Album Sweep: November 3, 2012 - Part Two...

Hey gang, it's time for the second part of this week's "Album Sweep", where I sample the latest records making the Top 200 Albums chart in Billboard magazine. You can check out the first part by clicking here, and as before I've included links to buy anything on Amazon mp3 if available, or please go to your local independent record store. You will feel good!

Californian EDM artist Bassnectar debuts at #79 with the six-song EP Freestyle. He's had one top-40 album, Vava Voom in April of this year...

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Gospel singer Earnest Pugh enters at #88 with his first Christmas set Christmas With Earnest Pugh. His Earnestly Yours album made it to #51. This set has cameos from Lisa Knowles, Keith Williams, and Chrystal Rucker...

R&B singer Bobby V is at #91 with Dusk Till Dawn, his fifth album (he's also recorded as "Bobby Valentino", though his last name is Wilson). His first two albums were #3 smashes...

Another holiday set, this time by singer/songwriter Christina Perri, comes in at #98. A Very Merry Perri Christmas is an EP of five classic songs and one original done by the Philly-area native. Her debut album, lovestrong, went to #4 last year...

Swedish dance music duo Dada Life see their second full-length effort, The Rules Of Dada, pop in at #116...

Mexican ranchera band Los Temerarios are in at #125 with their album Mi Vida Sin Ti.

Canadian singer K'naan, who has born in the east African nation of Somalia, but left as a teen at the outbreak of war there, enters at #129 with his fourth album Country, God, or the Girl. His last full-length, Troubadour, went to #32 in 2009...

Contemporary Christian musician and pastor Lincoln Brewster arrives at #132 with his holiday set Joy To The World: A Christmas Collection.

San Diego gothic rockers In Fear And Faith are in at #143 with their self-titled third album, and highest ink yet on the top-200...

After three albums, his last peaking at #2, R&B singer Kem's What Christmas Means ring in at #147...

TRACK 07 Be Mine For Christmas feat. Ledisi - SNIPPET by KEM MUSIC

Opera star Placido Domingo jumps in at #158 with Songs, a collection of vocal pop standards...

The multi-artist compilation Radio Exitos: El Disco del Ano 2012, boasts 20 Mexican-style hits all under one roof...

Long-running jam band Gov't Mule is a side project of the Allman Brothers Band's Allen Woody and Warren Haynes, and their Georgia Bootleg Box is at #171...

Gov't Mule - Blind Man In The Dark (Live) by Warrenhaynes

The last debut on the chart this week is another of those discount classical sets that Amazon deep-discounts now and again This time it's 66 Must-Have Sensual Classics, with selections from Carmen, Bolero, and more...

That closes out this second half of the new stuff, out of these the three I would recommend the most are the Dada Life, K'naan, and In Fear and Faith sets.

Thanks for dropping by, and I'll be back later with this week's "robbed hit"..