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.
Fantastically eclectic list! Will send me off to explore so many of these people I have never come across. Will probably start with the Malian - Bamako. A strange city I was fortunate to visit just before the loonies over ran parts of the country and the FCO advised against going there
ReplyDeleteSimphiwa Dana, as I have learned, is quite an activist, and a star. It is a wonderful album. Thanks for stopping by.
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