Music expeditionary and global critic
THE TOP 25 OF 2019
1. Yola – Walk Through Fire
2. Jake Xerxes Fussell – Out of Sight
3. Durand Jones and the Indications – American Love Call
4. Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising
5. Todd Snider – Cash Cabin Session Vol. 3
6. Steve Gunn – The Unseen in Between
7. Lana Del Rey – NFR!
8. Bruce Springsteen – Western Stars / Songs From the Film
9. Vampire Weekend – Father of the Bride
10. Neil Young with Crazy Horse – Colorado
- 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 20th 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