Some Awe's Best of 2017 - Preliminaries

As ever, this is my preliminary list. I will whittle it down to a top ten at the turn of the year.

I am not saying I know each one of these albums well, but I have listened and liked them all. It seems a ridiculously long list, but in reality it is a snippet of the music released in a year. It is what it is, and genuinely so.

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Alice Coltrane - World Spirituality Classics 1꞉ The Ecstatic Music Of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda *

Allison Moorer & Shelby Lynne - Not Dark Yet *

Amber Cross - Savage On The Downhill

Amelia White – Rhythm of the Rain *

Angelica Rockne - Queen of San Antonio *

Angaleena Presley – Wrangled *

Andrew Combs – Canyons of My Mind *

Black Star Riders - Heavy Fire

Bob Seger - I Knew You When *

Carrie Elkin – The Penny Collector *

Chaz Bundick Meets the Mattson 2 – Star Stuff *

China Moses – Nightintales *

Chip Taylor – A Song I Can Live With *

Chris Stapleton - From A Room Volume 1 *

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - The Emancipation Procrastination

David Crosby - Sky Trails *

David Rawlings - Poor David's Almanack *

Daymé Arocena – Cubafonía *

Declan O'Rourke - Chronicles of the Great Irish Famine *

Denys Baptiste – The Late Trane *

Eliza Carthy & the Wayward Band – Big Machine *

Eliza Neals - 10,000 Feet Below *

Eric Johnson – Collage *

Father John Misty - Pure Comedy

Feist – Pleasure *

Flamin' Groovies - Fantastic Plastic *

Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up

Galley Beggar – Heathen Hymns *

Glen Campbell – Adiós *

Grant Maloy Smith - Dust Bowl; American Stories

Gregg Allman - Southern Blood *

Gregory Porter - Nat King Cole & Me *

Greta Van Fleet – From the Fires *

Hampshire & Foat - Galaxies Like Grains of Sand *

Hawkwind - Into the Woods

Henrik Freischlader - Blues For Gary *

Jaime Wyatt – Felony Blues *

Jamiroquai - Automaton

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - The Nashville Sound

Jesu and Sun Kil Moon - 30 Seconds To The Decline Of Planet Earth

Jim Lauderdale – London Southern *

Joey Landreth – Whiskey *

John Mayall - Talk About That

John Zorn – Midsummer Moons *

Joseph Shabason – Aytche *

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Sketches of Brunswick East *

Larry Coryell's 11th House - Seven Secrets

Liane Carroll – The Right to Love *

Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie - Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie

Lisa Knapp – Till April is Dead a Garland of May *

Lizz Wright – Grace *

London Grammar - Big Picture

Lucy Rose - Somethings Changing

Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real - Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real *

Marry Waterson & David A. Jaycock - Death Had Quicker Wings Than Love

Martha Tilston – Nomad

Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives – Way out West

Mavis Staples - If All I Was Was Black *

Medusa's Disco – Ripe *

Michael McDonald - Wide Open *

Möbius Strip - Möbius Strip *

Neil Young & Promise of the Real - The Visitor

Nguyên Lê & Ngo Hong Quang feat. Paolo Fresu - Hà Noi Duo *

Old Crow Medicine Show - 50 Years of Blonde on Blonde

Paul Brady - Unfinished Business

Paul Weller - Jawbone

Peter Hammill - From the Trees *

Pieta Brown – Postcards

Rag'n'Bone Man – Human

Randall Bramblett - Juke Joint at the Edge of the World

Reflections in Cosmo - Reflections in Cosmo *   

Rhiannon Giddens - Freedom Highway

Rick Wakeman - Piano Portraits *

Robert Finley – Goin’ Platinum *

Robin Trower - Time and Emotion *

Robert Plant - Carry Fire

Rodney Crowell - Close Ties *

Roger Waters – Is This the Life We Really Want *

Ron Sexsmith - The Last Rider

Ronnie Montrose, Ricky Phillips & Eric Singer - 10X10 *

Sam Outlaw – Tenderheart

Sarah Shook & the Disarmers – Sidelong *

Six Organs of Admittance - Burning the Threshold *

Stephen Stills & Judy Collins - Everybody Knows *

Sudan Archives - Sudan Archives EP

Sunny Sweeney – Trophy *

Taylor Haskins – Gnosis *

The Afghan Whigs - In Spades

The Isley Brothers & Santana - Power of Peace

The Rails - Other People

The Savage Rose – Homeless

Three Days Dark – Somewhere a Band Plays *

Thundercat – Drunk

Tift Merritt - Stitch of the World

Tim O'Brien - Where the River Meets the Road

Tom Russell - Folk Hotel

UFO – The Salentino Cuts *

UNKLE - The Road, Pt. 1

Victor Wooten, Dennis Chambers And Bob Franceschini – Trypnotyx

Walter Trout - We're All In This Together

Willie Nelson – God’s Problem Child

Willie Watson - Folksinger Vol. 2 *

Yusuf - The Laughing Apple *