Time once more for an updated list of new and upcoming releases, an increasingly crowded list at that. (Last month's list is
here.) Additions to the list are noted with a "++"; changes to previously-mentioned items are indicated with
italics.
As always, if I've listed you on here and gotten something wrong (or something not ready for primetime), let me know and I'll edit or delete it. And if you're not on here and think you should be, drop me a line, too, and I'll get you added for the next iteration.
Yo Gabba Gabba:
Music Makes Me Move (DVD, Aug. 9)
The Wiggles:
Ukulele Baby! (DVD, Aug. 9)
Caspar Babypants:
Sing Along! (Aug. 16)
Recess Music (Various Artists):
Wild Child (Aug. 16)
++
Rockabye Baby:
Lullaby Renditions of Madonna (Aug. 16)
++
Jewel:
The Merry Goes 'Round
++
Disney:
Muppets: The Green Album (Aug. 23)
Maestro Classics:
My Name is Handel (Aug. 24)
Music Corner:
Aesop's Animals (Aug. 28)
Ben Rudnick & Friends:
Live in Lexington: Under the Copper Beech (Aug. 30) [2008 live concert]
Music for Little People:
Toddler Favorites: The Movie (Aug. 30)
Rockabye Baby:
Rockabye Baby! 5 Year Anniversary Compilation (August) [Mainly features artists who've yet to receive the Rockabye treatment: Kiss, James Brown, Arcade Fire, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Stevie Wonder, The Kinks, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John and the Beastie Boys.]
Riff Rockit:
Title TBA (CD, DVD, late August)
Central Services Board of Education:
Title TBA (summer)
Professor Banjo:
PB and Jam
In The Nick of Time:
Making Silly Faces (Sept. 6)
Trout Fishing in America:
Chicken Joe Forgets Something Important (Sept. 6)
The Mighty Buzzniks Bug Out (Sept. 11)
++
Papa Crow:
Things That Roar (Sept. 11)
Rocknoceros:
Colonel Purple Turtle (Sept. 13)
Maestro Classics:
A Soldier’s Tale (Sept. 15)
The Jimmies:
Practically Ridiculous (Sept. 20)
Randy Kaplan:
Mr. Diddie Wah Diddie (Sept. 20)
Ted Jacobs:
Back to the Garden (Sept. 20)
++
Disney:
Jake and the Never Land Pirates Soundtrack (Sept. 20) [features folks from
Captain Bogg & Salty]
Dan Zanes and Friends: Little Nut Tree (Sept. 27)
Beethoven's Wig, feat. Richard Perlmutter:
Sing Along Piano Classics (Sept. 27). [features piano works by Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Debussy, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Joplin]
++
Mr. Richard & the Pound Hounds:
Backyard Astronauts (Sept. 27)
Groove Kid Nation:
Title TBA (September)
++
Roy Handy and the Moonshot:
Title TBA (late September/early October)
Laura Doherty:
Shining Like a Star (Oct. 1)
++
DidiPop:
Everyday Adventures (Oct. 1)
++
Alastair Moock:
These Are My Friends (Oct. 4)
++
Chip Taylor & the Grandkids:
Golden Kids Rules (Oct. 18) [next family release from Smithsonian Folkways]
Recess Music (Various Artists):
U R Some 1 (mid-October)
++
The Deedle Deedle Dees:
Title TBA (Oct. 31)
The Secret Mountain:
Songs from the Baobob (October)
The Ohmies:
Morning Wish Garden (October) [prodced by Tor Hyams]
++
Jim Gill:
Music Play for Kids of All Stripes (October)
The Dirty Sock Funtime Band:
Dirty Socks Come Clean (November)
++
Laura Veirs:
Tumble Bee: Laura Veirs Sings Folk Songs for Children (November)
Chuck Cheesman:
Title TBA (fall)
Suzi Shelton:
Title TBA (fall)
Hope Harris: Picasso, That's Who (spring 2012)
Andy Z: The Grand Scream of Things (Halloween 2012) [produced by Tor Hyams]
Other 2011 albums: Ah-Choo, Peter Apel, Funky Mamas, Big Don, Ratboy, Jr., Todd McHatton. Also, Rockabye Baby for Van Halen, The Police, Red Hot Chili Peppers.
My kids music reviews for NPR's All Things Considered have, for whatever reason, often ended up being a gentle counterpoint to what obviously is a fairly serious news-driven program. None perhaps more gentle than I Love: Tom T. Hall's Songs of Fox Hollow, a tribute album to the Nashville songwriter and his out-of-left-field hit album of the same name. If you're a regular reader, you can check out my review here. And if you're new to the site and found your way here because of the review, welcome. Lots of other great music to check if you've got the time.
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