| Artist | Title | Album (* = New Release) |
|---|
| Mavericks | Brand New Days | Brand New Day* |
| Joan Osborne | Dark Eyes | Songs of Bob Dylan* |
| The Smithereens | Christmas | The Smithereens Play Tommy |
| Hiss Golden Messenger | Domino (Time Will Tell) | Hallelujah Anyhow* |
| The Breeders | Wait in the Car | (single)* |
| Bash & Pop | On the Rocks | Anything Could Happen* |
| Son Little | O Me O My | New Magic* |
| Ryan Adams | Shiver and Shake | Prisoner* |
| Sallie Ford | Loneliness Is Power | Soul Sick* |
| Fleet Foxes | Fool's Errand | Crack Up* |
| The Mavericks | Damned (If You Do) | Brand New Day* |
| Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings | Matter of Time | Soul of a Woman* |
| Son Little | Alice | New Magic* |
| Weaves | Slicked | Wide Open* |
| The Lone Bellow | Time's Always Leaving | Walk into a Storm* |
| Nicole Atkins | Brokedown Luck | Goodnight Rhonda Lee* |
| Leon Russell | A Song For You | |
| Jimmy LaFave | This Glorious Day | Texoma |
| Craig Finn | Tracking Shots | We All Want the Same Things* |
| Antibalas | Gold Rush | Where The Gods Are In Peace* |
| Boss Hog | 17 | Brood X* |
| Chuck Berry & John Lennon | Johnny B. Good | Chuck Berry Is on Top |
| Benjamin Booker | Believe | Witness* |
| Real Estate | Serve The Song | In Mind* |
| Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit | Anxiety | The Nashville Sound* |
| Randy Newman | Wandering Boy | Dark Matter* |
| Craig Finn | God in Chicago | We All Want the Same Things* |
Last show of the year today, and we (who’m I kidding with the royal “we”... like there’s a big crew getting this puppy to air. This holiday party is me, playing tunes for you guys) and I’ll finish what I started last show — my personal Pazz & Jop* — playing my favorites of 2017. Last week I played Carolyn Wonderland, Aimee Mann, Rhiannon Giddens, Father John Misty, Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile, Spoon... This week? Nothing but Humperdinck.
OK, that’s a lie. Listen and see. But Son Little is in there, because I’m somewhat obsessed. The Mavericks. Also: music by some wonderful people we lost in 2017. And only one "Christmas" song (of a sort), but I’ve got a reason.
* Sigh. You could’ve googled it, young person who asked, but it was the end of year musical “Best Of” compiled and published (on paper!) in The Village Voice.
What?!
Pazz & Jop? It was a spoonerism of Jazz & Pop.
Huh?? Oh, It was a counter-cultural newsp... just Google it. Happy New Year. We deserve it.
