Join us for our annual review of the best Americana albums of the past year. And 2018 was, if nothing else, full of some great sounds. The political landscape made us all the more desperate for solace in a world where the liars lead the deaf. We’ll be digging into the 2018 bag for the 25 best releases that we’ve covered on Sonoma County community radio where we cover the very best of new sounds every morning of the week. On KOWS, you can hear the Americana Hours in the earlier slot of 5am while on KWTF we reach out to the mid-morning fans at 9am. Blue Moon Americana steps in for a live exploration on Thursday mornings. Check us out this week.
No.
1
Artist
Title
Album
Buy
2
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
You Worry Me
Tearing at the Seams (Deluxe Edition)
3
The Tillers
Migrant's Lament
The Tillers
4
Ed Romanoff
A Golden Crown
The Orphan King
5
Mary Gauthier
The War After the War
Rifles and Rosary Beads
6
Marc Ribot
Knock That Statue Down (feat. Marc Ribot & Syd Straw)
Songs of Resistance 1942 – 2018
7
Dawn Landes
Meet Me At The River
Meet Me At The River
8
Sarah Shook & the Disarmers
Good As Gold
Years
9
Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite
Found The One
No Mercy In This Land
10
Ry Cooder
You Must Unload
The Prodigal Son
11
Shemekia Copeland
Great Rain
America's Child
12
Kacey Musgraves
Space Cowboy
Golden Hour
13
Old Crow Medicine Show
Dixie Avenue
Volunteer
14
Becky Warren
We're All We Got (feat. Amy Ray)
Undesirable
15
Shannon Shaw
Broke My Own
Shannon In Nashville
16
Steve Forbert
The Music Of The Night
The Magic Tree
17
Stephanie Urbina Jones
Rose Garden
Tularosa
18
Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson & Merle Haggard
Old Friends
King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller
19
Mike Farris
Snap Your Fingers
Silver & Stone
20
Rhett Miller
Human Condition
The Messenger
21
Janiva Magness
On and On (feat. Rusty Young)
Love Is an Army
22
John Hiatt
All the Way To the River
The Eclipse Sessions
23
The Gibson Brothers
Sweet Lucinda
Mockingbird
24
Joshua Hedley
Mr. Jukebox
Mr. Jukebox
25
Paul Thorn
Soon I Will Be Done
Don't Let The Devil Ride
26
John Prine
Summers End
The Tree of Forgiveness
27
John Prine
Knockin' On Your Screen Door
The Tree of Forgiveness
28
John Prine
Egg & Daughter Night, Lincoln Nebraska, 1967 (Crazy Bone)