Some Awe's Best of 2020

 The Annual Awe List

Great music from 2020 that I have listened to and enjoyed, this selection tending to those albums I have revisited more than once.

In alphabetical order, rather than ranked. A top three would probably be, in this order and for varying reasons: Springsteen, Dylan and ACDC.

ACDC – Power Up

Bill Fay - Countless Branches

Black to Comm - Oocyte Oil & Stolen Androgens

Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways

Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars

Chris Smither - More from the Levee

Fleet Foxes – Shore

Gillian Welch – Boots [all 3 volumes]

Giorgi Mikadze - Georgian Microjamz

Gregory Porter – All Rise

Jonathan Hultén - Chants from Another Place

Kandace Springs - The Women Who Raised Me

Laura Marling - Song for Our Daughter

Marcus King - El Dorado

Mark Lanegan – Straight Songs of Sorrow

Natalie Jane Hill - Azalea

Nils Lofgren Band – Weathered

Ozzy Osbourne - Ordinary Man

Paul McCartney - McCartney III

Pearl Jam - Dance of The Clairvoyants

Randall Bramblett - Pine Needle Fire

Richard Thompson - Bloody Noses EP

Rob Luft - Life Is the Dancer

Robyn Hitchcock - The Man Downstairs; Demos & Rarities

Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine

Sam Amidon - Sam Amidon

Sam Lee - Old Wow

Simphiwe Dana – Bamako

Shelby Lynne – Shelby Lynne

Yusuf Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman²

26.12.20: Having just revisited this post to tart it up with colour and italics, I want to add that my 'top three' still stands, but this does reflect allegiance and nostalgia as significant indicators. 

The point is I should mention how Natalie Jane Hill's Azalea is a great 'new' find for me, and to discover her on a YouTube clip singing one of the album's great tracks Emerald Blue three years ago - solo and in a flourists - I will add that vocal is quite stunning live; Marcus King was my other new-to-me joy, and his earlier albums with a band are dynamite, and one of the most beautiful tracks I have heard in 2020 is Usikhonzile by Simphiwe Dana from her album here in the list.