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Mayer’s Picks, More 2024 Favorites

Wednesday, December 18, 2024 By Mayer Danzig

Here, in no particular order, are more favorites from 2024.

Fancy Gap
Fancy Gap

Something Else
Lydia Loveless

Dream River
Tyler-James Kelly

Ghost
The FBR

Fever Longing Still
Paul Kelly

Visitor
John Moreland

Bad at Beautiful
The Damnwells

How To Make Mistakes
Fruition

No One Gets Out Alive
Maggie Rose

Sweet Old World
Golden Everything

Zero Gravity
The Hawtthorns

On the Ride Here
Sam Morrow

Invulnerable
Dustin Lowman

The Hard Way Blues
Jesse Dayton

Anniversary
Adeem the Artist

By Now
Heather Little

Flying Away
Jon Muq

Silverada
Silverada

Signals
Goodnight Texas

A Constant Goodbye
The Great Dying

Southern Comfort
Michelle Malone

Shortwaving
John Calvin Abney

Bloodlust
Melanie MacLaren

The Universal Fire
Jeffrey Foucault

About the author: Mild-mannered corporate executive by day, excitable Twangville denizen by night.

Filed Under: Acoustic, Americana, Best of Year, Country, Folk, Outlaw Country, Pop, Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Soul/R&B Tagged With: Adeem the Artist, Dustin Lowman, Fancy Gap, Fruition, Golden Everything, Goodnight Texas, Heather Little, Jeffrey Foucault, Jesse Dayton, John Calvin Abney, John Moreland, Jon Muq, Lydia Loveless, Maggie Rose, Melanie MacLaren, Michelle Malone, Paul Kelly, Sam Morrow, Silverada, The Damnwells, The FBR, The Great Dying, The HawtThorns, Tyler-James Kelly

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Polls

Which was your favorite Readers’ Top Pick of 2024?

Tinsley Ellis – Naked Truth
Sour Bridges – Down and Out
Will Kimbrough – For the Life of Me
Anders Osborne – Picasso’s VIlla
Amythyst Kiah – Still + Bright
Dawes – Oh Brother
Zach Bryan – The Great American Bar Scene
Jack the Radio – Under Lonely Light
Lone Justice – Viva Lone Justice
Corb Lund – El Viejo
Dwight Yoakam – Brighter Days
Caleb Caudle – Sweet Critters
Kelsey Waldon – There’s Always a Song
Old Heavy Hands – Small Fires
Bill Ryder-Jones – Iechyd Da
Joshua Ray Walker – Thank You For Listening
Shelby Lynne – Consequences of the Crown
Yonder Mountain String Band – Nowhere Next
Shane Smith and the Saints – Norther
MJ Lenderman – Manning Fireworks
Sierra Ferrell – Trail of Flowers
Ruthie Foster – Mileage
Andrew Bird & Madison Cunningham – Cunningham Bird
Grayson Capps – Heartbreak, Misery & Death
Daniel Romano’s Outfit – Too Hot to Sleep
Amy Speace – The American Dream
The Honey Dewdrops – Here in the Mountains
Father John Misty – Mashamashana
Barnstar! – Furious Kindness
Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats – South of Here
Richard Thompson – Ship to Shore
Frontier Ruckus – On the Northline
The Brother Brothers – The January Album
Charley Crockett – $10 Cowboy
Pokey LaFarge – Rhumba Country
Jontavious Willis – West Georgia Blues
Cedric Burnside – Hill Country Love
The Black Crowes – Happiness Bastards
Will Hoge – Tenderhearted Boys
Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore – TexiCali
Sarah Shook and the Disarmers – Revelations
Kasey Anderson – To the Places We Lived
Amanda Anne Platt and the Honeycutters – The Ones That Stay
Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood
Teddy and the Rough Riders – Down Home
The Avett Brothers – The Avett Brothers
The Wild Feathers – Sirens
The Decemberists – As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again
Alejandro Escovedo – Echo Dancing
Rick Estrin and the Nightcats – The Hits Keep Coming
Joe Ely – Driven to Drive
Ray LaMontagne – Long Way Home
The Felice Brothers – Valley of Abandoned Songs
Pernice Brothers – Who Will You Believe
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings – Woodland
The Cactus Blossoms – Every Time I Think About You
Justin Townes Earle – All In: Unreleased and Rarities (The New West Years)
Morgan Wade – Obsessed
Dustin Lowman – Invulnerable
Chris O’Leary – The Hard Line
Samara Joy – Portrait
X – Smoke & Fiction
Jake Xerxes Fussell – When I’m Called
Gangstagrass – The Blackest Thing on the Menu
Melissa Carper – Borned in Ya
Shemekia Copeland – Blame It on Eve
Willie Nelson – The Border
Johnny Blue Skies – Passage du Desir
Maggie Rogers – Don’t Forget Me
Holler Choir – Songs Before They Write Themselves
Eddie 9V – Saratoga
The Deslondes – Roll It Out
Mindy Smith – Quiet Town
Kim Richey – Every New Beginning
Bonny Light Horseman – Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free
Shovels & Rope – Something Is Working Up Above My Head
Liv Greene – Deep Feeler
The Mavericks – Moon & Stars
Blackberry Smoke – Be Right Here
Eric Bibb – In The Real World
James Talley – Bandits, Ballads and Blues
Kacey Musgraves – Deeper Well
Flatland Cavalry – Flatland Forever
Jeremie Albino – Our Time in the Sun
The Secret Sisters – Mind, Man, Medicine
Sarah Jarosz – Polaroid Lovers
Jeffrey Foucault – Universal Fire
AJ Lee and Blue Summit – City of Glass
Amos Lee – Transmissions
Hurray for the Riff Raff – The Past Is Still Alive
Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams – All This Time
Chris Smither – All About the Bones
Jesse Dayton – The Hard Way Blues
Willie Nelson – Last Leaf on the Tree
Paul Cauthen – Black on Black
Phosphorescent – Revelator
Jessica Pratt – Here in the Pitch
Old 97’s – American Primitive
Laura Marling – Patterns in Repeat
Joe Pug – Sketch of a Promised Departure
The Steel Wheels – Sideways
Ronnie Baker Brooks – Blues in My DNA
Iron & Wine – Light Verse
The Coward Brothers – Elvis Costello & T Bone Burnett
The Dead South – Chains & Stakes

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