| Artist | Title | Album (* = New Release) |
|---|
| Della Mae | Headlight | Headlight* |
| Della Mae | The Odds of Getting Even | Headlight* |
| Della Mae | I Can’t Pretend | Headlight* |
| The Singing Butcher | Top 40 | Top 40* |
| Futurebirds | Picking up Strangers | Teamwork* |
| Marcus King | Young Man’s Dream | El Dorado* |
| Fruition | Sweet Hereafter | Wild as the Night* |
| Rhiannon Giddens | Freedom Highway | Freedom Highway |
| Seamus Egan | 6 then 5 | Early Bright* |
| Solas | Labour Song | Shamrock City |
| Solas | Ghost of Tom Joad | The Turning Tide |
| Solas | The Wind that Shakes the Barley | Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers |
| Seamus Egan | Simon Nally Hunt the Buck | Early Bright* |
| The Bad Popes | Cry Cry Cry | Still Running* |
| Alan Barnosky | Might Be A Call | Lonesome Road* |
| Alan Barnosky | Beer Cans and Quarters | Lonesome Road* |
| Keller Williams & The Keels | Medulla Oblongotta | Speed* |
| Mavis Staples | Your Good Fortune | Your Good Fortune |
| Mavis Staples | Heavy On My Mind | We Get By |
| Mavis Staples | MLK Song | Livin’ on a High Note |
Included a reading of a Cornell West piece on MLK
Best song(s) The Odds of Getting Even by Della Mae, Young Man’s Dream by Marcus King
Best album(s) Headlight by Della Mae, Lonesome Road by Alan Barnosky
