I always post a list of my favorite albums of the year—I’ll do that shortly, I promise—but I begin this year with a list of my favorite songs. (These are in alphabetical order. It took me a week to rank my Top 10 albums, and I just can’t bring myself to tackle another ranking project.)
“California,” Robert Ellis
“Drone Bomb Me,” ANOHNI
“Gardenia,” Iggy Pop
“Hands of Time,” Margo Price
“Heaven,” Lydia Loveless
“I Got off the Bus,” Richmond Fontaine
“I’ll Be Your Woman,” St. Paul & the Broken Bones
“I’ll Never Leave the Honky Tonks,” Wink Burcham
“I’ve Been Drinkin’ More,” Jason James
“La La Lie,” Basia Bulat
“Marfa Lights,” Paul Cauthen
“Moon River,” Mark Kozelek
“Morning Blues,” Parker Millsap
“No Problem,” Chance the Rapper
“Old Friends,” Pinegrove
“Ramon Casiano,” Drive-By Truckers
“Simple Song,” John Paul White
“Steve McQueen,” Brian Fallon
“Thurgood Marshall,” St. Lenox
“Wow,” Beck
“Young in All the Wrong Ways,” Sara Watkins