Favorite Albums of 2024: First Half Report

The top 4 remains unchanged from the first quarter report, but there are big shakeups down the list.

1. The Droptines - s/t

2. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

3. Jonathan Peyton - Nothing Here’s The Same

4. Sierra Ferrell - Trail of Flowers

5. John Moreland - Visitor

6. Shane Smith & The Saints - Norther

7. Taylor Hunnicutt - Alabama Sound

8. Josh Meloy - Where You Came From

9. Zach Top - Cold Beer & Country Music

10. Sarah Jarosz - Polaroid Lovers

11-20

11. Blackberry Smoke - Be Right Here

12. Wyatt Flores - Half Life

13. Kelsey Waldon - There’s Always a Song

14. Swamp Dogg - Blackgrass

15. Jesse Daniel - Countin’ the Miles

16. Old Heavy Hands - Small Fires

17. Taylor McCall - Mellow War

18. Kimmi Bitter - Old School

19. Red Shahan - Loose Funky Texas Junky

20. Lost Dog Street Band - Survived

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More 2024 releases I really like:

Willi Carlisle - Critterland

The Secret Sisters - Mind, Man, Medicine

The Mavericks - Moon & Stars

Adeem the Artist - Anniversary 

Rob Leines - Headcase

Bronwyn Keith-Hynes - I Built a World

Blaine Bailey - Home

The Black Crowes - Happiness Bastards

Stephanie Lambring - Good Mother

Amigo the Devil - Yours Until the War is Over

Cody Jinks - Change the Game

Emily Nenni - Drive & Cry

The Avett Brothers - s/t

Charley Crockett - $10 Cowboy

Pearl Jam - Dark Matter

Katie Pruitt - Mantras

Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well

The Montvales - Born Strangers

Lizzie No - Halfsies

Ellis Bullard - Honky Tonk Ain’t Noise Pollution

Mery Steel - She’s Back!

Willie Nelson - The Border

JJ Grey & Mofro - Olustee

Kim Richey - Every New Beginning

Sam Morrow - On the Ride Here

Jordan Lee King - By and By

Casper McWade - Something for the Pain

and there are many many more, Rich :)

Shane Smith & The Saints / "The Mountain" / Red Rocks

Shane Smith & The Saints and Charles Wesley Godwin Cover "Tuesday's Gone"

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

19-Piece Patio Set

 Meme Idea Blatantly Stolen From Tylerchilldumps

New Video / Shane Smith & The Saints / "Adeline"

 From their album Norther, out today.

New Video / Shane Smith & The Saints / "It's Been a While"

Wrasslin' Country Reaction Gifs #78

The Facebook comment section any time I post a Jason Aldean meme

When your office mates won't quit arguing about which pop country singer is better

🎵 Grandma got run over by a Dudley

At the wrasslin' show and we're all grieved 🎵

Visiting the Grand Ole Opry pre-2015

Cops when they see a drunk country singer in Nashville

Listens to Tyler Childers "In Your Love" one time

Morgan Wallen is the greatest songwriter of our generation

🎵 Wish I was somewhere other than here 🎵

🎵 I was emptying my bladder on a 20 foot ladder 🎵

Show me where the Shane Smith & The Saints song hurt you

Hey, what's that Conway song you're listening to about?

Stone Cold Steve Austin Country Reaction Gifs

When you find a Waylon belt and buckle at the antique mall

Me to the radio when they play the censored version of "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"

When you catch Santa a few days after he didn't deliver the Doc Watson box set you wanted for the second year in a row

Kenny Chesney at the end of "The Good Stuff"

Alan Jackson trying to sit through the Beyonce performance

Nashville record execs to any long haired or bearded singers  from Appalachia

When you break the Hippocratic Oath because the patient won't quit listening to Luke Bryan in his room

And now here's "Feathered Indians"

Every time I see Walker Hayes performing before or during a sporting event

When they won't allow you be the one to attack special guest Hardy on WWE Raw

That new Shane Smith & The Saints song is fire

When you realize the guy who said Jason Aldean is his favorite country singer was being serious

Me, if gatekeeping was a crime