List’s aren’t really our thing but as everyone else is doing them, here’s Blabber’n’Smoke’s favourite albums of 2020 or as many as we can recall right now. Most of these we’ve reviewed either here or for other sites or various magazines, dig around and you can find what we said about them. Anyhow, despite Corona, 2020 was a bumper year for recorded music but nor so much for musicians and all who depend upon and support their efforts. So, if anything below captures you fancy, please buy a copy.
Top ten
Zach Aaron. Fill Dirt Wanted
Victoria Bailey, Jesus Wine & Patsy Cline
Courtney Marie Andrews, Old Flowers
The Mavericks, En Espanol
Charlie Crockett, Welcome To Hard Times
Emily Barker, A Dark Murmuration Of Words
Swamp Dogg, Sorry You Couldn’t Make It
Blue Rose Code, With Healings Of The Deepest Kind
Jake Blount, Spider Tales
The Local Honeys, Sing The Gospel
Bubbling Under
Bob Dylan, Rough & Rowdy Ways
The Hanging Stars, A New Kind Of Sky
Mr. Alec Bowman, I Used To Be Sad & Then I Forgot
Emma Swift, Blonde On The Tracks
Dan Penn, Living On Mercy
Sam Doores, Sam Doores
Kathleen Edwards, Total Freedom
Jerry Joseph, Beautiful Madness
Our Man In The Fields, The Company Of Strangers
Chuck Prophet, The Land That Time Forgot
Karen Jonas. The Southwest Sky And Other Dreams
Compilations
Bill Kirchen, The Proper Years, Proper Records
Dean Owens, The Man From Leith, Eel Pie Records
Bobbie Gentry, The Delta Sweete
And that’s a wrap folks. See you next year.
