Here’s Bill Frater’s picks for the best music releases of 2022. 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 very happy new year!
Melissa Carper – Ramblin’ Soul (MAE Music)
Lyle Lovett – 12th of June (Verve Records)
Brennen Leigh – Obsessed with the West (Signature Sounds)
Eli “Paperboy” Reed – Down Every Road (Yep Roc Records)
Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway – Crooked Tree (Nonesuch Records)
Plains – I Walked With You A Ways Out (Anti- Records
John Fullbright – The Liar (Blue Dirt Records)
Charley Crockett – The Man From Waco (Son of Davy Records)
Vince Herman – Enjoy the Ride (LoHi Records)
Bonnie Raitt – Just Like That… (Redwing Records)
2nd 10
Cristina Vane – Make Myself Me Again (self-released)
Harley Kimbro Lewis – Harley Kimbro Lewis
Sweet Megg – My Window Faces The South (Turtle Bay Records)
Wilco – Cruel Country (dBpm Records)
Adeem The Artist – White Trash Revelry (Four Quarters Records)
Peter Rowan – Calling You From My Mountain (Rebel Records)
Jake Blount – The New Faith (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)
Various Artists – Something Borrowed, Something New: A Tribute to John Anderson (Easy Eye Sound)
Miko Marks & The Resurrectors – Feel Like Going Home (Redtone Records)
Coming out soon… Whitehorse, Margo Price, Mile Twelve, Erik Vincent Huey, The Milk Carton Kids, The Mother Hips, The Gibson Brothers, Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley, Matt Hillyer, Doug Paisley, Pony Bradshaw, Eddie 9V, Mark Erelli and more!
