Favorite Albums of 2016
One of my favorite threads that comes up this time of year is the one calling for favorite albums of the previous year. I love discovering new music and always find great recommendations from fellow members of this forum. The albums don't necessarily need to have been released in 2016. I'm just curious what albums you've listened to the most. Here are mine.
Released in 2016:
Julian Lage - Arclight
Simo - Let Love Show the Way
Released before 2016 (in no particular order):
Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
Hayes Carll - Flowers and Liquor
Jim Campilongo & Honeyfingers - Last Night, This Morning
Leonard Cohen - Live In London
Fleetwood Mac (w/ Peter Green) - Shrine '69
Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood - Live from Madison Square Garden
Released in 2016:
Julian Lage - Arclight
Simo - Let Love Show the Way
Released before 2016 (in no particular order):
Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
Hayes Carll - Flowers and Liquor
Jim Campilongo & Honeyfingers - Last Night, This Morning
Leonard Cohen - Live In London
Fleetwood Mac (w/ Peter Green) - Shrine '69
Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood - Live from Madison Square Garden
Comments
Arclight - Julian Lage
I Had A Dream That You Were Mine - Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam
We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service - A Tribe Called Quest
Moon Shaped Pool - Radiohead
Simo-Let love show me the way
John Mayall and the Blues Breakers with Peter Green live in 67 vol. 2
Chris Stapleton traveller. Kind of reminds me of Billy Joe Shaver which is the flavor of country music that I like the most.
A couple released in 2015:
Nathaniel Rateliff and the night sweats Debut album.
Jim Campilongo and Honey Fingers last night this morning.
PIL “Public Image Limited”
PIL “Second Edition”
Cypress Hill “Cypress Hill “
Billy Grammar “Country Guitar”
Nels Cline “Lovers” (2016)
Renata Terrago “The Music of Francisco Tarraga”
Beatles “Let it Be- Raw”
Bill Doggett “Hot Doggett”
Francisco Petronio and Dilermando Reis “Uma Voz E Um Violao Em Serenata”
James Brown “Super Bad”
Nirvana “Nevermind”
Julian Lage - Archlight
Kieth Richards - Crosseyed Heart.
Leonard Cohen - You want it Darker>\
Stones - Blue and Lonesome
Duke Levine - The Fade Out
The Tribute Album for JJ Cale
Van Morrison „Astral Weeks“
Daniel Lanois „Goodby To Language“
The Beatles „White Album“
Geir Sundstol „Furuland“
Schmilco - Wilco
Lovers - Nels Cline
Daniel Bachman - Daniel Bachman
Country For Old Men - John Scofield
What To Fear - Sean Watkins
American Band - Drive By Truckers
Beulah - John Paul White
Eyes On The Lines - Steve Gunn
Whole and Cloven - Nathan Bowles
Ambsace - Nathan Salsburg & Steve Elkington
Over And Even - Joan Shelley
Are You Serious? - Andrew Bird
Bill Frisell - Guitar in the Space Age
Brian Fallon - Painkillers
The Cars - The Cars
Dave Edmunds - Repeat When Necessary
Grady Martin - Roughneck Blues (compilation)
Graham Parker - Squeezin Out Sparks
Jim Campilongo & Honeyfingers - Last Night, This Morning
Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos - Los Cuibot y Los Cubanos Positivos
Margaret Glaspy - Emotions and Math
Margo Price - Midwest Farmer's Daughter
Speedy Ortiz - Foil Deer
Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth
Telekinesis - Dormarion
The Meters - Here Comes the Meter Man (compilation)
Jim Campilongo - Table For One
Jim Campilongo & Honeyfingers - Last Night, This Morning
Duke Levine - The Fade Out
Bill Frisell - When You Wish Upon a Star
Miles Davis - Round Midnight
Ernest Lecuona - Ultimate Collection, Lecuona Plays Lecuona
Louis Armstrong - Ken Burns Jazz
Lovers- Nels Cline (Finally a Nels album your wife won't hate!)
Let Me Get By- Tedeschi Trucks Band
Tribe Called Quest- We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service
Tribe Called Quest- Low End Theory (and the rest of the TCQ catalog)
David Bowie- Blackstar
Bob Marley- everything
Here's my list:
Mike Neer - Steelonius
Nels Cline - Lovers
Speedy West - Guitar Spectacular
Ernest Tubb Presents The Texas Troubadours
The Electrosoniks – Electronic Music
Jerry Byrd - Steel Guitar Favorites
Ida Presti & Alexandre Lagoya – Music For The Classic Guitar
And this video of Jimmie Rivers playing solo guitar - Thanks Jim! - Does anyone know the name of the song?
Jim Campilongo & Honeyfingers – Last Night, This Morning: Released on CD in 2015, but the vinyl LP came out in early 2016 so it qualifies. Possibly my favorite Jim album of them all (Fran’s too).
Van Morrison – It’s Too Late To Stop Now, Vols. I-IV: Van the Man and his band recorded at various venues in 1973. I would have been satisfied with a straight reissue of the original double album, but this release includes three additional CDs of full shows from the same tour with not a lot of song duplication. "Turn it up!"
Otis Redding – Live at the Whisky A Go Go: Recorded over three nights in 1966, when Otis and his band absolutely smoked the Sunset Strip. Lots of duplicate songs spread over six CDs, but who can complain? There’s no such thing as too much Otis!
Mike Neer - Steelonius
Otis Redding – Live at the Whisky A Go Go
Tribe Called Quest- Low End Theory ( I have this - somewhere)
Sturgill Simpson - Sailor's Guide to Earth & Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
Grady Martin - Roughneck Blues (compilation)
Country For Old Men - John Scofield
Geir Sundstol- Furuland
Duke Levine - The Fade Out
We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service - A Tribe Called Quest
Fleetwood Mac (w/ Peter Green) - Shrine '69
I related to RogerioFerraz's post about Jimmie on youtube (I don't know the name of that tune). I listen so much to youtube these days -usually obsessively to one clip.
Archlight Live
The Fade Out - Duke Levine
Amorphae - Ben Monder (Honorable 2015 entry)
Lovers - Nels Cline
The Declaration Of Musical Independence - Andrew Cyrille Quartet
I will give a listen to Julian Lage - Arclight for sure now!
My tastes appear a bit different from most of your guys, but here's some interesting records released in 2016, in no order:
Allah-Las - Calico review
Charles Bradley - Changes
Growlers - City club
Snarky puppy - Culcha vulcha
Jamestown revival - Education of a wandering man
Nahko - Hoka
James hunter six - Hold on!
Whitney - light upon the lake
Paul Burch - Meridian rising
Margo price - midwest farmer's daughter
New mastersounds - Nashville session
Natural child - Okey Dokey
Sturgull Simpson - Sailor's guide to earth
Bob Heron - Something Blue
World music :
Vadou game - Kidayu
La Santa Cecilia - Buenaventura
Tiken Jah Fakoly - Bonus
Tulipa Ruiz - Dance
Debo band - Ere gobez
Jeb loy Nichols - Long time traveller
La Yegros - Magnetismo
Mexrissey - No Manchester
Dub Inc - So What
Brexit Blues
Xmas:
Kacey Musgraves - Very Kacey Christmas
BONUS section:
The best in hip hop in 2016:
Tribe Called Quest / We Got it
De La Soul / Anonymous nobody
Atmosphere / Fishing blues
Noname / Telefone
Banks & Steelz / Anything but words
Chance the rapper / Coloring book
Kate Tampest / Let them eat chaos
Chris Stapelton - Traveller
Whitey Morgan and the 78's - all their records (I just discovered them, I'm partial to the Live one: Born, Raised, and Live in Flint)
18 South - a band Guthrie Trapp is in; soulful country roots music
Andy Timmons- "Resolution" and "Theme From A Perfect World"
Charlie Christian- Radioland 1939-1941
Duke Levine - The Fade Out
Freddie King - The Shelter Records Years
JC and Honeyfingers- Last Night, This Morning
(rediscovered) Los Loney Boys - "Revelation" and "Rockpango"
Richie Kotzen - (discovered this year; cherry-picked his many albums, but his project Wilson Hawk is a fave...he also has an itunes "Essential" collection that is a great starting point)
T-Bone Walker - several of his large collections; it was a big year for T-Bone and CC here; I read both biographies as well.
-Complete Capitol/Black and White
-The Complete Imperial 1950-1954
-T-Bone Blues
Tommy Emmanuel - It's Never Too Late
...and I too want to check out that Otis Redding Live at the Whiskey-a-Go-Go! And the new Stones blues record.
Here are a few of my favourites discs from 2016:
Field Music: Commontime
Wilco: Star Wars
Wilco: Schmilco
Jim Campilongo & Honeyfingers: Last Night, This Morning
Jimmie Rivers: Brisbane Bop
Buddy Emmons: Steel Guitar Jazz
Barney Kessel: Live At The Jazz Mill
Bob Wills: Tiffany Transcriptions
Kenny Burrell: Midnight Blues
Some tunes I dug:
Jimmy Bryant & Speedy West: Jammin' with Jimmy
Jimmie Rivers: It's All Your Fault
Thad Jones & Mel Lewis: The Groove Merchant
George Barnes: When Sunny Gets Blue
Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt: On The Sunny Side Of The Street
The Beatles: Getting Better
Prince: Money Don't Matter 2 Night
David Bowie: Quicksand