Saturday 16 December 2017

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.

* - indicates I have reviewed on this site: copy/paste or type band and album names in Search window [top left]

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 *


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