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Strange Currency's Best Local Releases of 2021

Best Albums By Local Artists

  1. Eros — Maria Elena Silva
  2. Live at Art Church — Haymakers
  3. No Cops — Not Cops
  4. Huckleberry — Jason Teubner
  5. Bad Hombres — The Giant Thriller
  6. Abandon — The Coma Calling
  7. Jim of Earth (original score) — The Coma Calling
  8. Hit Record — Dead Shoes
  9. Love Over Fear — Harrison Steele
  10. Stressed to Impress — Old Man Creaky Bones

Singles

  1. “Star Quality” — Social Cinema
  2. “Through The Cracks” — Dusty Grant
  3. “Cold City” — Rudy Love Jr.
  4. “My Favorite T-Shirt” — Yasmin Nur
  5. “Angel On My Shoulder” — Billy Ray & The Buttercutter
  6. “Fly Away With Me” — Rudy Love Jr.
  7. “Build” — Rudy Love Jr.
  8. “For You” — Dusty Grant
  9. “I’ve Been Fighting With God” — Junior Retreat
  10. “Haunted” — Junior Retreat

Local Ties

  1. The Dirt and the Dust — Mike Coykendall (Portland, Oregon, formerly Wichita)
  2. Vault of Light — Berry (Joey Lemon, Wichita)
  3. Pawn Shop Queen — Katie Jo (Los Angeles, formerly Wichita)
  4. Seven Bridges — Charles Rumback (Chicago, formerly Hutchison)
  5. Brand New Ghosts — Gooding (Nashville, formerly Wichita)
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Jedd Beaudoin is host/producer of the nationally syndicated program Strange Currency. He created and host the podcast Into Music, which examines musical mentorship and creative approaches to the composition, recording and performance of songs. As a music journalist, his work has appeared in PopMatters, Vox, No Depression and Keyboard Magazine.