IMHO – The Best Albums of 2024

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  1. Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood
  2. Beth Gibbons – Lives Outgrown
  3. Chuck Prophet – Wake The Dead
  4. Paul Weller – 66
  5. Richard Thompson – Ship To Shore
  6. Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore – Texicali 
  7. Michael Kiwanuka – Small Changes
  8. Gillian Welch – Woodland
  9. James Mastro – Dawn of a New Error
  10. Dent May – What’s For Breakfast
  11. Jack White – No Name
  12. Paul Heaton – The Mighty Several
  13. Diana DeMuth – The Covers Album
  14. Charlie Parr – Little Sun
  15. Willie Nelson – Last Leaf On The Tree
  16. Gospelbeach – Wiggle Your Fingers
  17. Jessica Pratt – Here in the Pitch
  18. Khruangbin – A LA SALA
  19. MJ Lenderman, ‘Manning Fireworks’
  20. Linda Thompson – Proxy Music

Listen to my Best Of The Year list on Amazon Music

Worth Your Consideration

  • Cure- Songs of a Lost World
  • St. Vincent, “All Born Screaming”
  • Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Wild God
  • Nick Lowe – Indoor Safari
  • Laura Marling, ‘Patterns in Repeat’
  • Kacey Musgraves, “Deeper Well”
  • The Lemon Twigs- A Dream Is All We Know
  • X- Smoke & Fiction
  • Fantastic Cat- Now That’s What I Call Fantastic Cat
  • Boss Capone Meets George Dekker – Blackfire

Blues

The Gerry Hundt Trio – Get Hip!
Johnny Burgin – Ramblin’ From Coast To Coast 
Tab Benoit – I Hear Thunder
Toronzo Cannon – Shut Up & Play!
Taj Mahal – Swingin’ Live At The Church In Tulsa

World

Arooj Aftab – Night Reign
Las Bitchos – Talkie Talkie
Mdou Moctar – Funeral For Justice
Kit Sebastian – New Internationale
Hermanos Gutierrez – Sonido Cosmico

Folk

Aoife O’Donovan – All My Friends
The Secret Sisters – Mind, Man, Medicine
Jon Muq – Flying Away
Joy Oladokun – Observations From A Crowded Room
Yasmin Williams – Acadia

Best of 2023: A Year of Distractions

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  1. boygenius – the record
  2. Joy Oladokun – Proof Of Live
  3. The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds
  4. Nico Paulo – S/T
  5. Eddie Chacon – Sundown
  6. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Weathervanes
  7. Jenny Lewis – Joy’All
  8. Ian Hunter – Defiance Part 1
  9. Cut Worms – S/T
  10. Rachael & Vilray – I Love A Love Song!

If you’d like to listen to my best-of-the-year playlist via Amazon Music, click here:
https://music.amazon.com/user-playlists/5f96d443389e4485b837ebd9558a56b0sune?ref=dm_sh_dce4-9a85-4b7d-82c3-64ddc

Other titles you might find of interest:

Anohni and the Johnsons – My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
Ashley McBryde – The Devil I Know
Black Pumas – Chronicles of a Diamond
Buddy & Julie Miller – In The Throes
Everything But the Girl – Fuse
The Feelies – Some Kinda Love: Performing The Music Of The Velvet Underground
Iris DeMent – Workin’ on a World
Israel Nash – Ozarker
Lana Del Rey: Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
Lucinda Williams – Stories From A Rock N Roll Heart
Lydia Loveless – Nothing’s Gonna Stand In My Way Again
M. Ward – Supernatural Thing
Margo Price – Strays
Pretenders – Relentless
The Struts – Pretty Vicious
Steve Gunn & David Moore – Reflections Vol. 1: Let the Moon Be A Planet
Van Morrison – Accentuate The Positive

Best Blues:
1. Candice Ivory – When The Levee Breaks: The Music Of Memphis Minnie
2. Christone “Kingfish” Ingram – Live In London
3. Coco Montoya – Writing On The Wall
4. John Primer – Teardrops For Magic Slim: Live At Rosa’s Lounge
5. The Dig 3 – Damn The Rent
6. Joe Bonamassa – Blues Deluxe Vol. 2
7. Nat Myers – Yellow Peril
8. Nick Moss Band – Get Your Back Into It!
9. Selwyn Birchwood – Exorcist
10. Tracy Nelson – Life Don’t Miss Nobody

Radio Jack Best of 2022 — a year of Plex, Roon and more

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ArtistAlbumGenreMy Rating
The Weather StationHow Is It That I Should Look At The StarsAlternative1
The DelinesThe Sea DriftAlternative Country1
Mike ZitoBlues for the SouthsideBlues1
Willie NelsonA Beautiful TimeCountry1
Todd SniderReturn of the StorytellerFolk1
Pastor ChampionI Just Want to Be a Good ManGospel1
Cécile McLorin SalvantGhost SongJazz1
Ural Thomas & the PainDancing DimensionsR&B1
KoffeeGifted (Deluxe Edition)Reggae1
Drive-By TruckersWelcome 2 Club XIIIRock1
Vieux Farka Touré & KhruangbinAliWorld1
Rolling Blackouts Coastal FeverEndless RoomsAlternative2
Ray Wylie HubbardCo-Starring TooAlternative Country2
Taj Mahal & Ry CooderGet On BoardBlues2
Robert Earl KeenWestern ChillCountry2
Madison CunninghamRevealerFolk2
Mavis StaplesCarry Me HomeR&B2
The SheepdogsOutta SightRock2
Martin CourtneyMagic SignAlternative3
Sarah Shook & the DisarmersNightroamerAlternative Country3
Shemekia CopelandDone Come Too FarBlues3
Miranda LambertPalominoCountry3
Richard ThompsonLive From HonoluluFolk3
Brian JacksonThis is Brian JacksonR&B3
Fantastic NegritoWhite Jesus Black ProblemsRock3
Johnny MarrFever Dreams Pts 1 – 4Alternative4
Amanda ShiresTake It Like A ManAlternative Country4
Albert SmithBig Belly MamaBlues4
The Cactus BlossomsOne DayCountry4
Aoife O’DonovanAge Of ApathyFolk4
Khruangbin & Leon BridgesTexas MoonR&B4
Elvis CostelloThe Boy Named If (Alive At Memphis Magnetic)Rock4
SylvieSylvieAlternative5
Fantastic CatThe Very Best of Fantastic CatAlternative Country5
Bedford SlimDone and GoneBlues5
Dale WatsonJukebox FuryCountry5
Emily BarkerRoom 822Folk5
Dr. JohnThings Happen That WayR&B5
The Black KeysDropout BoogieRock5

“Listening to music today is like trying to drink out of a fire hose”

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Best Music Of 2021

  1. Paul Weller – Fat Pop (Volume 1)
  2. Robert Plant & Alison Krause – Raise The Roof
  3. James McMurtry – The Horses and the Hounds
  4. The War on Drugs – I Don’t Live Here Anymore
  5. Buffalo Nichols – Buffalo Nichols
  6. Hayes Carll – You Get It All
  7. Yola – Stand for Myself
  8. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Georgia Blue
  9. Paul Thorn – Never Too Late To Call
  10. Rodrigo Amarante – Drama

CLOSE CALLS

  1. Bob Dylan – Shadow Kingdom 
  2. Todd Snider – First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder
  3. Kacey Musgraves – Star-Crossed
  4. Los Lobos – Native Sons
  5. Brandie Carlile – In These Silent Days
  6. Sara Watkins – Under The Pepper Tree
  7. Nathaniel Ratecliff & The Nightsweats – The Future
  8. Pokey LaFarge – In The Blossom of Their Shade
  9. Willie Nile – The Day the Earth Stood Still
  10. Jackson Browne – Downhill From Everywhere

BLUES

  1. Memphissippi Sounds – Welcome To The Land
  2. Christone “Kingfish” Ingram – 662
  3. Eddie 9V – Little Black Flies
  4. New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers – Volume 2
  5. Carolyn Wonderland – Tempting Fate

The Masked, Distanced and Sanitized Top 25 for 2020

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1. Jason Isbell – Reunions

2. Bob Dylan – Rough and Rowdy Ways

3. Black Pumas – Black Pumas

4. Bruce Springsteen – Letter to You

5. Khruangbin – Mordechai

6. Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud

7. Bananagun – The True Story of Bananagun

8. Frazey Ford – U kin B the Sun

9. Drive By Truckers – The New Ok / The Unraveling

10. Elizabeth Cook – Aftermath

  • Fleet Foxes – Shore
  • Real Estate – The Main Thing
  • X – Alphabetland
  • Phoebe Bridges – Punisher
  • Lucinda Williams – Good Souls Better Angels
  • A Girl Called Eddy – Been Around
  • Eddie Vedder – Matter of Time
  • Rolling Blackouts CF – Sideways to New Italy
  • Larkin Poe – Kindred Spirits
  • Nicole Atkins – Italian Ice
  • Margo Price – That’s How Rumors Get Started
  • Ashley McBryde – Never Will
  • Jeff Tweedy – Love Is The King
  • Marcus King – El Dorado
  • U.S. Girls – Heavy Light

BLUES

  1. Shemekia Copeland – Uncivil War
  2. Fantastic Negrito – Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?
  3. New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers – S/T
  4. Johnny Iguana – Johnny Iguana’s Chicago Spectacular!
  5. Kim Wilson – Take Me Back
  6. Duke Robillard – Blues Bash
  7. Elvin Bishop / Charlie Musselwhite – 100  Years of Blues
  8. Sonny Landreth – Blacktop Run
  9. Dion – Blues With Friends
  10. Robert Cray – That’s What I Heard

WORLD

  1. Songhoy Blues – Optimisme
  2. Khruangbin – Late Night Tales
  3. Bela Fleck – Throw Down Your Heart: The Complete African Sessions
  4. Bebel Gilberto – Agora
  5. Baba Sissoko – Mali Music Has No Borders