![]() I am over a decade late on the Israel Nash train, but you can bet your sweet bippy I’ve got a reserved seat on all future departures. If you listen to enough new music, there are bound to be favorites you didn’t see coming. Her latest release seems among her most creatively brave and she’s done it without sacrificing an ounce of her authenticity. It’s odd to say that an artist that is already of Brandi Carlile’s caliber is on a meteoric rise, but I’m not sure how else to say it. There are few whose music has hit me on so many levels and in so many different times. Quietly Blowing It - Hiss Golden Messenger Sidenote: I played “Sam” 195 times this year. Looking back at his whole resume, if he has proven one thing it’s that creatively he’s a force to be reckoned with. Is this Sturgill’s last album? Selfishly, I sure as hell hope not. The Ballad of Dood & Juanita - Sturgill Simpson A focus on sad songs? Well, yah… it’s on this list, isn’t it? But it’s more than all that. I’ve yet to nail down exactly what about Josiah Leming’s music strikes such a major chord with me. Motel Mayday - Josiah and the Bonnevilles If you had told me that I would be listening to a song that features Taylor Swift nearly as much as any other song this year, I likely would have smiled kindly and moved on in conversation. How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last - Big Red Machine Here’s to a year filled with love, kindness, and lot less everything else. Hopefully, you find a little of all of that. Hopefully, you’ll find something that grabs you, comforts you, excites you, or makes you smile. They need us as much as we need them.Īs is tradition at this point, below is a list of my favorite releases from 2021-each with a 50-word review-and a playlist of the individual songs that accompanies me throughout the year. I closed with this last year, but it bears repeating: PLEASE support your favorite musicians by purchasing music, merch, and anything else they may be into. ![]() This past year they not only shouldered the load they normally did, they also put themselves and their families at risk to make our lives a better place to live. If this whole mess-and the tenuousness of not only every show but my comfort with attending those shows-has taught me anything, its that for far too long we as fans have taken for granted the lengths our favorite musicians go to, to allow us to enjoy their music in person. ![]() It’s an outlaw life but one, I’m coming to realize, that makes me happy.Thankfully, we saw the return of live music, albeit in a limited fashion. Robbing Peter to pay Paul, then robbing Paul to pay Peter back. in some anonymous bed because my mind is spinning with anxiety of depression or adrenaline, or because my ears are still ringing. ![]() Sometimes playing in front of 5,000 sometimes 200. “The tunes on Jump For Joy were composed in free moments throughout 2022, a year during which Hiss was on the road more or less constantly,” Taylor said in a statement, continuing:Īnd perhaps because the post-pandemic energy out in the world felt so chaotic and uncertain, I found myself thinking a lot about the role that music has played in my life and how exactly I ended up in the rarefied position of leading a band and crew all over the globe through dingy graffiti-scrawled green rooms, venerated music halls, dust-blown roadside motels. His new one is described as “a sort of epistolary,” songs written between Taylor and an imagined alias named Michael Crow, a young and hopeful drummer. ![]() In the past couple years, the project’s mastermind MC Taylor has been one-half of Revelators Sound System and released a Christmas album this is his proper follow-up to 2021’s Quietly Blowing It. Hiss Golden Messenger has announced a new album, Jump For Joy. ![]()
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