KVNF Top Music Picks for 2009

The top cd's reccomended by some of your favorite KVNF DJ's for the year of 2009 !

 | Blue Sky Dave's Favorites  | 
 | Pearl's Picks  | 
 | Hurricane's Favorites  | 
 | Sarah Dallas' Picks  | 
 | Ali's Faves  | 
 | Patty's Picks  | 
 | Bills's Best of 2009  | 

Blue Sky Dave's Favorites for 2009
(Dave is a DJ on Future Sound)

• Band of Heathens - One Foot in the Ether
• Jason Eady - When the Money’s All Gone
• Sophie Milman - Take Love Easy
• Tommy Castro - Hard Believer
• Corb Lund - Lately Losin’ Gambler
• Kelley Hunt - Mercy
• Clarence Bucaro - New Orleans
• Eileen Jewel - Sea Of Tears
• Curtis Stigers - Lost In Dreams
• Catie Curtis - Hello Stranger

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Pearl's Picks for 2009 (in no particular order)
(Pearl is one of the Redneck Riviera DJs on Saturday)

• Arty Hill - Montgomery On My Mind
• Dolly Parton - Dolly
• Hank Williams, Jr. - 127 Rose Ave.
• John Fogerty - Blue Ridge Rangers Ride Again
• Patty Loveless - Mountain Soul II
• Sweetback Sisters - Chicken Ain't Chicken
• Rosie Flores - Girl of the Century
• Bernie Nelson - On My Way To You
• Honey Don't - Honey Don't
• Dale Watson - Truckin' Sessions Vol. 2
• Eileen Jewell - Sea of Tears
• Dallas Wayne - I'll Take the Fifth
• Willie Nelson - Willie & the Wheel

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Hurricane's Favorites for 2009
(Hurricane is a DJ on Turn It Up, Cookin' With Jazz & Gumbo Ya Ya)

• Otis Taylor - Pentatonic Wars & Love Songs
• Lisa Hilton - Twilight & Blues
• Joe Zawinul and The Zawinul Syndicate - 75
• Mike Farris & the Roseland Rhythm Revue - Shout! Live
• Walter Trout - Unspoiled By Progress
• Van Morrison - Astral Weeks: Live At Hollywood Bowl
• Babtunde Lea - Umbo Weti
• Fiona Boyes - Blues Woman
• Derek Trucks - Already Free
• Zac Harmon - From The Root

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Sarah's Favorites for 2009
(Sarah has recently returned to being a DJ at KVNF after being gone from the area for several years. She is currently a sub on different shows)

1. Trevor Hall - Trevor Hall album
2. Brandi Carlile - Give Up The Ghost
3. The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
4. Joe Purdy - Last Clock On The Wall
5. State Radio - Let It Go
6. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
7. Monsters Of Folk - Monsters Of Folk
8. The Drums - Summertime
9. Darcy James Argue's Secret Society - Infernal Machines
10. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

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Ali's Favorites for 2009
(Ali is a DJ on Soul System, Thursday nights)

1. The Noisettes - Wild Young Hearts
2. N'dambi - Pink Elephant
3. The Revelations - Featuring Tre Williams
4. Karl Denson's Tiny Universe - Brother's Keeper
5. Joss Stone - Colour Me Free
6. Melanie Fiona - The Bridge
7. Various Artists - Oh Happy Day
8. K'naan- Troubador
9. Brother Ali - Us
10. Ledisi - Everything Changes

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Patty's Picks for 2009
(Patty is a DJ for the Redneck Riviera, and One Woman's Perspective and subs on just about every other show on KVNF)

1. Stoll Vaughan - The Weatherman
2. Honey Don't - Honey Don't
3. Zero 7 - Yeah Ghost
4. Wax Tailor - In The Mood For Life
5. Ceu - Vagarosa
6. Bird & The Bee - RayGuns
7. Royksopp - Junior
8. Fort Knox Five - The New Gold Standard 2
9. Corb Lund - Losin' Lately Gambler
10. Danny Barnes - Pizza Box

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Bill's Best of 2009
(Bill is a DJ on Crossroads on Wednesday mornings)

"My 2009 Music picks Bill Powers Crossroads Program—I still have yet to hear a number of cds that I have heard are excellent—I just haven’t had time to dig into em…so this only takes into account the CDs Ive had a chance to hear a few times. And of course this list refers to the kind of releases and genres I tend to play on Crossroads. This list has a little bit of order to it but only sorta—I did really love the first two on my list!"

• Those Darlins
• Sweetback Sisters-Chicken Ain’t Chicken
• Mother Hips- Pacific Dust
• Chuck Prophet-Let Freedom Ring
• Justin Townes Earle-Midnight at the Movies
• Gordon Gano and the Ryans-Under The Sun
• Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros-Up From Below
• Dexateens
• Jeff and Vida-Selma Chalk
• Wilco (The Record)
• Skinny Singers-Strike Again!(Jackie Green and Tim Bluhm(of Mother Hips)
• Old Californio-Westering Again
• Fred Eaglesmith-Tinderbox
• Keiren Kane-Somewhere Beyond the Roses
• The Gourds- Haymaker
• Buddy and Julie Miller –Written in Chalk
• The Low Anthem-OMG Charlie Darwin
• Jason Eady-When the Money is all Gone
• Band of Heathens-One Foot in the Ether
• Sam Baker-Cotton

I don’t do a Bluegrass Show these days but if I did—for this years releases some of my favs are here

• Town Mountain –Heroes and Heretics
• Anne and Pete Sibley-Coming Home
• Black Crown Stringband-EP
• Cold Country(from Alaska)
• Steep Canyon Rangers
• Bearfoot-Doors and Windows

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