Great thread...definitely going to be digging in to some of these suggestions.
@spiritofradio & and @slaw our tastes seem very aligned. Big Isbell fan, both Sturgill's Cutting Grass albums have gotten tons of play in our house, LP5 is just beautiful, etc.
A couple others in that Americana genre that haven't been mentioned...
Margo Price's That's How Rumors Get Started is great...little less of her previous honkey tonk vibe and more of a classic rock sound.
Tyler Childers...discovered by fellow eastern KY artist Sturgill Simpson. 2020's Long Violent History gets less play than his earlier albums in our house (although the concept and pre launch video of TC speaking to his rural white listeners about BLM is super powerful), but Purgatory, Country Squire, etc. are amazing. My favorite of his is def 2018's Live on Red Barn Radio.
Ruston Kelly (Casey Chamber's ex husband) Shape & Destroy 2020 release is good, but 2018's Dying Star is really good.
2018 release, but Brent Cobb's Providence Canyon album is fantastic (cousin of midas touch outlaw producer Dave Cobb...Stapleton, Isbell, Sturgill, Highwomen, Shires, etc.).
Here are my top 2020 releases that I acquired last year. The pandemic had me enjoying music on a daily basis. I invested more in my system and collection than ever before.
Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um - MoFi UD1S Superb SQ
Tom Petty Wildflowers & All The Rest 3 LP 'All The Rest' are such a treat and could easily have been their own album. I am delighted to have them now.
Bruce Springsteen Letter To You Bruuuccee....enuf said
Huey Lewis Weather Sad with Huey's Meniere's disease that his career is over. They worked very hard and long to put out one final album.
Theory of a Deadman Say Nothing I have never been much of a fan and is my first record of theirs. It pulls you in immediately and is always a fun listen.
Pretenders Hate For Sale Chrissie is still putting out great tunes
The Strokes The New Abnormal A random pick that is a great album
Thanks @hudsonhawk...HUGE Radiohead fan and will definitely give both a listen. An older, but great Radiohead related project that I was just listening to over the weekend is Johnny Greenwood Is The Controller...compilation of JG's favorite reggae/dub hits from the first 40 years of Trojan Records.
Wow, what a pleasant surprise! Morrissey releases a pop album again.
After just a couple of listens I'd say it's up there with Viva Hate, Your Arsenal, You are the Quarry etc.
Producer Joe Chiccarelli has somehow managed to do as good an impersonation job of Johnny Marr's arrangements as anyone has yet managed with Morrissey.
The sheer musical variety on this album is a most refreshing change. Take the lead single for example "Bobby, Don't You Think They Know?"
+1 slaw. Oh Harvey rules and stories is a great record. Apropos of nothing, I heard a Beatles b side today, I'll get you, and deem it their finest composition.
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