Americana sounds from this past year. We’re going to take our annual look back at the very best of the last 365 days even though it’s a year we’d like to forget. Thing is, there was some unforgettable music that blossomed as a backdrop to what was otherwise a difficult year for performers. In fact, devastating for so many. Dave Stroud walks through the Top 25 best (well, favorite) albums of this past year, finding the very listenable among the hundreds of listenables. Tune in for the music you’ve been hearing on the show as well as on the Americana Hours over the past year hear on Sonoma County Community Radio. The memories are in the music; not so much the days.

No.	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
1	Swamp Dogg	Sleeping Without You Is a Dragg (feat. Justin Vernon & Jenny Lewis)	Sorry You Couldn't Make It
2	Cindy Cashdollar	Foggy Mt. Rock (feat. Albert Lee)	Waltz for Abilene
3	Puss N Boots	Angel Dream	Sister
4	Sarah Peacock	Mojave	Burn the Witch
5	Sara Evans	She's Got You	Copy That
6	Robert Plant	Too Much Alike (with Patty Griffin)	Digging Deep: Subterranea
7	John Craigie	Don't Ask	Asterisk The Universe
8	Colter Wall	Cowpoke	Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs
9	Frank & Allie Lee	When I Was a Cowboy	Treat A Stranger Right
10	Trish Cramblet	Safe To Say	The Margins
11	Raye Zaragoza	He Calls Me River	Woman In Color
12	Matt Costa	Avenal	Yellow Coat
13	Pokey LaFarge	End Of My Rope	Rock Bottom Rhapsody
14	Dan Bern	Ticket Out	Ivan's Barber Shop
15	Dirk Powell	Olivia	When I Wait For You
16	Otis Gibbs	Nine Foot Problem	Hoosier National
17	Larkin Poe	Easy Street	Self Made Man
18	Chris Stapleton	You Should Probably Leave	Starting Over
19	Sturgill Simpson	Life of Sin	Cuttin' Grass – Vol. 1 (Butcher Shoppe Sessions)
20	Chuck Prophet	Marathon	The Land That Time Forgot
21	Margo Price	Stone Me	That's How Rumors Get Started
22	Charley Crockett	The Poplar Tree	Welcome To Hard Times
23	Lucinda Williams	When the Way Gets Dark	Good Souls Better Angels
24	Logan Ledger	(Im Gonna Get Over This) Some Day	Logan Ledger
25	Bob Dylan	I've Made Up My Mind To Give Myself To You	Rough And Rowdy Ways [Disc 1]
26	Ray Wylie Hubbard	Drink Till I See Double	Co-Starring
27	Phoebe Bridgers	Kyoto (Radio Edit)	Punisher
28	Jesse Daniel	Tar Snakes	Rollin' On