2021 Top 20 Albums

 

#AmericanaAlbumsOfTheYear

Meine Lieblingsalben des Jahres 2021 

My favorite albums of 2021

1. 

Allison Russell: Outside Child

2. 

Bella White: Just Like Leaving

3. 

Melissa Carper: Daddy’s Country Gold

4. 

Queen Esther: Gild the Black Lily

5. 

Charlie Marie: Ramble On

6. 

Son Volt: Electro Melodier

7. 

Margo Cilker: Pohorylle

8. 

Cristina Vane: Nowhere Sounds Lovely

9. 

Cedric Burnside: I Be Trying

10. 

Riddy Arman

11. 

TK & The Holy Know-Nothings: 
The Incredible Heat Machine

12. 

Sierra Ferrell: Long Time Coming

13. 

James McMurtry:
The Horses And The Hounds

14. 

Matt Patershuk: An Honest Effort

15. 

Olivia Ellen Lloyd: Loose Cannon

16. 

The Pine Hill Haints: The Song Companion Of A Lonestar Cowboy

17. 

Jade Brodie 
(LAF Loud As Folk Record Club)

18. 

Emily Scott Robinson: American Siren

19. 

Cat Clyde & Jeremie Albino:
Blue Blue Blue

20. 

Garrett T. Capps: I Love San Antone

Ausserdem sehr empfohlen / Also highly recommended:

Ward Hayden and the Outliers: Free Country

Dori Freeman: Ten Thousand Roses

Chris Acker: Odd, Ordinary, and Otherwise

Elijah Ocean: Born Blue

Maynard & The Musties: Grown-up Things

Tom Easton: You Don’t Really Know Me

Chip Taylor: Can I Offer You a Song

Hayes Carll: You Get It All

Tony Kamel: Back Down Home

Jeremy Pinnell: Goodbye L. A.

Charley Crockett: Music City USA

Peter Case: The Midnight Broadcast

Moot Davis: Seven Cities of Gold

Taylor Rae: Mad Twenties

Noel McKay: Blue, Blue, Blue

Emily Duff: Razor Blade Smile

Shannon McNally: The Waylon Sessions

Cory Ledet: Zydeco

Jason Boland & The Stragglers: The Light Saw Me

Kayla Ray: Songs of Extreme Isolation, Economic Crisis & Other Funny Things

All Americana

 

2020 Top 20

#AmericanaAlbumOfTheYear

Meine Lieblingsalben des Jahres 2020 

My favorite albums of 2020

1.

Christy Lynn Band: Sweetheart of the Radio

(self-released, Asheville, North Carolina)

2. 

Ashley Ray: Pauline

(self-released, Nashville, Tennessee)

3. 

Kassi Valazza: Dear Dead Days

(self-released, Portland, Oregon)

4. 

Emily Duff: Born on the Ground

(self-released, New York City, New York)

5. 

Erin Sliney: Truckee to Kentucky

(self-released, Paris, Kentucky)

6. 

Brennen Leigh: Prairie Love Letter

(self-released, Nashville, Tennessee)

7. 

S. G. Goodman: Old Time Feeling

(Verve Forecast/UMG, New York City, New York) 

8. 

Jaime Wyatt: Neon Cross

(New West Records, Nashville, Tennessee)

9. 

Emma Swift: Blonde on the Tracks

(self-released, Nashville, Tennessee)

10. 

Waxahatchee: Saint Cloud

(Merge Records, Durham, North Carolina)

11. 

Robyn Ludwick: Lake Charles

(self-released, Wimberley, Texas)

12. 

Katie Pruitt: Expectations

(Rounder Records/Concord, Nashville, Tennessee)

13. 

Buffalo Gals Band: Where the Heat Want’s to Go

(self-released, Eureka Springs, Arkansas)

14. 

Courtney Marie Andrews: Old Flowers

(Fat Possum Records, Oxford, Mississippi)

15. 

Malin Pettersen: Wildhorse

(Die With Your Boots On Records, Oslo, Norway)

16. 

Heather Anne Lomax: All This Time

(self-released, Los Angeles, California)

17. 

Juliet McConkey: Disappearing Girl

(self-released, Austin, Texas)

18. 

Tessy Lou Williams

(self-released, Austin, Texas)

19. 

Becky Warren: The Sick Season

(self-released, Nashville, Tennessee)

20. 

Rachel Brooke: The Loneliness in Me

(Mal Records [self], Lovells, Michigan 

Das in vielerlei Hinsicht schwierige Jahr brachte viel tolle Musik. Vor allem von Frauen. Ich berücksichtigte darum für diese Liste für einmal nur Frauen.

The year, difficult in many ways, brought a lot of great music. Especially from female artists. Therefore, for once I considered only women for this list.

Es gab aber auch ein paar Alben von Männern, die ich wärmstens empfehle (alphabetische Reihenfolge):

But there were also a few albums by men that I highly recommend (alphabetical order):

Bob Dylan: Rough and Rowdy Ways

Chris Stapleton: Starting Over

Dan Penn: Living on Mercy

James Ellis and the Jealous Guys: Country Lion

John Moreland: LP5

Joshua Ray Walker: Glad You Made It

Kenny Roby: The Reservoir

Otis Gibbs: Hoosier National

Terry Allen: Just Like Moby Dick

Western Centuries: Call the Captain

Zephania OHora: Listening to the Music

Und noch mehr starke Frauenstimmen, die in den Top 20 nicht mehr Platz fanden (alphabetische Reihenfolge):

And even more strong female voices that didn't find a place in the top 20 (alphabetical order):

Amber Digby: Heroes, Mentors and Friends – The Legend Project

H.C. McEntire: Eno Axis

Kristen Englenz: Ingénue

Lilly Hiatt: Walking Proof

Miss Tess: The Moon Is An Ashtray

Samantha Crain: A Small Death

Secret Emchy Society: The Casher

Spanking Charlene: Find Me Out

Tami Neilson: Chicka Boom!

The Secret Sisters: Saturn Return

Veranda: Yodel Bleu

Whitney Rose: We Still Do Rodeos