Federale "No Justice"
The best music in 2019
Tedeschi/Trucks Band "Signs" WOW
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One of my favorite's of this year is Mark Mulcahy's " The Gus". He was in the New Haven band Miracle Legion back in the 1980's and the studio band Polaris, which did the music for the Nickelodeon show The Adventures of Pete and Pete. Mark has recently released three new solo albums over the last five years and his best solo album IMHO is "In Pursuit of Your Happiness." He is really a exceptional singer/song writer who writes quirky but deeply insightful songs on the simple experiences of life but equally the more fringe aspects of life. All of his solo work is available on vinyl at his web site. Maybe one of the greatest under appreciated songwriters in rock today. Here is a great interview from WAMC during his recent tour. |
+1 on the Hiss Golden Messenger, Stephen Wilson, Mercury Rev, and the Traffic reissues. Sorry if I repeated any already mentioned. I think it’s fair to say now in November that I found more good new stuff issued in 2017 and 2018. But time will tell. Maybe a couple of years from now I’ll find a bunch of stuff that I’ve missed this year. I certainly will check out some of the records posted about here. |
Here is the top 50 from Pitchfork: https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-albums-2019/ My Purple Mountains album recommendation made their top 10!! Love this album! my wife is really into Big Thief , and they have number 3 album and another in the top 15!! |
Here is The readers poll ballot from the “roots” music (used to be alt country) magazine No Depression: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSciFrDsJy7D1WlcYoHquOylP-nGG_rlOj7QdNdOZgZnaEPl1w/viewform |
Results of the No Depression readers’ poll here: https://www.nodepression.com/no-depression-readers-50-favorite-roots-music-albums-of-2019/?mc_cid=41... |
@slaw, were you into Rank & File when they were around? Alejandro was in the band, and they played around L.A. quite a bit. They were part of the "Cow Punk" scene, big in L.A. in the 80's. They, The Knitters (Exene and John Doe of X, Dave Alvin of The Blasters), Lone Justice, The Long Ryders, a few others. I don't know if that stuff made it outside of Los Angeles. |