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Best Music of 2013

Music hosts Jedd Beaudoin, Chris Heim, Carla Eckels and Bill Pearce run down the best in music for 2013 - including selections for world, rock, local music, jazz, R&B, gospel, blues, rockumentaries and books about music.

Join KMUW's music hosts throughout January on Global Village, Strange Currency, Night Train, Crossroads, Soulsations and Straight No Chaser for a month-long feature of the Best of 2013. See individual show pages for more information on upcoming shows and to listen to past shows through the streaming archive.

Best of 2013 lists:

Global Village's Top Five - World

1.       Mulatu Astatke - Sketches of Ethiopia (Jazz Village)

2.       Tamikrest - Chatma (Glitterbeat)

3.       Various - Afrobeat Airways 2: Return Flight to Ghana (Analog Africa)

4.       Various - Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings from the 1970s & '80s (Soundway)

5.       Monoswezi - The Village (Riverboat)

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Strange Currency's Top Five - Rock

1.      Southeastern—Jason Isbell

2.      Songs For Slim: Rockin’ Here Tonight: A Benefit Compilation for Slim Dunlap—Various Artists

3.      You Must Be This Tall—Mike Keneally

4.      The RCA Albums Collection—Harry Nilsson

5.      Pale Green Ghosts—John Grant

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Strange Currency's Top Five - Local 

1.      Hatchetations—Carrie Nation and The Speakeasy

2.      7 Cities—Moreland and Arbuckle

3.      Just a Dream -- Shane Marler

4.      Tronan Vs. The Spidernauts -- Spirit of the Stairs

5.      Coming Together For A Cure Vol. 2 -- Various Artists

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Night Train's Top Five - Jazz

1.       Ahmad Jamal - Saturday Morning (Jazz Village)

2.       Cecile McLorin Salvant - WomanChild (Mack Avenue)

3.       Aaron Diehl - The Bespoke Man's Narrative (Mack Avenue)

4.       Joe Locke - Lay Down My Heart: Blues and Ballads 1 (Motema)

5.       Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette - Somewhere (ECM)

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Crossroads' Top Five - Blues

1.       The Sojourners - Sing and Never Get Tired (Little Pig)

2.       Cash Box Kings - Black Toppin' (Blind Pig)

3.       Eric Bibb - Jericho Road (Stony Plain)

4.       Hadden Sayers - Rolling Soul (Blue Corn)

5.       Robben Ford - Bringing It Back Home (Provogue)

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Straight No Chaser's Favorite Albums of 2013 - Instrumental Jazz

Complete Columbia Album Collection -- Herbie Hancock

Nice and Easy -- Huston Person

Soul Brother Cool -- Cyrus Chestnut

White House Sessions -- Bennett/Brubeck

Milestones -- Giacomo Gates

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Soulsations' Top Five - R&B and Gospel

1. Grace and Mercy -- Jonathan Butler

2. I Blame You -- Ledisi

3. Jesus -- Kem ft. Patti Labelle and Ronald Isley

4. Oye Como Va -- Natalie Cole ft. Arthur Hanlon

5. My Promise -- Earth, Wind & Fire

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The Best Music Books And Rockumentaries Of 2013:

Jedd's Picks For Best Music Books

Chris's Picks For Best Music Books

Jedd's Picks For Best Rockumentaries

Bill Pearce was the host and producer of KMUW’s Straight No Chaser, a music program featuring mostly instrumental jazz, from early music to recent recordings. We’ll miss Bill, and his Sunday night show Straight No Chaser.
Carla Eckels is Director of Organizational Culture at KMUW. She produces and hosts the R&B and gospel show Soulsations and brings stories of race and culture to The Range with the monthly segment In the Mix. Carla was inducted into The Kansas African American Museum's Trailblazers Hall of Fame in 2020 for her work in broadcast/journalism.
Chris Heim produces and hosts Global Village, a nationally and internationally distributed world music show; the nightly jazz show Night Train, and Crossroads, KMUW’s twice-weekly blues and R&B show. Chris is also a critic and freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Utne, Global Rhythm, Dirty Linen, and Option, among others.
Jedd Beaudoin is host/producer of the nationally syndicated program Strange Currency. He has also served as an arts reporter, a producer of A Musical Life and a founding member of the KMUW Movie Club. As a music journalist, his work has appeared in Pop Matters, Vox, No Depression and Keyboard Magazine.