The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Show - A musical mid-life crisis -- a late-night search for meaning and happiness airs on WRIR LP Monday nights from 9 PM to 11 PM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org
Hey Listeners,
I didnât feel it was appropriate to use the words âbestâ and â2020â in the same sentence. So instead of a âbest ofâ show, tonight weâll just look back at some great tracks that were released in 2020.
I will say that music helped keep me sane in the months after the pandemic began. Though it interrupted my normal schedule and way of doing my show, I listened to a lot more music this past year than I had in the last several years. I bought more music, downloaded more music, shared more music with friends, and engaged in conversations about music more in 2020 than I had since I was a younger man. I reached out to old friends and sent them mixed tape CDs. I sent some old roomies surprise XMAS gifts of CDs. I read a number of books about bands and artists I love including ones about Guy Clark, Jeff Tweedy, and the band.
I checked out quite a number of rock docs including ones about Laurel Canyon, Other Music, NOLA, Creem Magazine and several others. I watched a number of artists sing tin their living rooms. I donated and purchased music to support our countryâs music venues.
It was a year like no other and there may not have been a lot of âbestsâ associated with it, but thank goodness there as music and plenty of it. Tonightâs show is some tracks mostly new and some just new to me that made the year and life more bearable.
The Haberdasher
Abandoned Love All the Good Times Acony Records Boots of Spanish Leather Cover Charge: NC Artists Go Under Cover For Cat's Cradle Cover Charge Crossing the Rubicon Rough and Rowdy Ways Columbia Highway 61 Revisited From an Old Guitar: Rare and Unreleased Recordings Yep Roc Records Me and the Devil We're New Again: A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven XL Recordings Right On What's Going On Capitol Records Strange Fruit Blackbirds Verve Maggie Sam Amidon Nonesuch Sweet Mama The Harry Smith B-Sides Dust to Digital Tennessee Politics The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 1 Stuffworks Recordings / John Hartford Enterprises Life's A Gas Angelhead Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T-Rex BMG Rights Management Big Rotator Good Souls Better Angels Highway 20 Records My City of Ruins Vignettes Decca (UMO) Burnin' Train Letter To You Columbia Texas Woman Hard Workin' Man Ellersoul Walking On Sunset Blues From Laurel Canyon (Remastered) UMC-Decca So Many Roads So Many Trains So Many Roads Vanguard Records That's Alright Charlottesville Charlie Pastorfield Blue Ocean Tilt-A-Whirl Walrus Records Stay Classy Smoke & Cinder Who Are These Guys? Records American Crisis Blue Hearts Merge Records Prisoners The Universal Want Heavenly Recordings Letting You Go Reunions Southeastern Records Slayer For the Birds and Children Orphan Field Recordings Hey Baby Spyboy Upt Music Wax the Van The World of Arthur Russell Soul Jazz
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