Concentrated listening on:

Willard Grant Conspiracy, Regard The End- Super new release by Robert Fisher and his rotating cast of characters. Gotta love his voice. Great band.

Ghost, Hypnotic Underground- this is a rocket- at times, quiet and Oriental-tinged mood music, at times, downright raucous electric blasts of prog-influenced song structures. Big Music.

Albert Cummings, The Long Way- just came in the mail last nite- fine swampy blues.

Also: Handsome Family's Singing Bones (currently the top rotator around here), Twilight Singers' Blackberry Belle (also lots of spins), Linda Thompson's Fashionably Late ( remarkable voice ), Sonny Landreth Et Al comp fromTX...

O, and that Microphones pig already discussed- it's going out in the mail today to the next victim.......