- Otava Yo “Once Upon a Time on a High Hill” Do You Love [ARC Music] Russia
- Che Apalache “The Dreamer” Rearrange My Heart [Free Dirt] USA/Argentina/Mexico
- Olcay Bayır “Uzun İme Bir Yoldayım (Long Narrow Road)” Rüya – Dream for Anatolia [ARC Music] Turkey
- Our Native Daughters “Moon Meets the Sun” Songs of Our Native Daughters [Smithsonian Folkways] Amythyst Kiah, Rhiannon Giddens, Allison Russell, Leyla McCalla
- Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley “Brown-Eyed Women” World Full of Blues [Compass] w/Vince Gill
- Lakou Mizik “Pistach Griye” HaitiaNola [Cumbancha.com] Haiti; w/Trombone Shorty
- Dàimh “Donald MacLeod Reels” The Rough Bounds [Daimh.net] Scotland
- Ellis Paul “The Battle of Charlottesville” The Storyteller’s Suitcase [EllisPaul.com]
- Steeleye Span “Harvest” Est’d 1969 [Park Records] England
- Lula Wiles “Shaking as It Turns” What Will We Do [Smithsonian Folkways]
Honorable mention – Top Baltimore music:
Patrick McAvinue “Der Belsnickel” Perfect Fit [www.PatrickMcAvinue.com]
And don’t miss the Top 89 Songs of 2019 as voted BY YOU! All day on Tuesday on 89.7 FM and streaming on wtmd.org and via the WTMD smartphone apps.