Who jumped out at you in 2018?

1. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs

2. John Prine – The Tree of Forgiveness

3. Jimmy LaFave – Peace Town

4. Richard Thompson – 13 Rivers

5. Aaron Lee Tasjan – Karma for Cheap

6. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Live From the Ryman

7. Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour

8. Willie Nelson – Last Man Standing / My Way

9. Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel

10. Alejandro Escovedo – The Crossing

Rounding out the Top 20:
11. Caroline Rose – Loner
12. Brandi Carlile – By The Way I Forgive You
13. I’m With Her – See You Around
14. Rosanne Cash – She Remembers Everything
15. Beth Hart – Front and Center / Live at the Royal Albert Hall
16. Florence + The Machine – High as Hope
17. Cowboy Junkies – All That Reckoning
18. Paul Weller – True Meanings
19. Israel Nash – Lifted
20. Fantastic Negrito – Please Don’t Be Dead

BLUES – they ain’t dead
1. Shemeka Copeland – America’s Child

2. Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite – No Mercy in This Land
3. The California Honeydrops – Call it Home Vol. 1 & 2
4. Buddy Guy – The Blues is Alive and Well
5. Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa – Black Coffee
6. Billy F Gibbons – The Big Bad Blues
7. The Nick Moss Band – The High Cost of Living Low
8. Janiva Magness – Love is an Army
9. Elvin Bishops Big Fun Trio – Something Smells Funky Round Here
10. Snooky Pryor – All My Money Gone