On Going To All The Shows: My 76 Concerts from 2024

 

[Susto at the Basement East on 12/27/24, my last live show of the year]

2024 was a busy concert year, as I gave myself permission to “go to all the shows.”
 My 2025 resolution is to cut back, at least a little, maybe by a third.

In 2024, I saw 76 concerts total, 9 shows at the Basement East, 8 trips to the Ryman, 8 Jason Isbell shows, 8 festivals, 7 Willi Carlisle shows, road trips to see music in Atlanta, Louisville, St. Louis, Birmingham, Asheville, Oklahoma, Massachusetts,  Montana, Brooklyn, & so much more. Since we live in Cookeville, even shows in Knoxville & Nashville feel like road trips.

[Although arguably a festival is multiple concerts all rolled into one, I counted each festival, whether I attended for one day or multiples, as one concert.]

1. January 6 - Earl Scruggs 100th Birthday Celebration - Nashville, Ryman

2. January 10 - Adeem the Artist - Atlanta

3. January 20 - American Aquarium, Nashville - Ryman

4. January 31 - Willi Carlisle, Newport, KY - Southgate House

5. February 6 - Spiritual Cramp & others - Nashville, Basement East

6. February 8 - One Eye Jack - Sparta, Happy Trails 

7. February 14 - Band of Horses - Nashville, Ryman 

8. February 22 - Bertha: Grateful Drag -Nashville, Basement East

9. February 23 - New Junk City & others - Atlanta, house show

10. March 1 - Nick Shoulders & Holy Locust - Birmingham, AL, Saturn 

11. March 5 - Hurray for the Riff Raff - Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

12. March 14 - My Politic -The Basement, Nashville, TN

13. March 16 -- Laura Jane Grace - The Bijou, Knoxville

14. March 23 - The Verve Pipe - City Winery, St. Louis

15. March 29 - Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - Atlanta, The Tabernacle

16. April 6 - Guided By Voices - Nashville, The Basement East

17. April 10 - A Perfect Circle, Primus, Puscifer - Franklin, TN, First Bank

18. April 12 - Willi Carlisle & Nat Myers - Asheville, The Grey Eagle

19. April 13 - Willi Carlisle & Nat Myers - Nashville, Basement East

20. April 19 - Tyler Childers - Nashville, Bridgestone Arena

21. April 20 & 21 - High Water Festival - Charleston, SC - Fleet Foxes, Noah Kahan, Linda Lindas, Heavy Heavy, Wallflowers, Kevin Morby, Cut Worms

22. April 25-27 - Merlefest - Wilkesboro, NC - Pixie & the Partygrass Boys, Nick Shoulders, Willi Carlisle, Adeem the Artist, Evan Honer, SG Goodman, & many many others

23. May 2 - John Craigie - Lexington, KY, The Burl

24. May 4 - Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, Nicolette & the Nobodies - Pittsburgh, PA, Club Cafe

25. May 5 - Willi Carlisle, Justin Golden - Morgantown, WV, 123 Pleasant Street

26. May 9 - Adeem the Artist - Nashville, Basement East, Anniversary Release party

27. May 10 - T Bone Burnett - Nashville, Country Music Hall of Fame

28. May 12 - Sierra Ferrell & Jake Kohn - Charlotte, NC, The Fillmore

29. May 17 - The Decemberists - St. Louis, MO, The Pageant

30. May 22 - Katie Pruitt - Nashville, The Groove in-store

31. May 24 - Susto - Pelham, TN, The Caverns above ground, CAVEFEST

32. June 11 - Tyler Childers & SG Goodman - Clarkston, MI, Pine Knob

33. June 15 - Phosphorescent - Nashville, Centennial Park

34. June 16 - Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, Charles Wesley Godwin - Manchester, TN, Bonnaroo

35. June 22 & 23 - Green River Festival - Willi Carlisle, Bonny Light Horseman, Joy Oladokun, Mdou Moctar, Josiah & the Bonnevilles, SG Goodman, Izzy Heltai, Margo Cilker, Son Rompe Pera, Mon Rovia, Pachyman

36. June 30 - Tyler Childers & SG Goodman & Adeem the Artist - Burgettstown, PA, The Pavillion at Star Lake

37. July 4 - The Baseball Project - Evanston, IL, Space

38. July 13 - Under The Big Sky Festival - City & Colour, Revivalists, Shovels & Rope - Whitefish, MT, Big Sky Ranch

39. July 14 - Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit wsg/Adeem The Artist - Missoula, MT, Kettlehouse Amphitheater

40. July 24 - The Dogs Body - Sparta, TN, Happy Trails

41. July 25 - Zach Bryan wsg Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - New Orleans, LA, Superdome

42. July 30 - Jack White - Athens, GA, The 40 Watt

43. August 6 - The Heavy Heavy - Lexington, KY, The Burl

44. August 13 - Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit wsg/Adeem The Artist - Asheville, NC, Rabbit Rabbit

45. August 15 - Broken Yodel - Cookeville, TN, Roasted Hemp

46. August 17 - Futurebirds - Nashville, TN, Ryman

47. August 23 - Dead Letter Office - Nashville, TN, Vinyl Lounge

48. August 27 - The Collection - Nashville, TN, The End

49. August 30 - Green Day, Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid, Linda Lindas - Nashville, TN, Geodis Park

50. August 31 - Matthew Black - Cookeville, TN, house concert

51. September 7-8 - Evanston Folk Fest - Evanston, IL, Dawes Park - Sierra Ferrell, Patty Griffin, Willi Carlisle, Bonny Prince Billy, Adeem the Artist, Madi Diaz, Nicolette & the Nobodies, Sons of the Never Wrong, Nat Myers, Dom Flemons, Deer Tick, Langhorne Slim

52. September 14 - My Morning Jacket/Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats - Alpharetta, GA - Ameris Bank Amphitheatre

53. September 19-22 - Bourbon & Beyond Festival - Louisville, KY - Andy Frasco & the UN, Suzanne Vega, Amanda Shires, Ole 60, Grace Bowers & the Hodge Podge, Molly Tuttle, Charles Wesley Godwin, Red Clay Strays, Dinosaur Jr., Sierra Ferrell, Futurebirds, My Morning Jacket, Tyler Childers, The National

54. October 1 - My Morning Jacket wsg/SG Goodman - Knoxville, TN, Tennessee Theatre

55. October 4 - Honeybrook - Tennessee Tech, Cookeville, TN

56. October 6 - Ray LaMontagne, Gregory Alan Isakov, Erin Rae - Franklin, TN, First Bank Amphitheater

57. October 10 - Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - Nashville, TN, Ryman

58. October 11 - Inhaler - Nashville, TN, Marathon Music Works

59. October 13 - Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - Nashville, TN, Ryman

60. October 17 - Red Clay Strays - Atlanta, GA, The Tabernacle

61. October 18 - Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Knoxville, TN, The Bijou

62. October 19 - Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - Nashville, TN, Ryman

63. October 25 - Sturgill Simpson - Nashville, TN, Bridgestone

64. November 2 - Bertha: Grateful Drag -Nashville, Basement East

65. November 7 - Dawes - Knoxville, TN, The Mill & Mine

66. November 9 - Pony Bradshaw & Gabe Lee - Nashville, Brooklyn Bowl

67. November 11 - Charles Wesley Godwin - Athens, GA, Georgia Theater

68. November 21 - Average Joey & Sarah Slade & Carteret Banks - Cookeville, TN, Wesley Arena Theatre

69. November 23 - The Last Waltz Tribute - Nashville, Basement East

70. November 24 - Drive By Truckers - Nashville, TN, Ryman

71. December 3 - Willie Watson - Nashville, Basement East

72. December 6 - Kacey Musgraves - Nashville, Bridgestone

73. December 10 - Wilco - Tulsa, OK, Cains Ballroom

74. December 11 - Wilco - Tulsa, OK, Cains Ballroom

75. December 13 - Garrett T. Capps - Knoxville, TN, The Jig & Reel

76. December 27 - Susto - Nashville, Basement East

We Saw “A Complete Unknown” & My Mind Is Completely Blown

[picture of Dylan from the Bob Dylan Center]

[me - too enthusiastic about & addicted to this film]

I am only an amateur Dylanologist but like all the strange, surreal, & spiritual things that seem to have infected me at a young age & are now fully-wired into my bones, I am way more into Dylan than I even ever realized. When I discovered the news of one-day-only IMAX screenings for the new James Mangold-directed Dylan biopic starring Timothee Chalamet on December 18th, an entire week before its worldwide release in every multiplex everywhere, I knew I had to go. I was willing to pay the jacked-up price & deal with the Opry Mills holiday traffic. That is how much I wanted to finally see this film that folks had anticipated for so long. 

Not only is this the best biopic in a year of great biopics (such as ones about Dietrich Bonhoeffer & Flannery O’Connor), I loved this movie so much, I will see it again on Christmas Day & bring friends & family. I love this movie so much & want to see it again & again. 

The night of our screening, there weren’t many trailers. Strangely, the sizable crowd sat for about 25 minutes past showtime in a semi-dark theater with a gray screen & nothing but the sound of king-size sodas sipped & buttery popcorn kernels crunched. A flash of anxiety hit: what if they don’t have the film or what if their equipment broke! To break the silence, I overheard someone asking the strangers on his row what their favorite Dylan album was. A needed breach. By 30 minutes past the ticket time, my anticipation & nerves settled, & the immersive roars of an IMAX sound system ramped us into commercials & trailers & finally the opening credits. 

So many embellished exaggerations have been shared about the sheer magic of cinema, in person & in the theater. Let me say I get it; I have felt those tremors of awe, from the first Star Wars on the big screen as a child, to the first Avatar in 3D. For a period as an undergrad, I dabbled more deeply into film studies & snagged my dream gig as a film critic for metro Detroit’s alt-weekly. Not to say my adoration of cinema has waned, but like every old codger, maybe I am a little jaded. This is the kind of film to bring one’s love of film back into focus.

From opening to closing, from vanity plate to vanity plate, this film swept me away at that majestic level, & if this sounds like bullet-point blurb-hype, let me add to it. The emotional transportation was real & intimate, & this audience member was all up in it. 

Music biopics are great currency, but they also traffic in tropes & cliches. Keep in mind, Mangold brings us “A Complete Unknown” with “Walk The Line” already on his CV, the same movie that helped spawn the hilarious parody Walk Hard. In an interview, Mangold rejects the idea of a multiverse, a comment that the interviewer solicited, since Johnny Cash is also a character in this new pic, 19 years after “Walk The Line.” To me, “A Complete Unknown” is a singular & transformative achievement, whether you have seen countless music biopics or whether this is your first one. 

A lifelong yet never fully realized love for Dylan & an increasing identity with & abiding affection for the long arc of American folk music, all these notions & more have invigorated my obsession with this film. The film so fully captures a vibe of Greenwich Village & New York City in the early 1960s, it so fully drops us as almost-participants right into the emerging passions of the folk clubs & the folk scene. See, Dylan didn’t just make the scene, the scene made Dylan, & so the significance of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, & Johnny Cash, they all contribute to the historical intensity of this movie. Costumes, set-design, color & light, closeups, & every other device in an expert filmmakers toolkit, they all take part in the audiovisual tapestry.   

Each actor’s embodied performance profoundly represents each character, & this includes authentic live musical performances & a kind of genuine associative affinity that any & every actor aspires to. I have always loved the actor Norbert Leo Butz, & while his interpretation of the late song-collector & curator Alan Lomax is only a small part here & mostly as a constipated, conservative folk-purist-scold, I loved what Butz’s Lomax brought to the film overall, making me feel like we really were in that world. Maybe someone will notice this & go learn more about Lomax’s indelible role in curating the American (folk/blues) Songbook.

But back to the music of the movie itself. So we are not just treated to Timothee Chalamet’s mesmerizing interpretations of the Dylan canon, but also to inspiring & incredible music by Monic Barbaro as Joan Baez, Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash. The music really moves the movie as the music & movie, they move us! Don’t take my word for the credibility of the soundtrack, because even if you can’t get to the movie this week, the soundtrack was dropped to all the streaming services just a few days ago. The magnitude increases as we simply savor how central the songs are to the film overall, never just an accompaniment to the narrative but integral to the larger story. 

Based on Elijah Wald’s book “Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties,” the film really allows the physical geography & the counterculture topography to be characters themselves. We move from the early days at Cafe Wha & Folk City (always passing by an unnamed bongo-drum busker-mystic) to countless recording studios & disheveled apartments to the crashing & cacophonous confrontations at Newport, when all-heck-breaks-loose for Dylan as the prophetic folk phenom transforming before our eyes into Dylan-in-dark-shades hipster, Dylan the poetic chameleon, Dylan the rock star.

I honestly never thought of Dylan as primarily a sex-symbol persona, no matter how “romantic” his overall rizz might be. The movie’s erotic tensions between Bob Dylan & his partner Sylvie Russo/Suze Rotolo (Elle Fanning) as well as with Baez (Barbaro) are such a huge part of the flick & perfectly powerful of their own merit, but I probably would have loved the film anyways, without this overwhelming romantic aspect & subtext. 

Changing the name of & creating a fictionalized version of a Dylan paramour is not the only ticklish historical tweak. Rolling Stone magazine got some Dylanologist fact-checkers to point out 27 different places in which the film fused, switched, changed, or otherwise manipulated the known historical record to serve the story of this finished filmic project.  

I was also taken by how “white” the folk scene in the film feels, & how peripheral black folks are in the movie, even though the entire folk scene & movement are utterly in debt to black musical artists & black radical activists throughout. I loved seeing Odetta in the movie, but her role is so small, too small. A particular moment in the movie where Dylan is briefly dating a black woman at a charity event comes off especially weird, & I caught similarly uncomfortable vibes for a TV appearance with a fictional Delta Blues singer. Maybe a critic more capable than me can unpack this aspect of the film’s or the folk scene’s problematic racial politics; while it didn’t ruin my deep love for this movie, it did give me pause. Less prickly but just as needed, the film is shaped by references to the civil rights movement & to the Cuban missile crisis as more than source material for great protest songs. The film is at all times overpowered by the Timmy/Bobby inimitable rizz, but he is also an “asshole” as Baez points out. So much fame for anyone so young has got to be wild. But with Bob’s lyrical intimacy & intensity, we fans, we feel a peculiar partisanship to the image & the canon, even if it isn’t in reality warranted.

As I was finishing this installation in what has turned into a multi-part long-form reflection/review, I corresponded briefly with another reviewer & fan of this film. In his review, Daniel Cook Johnson suggests that this is“a film for the ages that transcends the tropes of musical biopics so effectively that it sets a new standard for the form.” I am compelled to agree that the complete project is greater than all its immeasurably accomplished parts, & I hope it generates a long & generous & dedicated fandom community.  

Get to see it as soon as you are able & let me know your reactions & reflections. “A Complete Unknown” opens everywhere on Christmas Day.

-Andrew/Sunfrog, Christmas Eve 2024

Andrew's Favorite Holiday Albums Ever, Updated

 

I am such a Christmas nerd. Winter solstice, too. 

I love learning about all the interfaith connections for all the winter holiday traditions & theologies, especially for those of us in the northern hemisphere. Listening to & dancing to & obsessing over contemporary music also combine as my excessive super nerd hobby. So no surprise that from mid-November through-the-end-of-every-year, it’s Christmas albums & mixtapes, all-day all- the-time. 

This of course is also the season for Best-of-the-year lists, so my annual headphone-habits are over-the-top around now. It was 8 years ago in 2016, I made a list of my favorite Christmas albums. I decided this Christmas Eve to add more! So this is my best-of-Christmas music, ever.

I hope someone, anyone, will go discover some new seasonal music thanks to these lists.

Merry Christmas, Happy holidays, happy listening. 

The Newer list

Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer - American Noel (2008)

Darryl Purpose - The Gift of the Magi (2002)

Jennifer Knapp & Margaret Becker - The Hymns of Christmas (2012)

Jennifer Cutting’s Ocean Orchestra - Song of Solstice (2010)

Sister Sinjin - Incarnation (2016)

A Winter Union - Sooner After Solstice (2023)

Blackmore’s Night - Winter Carols (2017)

Buddy Greene - December’s Song (2013)

Jason Harrod - Christmas Hymns (2010)

The Soil & Seed Project - Vol. 8 Advent Christmas Epiphany (2023)

The older list! 

Josh Garrels - The Light Came Down (2016)

Beta Radio - The Songs The Season Brings, Vols. 1-4 (2015) 

Anthony Hamilton - Home For The Holidays (2014)

Sarah McLachlan - Wintersong  (2006) and Wonderland (2016) 

Kathy Mattea - Good News (1993) and Joy for Christmas Day (2003)

Elizabeth Mitchell - The Sounding Joy (2013)

Odetta - Christmas Spirituals (1960) 

Staple Singers - 25th Day of December (1962)

John Denver - Rocky Mountain Christmas (1975)

Bruce Cockburn - Christmas (1993)

Sandra McCracken - Christmas (2019)
The McCrary Sisters - A Very McCrary Christmas (2019)
Wilder Adkins - Nativity (2009)

Massive compilation of these albums - 

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7jf5y0A6PEVzOynPtpXIlg?si=cf73e83655284b89

Our Best of 2024! (It was an amazing year for new music)

[pictured from their Brooklyn show in early 2024, Hurray for the Riff Raff/Alynda Segarra]

This is the 18th “End of the Year” since we started “Teacher On The Radio” back in September 2007. 

More & more each year, I spend our entire calendar year obsessing over what will be on my “best of” list come December. Since 2020, I have convened a gang of peers to share our respective Top 10 Albums lists in an annual marathon podcast/video livestream. 

You can watch/listen to that here: 
Best of 2024 with the Music Nerds

Here is an epic long list of albums of the year, ranked, as we wrap up 2024. 

For me, listening intentionally to the current music as it’s released is a spiritual discipline & mental health practice. It saves my crazy brain & tired ass, every single day. I encourage others to give this practice a try. To find out about new stuff as the year goes on, I frequently visit various music websites & belong to numerous music groups on Facebook. 

How do I arrive at a final ranked list? These are some loose criteria:

• How much did I actually listen to a record?
• How much did I emotionally connect with an album?
• How likely is this lesser-known record or artist to get missed by other lists?
• Did this album contain a welcome & needed message, consistent with my values: resonating culturally, promoting peace, or amplifying a marginalized group?

1. Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive
2. Willi Carlisle - Critterland
3. Father John Misty - Mahashmashana
4. Garrett T. Capps - Everyone Is Everyone
5. The Decemberists - As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again
6. Sierra Ferrell - Trail of Flowers
7. Joy Oladokun - OBSERVATIONS FROM A CROWDED ROOM
8. Jack White - No Name 
9. Adeem The Artist - Anniversary
10. The Collection - Little Deaths
11. Bonny Light Horseman - Keep Me On Your Mind/See You Free
12. Futurebirds - Easy Company
13. Pony Bradshaw - Thus Spoke The Fool
14. T Bone Burnett - The Other Side
15. Willie Watson - s/t
16. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Woodland
17. The Heavy Heavy - One Of A Kind
18. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood
19. Ben Sollee - Long Haul
20. Dalchord - Timeless Rambler
21. Evan Honer - Fighting For
22. Ray LaMontagne - Long Way Home
23. Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department 
24. Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well 
25. Johnny Blue Skies - Passage du Desir
26. Shovels & Rope - Something Is Working Up Above My Head
27. John Moreland - Visitor
28. The Avett Brothers - s/t
29. The Red Clay Strays - Made By These Moments
30. John Craigie - Pagan Church
31. Phosphorescent - Revelator 
32. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats - South of Here 
33. Amos Lee - Transmissions
34. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
35. The Dog’s Body - Salt Pile 
36. Green Day - Saviors 
37. Laura Jane Grace - Hole In My Head 
38. Flamy Grant - Church
39. Casey Neill - time zero land
40. Matthew Black - A Little Closer
41. Average Joey - Impermanence
42. David Rovics - Notes From A Holocaust*+
43. Jesse Welles - Hells Welles
44. Sarah Shook & the Disarmers - Revelations
45. Dawes - Oh Brother
46. Madi Diaz - Weird Faith
47. Katie Pruitt - Mantras
48. Nicolette & the Nobodies - The Long Way
49. Will Hoge - Tenderhearted Boys
50. The Menzingers - Some Of It Was True (Deluxe)*
51. Cloud Cult - Alchemy Creek
52. The Dead Tongues - I Am A Cloud 
53. Bright Eyes - Five Dice, All Threes 
54. Sam Burchfield - Me & My Religion
55. Madeline Hawthorne - Tales From Late Nights & Long Drives
56. Blitzen Trapper - 100s of 1000s, Millions of Billions
57. Kula Shaker - Natural Magick
58. William Elliott Whitmore - Silently, The Mind Breaks
59. Hillbilly Thomists - Marigold
60. Barnstar - Furious Kindness
61. The Shovel Dance Collective - The Shovel Dance
62. The Wilderness Yet - Westlin Winds
63. Pearl Jam - Dark Matter
64. Snow Patrol - The Forest Is The Path
65. The Black Keys - Ohio Players
66. The Smile - Cutouts
67. Amythyst Kiah - Still + Bright
68. Beyonce - Cowboy Carter
69. Pixie & The Partygrass Boys - s/t
70. Billy Strings - Highway Prayers
71. American Aquarium - Fear of Standing Still
72. The Felice Brothers - Valley of Abandoned Songs
73. Hayes & The Heathens - s/t
74. AJ Lee & Blue Summit - City of Glass
75. Beta Radio - Waiting for the End to Come
76. Rainy Eyes - Lonesome Highway
77. Rosali - Bite Down
78. Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future
79. Mary Timony -Untame The Tiger
80. Damh the Bard - Raise the Flag of Green
81. Dawn Landes - The Liberated Woman’s Songbook
82. Carsie Blanton - After The Revolution
83. Pernice Brothers - Who Will You Believe
84. Glass Beach - Plastic Death
85. Jesse Welles - Patchwork
86. Caleb Caudle - Sweet Critters
87. Joe Pug - Sketch of a Promised Departure
88. Snowgoose -Descendent
89. The Coward Brothers - s/t
90. The Bridge City Sinners - In The Ago of Doubt
91. Cindy Morgan - Sounds of Jubilee
92. Wild Pink - Dulling the Home
93. Coldplay - Moon Music
94. Sarah Jarosz - Polaroid Lovers
95. Aaron Lee Tasjan - Stellar Evolution 
96. Iron & Wine - Light Verse
97. The Dead Tongues - Body of Light
98. Michael Kiwanuka - Small Changes
99. Leon Bridges - Leon
100. MGMT - Loss of Life
101. Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
102. Pixies - The Night the Zombies Came
103. Nick Cave - Wild God
104. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World
105. The The - Ensoulment 
106. Deer Tick - Contractual Obligations
107. Silverlites - s/t
108. The Droptines - s/t
109. Covey - Middle Ground
110. English Teacher - This Could Be Texas
111. True Foxes - Howl 
112. Aoife O’Donovan - All My Friends
113. Devarrow - Heart Shaped Rock
114. Rent Strike - Mobius Strip Mall
115. Willi Carlisle - The Magnolia Sessions
116. 49 Winchester - Leavin The Holler
117. Thee Sacred Souls - Got A Story To Tell
118. Grace Bowers & The Hodge Podge - Wine On Venus
119. Rosie Tucker - Utopia Now
120. Jake Xerxes Fussell - When I’m Called
121. Ka - The Thief Next To Jesus
122. Fontaines DC - Romance
123. Judah & the Lion - The Process
124. The Smile - Wall of Eyes
125. Stick in the Wheel - A Thousand Pokes
126. Tucker Zimmerman - Dance of Love
127. Rachel Baiman - A Sides/B Sides
128. Mdou Moctar - Funeral For Justice
129. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
130. Lost Ox - Tale of the Fool 
131. Wyatt Flores - Welcome to the Plains
132. Zach Bryan - Great American Bar Scene
133. Shane Smith & the Saints - Norther
134. AJ Woods - Hawk is Listenin’
135. Ani diFranco- Unprecedented Shit 
136. Current Joys - East My Love
137. Kevin Gordon - The In Between
138. Styrofoam Winos - Real Time 
139. Lone Justice - Viva Lone Justice+
140. India Ramey - Baptized By The Blaze
141. Josiah & the Bonnevilles - Endurance (Deluxe)*
142. Aaron West & the Roaring Twenties - In Lieu Of Flowers
143. The Hard Quartet - s/t
144. Colby Acuff - American Son
145. Tess Liautaud - Blue Mind
146. Kelly Mickwee - Everything Beautiful
147. Mallory Everett - Time To Learn
148. John Muq - Flying Away
149. Julian Dawson - s/t
150. The Brother Brothers - The January Album