by Tom Osborne in Best of Year

This is the first of three playlists featuring some of my favorite songs of the year. I’m calling this one Chilled. It features songs that have a Folk orientation or are otherwise mellow. They are ordered to flow (not by rank) and limited to 20 in order to fit on a single CD. For song samples, an iMix is available on iTunes.

• “I’ll Let You In” by Jackie Greene
• “There Is So Much More” by Brett Dennen
• “Songbird” by Bernard Fanning
• “Baby I” by Amy Millan
• “Heal Over” by KT Tunstall
• “Sister” by Jennifer O’Connor
• “Mr Blue” by Catherine Feeny
• “Song for You” by Alexi Murdoch
• “Empty” by Ray LaMontagne
• “9 Crimes” by Damien Rice
• “Girl In the War” by Josh Ritter
• “Long Time Ago” by Golden Smog
• “I’m Not the Only One Asking” by Mindy Smith
• “Roll On” by The Little Willies
• “Dogtown Mines” by Darren Smith
• “The Battle” by Caitlin Cary & Ryan Adams
• “Too Close to Home” by Chris Knight
• “My Good Gal” by Old Crow Medicine Show
• “Wind Blowing Change” by Will Kimbrough
• “Crazy People” by The Wreckers

What were some of your favorite Folk songs or albums in 2006 that didn’t make this list?

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