Some Awe's Best of 2014 - Preliminaries

Here's my annual, full 'Best of...' with a another list later to be culled to a top 10 or 20. I have been honest with myself in selecting these: all are albums I have genuinely enjoyed listening to, and/or they are significant in being by artists I admire. Quite a number have been reviewed in this blog. There are many more albums I'm sure are 'best of... too' and perhaps even 'better', but in going through an exhaustive recall of 2014 releases, I realise just how many I haven't listened to fully and thus I cannot in all honesty celebrate, even when suspecting I should:

AC/DC - Rock or Bust
Adam Cohen - We Go Home

Albert Lee & Hogan's Heroes - Frettening Behaviour

Anais Mitchell – Xoa

Aphex Twin – Syro

Billy Childs - Map to the Treasure Reimagining Laura Nyro

Billy Joe Shaver- Long In The Tooth

Black Label Society - Catacombs of the Black Vatican

Blcak Stone Cherry - Magic Mountain

Blues Pills - Blues Pills

Carlene Carter - Carter Girl

Centro-matic - Take Pride in Your Long Odds

Chris Smither - Still On the Levee

Cold Specks - Neuroplasticity

Colosseum - Time On Our Side

Current 93 - I Am the Last of All the Field That Fell A Channel

David Crosby – Croz

Devon Allman - Ragged & Dirty

Dolly Parton - Blue Smoke

Don Williams - Reflections

Eric Bibb - Blues People

Gong - I See You

Hal Ketchum - I'm The Troubadour

Hurray for the Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes

Jack White - Lazaretto

Jackson Browne - Standing in the Breach

Jeff Bridges And The Abiders – Live

Jim Lauderdale - I'm A Song

Joan As Police Woman - The Classic

Joanne Shaw Taylor - The Dirty Truth

Joe Bonamassa - Different Shades Of Blue

John Fullbright – Songs

Johnny Winter - Step Back

Jungle – Jungle

Kate Rusby - Ghost

King Creosote - From Scotland With Love

London Grammar - Hey Now

Lost on the River - The New Basement Tapes

Lydia Loveless - Somewhere Else

Malcolm Holcombe - Pitiful Blues

Marianne Faithfull - Give My Love To London

Martha Tilston - The Sea

Mary Chapin Carpenter - Songs from the Movie

Neil Young - A Letter Home [acoustic set]

Nils Petter Molvær – Swicht

Old Crow Medicine Show – Remedy

Paolo Nutini - Caustic Love

Paul Rodgers - The Royal Sessions

Pete Molinari – Theosophy

Peter Frampton - Hummingbird In A Box

Peter Hammill - ...all that might have been...

Prince - Art Official Age

Purson - In The Meantime

Railroad Earth - The Last of the Outlaws

Randy Travis - Influence Vol. 2 The Man I Am

Richard Thompson - Acoustic Classics

Rival Sons - Great Western Valkyrie

Robert Plant - Lullaby And... The Ceaseless Roar

Roisin Murphy - Mi Senti

Rosanne Cash - The River & The Thread

Ryan Adams - Ryan Adams

Sam Amidon - Lily-O

Savage Rose – Roots of the Wastelands

Sinead O'Connor - I'm Not Bossy, I'm The Boss

Smashing Pumpkins - Monuments To An Elegy

Smokey Robinson - Smokey & Friends

Soil & Pimp Sessions - Brothers & Sisters

Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music

Suzy Boguss – Lucky

Syd Arthur - Sound Mirror

Texas Hippie Coalition - Ride On
The Cloud Cuckoo Collective - From Omaha to Ottery

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Zim Zam Zim

The Delines – Colfax

The Doobie Brothers – Southbound

The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger - Midnight Sun

The Rails - Fair Warning

The Robert Cray Band - In My Soul

The Who - Quadrophenia - Live in London

Thompson – Family

Ty Curtis - Water Under The Bridge

Walter Trout - The Blues Came Callin'

Willie Nelson - Band of Brothers

Wishbone Ash - Blue Horizon

Yes - Heaven & Earth

Yusuf - Tell ‘em I’m Gone