Album Sweep: September 14, 2013 - Part Two...

Hey gang, it's time to roll out the second half of this week's "album sweep", sampling the records making their first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top-200 Albums chart this week. You can check out part one by clicking here, and as before I've included links to buy anything if possible...

Dropping in at #70 is Christian modern rock band Jars Of Clay with their eleventh studio album Inland. They have had three of their sets go to the top-40 of the albums charts, with their second, Much Afraid, peaking at #8 in 1997...

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Another religious-based release, Top 25 Praise Songs 2014 Edition by the Maranatha! Praise Band ascends to #97...

Everlast, who evolved from doing hip-hop with House Of Pain to his current more blues-rock persona, returns at #102 with The Life Acoustic, his seventh solo set. In 1998, he took his groundbreaking Whitey Ford Sings The Blues to #9...

"Horrorcore" rap duo Twiztid from Detroit enter at #115 with A New Nightmare, their eighth extended play. They previously went to #11 in 2009 with W.I.C.K.E.D.....

Scottish singer Emeli Sande' comes in at #124 with her first live full-length, Live At The Royal Albert Hall.  It follows her debut album Our Version Of Events which peaked at #28 in the US...This live set has two amazing new songs, here is one, "Enough"...

Austin-based blues-rock band Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears climb in at #142 with Electric Slave...

Indie-pop cult heroes Belle and Sebastian are back at #145 with Third Eye Centre, their second collection of B-sides and rarities. Their last full-length, Belle and Sebastian Write About Love, became their first top-40 album peaking at #15 in 2010...

Northern Irish singer/songwriter Foy Vance debuts at #160 with his second album Joy Of Nothing...

Mexican singer Regulo Caro comes in at #164 with Especialista....

Marques Houston, who used to front the young R&B group Immature, is already a solo "veteran" as one of his album titles states, as his sixth solo set Famous enters at #180. That Veteran album was also his biggest rank, peaking at #5 in 2007...

British indie-rock newbie King Krule debuts at #187 with his first full-length album 6 Feet From The Moon...

The final entry on the Billboard 200 this week at #191 belongs to southern rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd with the compilation from 2006, Family. The band has had three top-10 albums, with 1977's Street Survivors going to #5. This set is different in that is also has selections from groups associated with them by members or family, like .38 Special, the Rossington Collins Band, and Van Zant...

That's it for the second half of the new crop...out of this bunch the three I'd recommend first are the Emeli Sande, Black Joe Lewis, and Fance Voy albums...