Best of 2014: David Soyka (Jumpin’ on the Bed)
By Folk Department
As 2015 kicks off, various WTJU Folk staff look back on some of their favorite 2014 releases (or in a few cases albums which arrived at WTJU in 2014). To see the other lists, including the final WTJU Best of 2014 compilation, click here.
Host: David Soyka, Co-Host of Jumpin’ on the Bed (Saturday, 4-6 pm)
So much music, so little time….
Leonard Cohen/Popular Problems/Sony
Bob Dylan and the Band/The Basement Tapes/Columbia
Jolie Holland/Wine Dark Sea/Anti
Hurray for the Riff Raff/Small Town Heroes/ATO
Angel Olsen/Burn Your Fire for No Witness/Jagjaguwar
Jack White/Lazaretto/Columbia (get it on vinyl)
Delines/Colfax/ElCortez
Matthew Ryan/Boxers/self
Lucinda Williams/Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone/Highway 20
Marianne Faithfull/Give My Love to London/Caroline
Sturgill Simpson/Metamodern Sounds in Country Music/High Top Mountain Records
Parker Millsap/Parker Millsap/Okrahoma Records
Shovels and Rope/Swimmin Type/Dualtone
St. Paul & the Broken Bones/Half the City/Single Lock
Shakey Graves/And the War Came/Dualtone
Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes (Various)/Electromagnetic Recordings
Robert Plant/Lullaby ..and the Ceaseless Roar/Nonesuch
Lana Del Rey/Ultraviolence/Interscope
Tom Petty/Hypnotic Eye/Reprise
Gary Clark, Jr./Gary ClarkJr. Live/Warner
Chuck E. Weiss/Red Beans and Rice/Anti
Lake Street Dive/Bad Self Portraits/Signature
The Haden Triplets/The Haden Triplets/Third Man
The Felice Brothers/My Favorite Waitress/Dualtone
The Secret Sisters/Put Your Needle Down/Universal Republic
Ben Miller Band/Any Way Shape or Form/New West