Bäst 2014

BÄSTA SKIVORNA 2014, OSVENSKA ARTISTER:

Ben Vaughn: Texas Road Trip (Munster)
Paul Collins: Feel the Noise (Alive)
Jerry Lee Lewis: Rock & Roll Time (Caroline/Vanguard)
Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin: Play and Sing the Songs of Big Bill Broonzy (Yep Roc)
Wilko Johnson / Roger Daltrey: Going Back Home (Chess)
Sid Griffin: The Trick Is To Breathe (Prima)
Matthew Ryan: Boxers (Blue Rose)
Justin Townes Earle: Single Mothers (Vagrant)
Eric Hisaw: Eric Hisaw EP (Eric Hisaw)
Miriam: Nobody's Baby (Norton)
Zoe Muth: World of Strangers (Signature Sounds)
Mary Gauthier: Trouble and Love (In the Black/Rootsy.nu)
Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison: Our Year (Thirty Tigers)
John Mellencamp: Plain Spoken (Republic)
Chuck Prophet: Night Surfer (Yep Roc)
Micky & The Motorcars: Hearts From Above (Blue Rose)
The Boys: Punk Rock Menopause (Wolverine)
Duncan Reid and The Big Heads: The Difficult Second Album (Duncan Murray Reid)
Stiff Little Fingers: No Going Back (SLF/Rigid Digits)

BÄSTA SKIVORNA 2014, SVENSKA ARTISTER

Bo-Dogs: Bad Bad Dog! (Low Impact)
Nisse Hellberg: Vad Har Han I Huvudet? (Metronome)
The Vanjas: Sings and Plays Rock'n'Roll (Some More)
Dalaplan: Plikt och Elände (Gaphals)
Richard Lindgren: Sundown On a Lemon Tree (Rootsy.nu)
The Original Five: Greetings From Möllevången (Rootsy.nu)
Slow Fox: Black Dog EP (Rootsy.nu)
Buford Pope: Sticks In the Throat (Unchained)
Micke Finell & Ingmar Wallén: Rikoschett (Ball & Chain)
John Lindberg Trio: Dig It! (Enviken)

BÄSTA KONSERTERNA 2014, GANSKA OSVENSKA ARTISTER

Danny & The Champions of the World, 22/5 Folk å Rock, Malmö
Elliott Murphy, 13/7 Folk å Rock, Malmö
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, 1/7 Rolling Rootsy Revue, Hwitan, Falkenberg
Steve Earle & The Dukes, 17/8, Stortorget, Malmöfestivalen
Steve Gibbons & The Rockarounds, 19/5 Folk å Rock, Malmö
Dan Baird & Homemade Sin, 18/6 St Gertrud, Malmö + 10/11 Amager Bio, Köpenhamn
Dan Stuart duo, 9/5 Klubb Värnhem, Malmö
The Yum Yums, 22/2 Folk å Rock, Malmö
John Paul Keith, 29/4 Folk å Rock, Malmö
The Fleshtones, 29/9 Folk å Rock, Malmö
Jack Oblivian & The Sheiks, 30/9 Folk å Rock, Malmö
Chip Taylor trio, 10/9 Rootsy 10 år, Victoria, Malmö
Robbie Fulks, 28/8 Folk å Rock, Malmö
Sturgill Simpson, 28/9 Pumpehuset, Köpenhamn
Linda Gail Lewis Band with Billy Bremner, 10/12 Folk å Rock, Malmö
Dr Feelgood, 27/8 Folk å Rock, Malmö
Sean Tyla & The Roughnecks, 14/2 Folk å Rock, Malmö + solo 5/12 Grand, Falkenberg
Spampinato Brothers, 20/3 Folk å Rock, Malmö
The Boys with Andrew Matheson + Backstreet Girls, 29/8 Rockefeller, Oslo + The Boys 30/8 Feelgood, Halden
The Lurkers, 14/11 Klubb Värnhem, Malmö + 15/11 Biljardkompaniet; Kristianstad
Stiff Little Fingers, 4/11 KB, Malmö

BÄSTA KONSERTER 2014, SVENSKA ARTISTER

The Vanjas + The Branded, 29/11 Folk å Rock, Malmö
Magnus Lindberg, 30/10 Folk å Rock, Malmö
Rock'n'Roll Quartet, 29/10 Folk å Rock, Malmö
The Country Side of Harmonica Sam, 15/10 Folk å Rock, Malmö
Svante Sjöblom, Richard Lindgren & Andi Almqvist with The Original Five, 10/9 Rootsy 10 år, Victoria, Malmö
Nisse Hellberg, 17/8 Malmöfestivalen + 9/7 St Gertrud + 24/5 Folk å Rock
Sticky and The Bombs, 2/8 Hamnfestivalen, Limhamn
Southern Kings + Bonafide, 5/7 Klöva Hallar, Klippan
Swinging Hayriders, 25/4 Folk å Rock, Malmö
Buckaroos, 29/3 Folk å Rock, Malmö
Dalaplan, 28/3 Folk å Rock, Malmö
The Original Five, 19/3 Azalée, Malmö
Jakob Hellman + Supertruckers, 14/3 Klubb Värnhem, Malmö

Också konsert-tack till Åsling, Snibb, Willy Clay, Ellen Sundberg, Mad Dogs och Austin Lucas, Ted Russell Kamp, Mark Olson och Doug Seegers såklart!
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Bäst 2020

Ett väldigt starkt skivår för rootsy music! JAIME WYATT: Neon Cross (New West) WHITNEY ROSE: We Still Go To Rodeos (MCG) EILEEN ROSE: Muscle Shoals (Holy Wreckords) DAN PENN: Living On Mercy (Last Music Co) WEBB WILDER: Night Without Love (Landslide) WILLIE NILE: New York At Night (River House) CHUCK PROPHET: The Land That Time Forgot (Yep Roc) SCOTT McCLATCHY: Six of One (LIB) CORDOVAS: Destiny Hotel (ATO) DAVE ALVIN: From An Old Guitar (Yep Roc) JESSE DAYTON: Gulf Coast Sessions (Blue Elan) ZEPHANIAH OHORA: Listening To the Music (Last Roundup) TENNESSEE JET: The Country (Thirty Tigers) MY DARLING CLEMENTINE: Country Darkness (Elvis Costello songs) (Fretsore) RECKLESS KELLY: American Jackpot / American Girls 2-CD (Thirty Tigers) AMERICAN AQUARIUM: Lamentations (New West) TED RUSSELL KAMP: Down In the Den (PoMo) ROBERT GORDON: Rockabilly For Life (med Rosie Flores, Linda Gail Lewis, Dave Alvin mfl) (Cleopatra) BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: Letter To You (Columbia) TOM PETTY: Wildflowers & All the Rest 4-CD (Warner) STEVE FORBERT: Early Morning Rain (Blue Rose Music) STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES: Ghosts of West Virginia (New West) JOE ELY: Love In the Midst of Mayhem (Rack 'em) JAYHAWKS: XOXO (Thirty Tigers) DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS: The Unraveling (ATO) LUCINDA WILLIAMS: Good Souls Better Angels (Thirty Tigers) COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS: Old Flowers (Fat Possum / Loose) LORI McKENNA: The Balladeer (Thirty Tigers) MARGO PRICE: That's How Rumors Get Started (Loma Vista) CARLA OLSON: Have Harmony, Will Travel 2 ((Sunset Blvd) JOSHUA RAY WALKER: Glad You Made It (State Fair) OUR MAN IN THE FIELD: The Company of Strangers (Rocksnob / Rootsy) WILL HOGE: Tiny Little Movies (Thirty Tigers) Fantastiskt! 2020 måste vara bästa Powerpop-året sen 1980! THE YUM YUMS: For Those About To Pop (Rum Bar) LUCY AND THE RATS: Got Lucky (Stardumb / Dirty Water) GEOFF PALMER & LUCY ELLIS: Your Face Is Weird (Stardumb / Rum Bar) KURT BAKER: After Party (Wicked Cool) THE SPEEDWAYS: Radio Sounds (Beluga / Snap!! / Hurrah!) PSYCHOTIC YOUTH: Forever and Never (Waterslide) NATALIE SWEET: Oh By the Way
 
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Bäst 2018

SARAH SHOOK & THE DISARMERS: Years (Bloodshot) TEXTONES: Old Stone Gang (Blue Elan) ROBBIE FULKS & LINDA GAIL LEWIS: Wild! Wild! Wild! (Bloodshot) RUBY BOOTS: Don't Talk About It ((Bloodshot) BOTTLE ROCKETS: Bit Logic (Bloodshot) AMERICAN AQUARIUM: Things Change (New West) DAN BAIRD & HOMEMADE SIN: Screamer (Jerkin' Crocus) WILLIE NILE: Children of Paradise (River House) JOE D'URSO & STONE CARAVAN: Jersey Diner (Schoolhouse) DAN STUART: The Unfortunate Demise of Marlowe Billings (Cadiz) DAVE ALVIN & JIMMIE DALE GILMORE: Downey To Lubbock (Yep Roc) JOHN HIATT: The Eclipse sessions (New West) JOHN PRINE: The Tree of Forgiveness (Oh Boy) JP HARRIS: Sometimes Dogs Bark at Nothing (Free Dirt) ALABAMA MOONSHINE CO: The Trouble & The Rain (egen) LINDA GAIL LEWIS & THE ROCKAROUNDS: Live In Norway (Ball & Chain) KELLY WILLIS: Back Being Blue (Thirty Tigers) ROSANNE CASH: She Remembers Everything (Blue Note) JAYHAWKS: Back Roads and Abandoned Motels (Sony) JIMMY LaFAVE: Peace Town (Music Road) WARD HAYDEN & THE OUTLIERS: Can't Judge a Book (Ward Hayden) JEFFREY GAINES: Alright (Omnivore) CORDOVAS: That Santa Fe Channel (ATO) KURT BAKER COMBO: Let's Go Wild! (Wicked Cool) THE CONNECTION: Wish You Success (2win Disc) PAUL COLLINS: Out of My Head (Alive Naturalsound) LUCY AND THE RATS: Lucy and the Rats (Surfin' Ki) DAHLMANNS: American Heartbeat (Ghost Highway/ Beluga) HONEST JOHN PLAIN: Vocal Remover Requested: And the Beetle Trumpets (Action) WALTER LURE & THE WALDOS: Wacka Lacka Loom Bop a Loom Bam Boo (Cleopatra) GRAHAM PARKER: Cloud Symbols (100%) ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS: Look Now (Concord) DROPKICK: Longwave (Sound Asleep) THE ROCKERATI: Waterloo Sunrise (Corsair) BILLY BREMNER'S ROCKFILES: A Tribute To Rockpile (Ball & Chain) HJELLE: Fan Ta NPM (Jared Sin) JOHNNY & DOM ANDRA: Fem (egen) LITTLE BOB STORY: The Collection (4 LP 1979-82 på 2-CD) (Floating World) BILLY BREMNER: Singled Out (1977-2018) (RPM/ Cherry Red) GERAINT WATKINS AND THE DOMINATORS: s/t (Jungle) TOM PETTY: An American Treasure (4-CD: Best of/ Unreleased 1975-2016) (Reprise) LONG RYDERS: State of Our Union (3-CD-box) (Cherry Red) LONG RYDERS: Two Fisted Tales (3-CD-box) (Cherry Red) BARRENCE WHITFIELD & THE SAVAGES: Dig Everything! - The Early Rounder Albums (Ace) SURFIN' LUNGS: The Biggest Wave (Redondo) BRAM TCHAIKOVSKY: Strange Men, Changed Men - The Complete Recordings 1979-1981 (Cherry Red) Blandade artister: HARMONY IN MY HEAD: UK Power Pop & New Wave 1977-81 (3-CD-box) (Cherry Red) WILMER X: 40 år av blues, svett och tårar (SVEN LINDSTRÖM & ANDERS ROOS) DAN STUART: The Unfortunate Demise of Marlowe Billings Årets konserter 2018: 137 konsertkvällar, 217 artister THE BLASTERS, Folk å Rock, Malmö 12/5 BARRENCE WHITFIELD with WENTUS BLUES BAND, Folk å Rock, Malmö 15/10 SURFIN' LUNGS, Prince Albert, Brighton 3/3 & 8/12 POWERPOP EXTRAVAGANZA: YUM YUMS + Psychotic Youth & Sonic Surf City, Liseberg 26/5 DUNCAN REID & THE BIG HEADS + PSYCHOTIC YOUTH, Folk å Rock 18/5 + Biljardkompaniet, Kristianstad 19/5 RAMONAS, Folk å Rock, Malmö 16/5 THE STEMS, Folk å Rock, Malmö 4/5 SARAH SHOOK & THE DISARMERS, Folk å Rock, Malmö 21/5 ROOTSY KONVENT 2018: ROD MELANCON, LIZ BRASHER mfl, Bjurfors Hotell & Konferens 26-27/1 LIGHT OF DAY 2018: JOE D'URSO, JEFFREY GAINES, GUY DAVIS, ANTHONY D'AMATO, VINI LOPEZ, ROB DYE, Folk å Rock 16/12 BILLY BREMNER'S ROCKFILES: A Tribute To Rockpile, Folk å Rock, Malmö 9/2 DAN BAIRD & HOMEMADE SIN, Bush Hall, London 9/12 AMERICAN AQUARIUM, Folk å Rock, Malmö 25/10 DR FEELGOOD, Folk å Rock, Malmö 20/9 WARD HAYDEN & THE OUTLIERS aka GIRLS GUNS & GLORY, Folk å Rock, Malmö 18/10 ZEPHANIAH OHORA & THE 18 WHEELERS, Folk å Rock, Malmö 26/8 DYLAN EARL & THE REASONS WHY, Folk å Rock, Malmö 19/7 WHITNEY ROSE, Folk å Rock, Malmö 10/6 HAYLEY THOMPSON-KING, Folk å Rock, Malmö 8/6 LILLY HIATT, Folk å Rock, Malmö 10/5 DAN STUART & TOM HEYMAN, Folk å Rock, Malmö 12/11 SID GRIFFIN
 
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