• Alice in Chains (singer Layne Staley died in 2002)
• Allison, Mose (82 yo; timeless beatnik logic for a beat up world)
• Amadou and Mariam - Sabali (blind Malian couple - Afro pop steeped in the blues and funk)
• Animal Collective
• Arcade Fire
• Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
• A Tribe Called Quest
• BB King
• Beatles Remasters (9/09)
• Beatles in Mono
• Beck, Jeff
• Black Keys
• Black Lips - Let it Bloom
• Bob Dylan - Modern Times
• Bowie, David
• Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light **
• Buzzcocks
• Christian, Charlie
• Contraband (??) (Bruce Hornsby???)
• Crowded House (Neil Finn)
• Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks
• Dick Dale and His Del tones - Surfers' Choice (Reissue)
• Eaglin, Snooks - Blind New Orleans R&B singer, died 2/18/09
• Elder Utah Smith - superstar evangelist and guitarist from NW Louisiana - used to preach in giant homemade seraphim wings - died in 1965 - Biography: "I Got Two Wings: Incidents and Anecdotes of the Two-Winged Preacher and Electric Guitar Evangelist"
• Elliott Murphy
• Faces
• Faithfull, Marianne - Easy Come, Easy Go (duet with Keith Richards)
• Fats Domino - Alive and Kickin'
• Flatlanders - Jimmie Dale Gilmore lonesome tenor like Hank Williams and Al Green
• Flogging Molly
• Flying Burrito Brothers [linked to Phosphorescent]
• Folk: Bert Janusch
• Folk: Davey Graham
• Free Energy
• Fugees
• Gabriel, Peter
• Gnarls Barkley
• Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
• Harrison, George
• Harry Smith - Anthology of American Folk Music (CD? book?)
• Hayes, Isaac - Black Moses
• Hendrix - Valleys of Neptune
• Hynde, Chrissy - charity
• Iggy Pop
• It's a Beautiful Day
• Jackson Browne
• Jane's Addiction
• Jerry Lee Lewis
• John Coltrane - Fearless Leader (Reissue)
• John Legend - Once Again
• John Lee Hooker - Hooker (Reissue)
• John Mayer - Continuum
• Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways **
• Johnson, Robert
• JP, Chrissy and the Fairground Boys - charity (Chrissy Hynde)
• Killers (frontman: Brandon Flowers)
• King, Carol and Taylor, James - profits to NRDC and AWR
• King Biscuit Time
• King Crimson
• LCD - Oh You (Christmas Blues)
• LCD Soundsystem
• Leadbelly
• Levon Helm
• Lindsey Buckinhgam - Under the Skin
• Little Walter
• Love (Arthur Lee) - 1967 "classic" "Da Capo" and 1968 "Forever Changes" - "one of the biggest bands on the burgeoning Sixties Los Angeles Sunset Strip Scene" (huh?)
• MGMT
• Moe Asch does Woody Guthrie
• Molly Hatchett
• Monsters of Folk
• Morrissey
• Muddy Waters
• Muse (are British prog rockers)
• My Chemical Romance
• My Morning Jacket / Jim James [Charity - proceeds go to anti-poverty and others; against Mountaintop Mining - their "Dear Companion" album gives all profits to charity
• Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Live at the Fillmore East, March 6 & 7, 1970 (Reissue)
• Neil Young and Crazy Horse - 2006
• Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Archives Reference Search (??)
• New York Dolls
• NY - Mynah Birds - The Complete Mot___ Singers - Volume 6: 1966 (????)
• OK Go [internet made them video stars - splattered paint photo; Youtube treadmill clip "Here It Goes Again"]
• Orkustra - Adventures in Experimental Electric Orchestra (1966) (violinist David LaFlamme founded It's a Beautiful Day; bassist Jaime Leopold joined Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks; Guitarist Bobby BeauSoleil fell off the love train and in with Charles Manson and is now serves a life term in prison for a 1969 murder)
• Orton, Beth - Trailer Park: Legacy Edition (Reissue)
• Perkins, Pinetop
• Peter Bjorn and John
• Pete Seeger
• Phosphorescent [linked to Flying Burrito Brothers - sounds like?]
• Pixies
• Pointer Sisters
• Porcupine Tree
• Quit Your Day Job
• Raconteurs
• Radiohead
• Replacements
• Robert Johnson
• Robert Lockwood, Jr
• Santana
• School of Seven Bells (The Edge likes)
• Sean Lennon - Friendly Fire
• Secret Machines (The Edge likes)
• Smashing Pumpkins - A Stitch in Time
• Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
• Sonny Boy Williams
• Sparklehorse (Mark Linkous, suicide 3/6) [Tom Waits: When I first heard Mark's music it was like discovering a golden spider who left his initials for you in the web." Waits played with him on 2001 tune "Dog Door"]
• Spoon
• Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
• Squier, Billy
• Starless and Bible Black (new prog rock - take their name from a 1974 King Crimson album)
• Stooges
• The Coup - Pick a Bigger Weapon ("Baby Let's Have a Baby Before Bush Do Something Crazy")
• The Long Blondes - Someone to Drive You Home **
• The New York Dolls - One Day it Will Plase Us to Remember Even This
• The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers (Jack White)
• The Velvet Underground
• Thomas, Rob - donates to pet sanctuaries, homeless
• Thom Yorke (Radiohead) - The Eraser
• Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
• Tom Waits - Orphans, Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards
• Tool - 10,000 Days
• Train
• Trey Songz (???? Trey Anastasio ????)
• U2 - Boy ; Song: Moment of Surrender - the character in the song is a junkie, so that's where I got it (Bono), who has written about heroin addiction before, most famously on Bad from the Unforgettable Fire. Adam Clayton grappled with alcoholism)
• TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain (Bowie on "Province")
• Van Zandt, Townes - Deceased - "Pancho and Lefty" and "To Live is to Fly"
• Velvet Revolution
• Velvet Revolver
• Walkmen
• Warren Zevon
• Whigs
• Wilco
• Wild Light
• Willie Nelson - The Complete Atlantic Sessions (Reissue)
• Willie Nelson - You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
• Wilson Pickett - Funky Midnight Mover Reissue
• Wolfmother - Wolfmother
• Wyclef Jean
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
• Yele Fest (??????)
• Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass

Record Execs:

• Davis, Clive
• Ertegun, Ahmet
• Wexler, Jerry