Here are the songs that helped me survive 2021. What did you like?
- “A-O-K,” Tai Verdes
- “Alaska,” Pinegrove
- “Arthur Is at a Shiva,” St. Lenox
- “Astronaut,” Katie Toupin
- “Autumn in New York,” Makaya McCraven
- “Barbry Ellen,” JP Harris & Chance McCoy
- “Bateaux-Mouches,” Eddy de Pretto
- “The Best God Damn Band in Wyoming,” No-No Boy
- “Big Colors,” Ryan Adams
- “Bloomsday,” Samantha Crain
- “Candyman Revisited,” Chase Spruill (Philip Glass, composer)
- “Can’t Cheat the Dance,” Jeb Loy Nichols, Cold Diamond & Mink
- “Careless Whisper,” Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio
- “Citizen,” Sir Sly (feat. Gary Clark Jr.)
- “County Fair,” John Grant
- “Crave,” Years & Years
- “Dancing in the Dark,” Juanes
- “Désolé Caroline,” Eddy de Pretto
- “Disarm,” Fruit Bats
- “Do Not Disturb,” Ryan Adams
- “Dogma,” Circuit des Yeux
- “Easy Going,” Trent Dabbs & Ashley Monroe
- “El Invento,” José González
- “Ella Me Enamoró,” La Santa Cecilia
- “Estrellita,” La Santa Cecilia
- “Fisher Island Sound,” Beirut
- “Five Years,” Duran Duran
- “For Every Voice That Never Sang,” Kishi Bashi
- “Frank’s Tune,” Makaya McCraven
- “A Funeral in Banbridge,” Frida Hyvönen
- “Getting over Our Love,” Ric Robertson (feat. Lucius)
- “Gold,” Ashley Monroe
- “Gotta Be Movin’,” The Record Company
- “Green,” Abraham Marder
- “Hardest Part About Business,” Natalie Hemby
- “Havana Santa,” Mike Farris
- “Help Me Remember,” Hayes Carll
- “Hesitating Nation,” Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
- “Hills of Mexico,” Jake Xerxes Fussell
- “I Just Can’t Stop,” Jeb Loy Nichols, Cold Diamond & Mink
- “I Still Have Faith in You,” ABBA
- “I Will Be Your Shield,” Billy Bragg
- “I’m Alright in the World,” BC Camplight
- “I’m Waiting for the Man,” Matt Berninger
- “Inferno,” The Felice Brothers
- “Jackson,” Trixie Mattel (feat. Orville Peck)
- “Jazz on the Autobahn,” The Felice Brothers
- “La Isla Bonita,” Large Plants
- “Lady,” Nora González & Flor de Toloache
- “Lady Lila,” The Record Company
- “Last of the Better Days Ahead,” Charlie Parr
- “Let’s Make Out,” Lydia Loveless
- “The Life I Used to Live,” Rosita Kèss (feat. Valerie June)
- “Like Me,” Caveman
- “Looked a Lot Like Love,” Teitur
- “Love Letter from a Red Roof Inn,” St. Paul & the Broken Bones
- “A Marshmallow World,” Josh Abbott Band
- “Mary Anne,” Lula Wiles
- “Midnight Train to Georgia,” Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit (feat. Brittney Spencer & John Paul White)
- “Miranda,” Frank Turner
- “My People,” Cha Wa
- “Neutron Star,” Circuit des Yeux
- “New Madrid,” Natalie Hemby
- “Nice Things,” Hayes Carll
- “Nightswimming,” Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit (feat. Béla Fleck and Chris Thile)
- “No One Answer,” Michelle Gurevich
- “No Son of Mine,” Foo Fighters
- “Ocho Kandelikas,” Sarah Aroeste (feat. Yehuda Shuky Shveiky)
- “Old Fashioned Gal,” Melissa Carper
- “Old Sob Story,” Birdtalker
- “Öldurótið,” Ásgeir
- “On the Edge,” Ásgeir
- “One Pair of Blue Eyes,” Peter Matthew Bauer
- “Paradise,” The Record Company
- “Pick Up Your Burning Cross,” Sons of Kemet
- “Pick Apart,” Samantha Crain
- “Por Ella Tomo,” Río Roma & Gerardo Ortíz
- “Rae Street,” Courtney Barnett
- “Reverie,” Son Volt
- “Right on Time,” Snorre Kirk & Stephen Riley
- “Rosemary and Rain,” Teitur
- “Safety Dance,” Angel Olsen
- “Second Line Girl,” Cha Wa
- “Silver Dagger,” Justin Hiltner
- “Sittin’ on Top of the World,” The Flatlanders
- “Solo En Mis Sueños,” La Santa Cecilia
- “Songs Remain,” Esther Rose
- “Squid Tattoo,” Sean Rowe
- “Suicide Is Murder,” Aimee Mann
- “Tehachapi,” Margo Cilker
- “Television,” Lula Wiles
- “This Is My Prairie,” Corb Lund, Terri Clark & Brett Kissel
- “Thousand Oaks,” Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
- “Throughout the Madness, Stay Strong,” Sons of Kemet
- “To-Do List,” The Felice Brothers
- “To Keep from Being Found,” Hayes Carll
- “Today,” Fruit Bats
- “Tongues,” Tanya Tagaq
- “Too Late to Write a Love Song,” Riddy Arman
- “Treskjæring,” Tønes
- “Tú Sí Sabes Quererme,” Natalia Lafourcade, Mare Advertencia Lirika & Rubén Blades
- “Vagabond,” Jonathan Terrell
- “Vaya Vaya,” Kronos Quartet & Mahsa Vahdat
- “Vendetta,” Iceage
- “Where They Perform Miracles,” Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
- “Wildman,” Cha Wa
- “Would You Like to Get Some Goats?,” Melissa Carper
- “Yes I Guess They Oughta Name a Drink After You,” Tyler Childers
- “You Don’t Get to Go,” Amanda Shires