Mike Regenstreif: CKCU host/curator of Stranger Songs (weekly), Saturday Morning (every 4th week).
- American Patchwork Quartet, American Patchwork Quartet (Carolina Jasmine)
- Perla Batalla, A Letter to Leonard Cohen: Tribute to a Friend (Mechuda Music)
- Eric Bibb, Live at the Scala Theatre/In the Real World (Stony Plain)
- Grayson Capps, Heartbreak, Misery & Death (Royal Potato Family)
- Lenka Lichtenberg, Feel with Blood (Six Degrees)
- Joel Mabus, Lonesome Road: Suite for Solo Guitar and Voice – Songs of the Lost Generation 1924-1928 (Fossil)
- Chris Rawlings, Two Sides to Your Story (Cookingfat Music)
- Carla Sciacky, Heart of the Swan (Propinquity
- Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens
- American Railroad (Nonesuch), James Talley, Bandits, Ballads and Blues (Cimarron)
New Discoveries
- Fran & Flora
- Jerron Paxton
- Carolyn Shulman
