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2021 Hear My Year

2021 Hear My Year

Some of my favorite songs from 2021, with one 2020 release that snuck onto the list.

Listen to the songs on a Spotify playlist I put together or most of them on a Bandcamp playlist (unfortunately, I couldn’t find all the tracks on Bandcamp).

And here’s the full track list:

  • The Ship Song, Nell Smith, The Flaming Lips

  • Lost & Lonesome, Buffalo Nichols

  • B-Side, Khruangbin, Leon Bridges

  • 25 Years, Jonny Greenwood

  • I Wanna Monkey, Guided by Voices

  • I don’t Live Here Anymore (featuring Lucius), The War on Drugs, Lucius

  • Country Child, Robert Finley

  • Mississippi Phone Booth, John Hiatt, Jerry Douglas

  • Deep Breath, Riley Downing

  • Breathing, Amy Helm

  • Mercy, Suzanne Santo

  • Take Good Care, Megan Palmer

  • Lanyards, The Hold Steady

  • Down in the Country, Israel Nash

  • Change Things, Abby Hamilton (the 2020 release)

  • The Ghost of Cincinnati, Big Red Machine

  • Lord of the Flies, Bob Schneider

  • Idiot, Jenny Lewis, Serengeti

  • Funk #49, Los Straightjackets

Happy Moon Year

Happy Moon Year

Grateful 2021

Grateful 2021