Favorite Albums of 2024: First Quarter Report

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 Someday I won’t be too lazy to write some short review blurbs, but for now, here are my early favorites of 2024.

1. The Droptines - s/t

2. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

3. Jonathan Peyton - Nothing Here’s The Same

4. Sierra Ferrell - Trail of Flowers

5. Sarah Jarosz - Polaroid Lovers

6. Old Heavy Hands - Small Fires

7. Shane Smith & The Saints - Norther

8. Taylor Hunnicutt - Alabama Sound

9. Blackberry Smoke - Be Right Here

10. Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well

11. The Black Crowes - Happiness Bastards

12. Taylor McCall - Mellow War

13. Willi Carlisle - Critterland

Some other early favorites in no particular order:

Amigo the Devil - Yours Until the War is Over

Cody Jinks - Change the Game

The Montvales - Born Strangers

Lizzie No - Halfsies

Ellis Bullard - Honky Tonk Ain’t Noise Pollution

Mery Steel - She’s Back!

JJ Grey & Mofro - Olustee

Schoolboy Q - Blue Lips

Sam Morrow - On the Ride Here

Luke Grimes - s/t

Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Past is Still Alive

Jordan Lee King - By and By

Casper McWade - Something for the Pain

New Video / Sarah Jarosz / "Days Can Turn Around"

Farce the Music’s Top 30 Songs of 2020

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1. Caylee Hammack - Small Town Hypocrite

This was my favorite song of the year wire-to-wire. I just couldn’t get it out of my head or heart, and didn’t want to. It’s personal and universal at once - the hallmark of a great song, in my book. The vocals, the lyrics, the instrumentation - flawless. A truly fantastic piece of art.

 

 2. Waylon Payne - Shiver  

 3. Katie Pruitt - My Mind’s a Ship (That’s Going Down)  

4. Arlo McKinley - Suicidal Saturday Night  

 5. Brandy Clark - I’ll Be the Sad Song  

 5. Flatland Cavalry - War With My Mind  

 6. Sarah Jarosz - Orange and Blue  

 7. Futurebirds - Trippin’  

 8. Taylor Swift ft. Bon Iver - Exile  

 9. Randy Travis - Fool’s Love Affair  

 10. The Wilder Blue - The Eagle  

 11. Rookie - I Can’t Have You But I Want You  

 12. Hailey Whitters - Janice at the Hotel Bar  

 13. Marcus King - Wildflowers & Wine  

 14. Joshua Ray Walker - Voices  

 15. Gabe Lee - Imogene

16. Waxahatchee - Lilacs

17. Tennessee Jet - The Country

18. Ray Wylie Hubbard - Bad Trick

19. Kathleen Edwards - Simple Math

20. William Prince - The Gun

21. Tessy Lou Williams - Why Do I Still Want You

22. Pallbearer - Riverbed

23. Elizabeth Cook - Two Chords and a Lie

24. Zephaniah OHora - It’s Not So Easy Today

25. Tré Burt - Real You

26. Empty Country - Marian

27. Run the Jewels - JU$T

28. John Anderson - Years

29. The Secret Sisters - Tin Can Angel

30. Pinegrove - Endless

New Video: Sarah Jarosz - House of Mercy

From her forthcoming album Undercurrent.

Brandi Carlile, Punch Brothers, etc Perform "Lovesick Blues"

New Video: Sara Watkins, Aoife O'Donovan, & Sarah Jarosz