~Craig does the Monday Morning Show.~
My top 14 CD’s of the year, in playlist order, but not order of favorites, plus a number of honorable mentions:
1) Larkin Poe – Larkin Poe
2) First Aid Kit – Stay Gold
3) Drew Nelson – The Other Side
4)Raul Midon – Don’t Hesitate;
5) Monica Heldal – Boy From the North;
6) Rose’s Pawn Shop – Gravity Well;
7) Irene Kelley – Pennsylvania Coal;
8) The Loudermilks – The Loudermilks;
9) David Wilcox – Blaze;
10) Malcolm Holcombe – Pitiful Blues;
11) Carrie Newcomer – A Permeable Life;
12) Catherine MacLellan – The Raven’s Sun;
13) Johnny Marr – Playland;
14) Rosanne Cash – The River and the Thread – Rosanne’s CD was my clear favorite for the year – the rest are all outstanding.
Other outstanding CD’s that I really liked of mostly original material, released during 2014. Wished I would have heard the new ones by Amelia Curran and Lori McKenna. Bet they would have made one of these lists too….
Honorable Mentions:
1) Robyn Landis – Waterproof;
2) John Mellencamp – Plain Spoken;
3) Joe Crookston – Georgia I’m Here;
4) The Henry Girls – Louder Than Words;
5) pieta brown – Paradise Outlaw;
6) Kate Klim – 100 Million Years;
7) The Sea The Sea – Love We Are We Love;
8) Lily & Madelaine – Fumes;
9) Grant Peeples – Punishing the Myth;
10) Leonard Cohen – Popular Problems;
11) Kyle Carey – North Star;
12) Louise Mosrie – Lay It Down.
If any of these are unfamiliar to you, I encourage you to check them out! My best to you in the year ahead.
