Every year I post a list of the songs that caught my attention. Here’s this year’s entry. What did you like?
- “Already There,” Rhett Miller
- “Amerikan Lyfe,” Particle Kid (feat. Willie Nelson)
- “The Anal Staircase,” The Soft Pink Truth
- “Another Bar,” Cody Hibbard
- “b.e. son,” Joe Rainey
- “Baby Bitch,” Sunny War
- “Be Careful,” Madi Diaz, S.G. Goodman & Joy Oladokun
- “bezhigo,” Joe Rainey
- “Big Trouble Comes in Through a Small Door,” Jeb Loy Nichols
- “Birds in the Ceiling,” John Moreland
- “A Bit of Previous,” Belle and Sebastian
- “Borderland,” Ásgeir
- “Breath for the Boy,” Joan Shelley
- “Car You Drive,” Jonah Tolchin
- “Chicamacomico,” American Aquarium
- “Clean Getaway,” Caroline Spence
- “Corpus Christi Bay,” Phosphorescent
- “The Curse of the Blackened Eye,” Orville Peck
- “Dois + Dois = Tres,” Flora Purim
- “Don’t Go Throwing Roses in My Grave,” Gregor Barnett
- “The Driver,” Drive-By Truckers
- “Empty Cups,” Amanda Shires
- “The End,” Elliot Greer
- “Everybody Colored Their Own Jesus,” Andrew Duhon
- “Famous Blue Raincoat,” Here It Is (feat. Nathaniel Rateliff)
- “Felt the Same,” Chris Canterbury
- “Ghost,” Josiah and the Bonnevilles
- “Good to Go,” The Deslondes
- “Gunsmoke Blues,” Buddy Guy (feat. Jason Isbell)
- “Here He Comes,” Amanda Shires
- “I Just Came Home to Count the Memories,” Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
- “I’ve Enjoyed as Much of this Good Life (As I Can Take),” Jeb Loy Nichols
- “If You Ever Wonder Why,” Jarrod Morris
- “Imagine,” Valerie June
- “In Your Corner (for Scott Hutchison),” Dan Mangan
- “Intelligent Moves,” Holm
- “Into My Arms,” Valerie June
- “It’s a Mistake,” Madeleine Peyroux
- “Know Your Demons,” Tré Burt
- “La Isla Bonita,” Large Plants
- “Led by a Blue Bird Into a Mountain,” Masayoshi Fujita
- “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” Amythyst Kiah
- “Mary Oliver,” Caroline Spence
- “Merkato,” Kibrom Birhane
- “Modern Love,” Mipso
- “Nattens Sista Strimma Ljus,” Dungen
- “Night Shift,” Mary Halvorson
- “Nodding Yellow,” Mary Halvorson
- “Once the Reaper,” Joe Rainey
- “Paranoid Heart,” John Fullbright
- “Prime Numbers,” Cheri Knight
- “A Prophet of Doom,” Ondara
- “The Rope,” Holm
- “Satan,” Andy Shauf
- “Satellite,” Courtney Marie Andrews
- “Soft Crook,” H.C. McEntire
- “Something About What Happens When We Talk,” Katie Pruitt
- “Something in the Orange,” Zach Bryan
- “Space Oddity,” Brandi Carlile
- “Stars,” John Fullbright
- “Straight Tequila Night,” Ashley McBride
- “Sweetbread,” Bonny Light Horseman
- “Teeth Marks,” S.G. Goodman
- “There’d Better Be a Mirrorball,” Arctic Monkeys
- “These Are the Good Old Days,” Courtney Marie Andrews
- “This Is Going to Be the Year,” Brett Dennen
- “Too Far to Be Gone,” Shemekia Copeland (feat. Sonny Landreth)
- “Truong Nu Chay Tron,” Hoang Thuy Linh
- “Ugly Faces,” John Moreland
- “Weight of Your Bones,” Qazi & Qazi
- “Welcome 2 Club XIII,” Drive-By Truckers
- “What, Me Worry?,” Portugal. The Man
- “Who Has Seen the Wind?,” David Byrne & Yo La Tengo
- “Worldender,” The Ballroom Thieves
- “Yaykatekar Dub (Love Dub),” OKI