AllMusic’s Favorite Folk Albums of 2008
December 8th, 2008 | 4:00 pm est |
Priscilla Ahn - A Good Day
Joan Baez - Day After Tomorrow
James Blackshaw - Litany of Echoes
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Paul Clayton - Sings Homemade Songs and Ballads/Folk Singer!
Eliza Gilkyson - Beautiful World
Jolie Holland - The Living and the Dead
The Horse Flies - Until the Ocean
The Kingston Trio - Once Upon a Time
Kathy Mattea - Coal
Pete Molinari - A Virtual Landslide
Morley - Seen
Pete Seeger - At 89
Otis Taylor - Recapturing the Banjo
Vetiver - Thing of the Past
James Yorkston - When the Haar Rolls In
Various Artists - The Golden Age of American Popular Music: The Folk Hits
Although most of his songs were available online last year, Will Cookson’s 2008 album “Songs for a Sunday” is an absolutely amazing independent folk gem. Definitely worth a listen if your a fan of folk!
I’d love somebody to tell me how John Mellencamp’s “Life, Death, Love and Freedom” doesn’t make this list. This is perhaps the best album of any sort in 2008, certainly folk. Unbelievable. Mellencamp never gets his due. Explain it.
AMG lists John Mellencamp as a ROCK artist, and he is widely considered to be a ROCK artist–even if the only place he (and Bon Jovi) can sell records these days is in Nashville. Maybe it shoulda been in the “best country” category since everyone over in Music City is (badly) emulating him anyway.
My favorite one is “Bodega Rose” by Kesang Marstrand. I did not even find a review about it on allmusic…May be because it was released few weeks before 2009…
Anyway! listen to it and you will not regret it!