Usual disclaimer: This list is fluid and will change a great deal going forward.
Also, these are just Trailer's favorites. The year-end list will be staff voted.
11. Nikki Lane - Highway Queen
12. Sunny Sweeney - Trophy
13. Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life
14. Natalie Hemby - Puxico
15. Rhiannon Giddens - Freedom Highway
16. Dead Man Winter - Furnace
17. Dale Watson & Ray Benson - Dale & Ray
18. The Band of Heathens - Duende
19. Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
20. Ryan Adams - Prisoner
*New albums from Rodney Crowell and Mastodon would likely be in the top 20;
I just haven't digested those albums quite enough yet.
I would add...
ReplyDeleteLance Lipinsky and the Lovers - Roll
Stanley Brinks and the Old Time Kaniks - Vieilles Caniques et Nouvelle Caniques
The Brother Brothers - Tugboats [EP]
Blackie And The Rodeo Kings - Kings And Kings
Kayla Schureman - Kiss The Ground
Chip Taylor - A Song I Can Live With
Pieta Brown - Postcards
The Kernal - Light Country
Carrie Elkin - The Penny Collector
Ned Roberts - Outside My Mind
Rab Noakes - The Treatment Tapes [EP]
Jaime Wyatt - Felony Blues
Caroline Spence - Spades and Roses
Aaron Watson - Vaquero
Kate Grom - Heroine
Rayna Gellert - Workin's Too Hard [EP?]
Otis Taylor - Fantasizing About Being Black
Cary Morin - Cradle To The Grave
Tall Tall Trees - Freedays
Ags Connolly - Nothin' Unexpected
Austin Hanks - Alabastard
Tift Merritt - Stitch Of The World
Whitney Rose - South Texas Suite [EP]
The Rodney Crowell record was good. Not great but "Storm Warning" ismy jam. New Ryan Adams is quality stuff but definitely not even remotely Country. I know he's one of ours but he's off doing his own thing now and all the better for it imo. Creatively speaking, he sounds revived.