Another year almost in the books. It's kind of been a blur and I don't have that much to say, owing, at least partly to a head cold I just got. My rules are the same as they've been - no artist/bands who has been on a best of compilation the previous two years unless it's the artist's last album, like the great Charles Bradley. So even though I really liked Lera Lynn's new album, I had to refrain from including a cut from it. The only change in the format is that this year's compilation is now three volumes - just too much good stuff to leave off. Hope everyone has a great 2019!
p.s. In case you're wondering, the raccoon in the picture climbed a 25 story skyscraper in Minneapolis.
Download all three discs
| Disc One | |
| Born Under Punches | Angelique Kidjo |
| Old Town | Say Sue Me |
| Tokyo Bay | Nick Lowe |
| Sandra Monica | Rayland Baxter |
| Alabama | Tracyanne & Danny |
| Never Easy | Alela Diane |
| If I Had a Rose | Kelly Willis |
| Nite and Day | Meshell Ndegeocello |
| Palindrome | Azure Ray |
| All Night | Mandy Barnett |
| Turn | Young Fathers |
| Distant Stations | Andrew Bird |
| San Luis | Gregory Alan Isakov |
| Little Bird | Jessie Baylin |
| A Lamb, A Dove | H.C. McEntire |
| Why Keep on Breaking My Heart | Cornelia Murr |
| Disc Two | |
| To June This Morning | Kacey Musgraves and Ruston Kelly |
| Good Lover | Donovan Woods |
| Deer Creek Canyon | Sera Cahoone |
| Ruby's Stool | Loretta Lynn |
| Bleeding Finger Blues | Gwenifer Raymond |
| Pacific Grove | Matt Costa |
| Talking Straight | Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever |
| Heaven Is Closed | Willie Nelson |
| Beyond | Leon Bridges |
| Slip Away | Charles Bradley |
| Wishbone | Sarah Gillespie |
| Gum Gum | Hailu Mergia |
| Body Language | Kali Uchis |
| Pictures of You | Sonny Smith |
| Wildflowers | Soccer Mommy |
| If It's in Your Heart | The War and Treaty |
| Disc Three | |
| This Is America | Childish Gambino |
| Mumudey Mumudey | Ebo Taylor |
| Under the Wheels | Calexico |
| Climb on the Cross | Shakey Graves |
| Tooth Ache | RF Shannon |
| One More Dollar | Rosali |
| Flower of the Universe | Sade |
| Black Waves / Silver Moon | Phosphorescent |
| World on Sticks | Sam Phillips |
| Downey to Lubbock | Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore |
| Mule Skinner | Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs |
| Before You Called Me Baby | Caitlyn Smith |
| Everybody Hurts | The Gibson Brothers |
| Open My Eyes | The Sha La Das |
| Souvenir | Campdogzz |
| Stay | Cat Power |
