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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Hank Williams Cold Cold Heart Hillbilly Hero Proper 2002
Johnny Cash When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below) Personal File Columbia Legacy 2006
* Gillian Welch 455 Rocket Boots No. 1 Acony 2016
* Shovels and Rope St. Anne's Parade Little Seeds New West 2016
The Honeycutters Barmaid's Blues On the Ropes Organic 2016
Magnolia Electric Co. Hammer Down What Comes After the Blues Secretly Canadian 2005
Gene Clark White Light White Light Sundazed 1971
Hayes Carll Love Don't Let Me Down Lovers and Leavers Hwy 87 2016
Lucinda Williams Are You Alright? West Lost Highway 2007
Carolina Chocolate Drops Cornbread and Butterbeans Genuine Negro Jig Nonesuch 2010
Rhiannon Giddens Up Above My Head Tomorrow is My Turn Nonesuch 2015
* Martin Simpson and Dom Flemons Bulldoze Blues A Selection of Ever Popular Favourites Fledg'ling 2016
Elizabeth Cotten Shake Sugaree Shake Sugaree Smithsonian Folkways 2004
Mississippi John Hurt You Are My Sunshine The Best Of Vanguard 1970
Chatham County Line Saturdays and Sundays Wildwood Yep Roc 2010
Mount Moriah The Reckoning Mount Moriah Holidays for Quince 2011
Mandolin Orange Never Die Haste Make/Hard-Hearted Stranger self-released 2011
Hiss Golden Messenger I've Got a Name for the Newborn Child Haw Paradise of Bachelors 2013
Loamlands Scottsboro Some Kind of Light Trekky 2013
The Handsome Family Cold, Cold, Cold Twilight Carrot Top 2001
Freakwater Little Black Train Old Paint Thrill Jockey 1995
Dolly Parton Little Sparrow Little Sparrow Sugar Hill 2001
Jayme Stone's Lomax Project Shenandoah Jayme Stone's Lomax Project Borealis 2015
Patty Loveless Soul of Constant Sorrow Mountain Soul Epic 2001
Sierra Hull Choices and Changes Weighted Mind Rounder 2016
Erin McKeown You Mustn't Kick It Around Distillation Signature 2000
* Hog-Eyed Man Buck Hoard Hog-Eyed Man 3 Yodel-Ay-Hee 2016
Betse Ellis Bear Creek Sally Goodin' Don't You Want to Go? Free Dirt 2009
Elephant Revival Season Song Petals Itz Evolving 2016
Joan Shelley Over and Even Over and Even No Quarter 2015
Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boys Footsteps in the Snow In the Pines County 1993