Album Sweep: March 9, 2013 - Part Two...

Welcome back to the second part of this week's "album sweeps" sampling the new records making their debut on the Top-200 Albums chart in Billboard magazine. You can check out part one by clicking here, and as before I've included links to buy anything if available.

The side-project led by the late great Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead arrive at #87 with Garcialive: Volume One: March 1st 1980 Capitol Theatre is the latest archival live set from the Jerry Garcia Band, recorded in Paterson, New Jersey, and was partly broadcast originally on classic rock station WNEW-FM...

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 Due to the now shadier copyright rights expirations starting to effect rock-era recordings, the ultra-budget collection 100 Hits: 60s enters at #98. Priced right now at $3.99 on Amazon, the sources of the recordings are kind of dubious, either from vinyl records or re-recordings, and all of the songs were originally hits only in the very early part of the decade. I'd be wary.

Nicholas Williams, who records under the moniker of Trinidad James after his home country, debuts at #103 with his first album Don't Be S.A.F.E. (Totally NSFW)

The soundtrack to the Disney childrens' animated TV movie Sofia The First drops in at #149....

...and a 180 degree turn from that record is death-metal band Suffocation who come in at #152 with Pinnacle Of Bedlam...

The passing of country singer Mindy McCready causes her 12-year-old Super Hits collection to enter the chart for the first time at #156. Her debut album, Ten Thousand Angels, went to #40 back in 1996...

Electronica act STRFKR have the last debut of the week at #178 with their third album, Miracle Mile...

That's a wrap for part two - out of these I'd go for the Jerry Garcia Band and Mindy McCready sets.