Here’s Bill Frater’s picks for the best music of 2017. As is usually the case, my Top 10 ends up being a Top 20, also I decided to select some favorite songs of the year. Please send me your picks for best music and I’ll post some here. Here’s to a great Christmas and holiday season and a Happy New Year.
1, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – The Nashville Sound
2. Margo Price – All American Made
3. Marty Stuart and the Fabulous Superlatives – Way Out West
4. John Moreland – Big Bad Luv
5. Rhiannon Giddens – Freedom Highway
6. Tyler Childers – Purgatory
7. Lee Ann Womack – The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone
8. Chris Hillman – Bidin’ My Time
9.Steve Earle & The Dukes – So You Wannabe an Outlaw
10. Zephaniah OHora and The 18 Wheelers – This Highway
also great…
Angaleena Presley – Wrangled
Colter Wall – Colter Wall
Jeremy Pinnell – Ties Of Blood And Affection
Lillie Mae – Forever and Then Some
Amber Cross – Savage on the Downhill
Bill Scorzari – Through These Waves
Travis Meadows – First Cigarette
Dori Freeman – Letters Never Read
Favorite songs of the year…
Bobby Bare – Things Change Things Change
Lukas Nelson & Promise of The Real – Find Yourself Lukas Nelson & Promise of The Real
Rodney Crowell – It Ain’t Over Yet Close Ties
Dave Rawlings – Yup Poor David’s Almanack
Chris Stapleton – Broken Halos From A Room, Vol. 1
Rachel Baiman – Shame Shame
Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer – Not Dark Yet Not Dark Yet
David Luning – Driftin’ Restless
Coming out early next year……
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