children's album!
STERLING HARRISON, South Of The Snooty Fox (Hacktone) L.A. obscure soul legend produced by Steve Berlin
TOM RUSSELL/VARIOUS ARTISTS, Wounded Heart Of America (HighTone) covers of Russell songs by Johnny Cash, Doug Sahm, Dave Alvin, Iris DeMent, etc., plus a few from Russell himself
TRAVIS TRITT, The Storm (Category 5)
VARIOUS ARTISTS, Vee-Jay: The Definitive Collection (Shout! Factory) 4-CD box
WATERBOYS, Book Of Lightning (W14 Music/Decca)
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