2022 soundtrack - on spotify.
1. Stay - Valerie June
The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers (Fantasy; 2021)
2. You And Me On The Rock - Brandi Carlile
In These Silent Days (Elektra; 2021)
3. Darkness Fades - Sharon Van Etten
We've Been Going About This All Wrong (Jagjaguwar; 2022)
4. Girl - Maren Morris
Girl (Columbia Nashville; 2019)
5. Time Escaping - Big Thief
Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You (4AD; 2022)
6. Good Will Hunting - Black Country, New Road
Ants From Up There (Ninja Tune; 2022)
7. Canola Fields - James McMurtry
The Horses And The Hounds (New West; 2021)
8. Merry Go 'Round - Kacey Musgraves
Same Trailer Different Park (Mercury Nashville; 2013)
9. Moon Meets The Sun - Our Native Daughters
Songs Of Our Native Daughters (Smithsonian Folkways; 2019)
10. All The Flowers - Angel Olsen
Big Time (Jagjaguwar; 2022)
11. Out Of My Head - First Aid Kit
Palomino (Columbia; 2022)
Sharon Van Etten. For me, Are We There and Remind Me Tomorrow are all-timers - two of the few to've been added to my personal canon in the last 10 or 15 years - and this year there was We've Been Going About This All Wrong, which more and more is feeling like three in a row. Murderously good.
Brandi Carlile. Consistent quality, more or less unadorned. Just great, timeless songs.
Kacey Musgraves. Back to her first major label album thanks to Her Country and its playlist, which was also the pathway to Maren Morris, Our Native Daughters and more.
First Aid Kit. Closer to my heart than just about any other band that might possibly be near its peak right now, and Palomino is as good as anything else they've done.
