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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 has also served as an arts reporter, a producer of A Musical Life and a founding member of the KMUW Movie Club. As a music journalist, his work has appeared in Pop Matters, Vox, No Depression and Keyboard Magazine.