Boston trio Lula Wiles display their virtuosic chops while expertly tapping into folk traditions ranging from protest songs to murder ballads.
**HIGHLIGHTS
**Best collision of prettiness and soulfulness: Lula Wiles, What Will We Do **Best reason to still like country music: Alice Wallace, Into the Blue **Most genre confused (Am I at a Dharma talk? Am I at the club?): Mindmassage: Shivers **Best debut: Olga Solar: Antilullaby
BAND / ALBUM / LABEL / GENRE
500 Miles to Memphis/Blessed Be the Damned/s/r/Rock Alice Wallace/Into the Blue/Rebelle Road Records/Country Angelo de Augustine/Tomb/Asthmatic Kitty/Rock/**digital** Buke and Gase/Scholars/Brassland/Rock/**digital** Dan Sheehan/Tales from Earth Incorporated/s/r/Rock Daryl Shawn/Safe In Sound/s/r/World Dennis Quaid & the Sharks/Out of the Box/Omnivore/Rock Lost Under Heaven/Love Hates What You Become/Mute/Rock Lula Wiles/What Will We Do/Smithsonian Folkways/Folk Magela Herrera/Explicaciones/Brontosaurus Records/Jazz Michael Wolff/Swirl/Sunnyside/Jazz Mindmassage/Shivers/s/r/Pop nêhiyawak/starlight EP/Arts & Crafts Productions/Rock/**digital** Night Beats/Myth Of A Man/Heavenly/PIAS/Rock/**digital** Olga Solar/Antilullaby/s/r/Rock Praises/In This Year: Ten of Swords/Hand Drawn Dracula/Rock Rich Lerner and the Groove/Jammin With Juma/Free the Music/Rock Self Evident/Lost Inside the Machinery/Doubleplusgood/Rock Tallies/Tallies/Kanine/Rock Terry Klein/Tex/s/r/Folk Terry Ohms/Terryfirma/Cornelius Chapel/Rock Those Damn Eyes/Too Far to Turn Back Now/s/r/Rock Tomislav Goluban/Chicago Rambler/Spona/Blues Walter Trout/Survivor Blues/Provogue/Blues
