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20+ Favorite Albums of 2020

A collection of albums I enjoyed this year, in no particular order

Listen to the playlist and support the artists by buying their albums on Bandcamp.

Sally Anne Morgan - Thread

Neil Young - Homegrown

Shirley Collins - Heart’s Ease

Chris Smither - More from the Levee

Dougie Poole - The Freelancer’s Blues

Gunn-Trucinski Duo - Soundkeeper

Jon Hassell - Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two)

Rose City Band - Summerlong

Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin’ Grass - Vol. 1 & 2

Frank & the Hurricanes - Love Ya Love Ya

Lou Turner - Songs for John Venn

David Nance - Staunch Honey

Slut Pill - S/T

Laraaji - Sun Piano

Kath Bloom - Bye Bye These Are the Days

Mary Lattimore - Silver Ladders

Beverly Glenn Copeland - Transmission: The Music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland

Star Feminine Band - S/T

Trees - S/T (50th Anniversary Edition)

Bill Callahan - Gold Record

Jim White & Marisa Anderson - The Quickening

Favorite Albums from Winter’s Past

21 Favorite Albums of 2018

20 Favorite Albums + of 2017

20 Favorite Albums of 2016

20 Favorite Albums of 2015

A Wintery Mix 2014

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21 Favorite Albums of 2018

art by John Gnorski

21 albums I enjoyed last year, in no particular order…

Listen to the playlist on Spotify

Rosali- Trouble Anyway

Headroom- Head in the Clouds

Nap Eyes- I’m Bad Now

Nathan Bowles- Plainly Mistaken

Anna & Elizabeth- The Invisible Comes To Us

Eric Chenaux- Slowly Paradise

Cath & Phil Tyler- The Ox and the Ax

Long Hots- Monday Night Raw

Lonnie Holley-MITH

Daniel Bachman- The Morning Star

David Nance Group- Peaced and Slightly Pulverized

Jess Sah Bi & Peter One- Our Garden Needs Its Flowers

Swamp Dogg- Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune

State Champion- Send Flowers

Sarah Louise- Deeper Woods

Kikagaku Moyo- Masana Temples

Mary Lattimore & Meg Baird- Ghost Forests

Elephant Micah- Genericana

Marisa Anderson- Cloud Corner

Michael Hurley- Living Ljubljana

Sarah Davachi- Let Night Come On Bells End The Day

art by Mikie Poland at Cropped Out

Shows I saw last year that ruled...

Cherry Blossoms & Crazy Doberman at Betty’s, Nashville, TN /January 14

Patti Smith on Mountain Stage, Charleston, WV / February 11

Big Ears (especially Milford Graves, Black Twig Pickers), Knoxville, TN /March 23-23

Mdou Moctar at Hill & Holler, Lewisburg, WV / May 6

Charlie Parr at Elk City Records, Charleston, WV / June 21

Rosali & Nathan Bowles at Fond Object, Nashville, TN / July 21

Daniel Bachman at Elk City Records, Charleston, WV / August 3

Ralph White at Proper Sake, Nashville, TN / August 18

Long Hots, Slut Pill, and Jake Fussell & Nathan Bowles at MESH, Charleston, WV / September 13

Cropped Out (especially Circuit Des Yeux, Engless Boogie, Michael Hurley), Louisville, KY / October 6-7

Jess Sah Bi & Peter One at The Basement, Nashville, TN / November 24

Laid Back Country Picker at Black Sheep Burritos, Huntington, WV / December 13

art by Robert Gipe at Wiley’s Last Resort

Favorite 2018 new record label...

SPINSTER!

a meme I made

Playlists of winter’s past…

20 Favorite Albums + of 2017

20 Favorite Albums of 2016

20 Favorite Albums of 2015

A Wintery Mix 2014

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20 Favorite Albums + of 2017

20 albums I enjoyed last year, in no particular order…

Listen to the playlist on Spotify here.

Workin’s Too Hard - Rayna Gellert

50 - Michael Chapman

The Siren’s Song - Kacy & Clayton

What in the Natural World - Jake Xerxes Fussell

Targ - Bargou 09

Love and Leaving - Julie & The Wrong Guys

Eghass Malan - Les Filles de Illighadad

Sousoume Tamachek - Mdou Moctar

S/T - The Weather Station

Out of Range - Gun Outfit

S/T - House and Land

First Songs - Anna St. Louis

Living Water - Shannon Lay

Modern Kosmology - Jane Weaver

Song of the Rose - Arbouretum

With a Beaker on the Burner and an Otter in the Oven - Alvarius B

Balsams - Chuck Johnson

Finding Shore - Tom Rogerson with Brian Eno

Awellupontheway - Red River Dialect

The Chapel - Heron Oblivion

Favorite bonus song...

“What Is Really Beautiful”(Kath Bloom cover) - Elephant Micah

Favorite live shows of 2017...

Les Filles de Illighadad at Les Instants Chavires, Paris, France / April 5

Emmylou Harris at Nelsonville, Nelsonville, OH / June 4

Marisa Anderson and Michael Hurley at Kin Ship Goods, Charleston, WV / June 5

Anna & Elizabeth at Augusta Heritage Center Old-Time Week, Elkins, WV / August 8

Cropped Out, Louisville, KY / September 22-23

Bonnie Prince Billy at Kin Ship Goods, Charleston, WV / October 6

Pere Ubu on Mountain Stage, Charleston, WV / November 19

Playlists of Winter’s Past...

20 Favorite Albums of 2016

20 Favorite Albums of 2015

A Wintery Mix 2014

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Nice last dregs of summer listening

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Sally & Sarah Louise!

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A special online radio show in honour of Delia Derbyshire aired this week featuring unheard and never-released-before music from the Radiophonic Workshop composer.

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Slow Caledonia

Something special for you today – an amazing mix of 1970s music from New Caledonia, lovingly compiled by Michael Klausman. Michael is an ever-reliable source of new and wonderful sounds, and Slow Caledonia is no exception. (I’ll admit that I had to look up where exactly New Caledonia is).  

Klaus sez: Spent a bunch of hours on YouTube recently fishing the best folk/rock songs I could find from the Melanesian island of New Caledonia, all sourced from cassettes released in the seventies. Some insane harmonies here, very beautiful music IMO, & seemingly little known.

Little known is right – there’s really very little info about most of these artists out there on the ‘net, at least that I can find. But the songs speak for themselves. Slow Caledonia is a pure hit of sunshine for your winter weekend. 

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Next Wednesday in Charleston, WV!