Here’s Bill Frater’s picks for the best music releases of 2019. As is usually 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 Happy New Year.
1. Tyler Childers – Country Squire (Hickman Holler Records/RCA Records
2. Yola – Walk Through Fire (Easy Eye Sound/Nonesuch Records)
3. Chris Knight – Almost Daylight (Drifters Church Productions)
4. J.S. Ondara – Tales of America (Verve Forecast)
5. Gary Nicholson – The Great Divide (Blue Corn Music)
6. The Highwomen – The Highwomen (Low Country Sound/Elektra Records)
7. Hayes Carll – What It Is (Dualtone Music)
8. Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley – World Full of Blues (Compass Records)
9. Kelsey Waldon – White Noise/White Lines (Oh Boy Records)
10. Josh Ritter – Fever Breaks (Pytheas Recordings)
Plus ten more….
Our Native Daughters – Songs of Our Native Daughters (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)
Rodney Crowell – Texas (RC1 Records)
Mandolin Orange – Tides of a Teardrop (Yep Roc Records)
Mike and the Moonpies – Cheap Silver and Solid Country Gold (Prairie Rose Records)
Mavis Staples – We Get By (Anti/Epitaph Records)
Ian Noe – Between The Country (National Treasury Recordings)
Charley Crockett – The Valley (Son of Davy Records)
Dori Freeman – Every Single Star (Blue Hens Music)
TK & The Holy Know-Nothings – Arguably OK (Mama Bird Recording Co.)
Karen & the Sorrows – Guaranteed Broken Heart (Ocean Born Mary Music)
Here’s Bill’s Best of 2019 Freight Train Boogie podcast…
Coming out soon… Marcus King, The Secret Sisters, Dustbowl Revival, Della Mae, Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band, Last Train Home, The Wood Brothers, Drive-By Truckers, The Mastersons, Annette Wasilik, Bart Budwig, Supersuckers, Aubrie Sellers, Michael Doucet, John Moreland, Christopher Paul Stelling, Will Sexton, James Hunter Six, Darrell Scott, The Third Mind…
