Album Sweep: March 8, 2014 - Part Two...

Part two of this week's "album sweep", sampling the records making the Top 200 Albums chart in Billboard magazine, is up right now....You can check out part one by clicking here, and as before I've included highlighted links to by the albums and the artists' other work if available...

Arriving at #43 are the Allman Brothers with the archival concert release Play All Night: Live At The Beacon Theatre 1992. It's their first of this type to make the chart, though they have reached the Top 200 with six "current" live albums, with the part concert/part studio set Eat A Peach peaking at #4 in 1972...

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California deathcore act Suicide Silence land at #59 with the live set Ending Is The Beginning: The Mitch Luker Memorial Show 12-21-12. It documents the show to benefit Luker's daughter - the lead singer was killed in a motorcycle crash in November of that year. The band has had two top-40 album, with their last, The Black Crown, going to #28 in 2011. This live set has a myriad of singers filling in for the late Luker...

Hispter soul outfit St. Paul and Broken Bones from Alabama enter at #62 with their debut Half The City..

Indie folk-rock singer Angel Olsen debuts at #71 with Burn Your Fire For No Witness. It's her first full-length album...

Heavy metal supergroup Adrenaline Mob, who has members of Dream Theater and Symphony X as members, are in at #99 with their second release Men Of Honor. Two years ago their first, Omerta, peaked at #70...

Alt-rappers The Grouch & Eligh drop in at #162 with The Tortoise and the Crow...

 Indie-folk rock icon Suzanne Vega returns at #173 with Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles, her eighth regular release. Her classic Solitude Standing went to #11 back in 1987...

Puerto Rican reggaeton singer J Alvarez dances in at #174 with De Camino Pa' La Cima...

The final debut of the week at #199 is singer/songwriter William Fitzsimmons with Lions. His last, Gold In The Shadow, made it to #162 in 2011...

 That's all for the second half of the bunch...out of these nine the two I would choose first are the William Fitzsimmons and St Paul and Broken Bones sets...