August 24, 2019 CHIRP Radio Playlist (Show #442)

9:00 AM Bill Withers • Hope She'll Be Happier • Just As I Am• Sussex

9:04 AM Nicole Atkins • Maybe Tonight • Neptune City • Columbia

9:07 AM Shura • flyin' • forevher • Secretly Canadian

August 17, 2019 CHIRP Radio Playlist (Show #441)

9:02 AM Smokey Robinson • Let Me Be the Clock • Warm Thoughts • Motown

9:07 AM Laura Marling • You're No God • Alas I Cannot Swim• Astralwerks

9:10 AM Modern Studies & Tommy Perman • Moonshot • Emergent Slow Arcs • Fire

August 10, 2019 CHIRP Radio Playlist (Show #440)

9:02am Yo La Tengo The Weakest Part * I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador)

9:05am Joan Armatrading All the Way from America * me myself i (A & M)

9:10am Mikey Erg Kamera * all of god's money: a tribute to wilco's yankee hotel foxtrot (Better Yet)

July 27, 2019 CHIRP Radio Playlist (Show #439)

9:02 AM Anderson .Paak • Lite Weight (feat. The Free Nationals United Fellowship Choir) • Malibu • EMPIRE / OBE / Steel Wool / Art Club

9:05 AM Carole King • It's Too Late • The Legendary Demos • Concord

9:08 AM Kailyn Hope Bennett • Long Road Home • Loving and Losing EP • self-released

July 13, 2019 CHIRP Radio playlist (Show #438)

9:01 AM Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds • Where the Wild Roses Grow (feat. Kylie Minogue) • Murder Ballads • Mute

9:05 AM Stevie Wonder • If It's Magic • Songs In the Key of Life • Tamla

9:08 AM Bedouine • Under the Night • Bird Songs of a Killjoy • Space Bomb

July 6, 2019 CHIRP Radio Playlist (Show #437)

9:01 AM Kelly Hogan • Stay • Because It Feels Good • Bloodshot

9:04 AM Noname • Ace (featuring Smino and Saba) • Room 25 • Self-Released

9:07 AM Tyler Ramsey • Your Whole Life • For the Morning • Fantasy

Mid-Year makeshift Top 40 Albums of 2019

This is a hastily put together list of my favorite albums of the year so far, loosely put together. After the top 8, the rankings are particularly loose. Which means the stuff near the bottom could easily switch with stuff ranked 20-30 places above it. 2019 has been pretty darned good so far.

1. Jamila Woods -- LEGACY! LEGACY!
2. Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising
3. Priests – The Seduction of Kansas
4. CHAI – PUNK
5. The Comet Is Coming – Trust in the Lifeforce of Deep Mystery