JOSH RUTNER’S Album of the Week
“If you don't know about Josh Rutner's Album of the Week, really, it's just one of the best things. For discovering new albums, rediscovering old ones, and finding out so many things about them. But more than this, I think, it's such a beautiful shot in the arm for music criticism. I haven't heard a one that isn't a small work of art in itself, a document of attention, irreverent and prayerful at once. I never fail to leave one happier and wider-eared than I was, in part because someone has said in very careful and hard-won way: Really, check this out.”
—Seth Brodsky
“This is one of the best series of audio essays about music I've ever heard. Do yourself a favor and binge the whole thing.”
—Jason Crane
Episode List
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- Nov 10, 2016 Episode 44: Sleep Gunner Plays the Louvin Brothers Songbook, Vol. 1 (Sleep Gunner, 2014)
- Nov 3, 2016 Episode 43: Call Me (Al Green, 1973)
- Oct 27, 2016 Episode 42: Malvina Reynolds...Sings the Truth (Malvina Reynolds, 1967)
- Oct 20, 2016 Episode 41: Fewer Moving Parts (David Bazan, 2006)
- Oct 12, 2016 Episode 40: Telefone (Noname, 2016)
- Oct 5, 2016 Episode 39: Plexure (John Oswald, 1993)
- Sep 28, 2016 Episode 38: The Art of the Theremin (Clara Rockmore, 1977)
- Sep 21, 2016 Episode 37: Masterpiece (Big Thief, 2016)
- Sep 15, 2016 Episode 36: ¡Olé Tormé!: Mel Tormé Goes South of the Border with Billy May (Mel Tormé, 1959)
- Sep 7, 2016 Episode 35: Birthright (James Blood Ulmer, 2005)
- Aug 24, 2016 Episode 34: Red Headed Stranger (Willie Nelson, 1975)
- Aug 17, 2016 Episode 33: In My Room (Jacob Collier, 2016)
- Aug 17, 2016 Episode 32: Odessey and Oracle (The Zombies, 1968)
- Aug 17, 2016 Episode 31: Frank Fairfield (Frank Fairfield, 2009)
- Aug 17, 2016 Episode 30: Olesi: Fragments of an Earth (Georgia Anne Muldrow, 2006)
- Aug 17, 2016 Episode 29: New Orleans Piano Wizard: Live! (James Booker, 1987)
- Aug 17, 2016 Episode 28: DADO v. The Universe (Shape King, 2016)
- Aug 17, 2016 Episode 27: Nebraska (Bruce Springsteen, 1982)
- Aug 17, 2016 Episode 26: Live at Fillmore West (Aretha Franklin, 1971)
- Aug 17, 2016 Episode 25: Cab Calloway Stands in for the Moon (Conjure, 1988)
- Aug 17, 2016 Episode 24: Sweetheart (Dan Reeder, 2006)
- Aug 17, 2016 Episode 23: Sound & Color (Alabama Shakes, 2015)
- Aug 17, 2016 Episode 22: Pandemonium Shadow Show (Harry Nilsson, 1967)
- Aug 10, 2016 Episode 21: Three Feet High and Rising (De La Soul, 1989)
- Aug 10, 2016 Episode 20: Roxy & Elsewhere (Frank Zappa and The Mothers, 1974)
- Aug 10, 2016 Episode 19: Whitney Houston (Whitney Houston, 1985)
- Aug 10, 2016 Episode 18: Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway (Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway, 1972)
- Aug 10, 2016 Episode 17: Sleep With One Eye Open (Chris Thile & Michael Daves, 2011)
- Aug 10, 2016 Episode 16: Five Leaves Left (Nick Drake, 1969)
- Aug 10, 2016 Episode 15: W H O K I L L (tUnE-yArDs, 2011)
- Aug 10, 2016 Episode 14: Career Moves (Loudon Wainwright III, 1993)
- Aug 10, 2016 Episode 13: The Way Out (The Books, 2010)
- Aug 10, 2016 Episode 12: Takin' My Time (Bonnie Raitt, 1973)
- Aug 10, 2016 Episode 11 (a very special accidental reprise of Ep. 2!): Face Value (Phil Collins, 1981)
- Aug 10, 2016 Episode 10: Thrill of the Arts (Vulfpeck, 2015)
- Aug 3, 2016 Episode 9: Love is Overtaking Me (Arthur Russell, 2008)
- Aug 3, 2016 Episode 8: There's No Place Like America Today (Curtis Mayfield, 1975)
- Aug 3, 2016 Episode 7: Bright Sunny South (Sam Amidon, 2013)
- Aug 3, 2016 Episode 6: At Newport (Reverend Gary Davis, 1967)
- Jul 28, 2016 Episode 5: Emergency Ward! (Nina Simone, 1972)
- Jul 28, 2016 Episode 4: Sail Away (Randy Newman, 1972)
- Jul 28, 2016 Episode 3: Apple O' (Deerhoof, 2003)
- Jul 28, 2016 Episode 2: Face Value (Phil Collins, 1981)
- Jul 28, 2016 Episode 1: Other Creatures (Gym Deer, 2014)