- Myra Melford & Ben Goldberg – Dialogue (Bag Productions)
- McCormick Percussion Group – Kid Stuff (Ravello)
- Wailin’ Jennys – Fifteen (True North)
- Bettye Lavette – Things Have Changed (Verve)
- Egrets on Ergot – Surfeit of Gemutlich (Cleopatra)
- Rent Romus & the Lords of Outland – In the darkness we speak a song brightness and life (Edgetone)
- Baby Got Bacteria – Boo (S/R)
- Kairos Sextet – Transition (Dafnisian Music)
- Bon Bon Vivant – Live at the New Orleans Jazz Museum (Gallatin Street)
- California Honeydrops – Call it Home Vol. 1 & 2 (TubTone)
- Pandoras – Hey! It’s the Pandoras (Burger)
- Low Cut Connie – Dirty Pictures Part II (Contender)
- Al Dimeola – OPUS (Earmusic)
- Ali Farka Toure – The Source (World Circuit)
- Bombino – Deran (Partisan)
- Joe Louis Walker – Journeys to the Heart of the Blues (Alligator)
- Polarity/1 – Take a Pill (S/R)
- Barrence Whitfield and the Savages – Soul Flowers of Titan (Bloodshot)
- Robbie Fulks & Linda Gail Lewis – Wild! Wild! Wild! (Bloodshot)
- Mavis Staples – If All I Was Was Black (Anti-)
- Cuasares – Afro-Progresivo (Pharaway Sounds)
- Aki Kumar – Hindi Man Blues (Little Village Foundation)
- Mackrosoft – Snakerhythms (S/R)
- Chris Butler – Better Than I Ever Was (Future fossil)