Favorite Songs of 2018

I’ll soon be posting a list of my favorite albums of the year. Until I figure out the final placements—it’s hard work, y’know—please make do with a list of my favorite songs of the year. They are in alphabetical order.

  • “Addicted” – Quiet Hollers
  • “Ain’t We Brothers” – Sam Gleaves (with Tim O’Brien)
  • “All You Fascists Bound to Lose” – The Tillers
  • “Almost Persuaded” – Lera Lynn and John Paul White
  • “Apollo” – St. Paul & the Broken Bones
  • “Are You Still Takin’ Them Pills” – Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles
  • “Bad Bad News” – Leon Bridges
  • “Believe” – Amen Dunes
  • “Born in the Right Country” – River Whyless
  • “Burning Man” – Dierks Bentley, with Brothers Osborne
  • “Butterflies” – Kacey Musgraves
  • “Cold Wind a Blowin'” – Ronnie Bowman and Lou Reid
  • “Come Back When You Can’t Stay” – Parker Millsap
  • “Congratulations and Condolences” – Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom
  • “Curtain Maker” – Christian Kjellvander
  • “Där vi möts” – Hästpojken
  • “Deran Deran Alkheir (Well Wishes)” – Bombino
  • “Don’t Let Me Down” – Sabrina Claudio (feat. Khalid)
  • “Edge Off” – Super Doppler
  • “Estamos Bien” – Bad Bunny
  • “Everybody Walkin’ This Land” – Paul Cauthen
  • “Faux Guernica” – Christian Kjellvander
  • “First Date” – St. Lenox
  • “Fucking Crazy” – Robert Ellis
  • “Hands on You” – Ashley Monroe
  • “He’s Funny that Way” – Bob Dylan
  • “Here’s Looking at You Kid” – Brett Dennen
  • “Hey Skinny Santa!” – JD McPherson
  • “Hurricanes” – St. Paul & the Broken Bones
  • “I Just Lived a Country Song” – Robbie Fulks and Linda Gail Lewis
  • “If I’m Gonna Be Lonely” – The Price Sisters
  • “If the World’s Still Here Tomorrow” – Jim Lauderdale
  • “In My View” – Young Fathers
  • “In the Clear” – Lindi Ortega
  • “Just Fear” – Dan Mangan
  • “Kindness of Strangers” – Courtney Marie Andrews
  • “A Lamb, A Dove” – H.C. McEntire
  • “Lay Low” – Dan Mangan
  • “Leave It Alone” – Amanda Shires
  • “Let’s Take a Vacation” – Joshua Hedley
  • “Liquid Days” – Anthony Roth Costanzo
  • “Loneliness” – Darling West
  • “Make Me Feel” – Janelle Monáe
  • “Malamente” – Rosalía
  • “May Your Kindness Remain” – Courtney Marie Andrews
  • “Maybe You Should Go” – Clarence Bucaro
  • “Mehcinut” – Jeremy Dutcher
  • “Mississippi Heavy Water Blues” – The Slocan Ramblers
  • “Moon River” – Frank Ocean
  • “My Mind I Find in Time” – Mary Halvorson
  • “My Queen Is Angela Davis” – Sons of Kemet
  • “Neptune City” – Belle Adair
  • “No Man’s Land” – Andrew Duhon
  • “Nothing Compares 2 U” – Prince
  • “Orphan” – Ashley Monroe
  • “Other Arrangements” – Parker Millsap
  • “Parking Lot Pirouette” – Amanda Shires
  • “Pomok naka Poktoinskwes” – Jeremy Dutcher
  • “Private Dancer” – Meshell Ndegeocello
  • “Purgatory Cove” – Danny Michel
  • “Pynk” – Janelle Monáe (feat. Grimes)
  • “Ready to Roar” – Willie Nelson
  • “rejecter” – nothing,nowhere
  • “Revolution” – Red Shahan
  • “Run to the Hills” – Tanya Tagaq and Damian Abraham
  • “San Luis” – Gregory Alan Isakov
  • “Sara” – Teitur
  • “She Remembers Everything” – Rosanne Cash
  • “Silverlake” – Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore
  • “Skriftargangur” – Teitur Magnússon
  • “Sky Walker (Spanish version)” – Miguel
  • “Something to Get Through” – Willie Nelson
  • “Space Cowboy” – Kacey Musgraves
  • “Strange Weather” – Norma Waterson and Eliza Carthy
  • “Summer’s End” – John Prine
  • “Thoughts & Prayers” – Will Hoge
  • “Three Swallows” – Western Centuries
  • “Wasn’t I Paying Attention” – Amanda Shires
  • “We All Get Lonely” – Trampled by Turtles
  • “Western Movies” – Traveller
  • “What Do I Know?” – Greg Laswell
  • “When I Quit Drinking” – JP Harris
  • “You Ain’t Foolin’ Me” – Lindi Ortega

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