Top 25 Songs of 2018 First Half Report

It was hard to narrow this down to 25. There have been some truly great and memorable songs released in 2018, and we're just halfway through. These are in no particular order. 

*not a combined contributors' list - just Trailer's*

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Ashley McBryde - Tired of Being Happy

Lucero - To My Dearest Wife

YOB - Our Raw Heart

Willie Nelson - Something You Get Through

Caitlyn Smith - This Town is Killing Me

Kacey Musgraves - Happy & Sad

Brent Cobb - Mornin's Gonna Come

Kelly Willis - Back Being Blue

Buffalo Gospel - When Lonesome Comes Callin'

Joshua Hedley - Weird Thought Thinker

Lori McKenna - People Get Old

Dallas Moore - Somewhere Between Bridges

Trixie Mattel - Soldier

Blackberry Smoke w/Robert Randolph - I'll Keep Ramblin'

Manchester Orchestra - No Hard Feelings

Pusha T - The Games We Play

Caleb Caudle - NYC in the Rain

Old Crow Medicine Show - Look Away

Erik Dylan - Funerals and Football Games

Brandi Carlile - Sugartooth

Leon III - Alberta 

Tami Neilson - Good Man

Whiskey Wolves of the West - Alexandria

Ruby Boots - Break My Heart Twice

Anderson East - House is a Building

Trailer's Top 40 Albums of 2017

We'll be posting a few individual contributor's "Best of 2017" lists this week. 

Not all though - don't want anybody finding an error in my tally.... it's already official. 

Anyway, here's my top 40 (only 20 counted toward FTM Top 20).

1. Tyler Childers - Purgatory

2. Turnpike Troubadours - A Long Way From Your Heart

3. Shinyribs - I Got Your Medicine

4. Lillie Mae - Forever and Then Some

5. Gregg Allman - Southern Blood

6. The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding

7. John Moreland - Big Bad Luv

8. Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - The Nashville Sessions

9. The Steel Woods - Straw in the Wind

10. Vagabon - Infinite Worlds

11. Colter Wall - s/t

12. Daddy Issues - Deep Dream

13. Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile to the Surface

14. Chris Stapleton - From A Room: Volume 2

15. Drew Kennedy - At Home in the Big Lonesome

16. Steve Earle - So You Wannabe An Outlaw

17. Travis Meadows - First Cigarette

18. Kate Rhudy - Rock n' Roll Ain't For Me

19. Zephaniah OHora and the 18 Wheelers - This Highway

20. Lee Ann Womack - The Lonely, The Lonesome, and The Gone

21. Dori Freeman - Letters Never Read

22. Jason Eady - s/t

23. Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires - Youth Detention

24. JD McPherson - Undivided Heart & Soul

25. Hellbound Glory - Pinball!

26. Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives - Way Out West

27. Sunny Sweeney - Trophy

28. Midland - On the Rocks

29. Parker McCollum - Probably Wrong

30. Greta Van Fleet - From the Fires

31. Chris Stapleton: From A Room: Volume 1

32. Valerie June - The Order of Time

33. John Baumann - Proving Grounds

34. Big KRIT - 4eva is a Mighty Long Time

35. Nicole Atkins - Goodnight Rhonda Lee

36. Kendrick Lamar - Damn.

37. Dalton Domino - Corners

38. Natalie Hemby - Puxico

39. Margo Price - All American Made

40. Pallbearer - Heartless

New Video: Manchester Orchestra "The Sunshine"

From their excellent album, A Black Mile to the Surface. Highly recommended to fans of My Morning Jacket, Band of Horses, and Fleet Foxes.