Volunteer Top 10s for 2020

Vince Almond – Host, Blues Boogie and Bop (in no order)

Jimmy”Duck” Holmes – Cypress Grove (Easy Eye Sound) 
Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite – 100 Years Of Blues (Alligator) 
Dione Taylor* – Spirits In The Water (Matay)
David Rotundo Band* – So Much Trouble (Dreams We Share)
Jose Ramirez  – Here I Come (Independent) 
Rory Block – Prove It On Me: Power Women Of The Blues Vol 2 (Stony Plain) 
Bobby Rush – Rawer  Than Raw (Deep Rush) 
Durham County Poets* – Hand Me  Down Blues (Independent)
Jack de Keyzer* – Tribute (Blue Star)
Shemekia Copeland – Uncivil War (Alligator) 
Kirk Fletcher – My Blues Pathway (Cleopatra Blues) 
The Smoke Wagon Blues Band* – The Ballad Of Albert Johnson (Independent)

Jim Dupuis – Host, Jazz Notes

Top 10 Instrumental Albums
1) Eric Revis – Slipknots Through a Looking Glass (Pyroclastic)
2) Jimmy Heath – Love Letter (Verve)
3) Alain Bedard Auguste Quintet* – Exalta Calma (Effendi)
4) John Scofield – Swallow Tales (ECM)
5) Audrey Ochoa* – Frankenhorn (Chronograph)
6) Bria Skonberg* – Nothing Never Happens (Independent)
7) Redline Trio* – Featuring Steve Hudson (Independent)
8) Chad McCullough – Forward (Outside In Music)
9) Felix Stussi* – SuperNova4 (Effendi)
10) Red Hot Ramble* – Today Will Be a Good Day (Independent)

Top 5 Vocal Albums

1) Diana Krall – This Dream of You (Verve Records)
2) Laila Biali* – Out of Dust (Chronograph)
3) Kurt Elling – Secrets Are The Best Stories (Edition)
4) Kandace Springs – The Woman Who Raised Me (Blue Note)
5) Jenny Davis – Rearranged (Three Penny)

Myles Gregory – Host, Broken Glass

1) Svalbard – When I Die, Will I Get Better? (Translation Loss)
2) War on Women – Wonderful Hell (Bridge Nine)
3) Lié* – You Want It Real (Mint)
4) Days N Daze – Show Me the Blueprints (Fat Wreck Chords)
5) Maid Of Ace – Live Fast Or Die (Self Released)
6) Dead Cells* – I (Neon Taste)
7) Soon – What the Fuck did we do to the Earth (Self Released)
8) The Fallout* – The Times Have Never Changed (Rebel Time)
9) Xylitol – I Am Pretty Sure I Would Know if Reality… (Thrilling Living)
10) V/A* – Killed By Slow Death Vol.1 (Slow Death)

Steve Marlow – Programming Coordinator, Host, Do Not Touch This Amp

1) Idles – Ultra Mono (Partisan)
2) Civic Center – The Ground Below (American Dreams)
3) Psychedelic Furs – Made of Rain (Cooking Vinyl)
4) Bootblacks – Thin Skies (Artoffact)
5) METZ* – Atlas Vending (Sub Pop)
6) A Certain Ratio – ACR Loco (Mute)
7) Jehnny Beth – To Love is to Live (Caroline)
8) Protomartyr – Ultimate Success Today (Domino)
9) Crack Cloud* – Pain Olympics (Meat Machine)
10) lie* – You Want it Real (Mint)

Dylan Olson – Host, Alternative Eye

1) SIRR* – Space (Independent)
2) Bob Guido* – S/T (Independent)
3) Bombay Bicycle Club – Everything Else Has Gone Wrong (Mmm)
4) Beauts* – Dalliance (LHM)
5) Rebecca Foon* – Waxing Moon (Constellation)
6) Brother Octopus* – The Band EP (Independent)
7) Radio Free Universe* – Love (Independent)
8) Braids* – Shadow Offering (Secret City)
9) Good Grief* – Last Place (Independent)
10) The Wild!** – Still Believe In Rock N Roll (Independent)

Richie Tronson – Host, This Microphone Smells (in chronological order)

Echo Beach** – Whale Songs (Independent)
Deap Lips – Deap Lips (Cooking Vinyl)
Marlaena Moore* – Pay Attention, Be Amazed! (Independent)
The Pack A.D.* – It Was Fun While it Lasted (Independent)
Chicano Batman – Invisible People (ATO)
Shred Kelly* – Like a Rising Sun (Devilduck)
Mother Sun** – SIPS (Independent)
Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death (Partisan)
L.A. Witch – Play With Fire (Suicide Squeeze)
Miley Cyrus – Plastic Hearts (RCA)

Elymor Villanueva – Host, A Warm Welcome

1) Fleet Foxes – Shore (Anti-)
2) Frances Quinlan – Likewise (Saddle Creek)
3) Perfume Genius – Set My Heart on Fire Immediately (Matador)
4) Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher (Dead Oceans)
5) Beatrice Dillon – Workaround (PAN)
6) Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters (Epic)
7) Mac Miller – Circles (Warner)
8) Charli XCX – how i’m feeling now (Atlantic)
9) Caribou* – Suddenly (Merge)
10) Lomelda – Hannah (Double Whammy)

Brant Zwicker – Station Manager, Host, Stormy Monday

1) Robert Connely Farr* – Country Supper (independent)
2) Sonny Green – Found! One Soul Singer (Little Village)
3) Jack de Keyzer* – Tribute (Blue Star)
4) Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite – 100 Years of Blues (Alligator)
5) Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar* – The Reckless One (Gypsy Soul)
6) Wayne Nicholson & John Campbelljohn* – Elmore`s Blues (Grindstone)
7) Sass Jordan* – Rebel Moon Blues (Stony Plain)
8) Jade MacRae – Handle Me with Care (Independent)
9) Bobby Rush – Rawer Than Raw (Deep Rush)
10) Johnny Iguana – Johnny Iguana`s Chicago Spectacular (Delmark)