Album Sweep: May 11, 2013 - Part Two...

It's time for part two of this week's "album sweep" sampling the records making their first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top 200 Albums chart. You can check out part one by clicking here, and as always I've including links to buy anything if available.

Debuting on the chart at #52 is British singer/songwriter Frank Turner with his American breakthrough album, Tape Deck Heart.

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The second collection of the late George Jones, 1987's Super Hits, finally shows up on the chart at #56...

Los Angeles indie-pop band Youngblood Hawke's first full-length album Wake Up comes in at #58. Last year a self-titled EP from them made it to #193...

Colombian singer Carlos Vives arrives at #61 with Corazon Profundo....

Because of weird legal wrangling, there somehow is two versions of the prog-rock group Queensryche around, and the one with original lead singerGeoff Tate, Frequency Unknown, enters at #82. In 1994 (happier times), their Promised Land made it to #3...

Scottish singer Emeli Sande sees her iTunes Session come in at #86. Her debut album, the excellent Our Version Of Events, peaked at #28...

The late George Jones' 2006 compilation The Essential George Jones comes on the chart at #92. It's the most conprehensive set with 40 tracks...

Gospel singer Darlene Zschech enters at #109 with Revealing Jesus: A Live Worship Experience...

Another Christian artist, Matt Maher, arrives at #115 with All The People Said Amen...

Iconic southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd's All-Time Greatest Hits from 2000 finally gets ink on the chart at #158. Their 1977 album Street Survivors went to #5...

The last debut on the chart is by Swedish rock group Junip with their second full-length album Junip.

That does it for part two...out of these eleven the three I'd pick first are the Essential George Jones, Frank Turner, and Junip sets...