Out Of The Box Cd Of The Week With Paul Shugrue

The Nocturnal Diaries, is a collection of songs that came to her in the middle of the night. The album is like sitting up with a friend and helping her make it through the night.

Bright Side of Down, the twelfth album by this folk troubadour, begins with a song about a blizzard and ends with one about spring. Its an album that will get you through a cold lonely winter.

English Oceans finds DBT settled into a comfortable groove of songs about lowlifes and losers and with a hard edged southern rock approach.

Morning Phase is a companion piece to his 2002 mostly acoustic album Sea Change, its mellow, gauzy and lush, moving like a lava lamp through its melancholy themes.

Alynda Lee Segarra's songs and voice are the centerpiece of this set of gothic Americana with an understated nod to traveling folk troubadours like Woody Guthrie.

The long time blues vet live up to his Entertainer of the Year award from the Blues Foundation last year with a fiery new album.

High Hopes is a record of some of his best unreleased material over the past decade and features an added jolt from guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine.

Songs for Slim is a benefit album of artists performing songs by Slim Dunlap, a prolific songwriter and former member of The Replacements who suffered a stroke last year.

On Air Live at the BBC Volume 2 features 37 previously unreleased live recordings, most from fifty years ago, capturing the innocently exhilarating beginning of a Rock and Roll era.

The success of other artists with this same loose, energetic Americana style gives this long time gypsy folk band a well deserved break and they respond with their best album yet.

Their fourth album, one of the most anticipated of the year, is a glitzy dance party celebrating the attainment of their dreams and now grasping for a new purpose.

The Magpie and the Dandelion was recorded during the same sessions for their last album and reflects their carefree attutude and feeling of optimism.

The long time New Orleans musician celebrates his new found sobriety with a power that sounds like he's back from the brink.

VII is the culmination of this bands funky hipster image and a quirky, southern fried musical charm.

Build Me Up From Bones is the third album by this 22 year old virtuoso musician and singer songwriter with an artistic vibe that belies her young age.

Wake Up Ghost is a collaboration between these two legendary acts, bending to each others style creating something not heard on either of their albums.

Privateering is further affirmation of the status of this former Dire Straits leader as one of the best modern interpreters of the Folk tradition.

Meet at the Edge of the World is a double album set of songs inspired by this long time duo's home, a pre Civil War plantation in Ohio.

Made Up Mind is the second studio album for this Grammy winning husband and wife led band and it brings their shared vison of Blues Soul and Rock together.

Paradise Valley is his sixth studio album and as he channels his lifestyle into his music he defines himself as an utterly contemporary singer songwriter.