Roots (Country, Folk, Americana)

Artist Loudon Wainwright III
Title 10 songs for the new depression
Label proper

Artist Rufus Wainwright
Title All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu (Digi-Pac+bonus track)
Label Polydor
Eclectic singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright follows up 2007’s studio recording "Release The Stars" with "All Days Are Nights". While Wainwright’s voice recalls the late Jeff Buckley, there has always been an added sense of mischief and theatre about his style. This outing features his most stripped back, affecting work to date - Wainwright’s trademark virtuoso piano work the only accompaniment to his emotive vocal style, removing some of the theatrics but leaving an album drenched in style.

Artist Tom Waits
Title Orphans
Label Anti
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards. It’s 54 songs - including 30 new recordings - equalling over three hours of rare and unreleased music.

Artist Nancy Wallace
Title Old Stories
Label Midwich

Artist Washington
Title Rouge / Noir
Label Glitterhouse
3rd album from Norway trio Washington and their most ambitious to date. There’s an expansive sound with real depth between the coldness and warmth of the band’s sound. Recommended!

Artist Gillian Welch
Title The Harrow & the Harvest
Label Warner
This is Gillian’s fifth full length studio album. Welch and her musical partner David Rawlings had not released an album in eight years prior to The Harrow & The Harvest, as they simply didn’t have any songs they liked enough to put out. The struggle of trying to write new material for years and then finally creating a record they liked was the inspiration for the album’s title.

Artist Whiskeytown (Ryan Adams)
Title Pneumonia
Label Lost Highway
 1. The Ballad Of Carol Lynn
 2. Don’t Wanna Know Why
 3. Jacksonville Skyline
 4. Reasons To Lie
 5. Don’t Be Sad
 6. Sit & Listen To The Rain
 7. Under Your Breath
 8. Mirror, Mirror
 9. Paper Moon
10. What The Devil Wanted
11. Crazy About You
12. My Hometown
13. Easy Hearts
14. Bar Lights

Artist Whiskeytown (Ryan Adams)
Title Faithless Street
Label Universal IMS
  1. Midway Park
  2. Drank Like A River
  3. Too Drunk To Dream
  4. Tennessee Square [Bonus Track]
  5. What May Seem Like Love
  6. Faithless Street
  7. Mining Town
  8. If He Can’t Have You
  9. Black Arrow, Bleeding Heart
10. Matrimony
11. Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight [Bonus Track]
12. Desperate Ain’t Lonely
13. Hard Luck Story
14. Top Dollar
15. Lo-Fi Tennessee Mountain Angel (for Kathy Poindexter) [Bonus Track]
16. Revenge
17. Empty Baseball Park [Baseball Park Sessions]
18. Here’s To The Rest Of The World [Baseball Park Sessions]
19. 16 Days [Baseball Park Sessions]
20. Yesterday’s News [Baseball Park Sessions]
21. Factory Girl [Baseball Park Sessions]

Artist Whiskeytown (Ryan Adams)
Title Strangers Almanac
Label Universal IMS
  1. Inn Town
  2. Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight
  3. Yesterday’s News
  4. 16 Days
  5. Everything I Do
  6. Houses On The Hill
  7. Turn Around
  8. Dancing With The Women At The Bar
  9. Waiting To Derail
10. Avenues
11. Losering
12. Somebody Remembers The Rose
13. Not Home Anymore

Artist White Hinterland
Title Kairos
Label Dead Oceans
WHITE HINTERLAND - Kairos, Dead Oceans Kairos is the second full album from White Hinterland, the experimental pop project from songwriter, vocalist and sometime pianist Casey Dienel. In this instance Dienel abandons her piano and pursues accompaniment from minimal, looping electronic arrangements.
Comparisons to The XX and Dirty Projectors have cropped up in text about this band, and you can hear where some of that comes from, but there’s undoubtedly a more simplified, elemental quality to this music that perfectly serves Dienel’s incredibly pure and melodic voice.

Artist Simone White
Title Yakkimo
Label Honest Jons
In her second album for Honest Jons, Simone White is back with a more pared-down sound. The mood is bitter sweet and nostalgic but spiced with hopefulness and fantasy.

Artist William Elliott Whitmore
Title Ashes to Dust
Label Southern
1. Midnight
2. The Day The End Finally Came
3. When Push Comes To Love
4. Diggin’ My Grave
5. The Buzzards Won’t Cry
6. Sorest Of Eyes
7. Lift My Jug (Song For Hub Cale)
8. Gravel Road
9. Porchlight

Artist William Elliott Whitmore
Title Hymns for the Hopeless
Label Southern
  1. Cold And Dead 
  2. Sometimes Our Dreams Float Like Anchors
  3. Does Me No Good
  4. Lord Only Knows
  5. Pine Box
  6. From The Cell Door To The Gallows
  7. Burn My Body
  8. Our Paths Will Cross Again

Artist William Elliott Whitmore
Title Song of The Blackbird
Label Southern

Artist William Elliott Whitmore and Jenny Hoyston
Title The Hallways of Always
Label Southern
Hallways of Always is the result of a shared love of  70s Nashville music from the beautiful William E.Whitmore (remember the fun we had when he played in the shop!!) and Jenny Hoyston (Erase Errata) I was a bit unsure about the idea of Jenny Hoysten guesting with the gravelly voiced, foot stomping, banjo picking, whiskey swigging (and damned right gorgeous) William but I was wrong.This is sheer beauty in musical form.

Artist Wilco
Title A Ghost Is Born
Label Nonsuch

Artist Wilco
Title A.M.
Label Sire

Artist Wilco
Title Ashes of American Flags (Live)
Label Nonesuch
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Artist Wilco
Title Being There
Label Warners

Artist Wilco
Title Kicking Television Live In Chicago
Label Nonesuch

Artist Wilco
Title Sky Blue Sky
Label Nonesuch
Wilco’s first studio album in three years has been perhaps the most ardently awaited release of 2007. Eager fans had taken to shouting out pleas for information to bandleader Jeff Tweedy during his recent solo acoustic tour, and the web chatter has been virtually deafening. Sky Blue Sky is as eloquently straightforward as Wilco’s last studio recording, A Ghost Is Born, was daringly experimental. Tweedy’s lyrics deal forthrightly with romantic separation and reconciliation, their bittersweet quality giving way, as the album progresses, to a more uplifting, redemptive mood. Tweedy quite literally banishes the darkness on the penultimate track, the inspiring, gospel-tinged ‘What Light’ - the album’s first single - and concludes with a deeply affecting, ‘til-death-do-us-part lullaby, ‘On & On & On’. 

Artist Wilco
Title Summerteeth
Label Reprise

Artist Wilco
Title Wilco (The Album)
Label nonesuch
It’s all strummy guitars, tinkling keyboards, big choruses, George Harrison-style slide guitar, and stacked harmony vocals, conjuring aural images of bands such as Love, Wings, and Badfinger. Throughout, the songwriting is tight and focused, making Wilco (The Album) one of the most instantly accessible albums in the Chicago-based group’s catalogue.

* Roll on Greenman ; )

Artist WILCO
Title Whole Love
Label
Co-produced by Jeff Tweedy, Patrick Sansone, and Tom Schick, Whole Love is Wilco’s eighth studio album, as well as the band’s first release on its own label, dBpm Records. A pair of lengthy songs, including the 12-minute closer, bookend the record.
Deluxe CD contains an extra CD
Disc 2 (deluxe CD)
1. I Love My Label 2. Message from Mid-Bar 3. Speak into the Rose 4. Black Moon Alt. Version

LP includes MP3s

Artist Kathryn Williams
Title Leave to Remain
Label CAW

Artist Willard Grant Conspiracy
Title Bear Witness (DVD+CD)
Label Glitterhouse

This DVD contains the complete gig of the Rockpalast Crossroads show in Bonn, plus outtakes and an interview with Robert Fisher. Add some footage from the Orange Blossom Special #9 (2005), a 12-page booklet and a Radio Bremen radio-session (on CD) and you have a lot to watch and hear.This is a great package for any WGC fan, the tracks are utterly stirring. God bless Robert Fisher.

Artist Willard Grant Conspiracy
Title Flying Low
Label Rycodisc

Artist Willard Grant Conspiracy
Title Let It Roll
Label Loose

The Sixth Studio album from Willard Grant Conspiracy features contributions from Chris Beckman (The Walkabouts), Dennis Cronin (Lambchop), Steve Wynn (Dream Syndicate), Mary Lorson (Saint Low, Madder Rose) and a cast of thousands.  Having spent a fair bit of time in Western European Territories has filtered through to the overall sound on this album with rousing Warren Ellis (Nick Cave/Dirty Three) -esque violin arrangements.  Without a doubt their finest work to date.

 1. Distant Shore
 2. Let It Roll
 3. Dance With Me
 4. Skeleton
 5. Flying Low
 6. Breach
 7. Crush
 8. Mary Of The Angels
 9. Ballad Of A Thin Man
10. Lady Of The Snowline

Artist Willard Grant Conspiracy
Title Paper Covers Stone
Label Loose
Raw, intuitive and minimal, ‘Paper Covers Stone’ is the ninth album from Willard Grant
Conspiracy and a stark contrast to the full orchestration of 2008’s ‘Pilgrim Road’. Yet
both records share the same willingness to experiment that has marked the band’s releases right from the very first album, ‘3am Sunday At Fortune Otto’s’ in 1996. ‘Paper Covers Stone’ can be seen, just as with the intransitive results of the game the title of the record is borrowed from, as the latest example in the strange loop that connects them all.

Artist Willard Grant Conspiracy
Title Pilgrim Road
Label Loose

Artist Willard Grant Conspiracy
Title The But For The Grace Of God, A Short History Of
Label Loose
A collection of tracks from Robert Fisher & Co.  Includes some previously unreleased tracks too....