Album Sweep: August 23, 2014 - Part Two...

It's time for part two of this week's "album sweep", sampling the records making their way on to the official Top 200 Albums sales chart in Billboard magazine. You can check out part one by clicking here; and as before I've included highlighted links to buy anything you see...

The set coming in at #69 is a tribute album from jazz-soul singer Al Jarreau called My Old Friend: Celebrating George Duke. It honors the late musician and producer's work and includes collaborations with artists like Dr. John and Duke's sometimes recording partner Stanley Clarke. Back in 1981 Al went to #9 with Breaking Away...

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Australian metalcore band Capture The Crown sail in at #86 with their first to make the "big" chart, Reign Of Terror.

Tasha Page-Lockhart, who won the sixth season of the gospel singer competition show Sunday Best, enters at #87 with Here Right Now...

Darkest Hour, a melodic death metal act from Washington DC, arrive at #102 with their self-titled eighth full-length album. It's the highest peak out of the five that have made the chart...

Swiss folk-metal outfit Eluveitie enter at #104 with Origins, their second to make the American chart and highest rank as yet..

Newcomer Rico Calhoun debuts at #111 with Studio Sessions. It's funny, there's no YouTube clip, and it looks like there was (under the AFEMusic channel, which looks like his record company's) but it's been removed. Nice.

The electronica collection Monstercat 018: Frontier drops at #146...

Texan alt-country band Micky & The Motorcars drive in at #150 with their seventh album Hearts From Above...

Mexican singer El Dasa moves in at #153 with Alegre Y Enamorado...

Outlaw country veteran Billy Joe Shaver, who just turned 75, comes in at #157 with the appropriately titled Long In The Tooth...

Meanwhile, a younger country artist, singer Sunny Sweeney, places her third full-length album Provoked at #165. Her last one, Concrete, peaked at #21 in 2011..

The final debut of the week is from lite-jazz saxophone man Gerald Albright with Slam Dunk at #182.

That's it for the second half of the new crop.. Out of this dozen the three I'd recommend first are the Al Jarreau, Sunny Sweeney, and Micky & The Motorcars sets...