Largehearted Boy's Interesting CD Releases This Week

Eddie VedderPearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder‘s debut solo album, the soundtrack to the film Into the Wild, is out this week, along with long-awaited debuts by two singer-songwriters I have followed for some time, Placelessness by Alina Simone and Kismet by Jesca Hoop. Kevin Drew releases his solo debut disc, Spirit If…, as well, and Hard-Fi drops their sophomore effort with the “No Album Art” cover, Once Upon a Time In the West, in the US.

Nothing Is Free by Corn Sister Carolyn Mark is alt-country at its husky-voiced finest, and Fog‘s Ditherer keeps rocking itself into my CD player…

Discs I haven’t heard yet but am highly anticipating include Jamie Cullum‘s In the Mind of Jamie Cullum, the Green PajamasBox of Secrets: Northern Gothic 2, and Jana Hunter‘s Carrion. Are these worth picking up?

Have I left anything noteworthy off the list? What new music releases can you recommend this week? What should I avoid?

This week’s interesting CD releases:

A.A. Bondy: American Hearts [cd]
Acid Mothers Guru Guru: Psychedelic Navigator [cd]
Akron/Family: Love Is Simple [cd]
Alina Simone: Placelessness [cd]
The A-Sides: Silver Storms [cd]
Asleep at the Wheel: Santa Loves to Boogie [cd]
Baron Zen: At the Mall (Remixes) [cd]
Bella: No One Will Know [cd]
Ben Lee: Ripe [cd]
Biffy Clyro: Puzzle [cd]
Bob Dylan: MTV Unplugged (with DVD) [cd]
Carolyn Mark: Nothing Is Free [cd]
Chamillionaire: Ultimate Victory [cd]
Crescent: Little Waves [cd]
The Donnas: Bitchin’ [cd]
Dropkick Murphys: The Meanest Of Times [cd]
Drug Rug: Drug Rug [cd]
Eddie Vedder: Music for the Motion Picture Into the Wild (soundtrack) [cd]
Emmylou Harris: Songbird (box set) [cd]
The Fall: Live at the Kniting Factory [cd]
Firefox AK: Madame, Madame! [cd]
Fog: Ditherer [cd]
For Against: In the Marshes (reissue) [cd]
Gravenhurst: Western Lands [cd]
The Grey Race: Give It Love [cd]
Green Pajamas: Box of Secrets: Northern Gothic 2 [cd]
Hard-Fi: Once Upon a Time In the West [cd]
Harris Newman: Decorated [cd]
Health: Health [cd]
His Name Is Alive: Xmmer [cd]
Iggy Pop: Live San Francisco 1981 (reissue with bonus tracks) [cd]
The Immaculate Machine: Les Uns Mais Pas Les Autres (reissue) [cd]
Jamie Cullum: In the Mind of Jamie Cullum [cd]
Jana Hunter: Carrion [cd]
Jeremy Fisher: Goodbye Blue Monday [cd]
Jesca Hoop: Kismet [cd]
John Coltrane: Interplay (remastered box set) [cd]
Jonah Matranga: And [cd]
Keith Richards: Main Offender (reissue) [cd]
Keith Richards & the X-Pensive Winos: Live at the Hollywood Palladium (reissue) [cd]
Kevin Drew: Spirit If… [cd]
KT Tunstall: Drastic Fantastic [cd]
Th’ Legendary Shak Shakers: Swampblood [cd]
Les Savy Fav: Let’s Stay Friends [cd]
Magnet: Simple Life [cd]
Manneqin Men: Fresh Rot [cd]
Mark Knopfler: Kill to Get Crimson [cd]
Mary Gauthier: Between Daylight and Dark [cd]
Matt White: Best Days [cd]
Mick Jagger: The Very Best of Mick Jagger [cd]
Ministry: The Last Sucker [cd]
Motion City Soundtrack: Even If It Kills Me [cd]
Myracle Brah: Can You Hear Myracle Brah [cd]
New Found Glory: From the Screen to Your Stereo Part 2 [cd]
Nyles Lannon: Pressure [cd]
Percee P: Perseverance [cd]
Plasticines: LP1 [cd]
Polyphonic Spree: Live From Austin, TX [cd]
Rogue Wave: Asleep at Heaven’s Gate [cd]
Ryan Groff: People in the Midwest [cd]
Schoolyard Heroes: Abominations [cd]
Sleeping States: There the Open Spaces [cd]
Songs of Green Pheasant: Gyllyng Street [cd]
Submersed: Immortal Verses [cd]
Terra Diablo: Deluge Songs [cd]
Thurston Moore: Trees Outside The Academy [cd]
Time of Orchids: Namesake Caution [cd]
Twista : Adrenaline Rush 2007 [cd]
Various Artists: The Acoustic Alternative Album [cd]
Various Artists: Christmas with the Rat Pack [cd]
Various Artists: House M.D. Original Television Soundtrack [cd]
Various Artists: Led Zeppelin – Tribute: 24/7/365 [cd]
Various Artists: Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 (remastered box set) [cd]
Various Artists: The Simpsons: Testify (soundtrack) [cd]
Various Artists: Summer Records Anthology (1974-1988) [cd]
Various Artists: Song of America (3-disc set) [cd]
Various Artists: You Got Yours! East Bay Garage 1965-1967 [cd]
The Vells: Integretron [cd]
White Stripes: You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You’re Told) (single) [cd]
Willie Nelson: So Much to Do [cd]

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