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

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

THE TOP 25 OF 2019

• Jeremy Ivey – The Dream and The Dreamer
• Rachael & Vilray – S/T
• The California Honeydrops – A Higher Degree / Live 2019
• Dwayne Dopsie – Bon Ton
• Black Keys – Let’s Rock
• Leonard Cohen – Thanks for the Dance
• The Raconteurs – Help Us Stranger
• Shana Cleveland – Night of the Worm Moon
• Miranda Lambert – Wildcard
• Allah-Las – LAHS
• Michael Kiwanuka – Kiwanuka
• Buddy & Julie Miller – Breakdown on 20^th Ave. South
• Cate Le Bon – Reward
• Black Pumas – Black Pumas
• The Who – WHO

BLUES

• Christone “Kingfish” Ingram – Kingfish
• North Mississippi All Stars – Up and Rolling
• Coco Montoya – Coming in Hot
• Jimmie Vaughan – Baby Please Come Home
• Toronzo Cannon & The Chicago Way – The Preacher, The Politician or The Pimp

THE ARCHIVES

• Bruce Springsteen – 1978/09/19 Passaic New Jersey
• Prince – 1999
• The Beatles – Abbey Road
• Replacements – Dead Man Pop
• Neil Young – Tuscaloosa
• Bob Dylan – The Rolling Thunder Review: The 1975 Live

WORLD

• Tinariwen – Amadjar
• Various – Rough Guide to a World of Guitar
• Balake Sissoko & Baba Sissoko – Sissoko & Sissoko
• Bassekou Kouyate – Miri
• Kefaya & Elaha Soroor – Songs of Our Mothers