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Vote for your Top 3 CD picks of 2012

Vote for your Top 3 CD picks of 2012. Vote below the list in COMMENT section. Please include your NAME, TOWN AND E-MAIL. We’ll add up listener picks and compile the Top 20 CD’s of 2012 to play back on Morning Music.  Our list of 2012 CD’s played this year is displayed below.  Thanks for listening and sending in your favorites of 2012.

Choose your Top 3  favorites of 2012. You may have heard something this year that is not on this list.  Write-ins are welcome. Entry deadline is 11:59pm on Dec 25th

  • A Fine Frenzy - Pines
  • Aimee Mann - Charmer
  • Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls        
  • Alejandro Escovedo - Big Station
  • Allen Stone -  Allen Stone                                    
  • ALO - Sounds Like This
  • Anders Osborne - Black Eye Galaxy
  • Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself
  • Andrew Bird - Hands Of Glory
  • Ani Difranco - Which Side Are You On?
  • Bahamas - Barchords
  • Band Of Horses - Mirage Rock
  • Beach Boys- That’s Why God Made the Radio
  • Beach House - Bloom
  • Ben Folds Five - The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind
  • Ben Sollee - Half Made Man
  • Ben Taylor – Listening
  • Benyaro- The Cover EP
  • Benjamin Gibbard - Former Lives
  • Best Coast - The Only Place
  • Beth Orton - Sugaring Season
  • Blues Traveler - Suzie Cracks The Whip
  • Bob Dylan – Tempest
  • Bodeans - American Made
  • Bonnie Bishop - Free
  • Bonnie Raitt - Slipstream
  • Brandi Carlile - Bear Creek
  • Bronze Radio Return - Shake Shake Shake
  • Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball
  • Buddy Miller/Jim Lauderdale - Buddy & Jim
  • Calexico – Algiers
  • Cat Power - Sun                                   
  • Charlie Faye - Travels With Charlie
  • Cheyenne Marie Mize - We Don’t Need
  • Chieftains - Voice of Ages
  • Chimes Of Freedom - The Songs Of Bob Dylan
  • Chris Knight - Little Victories
  • Chris Robinson Brotherhood - Big Moon Ritual
  • Chris Smither - Hundred Dollar Valentine
  • Chuck Mead & His Grassy Knoll Boys - Back At The Quonset Hut
  • Citizen Cope - One Lovely Day             
  • Corb Lund - Cabin Fever
  • Craig Finn - Clear Heart Full Eyes
  • Dar Williams - The Time Of The Gods
  • Darrell Scott - Long Ride Home
  • Dave Matthews - Away From The World
  • David Byrne & St. Vincent - Love This Giant
  • David Wax Museum - Knock Knock Get Up
  • Delta Rae - Carry The Fire
  • Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Twenty Dozen         
  • Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
  • Django Django - Django Django
  • Donald Fagan - Sunken Condos                      
  • Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams
  • Dwight Yoakam - 3 Pears
  • Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Here
  • Elk Attack- Second Born
  • Esperanza Spalding - Radio Music Society                          
  • Elle King - EP
  • Farrar, Johnson, Parker, Yames - New Mulititudes
  • Father John Misty - Fear Fun
  • First Aid Kit - The Lion’s Roar
  • Forest Sun - Just Begun   
  • Freelance Whales -           Diluvia
  • Gaelic Storm - Chicken Boxer
  • Gary Clark Jr. - Blak and Blu
  • Gary Small and the Coyote Brothers- Hostiles and Renegades
  • Glen Hansard - Rhythm and Repose                         
  • Good Old War - Come Back As Rain
  • Grace Potter - The Lion The Beast The Beat
  • Great Lake Swimmers - New Wild Everywhere          
  • Grizzly Bear – Shields
  • Helio Sequence - Negotiations
  • Heritage Blues Orchestra - And Still I Rise                                     
  • Husky - Forever So                    
  • Ian Hunter - When I’m President                               
  • Ingrid Michaelson - Human Again
  • Iris Dement - Sing To The Delta
  • Jack White – Blunderbuss
  • Jalan Crossland- Portrait of a Fish
  • Jason Isbell - Live From Alabama
  • JD McPherson - Signs and Signifiers
  • Jeff Lynne - Long Wave
  • Jerry Douglas – Traveler
  • Jessie Baylin - Little Spark
  • Jesse Harris - Sub Rosa                       
  • Jimmy Cliff - Rebirth
  • Joan Osborne - Bring It On Home
  • Joe Bonamassa - Driving Towards Daylight
  • Joe Pug - The Great Despiser
  • John Fulbright - From The Ground Up
  • John Hiatt - Mystic Pinball
  • John Mayer - Born and Raised
  • Joshua Radin - Underwater                                       
  • Josh Ritter - Bringing in the Darlings      
  • J. Shogren & Shanghai’d- God Bless these Crooked Little Songs    
  • Junior Brown - Volume Ten
  • Justin Townes Earle - Nothings Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now
  • Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson - Wreck & Ruin
  • Kelly Hogan - I Like to Keep Myself in Pain      
  • The Kennedys - Closer Than You Know
  • Kimbra - Vows                                     
  • Leftover Salmon - Aquatic Hitchhiker
  • Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
  • Lianne La Havas - Is Your Love Big Enough
  • Lindi Ortega - Cigarettes & Truckstops
  • Little Feat - Rooster Rag
  • Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams                                     
  • Loudon Wainwright III - Older Than My Old Man Now          
  • Luka Bloom - This New Morning  
  • Lyle Lovett - Release Me
  • M. Ward - A Wasteland Companion                
  • Maia Sharp - Change The Ending
  • Martin Sexton - Fall Like Rain
  • Mary Chapin Carpenter - Ashes & Roses                                             
  • Melody Gardot - The Absence
  • Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again
  • Mike Doughty - The Flip Is Another Honey
  • Milo Greene - Milo Greene
  • Mumford & Sons - Babel
  • Nada Surf - The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy
  • Nanci Griffith - Intersection
  • Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill
  • Norah Jones - Little Broke Hearts
  • Otis Taylor - Otis Taylor’s Contraband                       
  • O’Brien Party Of Seven - Reincarnation
  • Of Monsters And Men - My Head Is An Animal
  • Old Crow Medicine Show – Carry Me Back
  • One Ton Pig- One Ton Pig
  • Paul Thorn - What The Hell Is Goin On?
  • Paul McCartney - Kisses on the Bottom
  • Polica - Give You the Ghost                   
  • Punch Brothers - Who’s Feeling Young Now?
  • Ringo Starr - 2012
  • Robert Cray - Nothin But Love
  • Rodney Crowell - Kin: Songs by Rodney Crowell and Mary Karr
  • Rolling Stones - Grrrr
  • Rufus Wainwright - Out Of The Game
  • Ruthie Foster - Let It Burn
  • Ryan Bingham - Tomorrowland
  • Sam Llanas - 4A.M.-
  • Sara Watkins - Sun, Midnight, Sun
  • Scrapomatic - I’m a Stranger
  • Screen Door Porch- Fate and the Fruit
  • Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
  • Shawn Colvin - All Fall Down
  • Shemeika Copeland - 33 1/3
  • Shovels and Rope - O’Be Joyful
  • Sonny Landreth - Elemental Journey
  • Steve Forbert - Over With You
  • Steve Poltz - Noineen Noiny Noin
  • Tallest Man on Earth - There’s No Leaving Now                   
  • Tedeschi Trucks Band – Live
  • Teka Brock Band-307
  • Tennis - Young & Old
  • The Dunwells - Blind Sighted Faith-Playing In Traffic
  • The Kennedys - Closer Than You Know
  • The Lumineers - The Lumineers
  • The Mastersons - Birds Fly South
  • The Mavericks - Suited Up And Ready
  • The Shins - Port of Morrow                   
  • The Wallflowers - Glad All Over
  • The Walkmen - Heaven
  • The Wandering - Go On Now, You Can’t Stay Here
  • Tift Merritt - Traveling Alone-Yep Roc
  • Todd Snider - Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables
  • Todd Snider - Time As We Know It
  • Tommy Bolin & Friends - Gypsy Soul
  • Trampled By Turtles - Stars and Satellites
  • Trey Anastasio - Traveler
  • Van Morrison - Born To Sing:No Plan B
  • Walter Trout - Blues for the Modern Daze                  
  • Willie Nelson – Heroes
  • Yuna - Yuna                                         
  • ZZ Ward - Till The Casket Drops

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Grady has taken a circuitous route from his hometown of Kansas City to Wyoming. Sometime after the London Bridge had fallen down, he moved to Arizona and attended Arizona State University and actually graduated from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. ("He's a Lumberjack and he's OK……..!") He began his radio career in Prescott in 1982 and eventually returned to Kansas City where he continued in radio through the summer of 1991. Public Radio and the Commonwealth of Kentucky beckoned him to the bluegrass state where he worked as Operations/Program Manager at WKMS in Murray and WNKU in Highland Heights just across the Ohio from Cincinnati.