Airwaves top ten

by Brian Goslow

1. Suede -- Barely Blue (Easily Suede)

2. Lisa Koch -- Colorblind Blues

3. SONiA Rutstein -- Almost Chocolate (Philo)

4. Tanita Tikaram -- Ancient Heart (WEA/Warner Bros.)

5. Heather Bishop -- Chickee's on the Run (Mother of Pearl)

6. K.D. Lang -- Drag (WEA/Warner Bros.)

7. Mary Gauthier -- Dixie Kitchen (RG Music)

8. Girls In the Nose -- Origin of the World

9. Jody Kessler -- Another Day of Loving (In the Moment Productions)

10. Ratsy -- Squished Under a Train (Ratsy)

Played (in no particular order) on the year-end Face the Music by Sylvia, cohost of nation's second-longest womyn's music program, heard Thursdays from 8 to 9:30 p.m. on WCUW (91.3 FM).

Your top ten

1. Little Walter -- Hate To See You Go (Chess/MCA)

2. Junior Wells and Buddy Guy -- It's My Life (Vanguard)

3. Paul Butterfield Blues Band -- In My Own Dream (Elektra)

4. Muddy Waters -- Rolling Stone (Chess)

5. Miles Davis -- Kind of Blue (Columbia)

6. Fabulous Thunderbirds -- Girls Go Wild (Takoma)

7. Rod Piazza -- So Glad To Have The Blues (Black Top)

8. John Coltrane -- Black Pearls (Impulse/MCA)

9. Magic Sam -- West Side Soul (Delmark)

10. Little Walter -- Essential box set (Charley/Chess/MCA)

Submitted by Gary Bernath, who returns to Gilrein's with the Gary Bernath Band on February 5.

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