Here’s Bill Frater’s picks for the best music releases of 2021. As is frequently the case, my Top 10 ends up being more of a Top 20! Please send me your picks for best music and I’ll post some here. Here’s to a much better new year.
1. Sierra Ferrell – Long Time Coming
2. Tim O’Brien – He Walked On
3. Melisa Carper – Daddy’s Country Gold
4. The Flatlanders – Treasure of Love
5. James McMurtry – The Horses and the Hounds
6. Bill & the Belles – Happy Again
7. Allison Russell – Outside Child
8. Jackson Browne – Downhill From Everywhere
9. John Hiatt with The Jerry Douglas Band – Leftover Feelings
10. Margo Cilker – Pohorylle
And 10 more great ones!
Billy Strings – Renewal
John R. Miller – Depreciated
Malcolm Holcombe – Tricks Of The Trade
Mike And The Moonpies – One To Grow On
Watchhouse – Watchhouse
Brandi Carlile – In These Silent Days
Charles Wesley Godwin – How The Mighty Fall
Los Lobos – Native Sons
Oliver Wood – Always Smilin’
AJ Fullerton – The Forgiver and the Runaway
Coming out in 2022…Punch Brothers, Eliza Gilkyson, Aoife O’Donovan, Eric Brace & Last Train Home, Whitmore Sisters, Greensky Bluegrass, North Mississippi Allstars, Julie Christensen, Maya De Vitry, Janis Ian, John Mayall, Shovels & Rope, Jamestown Revival, The Del McCoury Band, The Cactus Blossoms, The Band of Heathens and many more …
